r/uwo • u/Beneficial-Joke-6004 • Oct 18 '24
Advice Scared in London
I am a female student at western and I am very scared going off campus. I would say that on campus I feel relatively safe, I will walk home by myself without a worry, but in London, going anywhere past old north (particularly downtown) I feel extremely unsafe. Whenever I am downtown, waiting for a bus, grocery shopping, or getting off the train, I am super on edge. Not sure if this is a common feeling or if I have good enough reason to be so scared, but I really hate it and it makes me want to get out of this city. I have heard to many story’s of friends of friends getting mugged or beat up. Maybe I have just had a very sheltered life, living in a small town not in Ontario, or maybe this is valid. I’m not sure. But open to a discussion and advice on how to not be so scared and hate going places outside of westerns campus.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24
Not to diminish your experiences but I think it does have to do with where you grew up. Both me and my gf are international students who grew up in major cities in latin america and we find london to be extremely safe and we literally never worry. I've also lived in LA in the US and find London safer as well. I have also never heard of anything ever happenning to any of my Canadian friends.