Btw I got menaced by a tweaker on my way to work so loving the bike much less

People keep telling me to buy a gun
It’s not a reasonable thing to tell a person BUT it is directionally accurate

I found self defense classes instead of just going to Walmart and buying gun

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Dang sorry bike already spoilered and cognitive load of constant safety checks so costly

Tae kwon do was my gun alternate 🫤 back in the day and punching/kicking bag training underrated lol. Now live in a small rural college town and (almost) never think about personal safety #tradeoffs

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Personal safety vigilance to this degree is new to me too and I’ve lived in either Chicago or NYC my entire adult life :( 

My cope is that the skills are good skills no matter where I live

Austin is horrible compared to my experiences in Chicago and New York. 

I think crime is underreported here because as I have come to learn, the relationship between government, citizens, and police is wildly contentious. Funding not the issue, staff and oversight is. Result being — don’t call the police. They don’t come

And Austin’s downtown is a blight
It would be like if Central Park was filled with homeless camps

It doesn’t feel safe here to me

Interesting, is it Austin then where the dangers feel more present compared to Chi and NYC?

And yeah I’d go out on a limb and say we’d all do well to spend some time in a martial art for the life skills. I later switched to tai chi where there’s a saying something like “carry a knife but no one should know” ie don’t draw attention by *looking* badass, just have that internal reserve avail