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Chickenmoons t1_j688oo6 wrote

In general the people telling you that you live in the hood usually have almost no idea what they’re talking about. Everyone who lives in the burbs and watched local news is under the impression everything not on Broad or in the Church Hill historic district is open air drug markets and running gang battles 24/7.

That said, stay away from the Facebook groups for Church Hill, just incredibly toxic. Also lock your shit up if it’s on your porch otherwise don’t expect it to still be there.

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Elohym__ t1_j68doyi wrote

It's literally only my black coworkers that live right by me that call it to hood to me, the ones from the burbs are super careful and try to not be offensive but you can def see the fear in their faces. One middle aged white dude wouldn't stay in Richmond past 5pm like it was a sundown town.

I've gotten lucky and only had one thing snatched from the porch in 2 years. It helps to have a gate in the front yard or some type of additional barrier people have to cross. But def buy a package dropoff box. If I'm buying really expensive things I get them shipped to my work.

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Chickenmoons t1_j6a11ia wrote

Is the implication here that black people don’t live in the suburbs or something? Unless people frequent the neighborhood now and in the recent past I’m not sure why you’d listen to folks take on what the neighborhood is like.

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