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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dajop" data-source="post: 2303314" data-attributes="member: 3494">I lived in/around the Sydney CBD in the mid 90s (Darlinghurst and Pyrmont specifically) and used to spent a fair bit of time in the CBD at night (as I did a reverse commute - worked in the suburbs).   A lot of colleagues (particularly those living in the west) used to ask me if I was scared to a walk  around at night, as there's no way they would go there after dark.  Maybe they were getting Manhattan mixed up with Sydney, but I certainly had no issues, and did not feel unsafe at all.  Definitely blame the TV news and radio shock jocks, whose core business is sensationalising absolutely everything.Having said that, we actually spent a 16 of nights in the Perth CBD in August.  For the first 14 of those we were scared to leave our hotel room, even during the day <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing    :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> But after our fears diminished we moved to another hotel for 2 nights. We did pass comment that there were an awful lot of homeless people around ( I think I said it feels like San Francisco) - but certainly didn't feel threatened by any of them. The hotel (Four Points) we were in for those last 2 nights was pretty much empty - eerily quiet.</blockquote>

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