When a creep starts creeping on you, be the bigger creep. Get weird and loud. Talk about bowel movements and menstruation - or just jabber like a schizophrenic.

A friend of mine back in Philadelphia, who used to go walking around town at 2am, put it best: "Nobody mugs Dracula!"

Look up the address on MPD crime cards for the past year, also look up the address of the Georgia Ave metro. Close to GA metro is not what I would call safe, Far from the metro is a long walk in the dark in an unfamiliar and not super safe area. I'd suggest looking elsewhere.

https://crimecards.dc.gov/

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I also agree on the earbuds. I got a pair of noise cancelling headphones that also have a hear-through mode that makes sounds around you slightly clearer. It’s a bit more overwhelming for the sound, but worth it to appear like you can’t hear them while being completely aware

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She's 27 not 38

How far away is the closest Starbucks? That's my indication for safety .

Works fine when I travel

What 8 robberies in NW in one day?

Robbing middle school kids at gunpoint is some pathetic shit man

as a large middle aged man your advice here will inevitably be seen as condescending and unnecessary -- if you hadn't outed yourself as a large creature with a penis everyone would have agreed with you

This probably isn’t the most welcome sentiment especially in this sub, but I think “frustration with the Justice system” is a little generous to people up in arms about crime. Crime is down. You can go to MPD’s statistics if you want to check. Motor vehicle thefts are the one thing unambiguously up, and that’s almost certainly that MPD is not using the tools at its disposal to stop that - if you think it’s hard to track hundreds of stolen vehicles I would encourage you to speak to literally any law enforcement. I think we can always pull one-off incidents and point to them as alarming but there is ample research showing public perceptions of crime have virtually no relationship with actual trends. When people talk about their “feeling” of safety, they are much more often talking about how they’ve let themselves be whipped into a panic by pro-police voices in politics, the media, and their communities, than they actually are talking about a truly felt threat to their safety. So no, I don’t think the source of frustrations is about minor differences in sentencing, I think it’s something else entirely.

A surprisingly cheap place with no/few reviews is a gamble.

If it were near the Metro, they would mention that on the website since it's an important selling point for many people and would let them charge a higher price.

Sixteenth Street Heights goes as far south as Spring Rd, which would put you right next to Petworth Metro station, and a lot of people would mistakenly call that Petworth, all of which adds to the likelihood that this place is further north and not near the Metro.

You'll likely have to rely on the bus, which actually isn't too bad. Frequent service on Georgia, and an express line available.

In terms of safety, being further up Georgia is actually way better overall, since Petworth Metro station is the site of almost daily violent incidents.

Seriously. These are the kinds of cases/people where what they did is so twisted that I can’t even imagine him not being mentally ill in some way.

Yet, I don’t think “being evil” is a clinical diagnosis. It’s all fucked

i'm a man in my 30s and i try to sit closer to the weirdos so i can expand my experience of the great human tapestry of which we are all a part

Do you believe that the current frustration with the justice system is that they are consistently only sentencibg armed robbers to 8 years when the vocal rabble of reddit demands 12?

Dude, in my experience men try to “mind their own business” when this goes down. I’ve only been helped out by fellow women in these scenarios. I’ve point blank ASKED men to help me out in these types of situations and had them walk away. Sure, not all men, but enough men behave this way to give men a bad reputation.

I love it when women share their lived experiences and ppl like you come to tell us we’re wrong.

If you are using Airbnb, the whole point are the reviews !

I'm an Airbnb user big-time and was a Superhost with 4 Airbnbs at 16th/U. Across the street from Starbucks

My advice is to check if an address is safe. Look at the nearest Starbucks. Should be a block away

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You mean $ vs $$ ?

I agree deanocracy with you that zero far too often is definitely the biggest problem. Very much not convinced however that sentencing length has no impact whatsoever.

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That doesn’t sound like 16th street heights.

Georgia and what?

I’m a middle aged man and still wear headphones and sit in the front car just to avoid (or at least reduce) weirdos. It pisses me off to think that women have to deal with a whole other level of harassment. Carrying a whistle or some other kind of noise maker around your neck is probably also a good idea.

You can look on WMATA.com to see if it's near a metro. No one can tell you without an address.