I mean I lived in Anaheim in a terrible part of town on the early 90s with no car and a 40 minute bike ride to work, it was inevitable that I was going to have some bad experiences (robbed at gunpoint, crazy lady with rabid dog living in front of my building, getting screamed at and having stuff thrown at my by passing cars because I was on a bike, etc).

My coworkers (kitchen work in a big hotel) were great, it was just when I was going to and from work I'd see a lot of crazy stuff.

In later years, going back, I just found people were on a hair trigger. Like I was with two co-workers (was there for something like a work conference) in a store buying beer and these two guys were in costume so my buddy (from the Maritimes) said "those are awesome costumes" and these two guys went nuts on us.

Profanity, threats, it was wild. We just apologized and they were telling us to go f ourselves as they left.

Or I went to sf with my wife about ten years ago and she wanted to stop at a gas station in the city to use the washroom. I was like "just keep your focus on the cashier to get the key and I'll wait outside the bathroom". She told me I was being paranoid. Before we even got out of the car two dudes got into a fistfight and a cop saw it and tore in return the lights and siren going.

Just stuff like that going on all the time. Meanwhile, a few hours away you have paradise on earth.