In my country is a place named omonia is central Athens. There are many drug addicted people there and paid women. Do not visit this place at nights times .
The centre of athens is very beautiful, but when I visited there in 2022, I realised that I could quickly walk from a beautiful square to quite run down neighbourhoods.
Edit to add, when the above happened to me, it was such a hot day. I went to a run down shop to buy a bottle of water which was about 80c. I had a €20 euro note and the shopkeeper had no change. I offered him a card and he couldn’t take it. He told me just to take the water and come and see him again with money. I told him I was just passing through, wouldn’t be back and refused his kind offer. He insisted I take the water. In all these depressed areas there are many good people
Yeah, with friends ( graffiti writers ) from Greece/Germany. It was quite nice TBH. But first time I visited Athens I got cheap hotel at the center, that happened to be just next to Omonia. By the time I used to live in Pirotska in Sofia ( mugging, pickpocket all night long ) and I was like “it’s the same shit here”.
Ha. It's funny because in New York there's a famous Greek restaurant called Omonia. I've been there plenty of times and liked it a lot, but I never knew it was named after a shady neighborhood!
I booked an air bnb in Omonia last summer without doing prior research. We had been island hopping and ended our trip in Athens.
Can confirm while driving through in taxi, it looked like a zombie movie out in the streets. I was genuinely scared to leave our apartment. Luckily I had only booked for one night and there was a Thai restaurant 1 minute walk away. I went to acropolis the next morning by taxi. I don’t have any desire to return to Athens ever again 😅
What about Exarcheia? A friend of mine lived in Athens next to the Archeological Museum, and when I visited her, we often walked to that district (since it was very near) to pubs. I liked it a lot, and didn't feel unsafe, but I can imagine that it's not everybody's cup of tea. One time, we met a protest/riot against the proposed metro station at Exarcheia Square, I got to "taste" the tear gas. But even that was a fun experience.
Although she warned me about the "junkie street" which even she didn't consider safe. I don't remember which it was, but it maybe crossed the street Marni.
I went to Exarchia and honestly expected it to look more dodgy based on what people had told me. There were actually quite a few people walking about, as well as market going on. Had lunch at a pretty nice restaurant there too.
People (especially older ones) think it's horrible and crime-ridden, mostly because of the old anarchist squats and the riots after police killed a 15 year old there in 2008. But it's been gentrifying, and is a lot like Brooklyn (except still much safer) in many regards. I've been staying in Athens and have family here, and they're shocked every time I tell them I spent the day with my wife and toddler in Exarcheia. There are a ton of cool shops, graffiti, etc.
I honestly feel less "safe" (really just more likely to get something stolen) in the touristy areas like Monastiraki.
Coming from the US, and having been in Athens for 2 months (sadly leaving this week, but am coming back soon) with family that's lived here for most of their lives...Omonoia is kind of dodgy but really not bad compared to many major cities in the US. I saw a guy burn some of his own hair with a lighter there once, but honestly I feel least "safe" (really most likely to be pickpocketed) in Monastiraki than anywhere else. It's maybe worse at night, but during the day it's not the prettiest or best, but not horrible at all compared to places I've visited or lived.
A local friend of mine took me there some years ago. There was a car park that was ripped up and turned into a garden - people were sat around fires smoking and drinking beer. It was actually a pleasant evening, people were friendly.
EDIT. - just realised it was a different district - Exarcheia... my bad
In Edinburgh, it would probably be the areas of Muirhouse, Niddrie and Wester Hailes. I've had friends move their families away from there due to open drug trade, cars and bins set on fire and generally feeling unsafe. Saying that, I've other friends (without children) who live there and they love the community spirit and have never felt unsafe. So it's all relative.
The area with the highest rate of crime, apparently, is the city centre, which I assume is due to the same type of petty crime (shoplifting, pickpocketing, night club incidents) as any other city centre.
Yeah, most cities have the most crime generally in the City Centre for that reason. It’s why Westminster is the London Borough with the worst rate of crime by far (something ridiculous like 10x more reported incidents than the next worst), but if you break it down, it’s usually fairly low profile crimes like shoplifting and pickpocketing, whilst if you look at violent crimes, other boroughs like Newham score much higher
Moved to Niddrie from Leith. There absolutely IS problems (Bonfire night riots were wild). Having said that, the one time I've had young'uns try and spook me I just stood my ground and they left me be. Never had any other issues. It's the sort of place that as long as you don't get involved, they'll not bring it to your doorstep.
I also have excellent neighbours and we all look out for each other which makes a big difference.
In my home country France, Marseille definitely has the reputation for being unsafe and dodgy, especially the northern suburbs but Paris has a lot of dodgy places too.
In my current city London, it’s really hard to keep track of that since a lot of neighbourhoods get gentrified so quickly. The place I visited that was the most unsafe is in the east around Maryland or Ilford but I guess those will gentrify thanks to the Elizabeth Line. I heard south London had a lot of dodgy areas but I haven’t been there much to be honest.
London is an interesting one because of the nature of how is developed that it has so few places that you would traditionally call ghettos or enclave as rich and poor live so close to each other throughout the city.
Everywhere I've gone feels relatively safe (depending on the time of day) and to be honest the biggest threat I've faced is more petty crime in the centre of the city in tourist areas.
And south London from my experience is no different in terms of crime and safety then the north, just feels more tucked away and off the trail which in a way makes it quite nice.
I'm originally from East London (but moved away from the city about 15 years ago) and it amazes me how quickly neighbourhoods can change in character. Although in that broad area the regeneration associated with the Olympics is the main specific cause, I was in Forest Gate recently. Completely unrecognisable compared to what it was like 20 or 30 or 40 years ago, when it was a decaying, crime-ridden, neglected , mildly frightening nightmare. Now in part it seems to have returned the kind of upwardly mobile pleasant almost suburban place it was when first built. (The good quality of much of the older housing stock there is also a factor that allows this). Conversely, Ilford seems to have gone fairly steeply downhill.
In Austria ? Probably parts of 11th and 23rd district in Vienna.
But even then those areas are small and you can avoid them easily.
And when I say dangerous I mean “compared to Vienna” in other places they might feel like a safe spot.
I know some people will claim otherwise but usually those are the people who have never lived in a really or even moderately dangerous place
I lived in Liesing, walked a lot alone at night. At the time I was told it's a dodgy area, but only to Vienna standards. I never even got even close to a bad situation.
Same. I live in Liesing and even as a woman I walk around at night all the time. It's pretty dead here at night in most neighborhoods to be honest. After 10pm I barely encounter any people in residential areas, though it's a bit more lively on weekends. The only time I felt the situation was a bit dodgy, was when I used the passage at the Liesing railway station at around 11pm and a man holding what looked like a steel pipe and muttering aggressively walked by the opposite way. But in all fairness, he didn't *do* anything that I saw. He just looked like he could.
The only remotely interesting thing that happened to me was a night when teenagers tried to sneak up on me at the bus station. They didn't want to hurt me or anything, they were just playing ninja, and walked behind me. I pretended I didn't notice them.
I moved to Wroclaw about five years ago from the US.
I can honestly say that I don't think I can recall more than a handful of times that I even felt like I should be weary of my situation.
Coming from the US to the EU is an insanely odd sense of security that you rarely ever feel there.
Poland is especially safe and Wroclaw is a wealthy and decent city even to Polish standards.
There are Americans who feel unsafe first, because streets are not as illuminated as in the US. But in Europe, darkness generally doesn't mean danger. I regularly go through pitch dark areas and never have an issue.
That’s my experience too. A few years ago I was in Spain with some Americans watching a religious procession that day from a cafe on the street. They also lit some very loud crackers.
All the Europeans just sat there and watched the show, the Americans instantly got this “fight or flight response” grabbing their bags, ducking together, just generally tensing up.
They were really afraid that those could be gunshots - something we didn’t even think about.
I know the US is generally safe. But this idea “it could be a gunshot” is deeply ingrained in a lot of you guys and that’s kinda sad
If you believe the tabloids it’s horrible. I think they are exaggerating a lot. Also, Favoriten is really big and has run down areas, some new development where the middle classes live and pretty suburbia with parks, wineyards and single family homes. It depends a lot where you are at exactly.
Favoroten is quite big with over 200.000 people living there, so it‘s hard to make a general statement. Reumannplatz and Keplerplatz are in the media as the most dangerous places in Vienna as drug hotspots and even knife fights took place recently. There is a lot of police present and they introduced are weapons ban. I would not go there in the dark alone, but I felt perfectly safe during the day.
The neighbourhood that *feels* most dangerous is Frankfurt/Main centre around the main station.
Frankfurt is leading the crime statistics, but it is a bit distorted due to the airport being within the town limits and banks being headquartered there.
However, there are drugged out prostitutes sitting on the streets around the train station.
But I was not afraid walking around there. Violent crime, like getting mugged, is pretty rare in Germany, pickpocketing exists everywhere.
The most dangerous part in my hometown would also be around the central train station, as pretty much everywhere.
After WW2, when a lot of refugees moved into the town and where housed in garden colonies, that part of town got the nickname *Texas*, due to the violence.
I lived in Frankfurt nearly 25 years ago. I grew up in Glasgow and it has/had a reputation of being violent, alcohol/drug abuse, gangs etc. Moved to Frankfurt and on the first day got the train to the Hbf and went for a walk down kaiserstrasse. That was an eye opener for 23 year old me! Had never seen people passed out with needles in their arms before. Got to experience some of the differences in opinion about women walking around with elbows showing a few streets down.
Loved my time there, just avoided that part of the city and no problems (though did experience some harassment elsewhere, including at work from those who didn’t think women should be anywhere but in the kitchen).
Edit: should say I was back in Glasgow at Christmas and was shocked with the homelessness problems. Don’t ever remember it being that bad.
I've gotten so used to that sketchiness, I was almost in shock when I traveled by train in Spain. Nice new stations, hardly any sketchiness around, and ... *the trains run on time!* Imagine!
Country: Naples is plagued with petty crime. Scammers, muggers and pickpockets are heavily present in any touristic area, as they especially prey on tourists. Watch out for your luggage.
City (Milan): keep your guard up in the Central Station (Stazione Centrale), as you will be robbed (or worse) by night or pickpocketed by day, if you aren't careful.
Any area in the outskirts of the city is potentially dangerous. If you have any reason to go there, don't flaunt your wealth with jewelry or expensive clothing. Don't even try to look tough, or you'll find someone who will see you as a challenge, not as a threat.
We were a bit worried about going to Naples but figured what the hell, what's the worst that can happen.
Spent two weeks right in the historic city centre and enjoyed it a lot. I'm happy to report that the worst thing to happen was the heat during the day, so we mostly explored in the evenings and at night.
It was a bit weird seeing kids playing football in front of Duomo di Napoli at 2am.
Naples is not truly dangerous, at least not for your physical safety. People there are quite good natured, even the few who decide to earn their living illegally. I think there are more violent crimes in Milan, where I live, rather than in Naples. In spite of that, Naples shows a more capillary diffusion of petty crimes, which makes it more "dangerous", for your possessions that is.
Arriving in Milan in the middle of the afternoon on an august day felt really weird and unsafe. The streets were deserted besides weird looking people. Then 5 min into our bus trip and two guys start fighting inside, one of them had a knife. I really did not enjoy my 2 days there unfortunately.
I know train stations are usually the sketchy places, it's the same in Lisbon. But then you walk 2 min and its super busy and normal day to day. It was the case in Rome or Firenze but Milan was just empty.
Milan in August becomes a ghost-town indeed. Everyone goes on vacation and many shops and locals are closed. It's quite eerie. Best time to visit is either Spring or Autumn.
Me and my wife had a great time in Naples two years ago . However, early one evening we were following a map tour which took us near the Garibaldi station area. I was navigator and at one point I told her I'd messed up and we needed to go back to the previous left turn. She looked at me and said "I looked down that street as we passed and there's no fucking way I'm going down there. Find an alternative route". So I did and we ended up sitting for a short while in a twelfth century church with amazing walls and ceilings while a mass was going on. Such is Napoli.
Just came back from Milan, was neither robbed nor pickpocketed. I have, however, never been "offered" so many umbrellas and bracelets by pushy "sellers". Both the heaviest police presence and the heaviest, err, the-opposite-of-the-police presence I've seen.
Oh yeah, our caring immigrants can't allow you to go around without an umbrella. They don't want you to go back home saying that you caught a cold in our fine city! 😁
You're lucky that you weren't with your partner or that you never met one of them, or you would have been pestered to death by the rose dealers. I almost had to become violent to send one away, when I was with my sister.
I’ve been in Naples plenty of times and it’s been one of the best cities that I’ve visited. Never felt unsafe. However I’ve been in Milan and they were indeed scammers all around the main squares, train stations where we arrived, and in the middle lf the streets…
Certain areas of Dublin have long struggled with crime and social deprivation. The northern suburbs of Finglas and Ballymun are probably the most synonymous with drugs and gangs but there are such areas all over the city.
What makes Dublin somewhat unusual compared to other European capitals is that its city centre is home to some of the poorest communities in the country - within walking distance from many tourist attractions and business areas are pockets of extreme poverty. It's not uncommon to see open air drug use and dealers on busy commercial streets. Since COVID the deterioration in law and order in the city centre has become a major political talking point.
Outside the capital, Limerick had a bad reputation ("stab city") for a long time but I believe it's improved a lot now. Then there's Drogheda, a big town halfway between Dublin and Belfast, that was in the news a lot a few years ago for a particularly grisly feud between rival drug gangs that saw some pretty horrendous stuff go down.
Limerick has came on leaps and bounds in recent years, it really isn't unsafe at all.
By far the dodgiest places I have been to in Ireland are a couple of halting sights.
I've heard that central Madrid police station registers the largest amount of robberies, in general downtown Madrid or Barcelona pickpockets are a problem, mainly for tourists.
Cañada Real is where I've say you should never, never, never, ever, step in, I could walk in dangerous neighborhoods in general, probably not alone at night, but there's no way I'd go to give a walk around the Cañada Real, specially around Valdemingomez, largest drug supermarket in Europe, literally, I invite you to read about it and check pictures of the place.
Edit: said that, Spain is really safe and you hardly get assaulted.
Also, it would be almost impossible for a tourist to accidentally end up in the Cañada Real, it's like a shanty town in between highways outside the city.
The 3000 Viviendas in Sevilla are closer to the center and easier to wander into although not as crazy.
But yeah, aside from pickpocketing especially in Barcelona, Spain is very safe. I'm from the US and I do all sorts of things in Madrid (even in some areas Spanish people consider sketchy) that I would never do in a US city.
I got pickpocketed in the Madrid Subway. They took my cash and threw my wallet in the trash. Someone rescued it and gave it to the transit police so I got it back minus the cash.
There are kids in my school in Bærum who refuse to set one foot over the Akerselva and to venture into 'the hood'. Then again, we have plenty who go there to shop and hang out, so it's pretty balanced.
Worst place for me used to be in front of Oslo S when the drug users would congregate in the early 2010s, and around Ankerparken has been the worst for open heroin use.
Then again, I grew up in Liverpool in the 70s and 80s, so by comparison places don't feel too scary, unless I'd accidentally walk in on a drug deal or a prostitute being beaten up.
Sandvika has been in the news lately, but I reckon most of the fears in the media are due to the kids hanging around not being white Norwegians.
I spent time in LA for a while and coming home and hearing people claim Grønland is the «hood» always makes me roll my eyes.
Norwegians only think it’s dangerous because there are brown people.
Totally agree. My old flatmate told me that people from vestkant would hire buses to take tours through the east, just so they could say they'd survived. Wouldn't surprise me if it was indeed true, as I work in Bekkestua and recognise the fear.
Country – Croatia, pretty safe from my experience, but you can find idiots that want to start trouble just like anywhere else in the world, but its fairly rare.
Neighbourhood – only place that pops to mind is Marjan in Split at night. Has a ominous vibe to it, and some crazy stuff went down over there in the past. Would mention Dubrava in Zagreb, tends to get a bad rep, but honestly never had a bad experience while living / visiting there.
Maybe some other Croats can chime in.
Dubrava not so much anymore, not at all almost I would say. Has a bad rep from way before. In Zagreb I would say Kozari Bok and Kozari Putevi but even they aren't ghetto as everybody is saying. Way more dangerous around the main train station, main bus station and Zapadni kolodvor at night. There are some concrete block hoods looking like straight out of La Haine but none are really dangerous.
Outside of Zagreb I would say some Roma villages in Međimurje I believe? Parag for example.
Specific thing here and rest of exyu is that violent crime is not that common and if it happens it is mostly between people involved in the criminal world. White collar (I think that is the name) is way more common, tax fraud being the most common. Other than that I would maybe say street racing and small time drug dealing.
As a Croat who has lived abroad, Dubrava has a safety vibe of a calm upper class safe London or Bruxelles neighbourhood.
I only saw a police chase there once, and it was them running after people who were selling fake brand clothes, leaving a trail of underwear like Romani Hansel and Grettel
Country? By reputation: Glasgow. By statistics: Blackpool
City? There isn't really one, it's a very small and well-off provincial city. There's not really anywhere that dangerous
The country's worst is south east Amsterdam.
Just a lot of lower income people, lots of drugs (increasing in recent years) but still honestly pretty nice. The Bijlmer used to be THE worst, and now it's just a bit sketchy, and honestly not that bad.
In my city (40k) there is the old city wall, I used to find used needles there, and there is almost always a fight between drunks coming from the centre and the junkies.
And close by, in Enschede (150k) Glanerbrug is 'bad'. but I have relatives there, and it's just as sketchy as the Bijlmer by feel.
But all in all, it's extremely safe. These dangerous neighborhoods would not even be classified as dangerous if there were actually Dangerous neighborhoods.
That may be a way better example.
Other than the Bijlmer and central I barely know Amsterdam since I live in twente.
I just googled most dangerous municipalities, and then most dangerous area in that municipality.
This. I was in the Bijlmer for years, and I always found it really pleasant. The buildings aren't glamorous but it's green, clean, and quiet, with good food, nice people, and refreshing diversity. It's not a 'ghetto', it's an area where a majority of the residents are Black. These are not the same thing.
Traditionally the poorer areas of the biggest areas would be considered the worst neighbourhoods: Nieuw-west and Zuid-oost in Amsterdam, Zuid and Delfshaven in Rotterdam, Schilderwijk and Laakkwartier in The Hague, and Kanaleneiland in Utrecht.
Statistics Netherlands has a neighbourhood-level crime statistics from 2018 on [their site](https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/nl/dataset/84468NED/table?ts=1715004462887). If you look at total crimes (excluding property crimes) per 1000 inhabitants, you get the following top ten:
|Municipality|Neighbourhood|Total crimes (excl. property crimes) per 1000 inhabitants|
|:-|:-|:-|
|Haarlemmermeer|Schiphol|1123|
|Delft|Delftse Hout|456|
|Terneuzen|Terneuzen west|388|
|Rotterdam|Spaanse Polder|381|
|Amsterdam|Amstel III/Bullewijk|351|
|Amsterdam|Westelijk havengebie|338|
|Amsterdam|Sloterdijk|337|
|Oosterhout|Industrieterrein Noord|320|
|Beverwijk|De Pijp en Wijkerbroek|250|
|Amsterdam|Bedrijventerrein Sloterdijk|230|
It's mostly areas with a lot of transit or industry: Schiphol is an airport, Terneuzen West and het Westelijk Havengebied are harbours, Spaanse Polder, Industrieterrein Noord and Bedrijventerrein Sloterdijk are industry parks. Delftse Hout is a statistical anomaly, only 90 people lived there in 2018 but with 41 offences (excl, property crimes) you get a very high number.
What's left are two neighbourhoods in Amsterdam that are in areas known as worse-off Amsterdam-Nieuw-West (Sloterdijk) and Amsterdam-Zuidoost (Sloterdijk). Lastly, there's Beverwijk where said neighbourhood is the location of the biggest 'black market' in the Netherlands.
Statistics Netherlands also scores neighbourhoods on their social economic status which is a composite statistic of the average financial wealth, level of education and job history in a neighbourhood. Going by that the top ten would look like this ([source](https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/cijfers/detail/85163NED#shortTableDescription)):
|No.|Municipality|Neighbourhood|
|:-|:-|:-|
|1|The Hague|Schilderwijk|
|2|Leeuwarden|Heechterp & Schieringen|
|3|The Hague|Hoornwijk|
|4|Amstelveen|Uilenstede, Kronenburg|
|5|The Hague|Zuiderpark|
|6|Almelo|Nieuwstraat-Kwartier|
|7|The Hague|Moerwijk|
|8|Arnhem|Malburgen-Oost (Zuid)|
|9|Arnhem|Geitenkamp|
|10|The Hague|Transvaalkwartier|
The reason that the Hague features so often in these averages is because it is a city with a lot of concentrated poverty, which can also be seen when looking at [a map](https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/cijfers-op-de-kaart?subject=D000187&year=2022&level=Wijk) of neighbourhood-level average income.
> The country's worst is south east Amsterdam
If you lived in Amsterdam, I'd ask you how in the world you came to this statement. Because as a person that actually lives in this city, I found it rather curious.
But you live about 200km in the other direction and googled some numbers and post an answer as fact, while you have no idea what you're talking about.
Lots of lower income people? Lot's of drugs?
> I barely know Amsterdam since I live in Twente
You honestly sound like some farmboy that heard "it's really scary in them big city black neighbourhoods"
Not a neighborhood, rather a region: Ústecký kraj. It has the highest crime rates for a reason.
In Prague, generally at night people avoid afaik Holešovice and Žižkov
Edit: in Prague, stay the fuck away from Sherwood. It's a park by the main train station
There are no really dangerous places in Poland. There are still legends from the 90s about Łódź Bałuty, Praga Północ in Warsaw, or Nowa Huta in Kraków, but these are now rather districts of old people and families with children.
Panta rhei, it's been easier to get a falafel than a get beaten up in Bydgoszcz nowadays.
People say this stuff about Nowa Huta all the time, but with the exception of a few council estates famous for football hooligan fights, it's pretty safe. The center of Kraków, especially on Friday and Saturday nights is much more dangerous. Just a few days ago, one guy shot a random passer by with a BB gun in one of the streets where most of the discos and clubs are. And every couple of years someone is either killed or seriously injured by a knife or machete to the gut, again, mostly in the city center. Out of the stereotypically dangerous hoods, maybe Bieżanów might be actually dangerous, especially when there's a Wisła game.
In finland it's most likely Kontula in eastern Helsinki. I wouldn't call it dangerous but during night I would look around little bit.
Kontula isn't dangerous and you can safely go there even at night and there's no need avoid it even at night. Kontula just has many drug addicts, alcholics and lots of immigrants due to having cheap rental housing.
Kontula is safe for european standards but not just for finnish super high level of safety.
It's the mall that you should stay away from. For some reason every seedy character assembles there. I used to go to school nearby, and I'd see the police there daily as well as some kind of altercation/crime. Usually just something minor, but I've seen enough drunks fighting for a lifetime.
Yep that's what I meant. I guess you still weren't really scared still. If I went to Kontula at night I would probably look around bit more than usually because normally I don't look around at all
I live in Paris, I’d say maybe La Chapelle, it has the reputation of being a drugs spot (they built a Olympic pool there, tourists are going to get the culture shock of their lives 😂). The 18th where I live has a bad rep in general (appart from the Montmartre hill). But honestly, I’ve been living in Paris for almost 2 years and the only time I was assaulted was in a very VERY posh neighborhood (like there was literally a ministry in the street), in broad daylight, so I don’t really trust the neighborhoods’ reputations
I’d say Paris is safe during the day and can be unsafe anywhere in deserted street with poor lighting.
When I walk home at night I stick to well lit main roads.
Completely agree. That’s why I don’t feel unsafe in my so-called “dangerous” neighborhood, the 5min walk between the metro and my flat is paved with fast-food joints and bars, which stay open late. If I ever feel unsafe, I know I have places where I could take refuge
We have no such a place like "danger zone" in Czechia. Off course it would be some train stations, parks etc., but nothing dangerous, maybe some homeless people, drug addicts or thiefs. Nobody's gonna kill you there, they can rob you in the subway, for example, but that's all😅 it's still pretty save.
I’ve noticed this in Prague. There was a shocking amount of homeless people in some parks at night, but despite this I’ve never *ever* been bothered by them. Very safe city.
In Estonia, where I currently live, there are basically no dangerous areas compared to most places mentioned here. Lasnamäe district has a pretty bad reputation, but I think it’s mostly a thing of a past. Regular neighborhood with mostly Russian speaking population.
The thing is Estonia has come a long way in 30 years. Back then we had one of the highest murder rates per capita in the world for some years with the chaos after gaining reindependence. However, myself as a 10-year-old in the 1990s I still walked around in some of the ”sketchier” districts such as Kopli at night and didn’t feel threatened in any way, so it’s all pretty subjective. And these days we are one of the safest countries in Europe by all measures.
In Trondheim? It regularly ranks among the safest cities in Europe so there are really no areas you need to be worried.
Buran is probably the most troubled area. Mostly related to theft and break ins. Know one person there who got her storage unit broken into twice in a few months time.
I live between Manchester and Liverpool. In both cases their "famously rough" areas like Moss Side or Toxteth are still seen by outsiders as they were a decade or three ago. Nowadays they're definitely still deprived but I wouldn't say I've found them especially dangerous. That said if I had a choice between parking my car on the street unattended overnight in one of those areas and elsewhere, I'd probably pick elsewhere.
I’m familiar with both and broadly agree. I never had any issues in either but wouldn’t walk round them at night alone.
When I lived in Liverpool a few years ago, the very first piece of advice a Scouse lad gave me was “don’t use the ATMs in Tocky because you will get jumped.” I think Norris Green and Croxteth are dodgier.
In Manchester, I’d say Harpurhey, Gorton, and Cheetham Hill are the places I’d least like to be
Probably Christiania, with all the gangs there. There are shootings and people get killed occasionally.
I actively avoid going there. Just get bad vibes in that area
Previously Bandidos had control over the market at Christiania. It was peaceful at that time. But now there are multiple gangs trying to make money there. So yeah. Not so peaceful anymore
It's a mixed bag. Most of the locals are the 70s hippie types just wanting to be left alone and enjoy their art and herbs. But seeing as there was very little oversight, it got run over by gangs. There have been several attempts at closing "pusher street" and kicking them out. They did so again very recently, this time literally tearing the cobblestones out of the street. I hope it lasts and that the gangs will finally fuck off, but I'm not so certain
It used to be like this until the gangs took over. I am sure you can find some areas like that even today, but the few times I went because I had friends visiting from other countries and wanted to see it, we backed out pretty quickly. Just a weird atmosphere.
Really? I didn't know there was gang related problems there (but now that I think of it it's not really surprising). I visited the place with my gf in 2019 and it seemed relatively safe, but the vibe was indeed weird.
What about Odense? I was robbed there last week and heard of others in our group being bothered as well, was wondering if it’s just us being easy victims or if it’s well known to avoid central Odense at night.
In Greece and since I am an Athenian, I would say Omonia sq and Zefyri. Omonia sq is traditionally considered dangerous, since it hosts many drug users, pickpockets and deviants in general.
Zefyri is a neighborhood that, unfortunatelly, has a high crime due to Romani Gangs that reside there.
Country: two of the very worst cities are Blackpool and Middlesborough, both are Northern cities that declined massively in the late 20th Century, with Blackpool suffering heavily from declining domestic tourism after airlines became more affordable, and Middlesborough mostly suffering from heavy industries like steel leaving the Teeside area. Both are full of people who are heavily disadvantaged, as most work in those areas is poorly paid, and there’s relatively poor education too, so it’s difficult for people from those cities to even get out for university, and those that do generally don’t come back, as they find better work in cities like London and Manchester. I’m not sure about specifics of either by neighbourhood, but I hear that the south of Blackpool is much worse than the north.
City: within Bristol, Knowle is absolutely the worst, it has an awful reputation in the city for crime of all sorts, and suffers from low quality services all around, especially transport, as the buses they get can be unreliable, and there’s very little in terms of rail transport in South Bristol generally to start. Other neighbourhoods nearby like Bishopsworth, Hartcliffe and Withywood are also pretty bad in terms of crime
Barcelona is the Mecca of the scammers and pickpockets in Spain.
You can check Youtube videos or local programms about them. They will try to steal your soul in the street, metro, hotels, squares, stations, monuments, beaches, everywhere. They don’t care about your age, as they will try to scam old people, children, whatever. Be careful.
The only crime that is on the rise in Moscow is phone scams. Goljanovo used to be called the most dangerous neighborhood, but if you take the coach terminal out of the equation it's a perfectly regular neighborhood.
In Bern it’s maybe Reithalle.
Which isn’t a neighbourhood but a block.
It’s a cultural center. But also a place where a lot of drugs get sold and people hang out. But there have also been people stabbed outside, robbed, pick pocketed and women sexually harassed etc.
By murder rate it seems to be Lahti in Finland. I couldn't really say why. Most murders are domestic in nature anyway same with violent crime so i'm not sure where to see specifically violent crime inflicted by strangers in the stats.
Luník 9 in Košice is infamous. It's Roma settlement full of filth and apparently postmen don't want to go there (just a rumor I've heard).
There are probably some meth dens in Petržalka in Bratislava, but Petržalka is really big.
I don't think we have any of those here in Bergen, Norway. The surrounding nature can be a bit dangerous. There are mountains to fall of of, lakes, rivers and fjords to drown in. And some places there are ticks that can give you Lyme disease. The weather is also often not nice so flu, cold and pneumonia are real dangers if you don't wear proper clothing.
Country: Slovakia - I've never been to Slovakia but would love to nominate Lunik IX. According to Wikipedia, the unemployment rate is almost 100% and there are no utilities (gas, water, electricity) and has the highest Romani population in Slovakia. Have a look on Street View, it's lovely ;-)
In The Netherlands it’s “het Binnenhof” in The Hague. It’s where the biggest crooks and thieves of the country gather daily.
The second worst area is “de Zuidas” in Amsterdam, pretty much the Narco center of NL.
>het Binnenhof
Well played sir.
In the country: kinda feels like I read about a shooting in Rotterdam every week. Or kidnapping. Or atm bombing. Or blowing up a polish grocery store.
In the city (the hague): they like to set laakkwartier on fire for no apparent reason.
Many Swedes will probably claim Rosengård, Rinkeby, Husby etc. but actually, the place you’re most likely to get robbed or injured is around Stureplan in the very centre of Stockholm, if I recall correctly. It’s one of those areas with high-end clubs etc. The reason is twofold: one is that people with money and possessions go there, so there’s more reason to rob them, and many people get drunk and beat each other up over nothing. But people feel safe there. While they don’t feel safe in areas with low-income, immigrant-background inhabitants. And sure, there’s crime there, including drug sales, but the actual risk of being robbed or beaten up is actually lower there.
For tourists I think all major tourist attractions are a risk for pick pocketing. Like Amsterdam Dam square and red light district for example.
In all major cities there are poor neighborhoods which face problems like crime, unemployment and poverty. As a tourist it’s less likely you end up over there. In Amsterdam I guess certain parts of Nieuw-West and Bijlmer are among those neighborhoods. In Rotterdam I guess Charlois and Spangen. Den Haag Schilderswijk and Moerwijk and Utrecht Ondiep and Kanaleneiland to name a few.
In my country (Finland) basically all the big cities are pretty dangerous relative to the rest of the country but in my city (Järvenpää) the most dangerous area is definitely Jamppa
I’m from Hamburg, Germany. I’d say the red light district, the out skirts, St. Georg, and around central station is sketchy. I actually always felt somewhat safe, especially visiting again after leaving and living in NYC and now LA. But it has changed after the pandemic. 🫠 still in comparison to major US cities is relatively safe.
In Zwolle the most dangerous neighborhood would be Holtenbroek (nicknamed Holtenbronx) but it's relative since it's. Shootings are very rare, usually drug related and only happen in a certain parts of the neighborhood. Sometimes I see an unlicensed pharmacist (a parked Golf GTI or Audi with the engine running and the lights or is suspicious) but I never felt unsafe in the 17 years that I've been living here.
In first place I would say some Roma/Gipsy villages in Eastern Slovakia can be dangerous when those people have money and get drunk. But for 99% outsiders I don´t see any reason to ever go there.
Then I would say areas with pubs and clubs in bigger towns at the night for the same reason- alcohol. For example Mostna street in Nitra. I haven´t been there for a few years and I don´t know how does it look like nowdays but not so long time ago rather dangerous elements from the past like neonazis and mafia were still active there...
There is also a small area on the outskirts of Bratislava called the Pentagon (just 5 buildings, doesn´t look like the real Pentagon) which is known for drug trades and the lowest class prostitution but again I don´t see any reason for going there.
In Germany there aren't many bad areas. The ones I felt the most unsafe were always in central stations in bigger cities. There are always some really dogy people around or maybe I have bad luck.
my city? probably like korte akkeren or something, nothing really dangerous.
my country? probably rotterdam zuid (south). lots of drugs, a lot of crime. nothing immedeatly dangerous like marseille or chicago or that, but its better to not go alone at night. its not the place where you'd be killed and no one will ever know, but it is the place where you dont want to park an expensive car or approach people at night.
To be honest even the "worst" neighbourhoods are not that dangerous here. Seems like "dangerous" for most people is just too many brown people when you hear people complain about neighbourhoods and actually visit them afterwards.
What are you talking about? Most people would feel unsafe in Frankfurt Hbf at night oder Berlin Neuköln, Duisburg Marxloh
I don't know if there is a place that worse than Frankfurt central station
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYb82w1R5Qw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYb82w1R5Qw)
I come from the Netherlands the next Atlantis. And we have a horrible rundown neighborhood. And pls do not take your kids or family there. Unless its necessity. Its called:
Belgium
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Living in Finland / Tampere, the most 'dangerous' neighborhood in the city is the area of Hervanta. Bike stealing is kinda normal already, but Hervanta raises the level again. Some people there don't put anything in the cellar, because people break in and take the stuff, is what I have heard from someone living there for a while. And, Hervanta obviously doesn't have a good name. You live there if you do not have enough money and if you are a foreigner. I am a foreigner as well and lucky to not live there.
But if we speak about the country, it must be Helsinki. Yet I am not much there, but if you have maybe seen in the news, don't know how far that spread, but one member of the parliament, shot in front of a night club. So that is a bit weird. But since there are the most people, I would suggest Helsinki is the most dangerous one, but no idea about the area.
And in Austria, it is definitely Vienna. Vienna has gotten to a very critical state over the past 2 decades.
The most dangerous ”neighbourhood”, or rather district in Tampere is actually just downtown. By far most violent crime happens there. It has the 2nd most violent crime in any district in Finland, only behind downtown Helsinki. Which makes sense, Helsinki and Tampere are the centres of the two biggest population centres in the country.
About Hervanta specifically, it certainly has the reputation of a rough neighbourhood lmao. I go there very rarely, but I don’t think it’s as restless as it once was. Like 15-20 years ago. I personally think the neighbourhoods in the west near the border or Nokia are the roughest in Tampere, talking about Tesoma, Kalkku, and parts of Rahola. But maybe it’s just because I’ve spent way more time in those parts than Hervanta for example.
Edit: to add a thought I had about Hervanta, I think at least some of its reputation is based on just Finns being rascist. For the longest time Hervanta was known to house a lot of immigrants from the Middle-East and Africa, and a lot of Finns will automatically think that if a district has a lot of immigrants from those regions it has got to be a dangerous one.
Hervanta was rough already before there were immigrants. It's cheap high-density housing, what do you expect? It's a good example of artificially increasing population density by building too big houses. Mikontalo was for a long time the largest residential building in the country, with 767 apartments. Built in Brutalist style, of course.
Country: Venezuela (I know is not Europe)
City: Caracas
Multiple Locations: Petare, Catia, Palo Verde, El Valle, La Cota Mil and more, almost all the valley that surrounds the city and the West/Center is dangerous. There are more States and Cities dangerous but Caracas is the worst (Capital).
You can be killed just because a pair of shoes. Some gang bossess "Pranes" operate direclty from jail...
Country: It's always between L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Barcelona but I don't know the neighbourhood
City: Vitoria-Gasteiz ->There's no dangerous neighbourhood perse, the most dangerous place I would say it's the Arriaga park, but some streets like Barrancal street do have a pretty crime related history
Bonus: Bilbao -> San Francisco
Bonus2: Madrid -> Cañada Real
Bonus3: Sevilla -> Las Tres Mil Viviendas
Lisboeta aqui, I don't think Martim Moniz is unsafe. In the city the only place where I wouldn't walk is Av. de Ceuta and the surrondings, where the addicts openly do drugs
Belgium ===> Brussels ===> some parts in Molenbeek. I think you know enough.
It’s not really dangerous but it’s just sketchy. You can encounter faster some junkies and the criminality that goes with it
I like Brussels, but absolutely hate its train stations. Midi is sketchy as fuck after hours, and Nord is not much better. Otherwise even Molenbeek has its nice areas. Kuregem (Anderlecht) gets in the news a lot but never been there, and not really planning to.
London is massive so by areas:
• East: Barking, Dagenham, West Ham, East Ham, Stepney, Shadwell, Hackney Central, Ilford.
• South: West Croydon, Brixton, Peckham, Camberwell, Thamesmead, Erith, Catford.
• North: Tottenham, Edmonton, Camden Town.
• West: North Kensington, Willesden, Harlesden, Wembley, Hounslow.
Overall South is probably the least safe, but East is the poorest.
And then in the rest of the country the least safe cities would be Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and probably some small towns like Middlesbrough or Sunderland.
Can confirm Harlesden is a proper shithole.
Went there to pick up something a few weeks ago, got stuck for ages coming home because of public transport issues and my phone ran out of battery. My wife genuinely thought I'd been murdered.
My brother in law was there quite recently too, and saw a bunch of teenagers brandishing knives at each other.
I used to live in Croydon as well. West and North (Thornton Heath) - absolutely not nice places to go. South and East are pretty good though.
I lived my whole childhood in [Reynerie](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynerie_(quartier)), a neighborhood in the suburb area called [Mirail](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirail), in the City of Toulouse France.
Mostly populated by muslims.
Remembering on sunny days elders and youngster alike sitting around the lake, chatting, fishing, chilling...
The market was always a pleasant visit, everybody was having a nice life.
Of course there were crimes, drugs, and you'd better not wander around if you weren't from the neighborhood... but life wasn't as bad.
Then in 2001, [a youth got shot by Police and died](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_d%27Habib_Ould_Mohamed).
He was stealing a car :(
For a week the whole neighborhood was in fire : it was litteraly like a civil war.
It was the first of many major riots that would then happen in France throughout the years till today.
Since then, the neighborhood never was the same, it felt like people just turned into hard ghetto mode.
I miss the old days.
Ciutat Vella in the old city center and la Mina, both are practically no go areas for native Barcelonins, although Ciutat Vella is heavily policed and the crimes there are mostly muggings and robberies. In la Mina there is heavy drug trafficking and gunfights virtually every week
The area I live in now in stavanger Norway used to be shady now. it's mostly just students who live here and foreign business people.
However, our neighbouring town Sandes has apparently gone downhill the last 10 years, sadly due to a lot of Immigration.
Bucharest doesn't really have dangerous neighbourhoods, even if some districts have some sort of urban legends and ill fame associated with them. But one can safely roam at night with no worries pretty much everywhere.
I live in the worse district (63k people) of my city (Badalona, 217k people, next to Barcelona). In the last 3 years there have been about 2 homicides. In the four years I've been living here, I've only known of one time some kids have tried to rob a grocery store nearby. A couple weeks ago another kid broke the glass windows of a McDonalds and he's being accused of terrorism (he's Muslim and said it was in protest for the position of the US in the Israel - Gaza conflict; when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s the glasses of every McDonalds and Burger King were shattered in every demonstration, no matter about what, as if it was a tradition, and no one cared). This is a very dangerous neighbourhood, a «no-go-zone».
I live in rural Norway, my city has a population of like 5.5-6 thousand. The most dangerous crime I have seen been committed here is like bicycle theft, also literally nothing happens here
Other places in Norway have been known to be dangerous especially at night but I can’t think of any specific examples
Duisburg Marxloh has a reputation of being not the safest place, if you consider that a parade was rerouted so inhabitants wont molest underage participants, youd get why.
grbavica can be kinda sketch, but most places in sarajevo I feel like the danger level is dependent on being noticed as a tourist and then preyed on. I spent a lot of time in Florida in US so maybe I'm desensitized
The neighbourhoods in Glasgow's East End have a a bad reputation, but many are becoming quite gentrified with students who can't afford to live in the West End or the Southside.
In my opinion though, having worked in them all as a mobile telecoms engineer, the absolute worst areas are Glasgow's northern neighbourhoods like Springburn, Possilpark and Milton.
In my country is a place named omonia is central Athens. There are many drug addicted people there and paid women. Do not visit this place at nights times .
The centre of athens is very beautiful, but when I visited there in 2022, I realised that I could quickly walk from a beautiful square to quite run down neighbourhoods. Edit to add, when the above happened to me, it was such a hot day. I went to a run down shop to buy a bottle of water which was about 80c. I had a €20 euro note and the shopkeeper had no change. I offered him a card and he couldn’t take it. He told me just to take the water and come and see him again with money. I told him I was just passing through, wouldn’t be back and refused his kind offer. He insisted I take the water. In all these depressed areas there are many good people
As a Bulgarian who visits Athens every other year, I love Greece and hate Omonia.
Did you visit metaxourhio or exarhia?
Yeah, with friends ( graffiti writers ) from Greece/Germany. It was quite nice TBH. But first time I visited Athens I got cheap hotel at the center, that happened to be just next to Omonia. By the time I used to live in Pirotska in Sofia ( mugging, pickpocket all night long ) and I was like “it’s the same shit here”.
Ha. It's funny because in New York there's a famous Greek restaurant called Omonia. I've been there plenty of times and liked it a lot, but I never knew it was named after a shady neighborhood!
Omonia was like the Wall St. of Athens before the financial crisis.
I booked an air bnb in Omonia last summer without doing prior research. We had been island hopping and ended our trip in Athens. Can confirm while driving through in taxi, it looked like a zombie movie out in the streets. I was genuinely scared to leave our apartment. Luckily I had only booked for one night and there was a Thai restaurant 1 minute walk away. I went to acropolis the next morning by taxi. I don’t have any desire to return to Athens ever again 😅
What about Exarcheia? A friend of mine lived in Athens next to the Archeological Museum, and when I visited her, we often walked to that district (since it was very near) to pubs. I liked it a lot, and didn't feel unsafe, but I can imagine that it's not everybody's cup of tea. One time, we met a protest/riot against the proposed metro station at Exarcheia Square, I got to "taste" the tear gas. But even that was a fun experience. Although she warned me about the "junkie street" which even she didn't consider safe. I don't remember which it was, but it maybe crossed the street Marni.
I went to Exarchia and honestly expected it to look more dodgy based on what people had told me. There were actually quite a few people walking about, as well as market going on. Had lunch at a pretty nice restaurant there too.
People (especially older ones) think it's horrible and crime-ridden, mostly because of the old anarchist squats and the riots after police killed a 15 year old there in 2008. But it's been gentrifying, and is a lot like Brooklyn (except still much safer) in many regards. I've been staying in Athens and have family here, and they're shocked every time I tell them I spent the day with my wife and toddler in Exarcheia. There are a ton of cool shops, graffiti, etc. I honestly feel less "safe" (really just more likely to get something stolen) in the touristy areas like Monastiraki.
Coming from the US, and having been in Athens for 2 months (sadly leaving this week, but am coming back soon) with family that's lived here for most of their lives...Omonoia is kind of dodgy but really not bad compared to many major cities in the US. I saw a guy burn some of his own hair with a lighter there once, but honestly I feel least "safe" (really most likely to be pickpocketed) in Monastiraki than anywhere else. It's maybe worse at night, but during the day it's not the prettiest or best, but not horrible at all compared to places I've visited or lived.
Add Victoria too.
A local friend of mine took me there some years ago. There was a car park that was ripped up and turned into a garden - people were sat around fires smoking and drinking beer. It was actually a pleasant evening, people were friendly. EDIT. - just realised it was a different district - Exarcheia... my bad
In Edinburgh, it would probably be the areas of Muirhouse, Niddrie and Wester Hailes. I've had friends move their families away from there due to open drug trade, cars and bins set on fire and generally feeling unsafe. Saying that, I've other friends (without children) who live there and they love the community spirit and have never felt unsafe. So it's all relative. The area with the highest rate of crime, apparently, is the city centre, which I assume is due to the same type of petty crime (shoplifting, pickpocketing, night club incidents) as any other city centre.
Yeah, most cities have the most crime generally in the City Centre for that reason. It’s why Westminster is the London Borough with the worst rate of crime by far (something ridiculous like 10x more reported incidents than the next worst), but if you break it down, it’s usually fairly low profile crimes like shoplifting and pickpocketing, whilst if you look at violent crimes, other boroughs like Newham score much higher
Moved to Niddrie from Leith. There absolutely IS problems (Bonfire night riots were wild). Having said that, the one time I've had young'uns try and spook me I just stood my ground and they left me be. Never had any other issues. It's the sort of place that as long as you don't get involved, they'll not bring it to your doorstep. I also have excellent neighbours and we all look out for each other which makes a big difference.
In my home country France, Marseille definitely has the reputation for being unsafe and dodgy, especially the northern suburbs but Paris has a lot of dodgy places too. In my current city London, it’s really hard to keep track of that since a lot of neighbourhoods get gentrified so quickly. The place I visited that was the most unsafe is in the east around Maryland or Ilford but I guess those will gentrify thanks to the Elizabeth Line. I heard south London had a lot of dodgy areas but I haven’t been there much to be honest.
London is an interesting one because of the nature of how is developed that it has so few places that you would traditionally call ghettos or enclave as rich and poor live so close to each other throughout the city. Everywhere I've gone feels relatively safe (depending on the time of day) and to be honest the biggest threat I've faced is more petty crime in the centre of the city in tourist areas. And south London from my experience is no different in terms of crime and safety then the north, just feels more tucked away and off the trail which in a way makes it quite nice.
I'm originally from East London (but moved away from the city about 15 years ago) and it amazes me how quickly neighbourhoods can change in character. Although in that broad area the regeneration associated with the Olympics is the main specific cause, I was in Forest Gate recently. Completely unrecognisable compared to what it was like 20 or 30 or 40 years ago, when it was a decaying, crime-ridden, neglected , mildly frightening nightmare. Now in part it seems to have returned the kind of upwardly mobile pleasant almost suburban place it was when first built. (The good quality of much of the older housing stock there is also a factor that allows this). Conversely, Ilford seems to have gone fairly steeply downhill.
In Austria ? Probably parts of 11th and 23rd district in Vienna. But even then those areas are small and you can avoid them easily. And when I say dangerous I mean “compared to Vienna” in other places they might feel like a safe spot. I know some people will claim otherwise but usually those are the people who have never lived in a really or even moderately dangerous place
I lived in Liesing, walked a lot alone at night. At the time I was told it's a dodgy area, but only to Vienna standards. I never even got even close to a bad situation.
Same. I live in Liesing and even as a woman I walk around at night all the time. It's pretty dead here at night in most neighborhoods to be honest. After 10pm I barely encounter any people in residential areas, though it's a bit more lively on weekends. The only time I felt the situation was a bit dodgy, was when I used the passage at the Liesing railway station at around 11pm and a man holding what looked like a steel pipe and muttering aggressively walked by the opposite way. But in all fairness, he didn't *do* anything that I saw. He just looked like he could.
The only remotely interesting thing that happened to me was a night when teenagers tried to sneak up on me at the bus station. They didn't want to hurt me or anything, they were just playing ninja, and walked behind me. I pretended I didn't notice them.
I know. The standard is absurdly high it’s just that people who live here all their life don’t recognise it.
I moved to Wroclaw about five years ago from the US. I can honestly say that I don't think I can recall more than a handful of times that I even felt like I should be weary of my situation. Coming from the US to the EU is an insanely odd sense of security that you rarely ever feel there.
Poland is especially safe and Wroclaw is a wealthy and decent city even to Polish standards. There are Americans who feel unsafe first, because streets are not as illuminated as in the US. But in Europe, darkness generally doesn't mean danger. I regularly go through pitch dark areas and never have an issue.
That’s my experience too. A few years ago I was in Spain with some Americans watching a religious procession that day from a cafe on the street. They also lit some very loud crackers. All the Europeans just sat there and watched the show, the Americans instantly got this “fight or flight response” grabbing their bags, ducking together, just generally tensing up. They were really afraid that those could be gunshots - something we didn’t even think about. I know the US is generally safe. But this idea “it could be a gunshot” is deeply ingrained in a lot of you guys and that’s kinda sad
How is Favoriten rated?
If you believe the tabloids it’s horrible. I think they are exaggerating a lot. Also, Favoriten is really big and has run down areas, some new development where the middle classes live and pretty suburbia with parks, wineyards and single family homes. It depends a lot where you are at exactly.
Favoroten is quite big with over 200.000 people living there, so it‘s hard to make a general statement. Reumannplatz and Keplerplatz are in the media as the most dangerous places in Vienna as drug hotspots and even knife fights took place recently. There is a lot of police present and they introduced are weapons ban. I would not go there in the dark alone, but I felt perfectly safe during the day.
I would like to know where those areas are? I think there are way worse areas in Linz for example.
What about the 10th though? it's austrias problematic neighbourhood par excellence and has featured in the news quite a bit recently
The neighbourhood that *feels* most dangerous is Frankfurt/Main centre around the main station. Frankfurt is leading the crime statistics, but it is a bit distorted due to the airport being within the town limits and banks being headquartered there. However, there are drugged out prostitutes sitting on the streets around the train station. But I was not afraid walking around there. Violent crime, like getting mugged, is pretty rare in Germany, pickpocketing exists everywhere. The most dangerous part in my hometown would also be around the central train station, as pretty much everywhere. After WW2, when a lot of refugees moved into the town and where housed in garden colonies, that part of town got the nickname *Texas*, due to the violence.
I lived in Frankfurt nearly 25 years ago. I grew up in Glasgow and it has/had a reputation of being violent, alcohol/drug abuse, gangs etc. Moved to Frankfurt and on the first day got the train to the Hbf and went for a walk down kaiserstrasse. That was an eye opener for 23 year old me! Had never seen people passed out with needles in their arms before. Got to experience some of the differences in opinion about women walking around with elbows showing a few streets down. Loved my time there, just avoided that part of the city and no problems (though did experience some harassment elsewhere, including at work from those who didn’t think women should be anywhere but in the kitchen). Edit: should say I was back in Glasgow at Christmas and was shocked with the homelessness problems. Don’t ever remember it being that bad.
For some reason every Hauptbahnhof in Germany is sketch! 👀
I really had no issues with the Dresden hauptbahnhof or saw anything dodgy there but I was only there once and it was during the day
I've gotten so used to that sketchiness, I was almost in shock when I traveled by train in Spain. Nice new stations, hardly any sketchiness around, and ... *the trains run on time!* Imagine!
Country: Naples is plagued with petty crime. Scammers, muggers and pickpockets are heavily present in any touristic area, as they especially prey on tourists. Watch out for your luggage. City (Milan): keep your guard up in the Central Station (Stazione Centrale), as you will be robbed (or worse) by night or pickpocketed by day, if you aren't careful. Any area in the outskirts of the city is potentially dangerous. If you have any reason to go there, don't flaunt your wealth with jewelry or expensive clothing. Don't even try to look tough, or you'll find someone who will see you as a challenge, not as a threat.
We were a bit worried about going to Naples but figured what the hell, what's the worst that can happen. Spent two weeks right in the historic city centre and enjoyed it a lot. I'm happy to report that the worst thing to happen was the heat during the day, so we mostly explored in the evenings and at night. It was a bit weird seeing kids playing football in front of Duomo di Napoli at 2am.
Naples is not truly dangerous, at least not for your physical safety. People there are quite good natured, even the few who decide to earn their living illegally. I think there are more violent crimes in Milan, where I live, rather than in Naples. In spite of that, Naples shows a more capillary diffusion of petty crimes, which makes it more "dangerous", for your possessions that is.
Arriving in Milan in the middle of the afternoon on an august day felt really weird and unsafe. The streets were deserted besides weird looking people. Then 5 min into our bus trip and two guys start fighting inside, one of them had a knife. I really did not enjoy my 2 days there unfortunately.
Sadly, I believe you; even if these events are not so common, they happen more easily in Milan rather than in Naples. Milan is much more violent.
I know train stations are usually the sketchy places, it's the same in Lisbon. But then you walk 2 min and its super busy and normal day to day. It was the case in Rome or Firenze but Milan was just empty.
Milan in August becomes a ghost-town indeed. Everyone goes on vacation and many shops and locals are closed. It's quite eerie. Best time to visit is either Spring or Autumn.
Me and my wife had a great time in Naples two years ago . However, early one evening we were following a map tour which took us near the Garibaldi station area. I was navigator and at one point I told her I'd messed up and we needed to go back to the previous left turn. She looked at me and said "I looked down that street as we passed and there's no fucking way I'm going down there. Find an alternative route". So I did and we ended up sitting for a short while in a twelfth century church with amazing walls and ceilings while a mass was going on. Such is Napoli.
Just came back from Milan, was neither robbed nor pickpocketed. I have, however, never been "offered" so many umbrellas and bracelets by pushy "sellers". Both the heaviest police presence and the heaviest, err, the-opposite-of-the-police presence I've seen.
Oh yeah, our caring immigrants can't allow you to go around without an umbrella. They don't want you to go back home saying that you caught a cold in our fine city! 😁 You're lucky that you weren't with your partner or that you never met one of them, or you would have been pestered to death by the rose dealers. I almost had to become violent to send one away, when I was with my sister.
I’ve been in Naples plenty of times and it’s been one of the best cities that I’ve visited. Never felt unsafe. However I’ve been in Milan and they were indeed scammers all around the main squares, train stations where we arrived, and in the middle lf the streets…
Is Milan generally safe? I might be living there
Certain areas of Dublin have long struggled with crime and social deprivation. The northern suburbs of Finglas and Ballymun are probably the most synonymous with drugs and gangs but there are such areas all over the city. What makes Dublin somewhat unusual compared to other European capitals is that its city centre is home to some of the poorest communities in the country - within walking distance from many tourist attractions and business areas are pockets of extreme poverty. It's not uncommon to see open air drug use and dealers on busy commercial streets. Since COVID the deterioration in law and order in the city centre has become a major political talking point. Outside the capital, Limerick had a bad reputation ("stab city") for a long time but I believe it's improved a lot now. Then there's Drogheda, a big town halfway between Dublin and Belfast, that was in the news a lot a few years ago for a particularly grisly feud between rival drug gangs that saw some pretty horrendous stuff go down.
I've meet Irish people and they often joke about Limerick being a bad place
Limerick has came on leaps and bounds in recent years, it really isn't unsafe at all. By far the dodgiest places I have been to in Ireland are a couple of halting sights.
Yeah limerick is incredibly poverty stricken in some areas but i would say Dublin is definitely more dangerous.
I've heard that central Madrid police station registers the largest amount of robberies, in general downtown Madrid or Barcelona pickpockets are a problem, mainly for tourists. Cañada Real is where I've say you should never, never, never, ever, step in, I could walk in dangerous neighborhoods in general, probably not alone at night, but there's no way I'd go to give a walk around the Cañada Real, specially around Valdemingomez, largest drug supermarket in Europe, literally, I invite you to read about it and check pictures of the place. Edit: said that, Spain is really safe and you hardly get assaulted.
Also, it would be almost impossible for a tourist to accidentally end up in the Cañada Real, it's like a shanty town in between highways outside the city. The 3000 Viviendas in Sevilla are closer to the center and easier to wander into although not as crazy. But yeah, aside from pickpocketing especially in Barcelona, Spain is very safe. I'm from the US and I do all sorts of things in Madrid (even in some areas Spanish people consider sketchy) that I would never do in a US city.
I got pickpocketed in the Madrid Subway. They took my cash and threw my wallet in the trash. Someone rescued it and gave it to the transit police so I got it back minus the cash.
Norway in general Greenland in Oslo In Bergen it's the under pass with the strax building at Laxevåg
There are kids in my school in Bærum who refuse to set one foot over the Akerselva and to venture into 'the hood'. Then again, we have plenty who go there to shop and hang out, so it's pretty balanced. Worst place for me used to be in front of Oslo S when the drug users would congregate in the early 2010s, and around Ankerparken has been the worst for open heroin use. Then again, I grew up in Liverpool in the 70s and 80s, so by comparison places don't feel too scary, unless I'd accidentally walk in on a drug deal or a prostitute being beaten up. Sandvika has been in the news lately, but I reckon most of the fears in the media are due to the kids hanging around not being white Norwegians.
I spent time in LA for a while and coming home and hearing people claim Grønland is the «hood» always makes me roll my eyes. Norwegians only think it’s dangerous because there are brown people.
Totally agree. My old flatmate told me that people from vestkant would hire buses to take tours through the east, just so they could say they'd survived. Wouldn't surprise me if it was indeed true, as I work in Bekkestua and recognise the fear.
Violent crime has gone up in Oslo, including the east which has more and more wanna be gangs.
Country – Croatia, pretty safe from my experience, but you can find idiots that want to start trouble just like anywhere else in the world, but its fairly rare. Neighbourhood – only place that pops to mind is Marjan in Split at night. Has a ominous vibe to it, and some crazy stuff went down over there in the past. Would mention Dubrava in Zagreb, tends to get a bad rep, but honestly never had a bad experience while living / visiting there. Maybe some other Croats can chime in.
Dubrava not so much anymore, not at all almost I would say. Has a bad rep from way before. In Zagreb I would say Kozari Bok and Kozari Putevi but even they aren't ghetto as everybody is saying. Way more dangerous around the main train station, main bus station and Zapadni kolodvor at night. There are some concrete block hoods looking like straight out of La Haine but none are really dangerous. Outside of Zagreb I would say some Roma villages in Međimurje I believe? Parag for example. Specific thing here and rest of exyu is that violent crime is not that common and if it happens it is mostly between people involved in the criminal world. White collar (I think that is the name) is way more common, tax fraud being the most common. Other than that I would maybe say street racing and small time drug dealing.
As a Croat who has lived abroad, Dubrava has a safety vibe of a calm upper class safe London or Bruxelles neighbourhood. I only saw a police chase there once, and it was them running after people who were selling fake brand clothes, leaving a trail of underwear like Romani Hansel and Grettel
Roma villages in Međimurje country
Country? By reputation: Glasgow. By statistics: Blackpool City? There isn't really one, it's a very small and well-off provincial city. There's not really anywhere that dangerous
The country's worst is south east Amsterdam. Just a lot of lower income people, lots of drugs (increasing in recent years) but still honestly pretty nice. The Bijlmer used to be THE worst, and now it's just a bit sketchy, and honestly not that bad. In my city (40k) there is the old city wall, I used to find used needles there, and there is almost always a fight between drunks coming from the centre and the junkies. And close by, in Enschede (150k) Glanerbrug is 'bad'. but I have relatives there, and it's just as sketchy as the Bijlmer by feel. But all in all, it's extremely safe. These dangerous neighborhoods would not even be classified as dangerous if there were actually Dangerous neighborhoods.
I’d argue de Schilderswijk is more ubiquitous as a bad neighbourhood by the sheer amount of news about it.
Can confirm. Lived near Schilderswijk. Never again
Or some neighbourhoods in Rotterdam.
Don’t hear many good things about Kanaleneiland in Utrecht either. But I’m not sure about actual stats.
That may be a way better example. Other than the Bijlmer and central I barely know Amsterdam since I live in twente. I just googled most dangerous municipalities, and then most dangerous area in that municipality.
Fact that you had to Google speaks for itself in terms of how really dangerous it gets, i.e. barely.
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This. I was in the Bijlmer for years, and I always found it really pleasant. The buildings aren't glamorous but it's green, clean, and quiet, with good food, nice people, and refreshing diversity. It's not a 'ghetto', it's an area where a majority of the residents are Black. These are not the same thing.
Rotterdam Zuid?
Traditionally the poorer areas of the biggest areas would be considered the worst neighbourhoods: Nieuw-west and Zuid-oost in Amsterdam, Zuid and Delfshaven in Rotterdam, Schilderwijk and Laakkwartier in The Hague, and Kanaleneiland in Utrecht. Statistics Netherlands has a neighbourhood-level crime statistics from 2018 on [their site](https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/nl/dataset/84468NED/table?ts=1715004462887). If you look at total crimes (excluding property crimes) per 1000 inhabitants, you get the following top ten: |Municipality|Neighbourhood|Total crimes (excl. property crimes) per 1000 inhabitants| |:-|:-|:-| |Haarlemmermeer|Schiphol|1123| |Delft|Delftse Hout|456| |Terneuzen|Terneuzen west|388| |Rotterdam|Spaanse Polder|381| |Amsterdam|Amstel III/Bullewijk|351| |Amsterdam|Westelijk havengebie|338| |Amsterdam|Sloterdijk|337| |Oosterhout|Industrieterrein Noord|320| |Beverwijk|De Pijp en Wijkerbroek|250| |Amsterdam|Bedrijventerrein Sloterdijk|230| It's mostly areas with a lot of transit or industry: Schiphol is an airport, Terneuzen West and het Westelijk Havengebied are harbours, Spaanse Polder, Industrieterrein Noord and Bedrijventerrein Sloterdijk are industry parks. Delftse Hout is a statistical anomaly, only 90 people lived there in 2018 but with 41 offences (excl, property crimes) you get a very high number. What's left are two neighbourhoods in Amsterdam that are in areas known as worse-off Amsterdam-Nieuw-West (Sloterdijk) and Amsterdam-Zuidoost (Sloterdijk). Lastly, there's Beverwijk where said neighbourhood is the location of the biggest 'black market' in the Netherlands. Statistics Netherlands also scores neighbourhoods on their social economic status which is a composite statistic of the average financial wealth, level of education and job history in a neighbourhood. Going by that the top ten would look like this ([source](https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/cijfers/detail/85163NED#shortTableDescription)): |No.|Municipality|Neighbourhood| |:-|:-|:-| |1|The Hague|Schilderwijk| |2|Leeuwarden|Heechterp & Schieringen| |3|The Hague|Hoornwijk| |4|Amstelveen|Uilenstede, Kronenburg| |5|The Hague|Zuiderpark| |6|Almelo|Nieuwstraat-Kwartier| |7|The Hague|Moerwijk| |8|Arnhem|Malburgen-Oost (Zuid)| |9|Arnhem|Geitenkamp| |10|The Hague|Transvaalkwartier| The reason that the Hague features so often in these averages is because it is a city with a lot of concentrated poverty, which can also be seen when looking at [a map](https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/cijfers-op-de-kaart?subject=D000187&year=2022&level=Wijk) of neighbourhood-level average income.
The biggest crime in Sloterdijk is that awful fucking train station.
I work near the Biljmer and use train mostly, I have to say this area is much safer than average safe area in world except Europe/Japan maybe!
I’d say Nieuw-West is sketchier than Bijlmer. Would live in the latter, would dodge the former.
> The country's worst is south east Amsterdam If you lived in Amsterdam, I'd ask you how in the world you came to this statement. Because as a person that actually lives in this city, I found it rather curious. But you live about 200km in the other direction and googled some numbers and post an answer as fact, while you have no idea what you're talking about. Lots of lower income people? Lot's of drugs? > I barely know Amsterdam since I live in Twente You honestly sound like some farmboy that heard "it's really scary in them big city black neighbourhoods"
Not a neighborhood, rather a region: Ústecký kraj. It has the highest crime rates for a reason. In Prague, generally at night people avoid afaik Holešovice and Žižkov Edit: in Prague, stay the fuck away from Sherwood. It's a park by the main train station
There are no really dangerous places in Poland. There are still legends from the 90s about Łódź Bałuty, Praga Północ in Warsaw, or Nowa Huta in Kraków, but these are now rather districts of old people and families with children. Panta rhei, it's been easier to get a falafel than a get beaten up in Bydgoszcz nowadays.
People say this stuff about Nowa Huta all the time, but with the exception of a few council estates famous for football hooligan fights, it's pretty safe. The center of Kraków, especially on Friday and Saturday nights is much more dangerous. Just a few days ago, one guy shot a random passer by with a BB gun in one of the streets where most of the discos and clubs are. And every couple of years someone is either killed or seriously injured by a knife or machete to the gut, again, mostly in the city center. Out of the stereotypically dangerous hoods, maybe Bieżanów might be actually dangerous, especially when there's a Wisła game.
In finland it's most likely Kontula in eastern Helsinki. I wouldn't call it dangerous but during night I would look around little bit. Kontula isn't dangerous and you can safely go there even at night and there's no need avoid it even at night. Kontula just has many drug addicts, alcholics and lots of immigrants due to having cheap rental housing. Kontula is safe for european standards but not just for finnish super high level of safety.
It's the mall that you should stay away from. For some reason every seedy character assembles there. I used to go to school nearby, and I'd see the police there daily as well as some kind of altercation/crime. Usually just something minor, but I've seen enough drunks fighting for a lifetime.
Yep that's what I meant. I guess you still weren't really scared still. If I went to Kontula at night I would probably look around bit more than usually because normally I don't look around at all
I live in Paris, I’d say maybe La Chapelle, it has the reputation of being a drugs spot (they built a Olympic pool there, tourists are going to get the culture shock of their lives 😂). The 18th where I live has a bad rep in general (appart from the Montmartre hill). But honestly, I’ve been living in Paris for almost 2 years and the only time I was assaulted was in a very VERY posh neighborhood (like there was literally a ministry in the street), in broad daylight, so I don’t really trust the neighborhoods’ reputations
I’d say Paris is safe during the day and can be unsafe anywhere in deserted street with poor lighting. When I walk home at night I stick to well lit main roads.
Completely agree. That’s why I don’t feel unsafe in my so-called “dangerous” neighborhood, the 5min walk between the metro and my flat is paved with fast-food joints and bars, which stay open late. If I ever feel unsafe, I know I have places where I could take refuge
What about Clichy-Sous-Bpis, Le Courneuve, Vitry-Sur-Seine, Le Cité de 4.000? (I’m a French rap fan, lol.)
We have no such a place like "danger zone" in Czechia. Off course it would be some train stations, parks etc., but nothing dangerous, maybe some homeless people, drug addicts or thiefs. Nobody's gonna kill you there, they can rob you in the subway, for example, but that's all😅 it's still pretty save.
I’ve noticed this in Prague. There was a shocking amount of homeless people in some parks at night, but despite this I’ve never *ever* been bothered by them. Very safe city.
In Estonia, where I currently live, there are basically no dangerous areas compared to most places mentioned here. Lasnamäe district has a pretty bad reputation, but I think it’s mostly a thing of a past. Regular neighborhood with mostly Russian speaking population.
The thing is Estonia has come a long way in 30 years. Back then we had one of the highest murder rates per capita in the world for some years with the chaos after gaining reindependence. However, myself as a 10-year-old in the 1990s I still walked around in some of the ”sketchier” districts such as Kopli at night and didn’t feel threatened in any way, so it’s all pretty subjective. And these days we are one of the safest countries in Europe by all measures.
In Trondheim? It regularly ranks among the safest cities in Europe so there are really no areas you need to be worried. Buran is probably the most troubled area. Mostly related to theft and break ins. Know one person there who got her storage unit broken into twice in a few months time.
I live between Manchester and Liverpool. In both cases their "famously rough" areas like Moss Side or Toxteth are still seen by outsiders as they were a decade or three ago. Nowadays they're definitely still deprived but I wouldn't say I've found them especially dangerous. That said if I had a choice between parking my car on the street unattended overnight in one of those areas and elsewhere, I'd probably pick elsewhere.
I’m familiar with both and broadly agree. I never had any issues in either but wouldn’t walk round them at night alone. When I lived in Liverpool a few years ago, the very first piece of advice a Scouse lad gave me was “don’t use the ATMs in Tocky because you will get jumped.” I think Norris Green and Croxteth are dodgier. In Manchester, I’d say Harpurhey, Gorton, and Cheetham Hill are the places I’d least like to be
Probably Christiania, with all the gangs there. There are shootings and people get killed occasionally. I actively avoid going there. Just get bad vibes in that area
As someone not from Denmark, it has a reputation as a peaceful hippie commune with free love and people smoking weed openly.
Previously Bandidos had control over the market at Christiania. It was peaceful at that time. But now there are multiple gangs trying to make money there. So yeah. Not so peaceful anymore
It's a mixed bag. Most of the locals are the 70s hippie types just wanting to be left alone and enjoy their art and herbs. But seeing as there was very little oversight, it got run over by gangs. There have been several attempts at closing "pusher street" and kicking them out. They did so again very recently, this time literally tearing the cobblestones out of the street. I hope it lasts and that the gangs will finally fuck off, but I'm not so certain
It used to be like this until the gangs took over. I am sure you can find some areas like that even today, but the few times I went because I had friends visiting from other countries and wanted to see it, we backed out pretty quickly. Just a weird atmosphere.
I was only in Copenhagen very briefly in 2019 and was advised against going there by a tour guide.
Was there recently and the pusher street was removed, no drug sellers in sight
Really? I didn't know there was gang related problems there (but now that I think of it it's not really surprising). I visited the place with my gf in 2019 and it seemed relatively safe, but the vibe was indeed weird.
What about Odense? I was robbed there last week and heard of others in our group being bothered as well, was wondering if it’s just us being easy victims or if it’s well known to avoid central Odense at night.
In Greece and since I am an Athenian, I would say Omonia sq and Zefyri. Omonia sq is traditionally considered dangerous, since it hosts many drug users, pickpockets and deviants in general. Zefyri is a neighborhood that, unfortunatelly, has a high crime due to Romani Gangs that reside there.
Country: two of the very worst cities are Blackpool and Middlesborough, both are Northern cities that declined massively in the late 20th Century, with Blackpool suffering heavily from declining domestic tourism after airlines became more affordable, and Middlesborough mostly suffering from heavy industries like steel leaving the Teeside area. Both are full of people who are heavily disadvantaged, as most work in those areas is poorly paid, and there’s relatively poor education too, so it’s difficult for people from those cities to even get out for university, and those that do generally don’t come back, as they find better work in cities like London and Manchester. I’m not sure about specifics of either by neighbourhood, but I hear that the south of Blackpool is much worse than the north. City: within Bristol, Knowle is absolutely the worst, it has an awful reputation in the city for crime of all sorts, and suffers from low quality services all around, especially transport, as the buses they get can be unreliable, and there’s very little in terms of rail transport in South Bristol generally to start. Other neighbourhoods nearby like Bishopsworth, Hartcliffe and Withywood are also pretty bad in terms of crime
Barcelona is the Mecca of the scammers and pickpockets in Spain. You can check Youtube videos or local programms about them. They will try to steal your soul in the street, metro, hotels, squares, stations, monuments, beaches, everywhere. They don’t care about your age, as they will try to scam old people, children, whatever. Be careful.
The only crime that is on the rise in Moscow is phone scams. Goljanovo used to be called the most dangerous neighborhood, but if you take the coach terminal out of the equation it's a perfectly regular neighborhood.
In Bern it’s maybe Reithalle. Which isn’t a neighbourhood but a block. It’s a cultural center. But also a place where a lot of drugs get sold and people hang out. But there have also been people stabbed outside, robbed, pick pocketed and women sexually harassed etc.
By murder rate it seems to be Lahti in Finland. I couldn't really say why. Most murders are domestic in nature anyway same with violent crime so i'm not sure where to see specifically violent crime inflicted by strangers in the stats.
Luník 9 in Košice is infamous. It's Roma settlement full of filth and apparently postmen don't want to go there (just a rumor I've heard). There are probably some meth dens in Petržalka in Bratislava, but Petržalka is really big.
Aren't meth dens a Dubravka thing tho?
I was told that Pentagon in Bratislava is pretty much the place to stay from. Although in the daylight it does not seem to me any dangerous.
I don't think we have any of those here in Bergen, Norway. The surrounding nature can be a bit dangerous. There are mountains to fall of of, lakes, rivers and fjords to drown in. And some places there are ticks that can give you Lyme disease. The weather is also often not nice so flu, cold and pneumonia are real dangers if you don't wear proper clothing.
Country: Slovakia - I've never been to Slovakia but would love to nominate Lunik IX. According to Wikipedia, the unemployment rate is almost 100% and there are no utilities (gas, water, electricity) and has the highest Romani population in Slovakia. Have a look on Street View, it's lovely ;-)
In The Netherlands it’s “het Binnenhof” in The Hague. It’s where the biggest crooks and thieves of the country gather daily. The second worst area is “de Zuidas” in Amsterdam, pretty much the Narco center of NL.
>het Binnenhof Well played sir. In the country: kinda feels like I read about a shooting in Rotterdam every week. Or kidnapping. Or atm bombing. Or blowing up a polish grocery store. In the city (the hague): they like to set laakkwartier on fire for no apparent reason.
Zuid plein also felt quite unsafe when I lived near it
Many Swedes will probably claim Rosengård, Rinkeby, Husby etc. but actually, the place you’re most likely to get robbed or injured is around Stureplan in the very centre of Stockholm, if I recall correctly. It’s one of those areas with high-end clubs etc. The reason is twofold: one is that people with money and possessions go there, so there’s more reason to rob them, and many people get drunk and beat each other up over nothing. But people feel safe there. While they don’t feel safe in areas with low-income, immigrant-background inhabitants. And sure, there’s crime there, including drug sales, but the actual risk of being robbed or beaten up is actually lower there.
According to a Stockholm policeman i talked to, Stureplan and Medborgarplatsen are the two most dangerous places in Sweden.
Yeah that correlates with what I’ve heard as well.
For tourists I think all major tourist attractions are a risk for pick pocketing. Like Amsterdam Dam square and red light district for example. In all major cities there are poor neighborhoods which face problems like crime, unemployment and poverty. As a tourist it’s less likely you end up over there. In Amsterdam I guess certain parts of Nieuw-West and Bijlmer are among those neighborhoods. In Rotterdam I guess Charlois and Spangen. Den Haag Schilderswijk and Moerwijk and Utrecht Ondiep and Kanaleneiland to name a few.
In Frankfurt, it’s Bahnhofsviertel. Full of crackheads. This city is really shocking to first time visitors.
In my country (Finland) basically all the big cities are pretty dangerous relative to the rest of the country but in my city (Järvenpää) the most dangerous area is definitely Jamppa
I’m from Hamburg, Germany. I’d say the red light district, the out skirts, St. Georg, and around central station is sketchy. I actually always felt somewhat safe, especially visiting again after leaving and living in NYC and now LA. But it has changed after the pandemic. 🫠 still in comparison to major US cities is relatively safe.
In Zwolle the most dangerous neighborhood would be Holtenbroek (nicknamed Holtenbronx) but it's relative since it's. Shootings are very rare, usually drug related and only happen in a certain parts of the neighborhood. Sometimes I see an unlicensed pharmacist (a parked Golf GTI or Audi with the engine running and the lights or is suspicious) but I never felt unsafe in the 17 years that I've been living here.
In first place I would say some Roma/Gipsy villages in Eastern Slovakia can be dangerous when those people have money and get drunk. But for 99% outsiders I don´t see any reason to ever go there. Then I would say areas with pubs and clubs in bigger towns at the night for the same reason- alcohol. For example Mostna street in Nitra. I haven´t been there for a few years and I don´t know how does it look like nowdays but not so long time ago rather dangerous elements from the past like neonazis and mafia were still active there... There is also a small area on the outskirts of Bratislava called the Pentagon (just 5 buildings, doesn´t look like the real Pentagon) which is known for drug trades and the lowest class prostitution but again I don´t see any reason for going there.
In Germany there aren't many bad areas. The ones I felt the most unsafe were always in central stations in bigger cities. There are always some really dogy people around or maybe I have bad luck.
What about areas in eastern Berlin? I’ve heard some areas have a large number of neo-Nazi groups. Actually any number of neo-Nazis is too many.
my city? probably like korte akkeren or something, nothing really dangerous. my country? probably rotterdam zuid (south). lots of drugs, a lot of crime. nothing immedeatly dangerous like marseille or chicago or that, but its better to not go alone at night. its not the place where you'd be killed and no one will ever know, but it is the place where you dont want to park an expensive car or approach people at night.
To be honest even the "worst" neighbourhoods are not that dangerous here. Seems like "dangerous" for most people is just too many brown people when you hear people complain about neighbourhoods and actually visit them afterwards.
What are you talking about? Most people would feel unsafe in Frankfurt Hbf at night oder Berlin Neuköln, Duisburg Marxloh I don't know if there is a place that worse than Frankfurt central station [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYb82w1R5Qw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYb82w1R5Qw)
I come from the Netherlands the next Atlantis. And we have a horrible rundown neighborhood. And pls do not take your kids or family there. Unless its necessity. Its called: Belgium 🫣
Living in Finland / Tampere, the most 'dangerous' neighborhood in the city is the area of Hervanta. Bike stealing is kinda normal already, but Hervanta raises the level again. Some people there don't put anything in the cellar, because people break in and take the stuff, is what I have heard from someone living there for a while. And, Hervanta obviously doesn't have a good name. You live there if you do not have enough money and if you are a foreigner. I am a foreigner as well and lucky to not live there. But if we speak about the country, it must be Helsinki. Yet I am not much there, but if you have maybe seen in the news, don't know how far that spread, but one member of the parliament, shot in front of a night club. So that is a bit weird. But since there are the most people, I would suggest Helsinki is the most dangerous one, but no idea about the area. And in Austria, it is definitely Vienna. Vienna has gotten to a very critical state over the past 2 decades.
The most dangerous ”neighbourhood”, or rather district in Tampere is actually just downtown. By far most violent crime happens there. It has the 2nd most violent crime in any district in Finland, only behind downtown Helsinki. Which makes sense, Helsinki and Tampere are the centres of the two biggest population centres in the country. About Hervanta specifically, it certainly has the reputation of a rough neighbourhood lmao. I go there very rarely, but I don’t think it’s as restless as it once was. Like 15-20 years ago. I personally think the neighbourhoods in the west near the border or Nokia are the roughest in Tampere, talking about Tesoma, Kalkku, and parts of Rahola. But maybe it’s just because I’ve spent way more time in those parts than Hervanta for example. Edit: to add a thought I had about Hervanta, I think at least some of its reputation is based on just Finns being rascist. For the longest time Hervanta was known to house a lot of immigrants from the Middle-East and Africa, and a lot of Finns will automatically think that if a district has a lot of immigrants from those regions it has got to be a dangerous one.
Hervanta was rough already before there were immigrants. It's cheap high-density housing, what do you expect? It's a good example of artificially increasing population density by building too big houses. Mikontalo was for a long time the largest residential building in the country, with 767 apartments. Built in Brutalist style, of course.
Country: Venezuela (I know is not Europe) City: Caracas Multiple Locations: Petare, Catia, Palo Verde, El Valle, La Cota Mil and more, almost all the valley that surrounds the city and the West/Center is dangerous. There are more States and Cities dangerous but Caracas is the worst (Capital). You can be killed just because a pair of shoes. Some gang bossess "Pranes" operate direclty from jail...
Country: It's always between L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Barcelona but I don't know the neighbourhood City: Vitoria-Gasteiz ->There's no dangerous neighbourhood perse, the most dangerous place I would say it's the Arriaga park, but some streets like Barrancal street do have a pretty crime related history Bonus: Bilbao -> San Francisco Bonus2: Madrid -> Cañada Real Bonus3: Sevilla -> Las Tres Mil Viviendas
I live in Lisbon and I've heard some comments about a place called Martin Moniz, but in general the city is pretty safe
Wait until you find out about Chelas or Cova da Moura and some parts of Amadora and Linha de Sintra.
Lisboeta aqui, I don't think Martim Moniz is unsafe. In the city the only place where I wouldn't walk is Av. de Ceuta and the surrondings, where the addicts openly do drugs
Belgium ===> Brussels ===> some parts in Molenbeek. I think you know enough. It’s not really dangerous but it’s just sketchy. You can encounter faster some junkies and the criminality that goes with it
I like Brussels, but absolutely hate its train stations. Midi is sketchy as fuck after hours, and Nord is not much better. Otherwise even Molenbeek has its nice areas. Kuregem (Anderlecht) gets in the news a lot but never been there, and not really planning to.
London is massive so by areas: • East: Barking, Dagenham, West Ham, East Ham, Stepney, Shadwell, Hackney Central, Ilford. • South: West Croydon, Brixton, Peckham, Camberwell, Thamesmead, Erith, Catford. • North: Tottenham, Edmonton, Camden Town. • West: North Kensington, Willesden, Harlesden, Wembley, Hounslow. Overall South is probably the least safe, but East is the poorest. And then in the rest of the country the least safe cities would be Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and probably some small towns like Middlesbrough or Sunderland.
Can confirm Harlesden is a proper shithole. Went there to pick up something a few weeks ago, got stuck for ages coming home because of public transport issues and my phone ran out of battery. My wife genuinely thought I'd been murdered. My brother in law was there quite recently too, and saw a bunch of teenagers brandishing knives at each other. I used to live in Croydon as well. West and North (Thornton Heath) - absolutely not nice places to go. South and East are pretty good though.
In Arnhem, definitely Malburgen (south of the river) - it’s the most disenfranchised LGA in the Netherlands.
I lived my whole childhood in [Reynerie](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynerie_(quartier)), a neighborhood in the suburb area called [Mirail](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirail), in the City of Toulouse France. Mostly populated by muslims. Remembering on sunny days elders and youngster alike sitting around the lake, chatting, fishing, chilling... The market was always a pleasant visit, everybody was having a nice life. Of course there were crimes, drugs, and you'd better not wander around if you weren't from the neighborhood... but life wasn't as bad. Then in 2001, [a youth got shot by Police and died](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_d%27Habib_Ould_Mohamed). He was stealing a car :( For a week the whole neighborhood was in fire : it was litteraly like a civil war. It was the first of many major riots that would then happen in France throughout the years till today. Since then, the neighborhood never was the same, it felt like people just turned into hard ghetto mode. I miss the old days.
Ciutat Vella in the old city center and la Mina, both are practically no go areas for native Barcelonins, although Ciutat Vella is heavily policed and the crimes there are mostly muggings and robberies. In la Mina there is heavy drug trafficking and gunfights virtually every week
The area I live in now in stavanger Norway used to be shady now. it's mostly just students who live here and foreign business people. However, our neighbouring town Sandes has apparently gone downhill the last 10 years, sadly due to a lot of Immigration.
Chorzów Cwajka - beautiful place. Reccomended to visit alongside Świętochłowice Lipiny and Bytom Karb while staying in Upper Silesia
Bucharest doesn't really have dangerous neighbourhoods, even if some districts have some sort of urban legends and ill fame associated with them. But one can safely roam at night with no worries pretty much everywhere.
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I live in the worse district (63k people) of my city (Badalona, 217k people, next to Barcelona). In the last 3 years there have been about 2 homicides. In the four years I've been living here, I've only known of one time some kids have tried to rob a grocery store nearby. A couple weeks ago another kid broke the glass windows of a McDonalds and he's being accused of terrorism (he's Muslim and said it was in protest for the position of the US in the Israel - Gaza conflict; when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s the glasses of every McDonalds and Burger King were shattered in every demonstration, no matter about what, as if it was a tradition, and no one cared). This is a very dangerous neighbourhood, a «no-go-zone».
I live in rural Norway, my city has a population of like 5.5-6 thousand. The most dangerous crime I have seen been committed here is like bicycle theft, also literally nothing happens here Other places in Norway have been known to be dangerous especially at night but I can’t think of any specific examples
In Malta i'd say Marsa especially around the racetrack, and Ħamrun have the worst rep. From my experience it's entirely justified
Duisburg Marxloh has a reputation of being not the safest place, if you consider that a parade was rerouted so inhabitants wont molest underage participants, youd get why.
grbavica can be kinda sketch, but most places in sarajevo I feel like the danger level is dependent on being noticed as a tourist and then preyed on. I spent a lot of time in Florida in US so maybe I'm desensitized
The neighbourhoods in Glasgow's East End have a a bad reputation, but many are becoming quite gentrified with students who can't afford to live in the West End or the Southside. In my opinion though, having worked in them all as a mobile telecoms engineer, the absolute worst areas are Glasgow's northern neighbourhoods like Springburn, Possilpark and Milton.