• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I grew up in New York City and now live in Boston and I’ve never encountered a pickpocket. I’ve been mugged three times and had a mentally unbalanced homeless guy punch me in the face unprovoked, but I’ve never been pickpocketed.

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      7 hours ago

      Agreed. Grew up in dense East Coast cities in the 80s and 90s, pickpocketing was not a thing that happened.