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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 2065892, member: 11854&quot;]I&#039;ve lived or gone to school in a number of places that folks have mentioned in this thread.&nbsp; Of course, not all of those mentions were complimentary.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I did my undergraduate work in Newark, NJ when the area was <i>really bad</i> and even came out to get into my car one afternoon only to find police with weapons drawn using it as a shield.&nbsp; Later, I went to Columbia for my PhD and lived in Harlem right next to Morningside Park.&nbsp; On the day I moved into my apartment, my neighbor told me that if I heard what sounded like gunshots at night coming from the park to stay in my apartment because they would assuredly be gunshots.</p><p><br /></p><p>I grew up in northern NJ, right outside of NYC, and lived there for decades.&nbsp; However, I would never move back.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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