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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 124580, member: 201&quot;]An afterthought about meeting strangers and safety...</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess a lot of my wariness comes from growing up in New York&nbsp; City and living in Boston and Cambridge when we were younger. Also knowing that there&#039;s a very economically depressed city about 20 minutes from us.</p><p><br /></p><p>Things do happen. My husband and I were held up in the lobby of our Boston apartment building. When my mother was in her 70s and alone she was mugged in a supermarket parking lot, including being thrown to the ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our car was stolen when we lived in Cambridge, a rolled up rug was stolen when we were moving into one apartment because my husband left it in the hallway when he went to get more stuff from the moving van.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a young kid, our apartment was burglerized by someone entering the bedroom via a window... while we were in the living room. When I was a teenager, my uncle&#039;s downstairs apartment in our two-family house was burglerized the same way... through a bedroom window while people were home. Not to mention the incessant news stories of shootings and other violent acts that seem to be ever increasing in frequency.</p><p><br /></p><p>Legitimate news sources report there have been at least a hundred incidents of people being killed in connection with using Craigslist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Am I a little paranoid? Probably. Do I have reason to be? Enough that I want to be cautious even if the chances of something happening are slim. Would I like to live somewhere safer? You betcha![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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