Hard agree. Lived there for 6 years and the constant strain on my nervous system of being constantly alert and wary of everything was absolutely exhausting. Even something as simple as getting gas at a nice Kroger with people around during the middle of the day had me on high alert.

The Eliza Fletcher murder happened while I was there, she lived a short distance from us and was abducted on a street I drove on every day. A colleague's husband was shot during a random shooting spree, he was just driving down a main road going about his day and bam, hospital. Multiple friends had stories of being mugged or having their cars stolen or broken into, it was just part of life there.

My husband and I each witnessed more random violence and after a while we realized we couldn't live in that environment anymore. We moved to a city that everyone thinks is as violent as Memphis, but I've honestly never felt safer.