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The area around WashU is nice. We toured last summer and didn't see anything remotely sketch. Delmar Loop is okay, not as lively as UW-Madison's State Street. People who said WashU is unsafe either haven't stepped foot on campus, or have an inexplicable dislike of all things St. Louis.[/quote]

Thanks. I’m thinking any sincere people posting like that got lost and ended up in areas that most WashU students and alumni never see.

We probably should see them more and think harder to help them, but they don’t have a lot to do with life at WashU. [/quote]

I’d have to agree that the UG WashU students probably don’t see a lot of the bad in StL. I went to grad school there and I saw quite a bit because we routinely went all over StL…my experience was that the undergrads did not do this and that they mostly stayed near campus, south of drlmar and west of skinker with occasional forays into the park.

I’ve lived in several major cities and visited umpteen more and all cities have terrible areas. What irked me about StL was that the terrible areas were weirdly intermixed with good areas. Most cities you are good if you avoid certain areas. But, in StL, you can go to dinner in a nice neighborhood and inadvertently wander to the next block and be in hell. But, yes, most UGs aren’t experiencing this and parents visiting aren’t seeing this because the area surrounding the campus is fine.[/quote]

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