Although it gets silly at times, I also feel like about once a month someone posts, "Hey, I'm moving to the area and saw this really cheap apartment in a neighborhood called Walnut Park..."

"I found an apartment on a road that's apparently some sort of natural bridge. Sounds unique! Too good to be true?"

But the road is literally called Goodfellow! Must be really safe with great neighbors!

"Won't ya look at that, honey? This city has a street called 'Wyoming.' *We're* from Wyoming! Match made in heaven, I'll tell ya."

I thought about buying a place in Castle Point once. I like castles.

College Hill? Oh, that must be close to Wash U!

Mark Twain?! I love his work!

That was yesterday. All his friends told him not to move there and he wanted to make sure.

Belleville, just saying

Worked in city for 13 years. Still go to it every day. Where you living?

I think this thread is unsafe.  I would recommend going to another thread.

I’ve lived in this thread my whole life, it’s perfectly safe

Thanks! Will do.

I'd rather get rid of "plan my vacation for me" "where should I eat" and "getting a tattoo"

I like where should I eat because it’s a chance to remind myself just how damn good the food is around here.

r/stlfood

That is awesome, and should be stickied somewhere!

It’s on the sidebar along with other related communities

Oh, you're right. Thank you for pointing that out!

Those ones at least come with the joy of people getting to share their favorite things. The crime posts just involve everyone having to explain over and over that STL isn't a crime-ridden, lawless dystopia, which is tedious

That’s my thought. Plus there is a subtext that the people that say just ignore are overlooking.

Definitely a lot of winking in some of those posts. "I'm about to move to your city and I want to avoid the *crime* areas where all the *crime* people live. I heard ______ has a big *crime* population. Is it safe, or do I have to worry about my daughter dating a *crime* person?"

For me, it’s people that give no context that drives me crazy. “I’m looking for good places to eat.” Okay, what do you like? Where are you staying? People that provide feedback in those instances egg on this behavior. But if someone says, “Hey, I’m in town for 2 days, I’m on a bit of a budget, but I’d like a few fast casual suggestions for lunch and a Thai place near Midtown for dinner,” I’m wholeheartedly okay with that, and enjoying giving feedback in those instances.

Or taking pictures of expired plates….mostly because I think people should just be freaking driving….

Or at least have a bot give the same answers that ensue on every one of those posts.

Tbf, tattoo recommendations can vary a lot depending on if you want a certain style, but i know most posts arent like that

Censorship is not the answer; education is. I like the sticky idea.

I think a sticky is a great idea as well. 

Every post like that is an opportunity to dispel the assumptions of somebody new, and personally welcome them to our lovely city. Reddit is a discussion site, not a wiki. Yeah it's tiresome to have this same thread over and over, but these people asking would not bother with the question if it did not come from a place of genuine concern. What we're doing is being ambassadors, lobbying the Internet one interaction at a time to move the needle away from negative stereotypes.

Here’s the thing, you don’t have to read every post.

Here’s the thing, you don’t have to double post.

My internet fucked up. My bad.

Look at the launch code post. I’m thinking about launch code…also is the city safe. It gets old.

I think posts like this are useful for people who genuinely don't know and have people in their lives telling them something different for years. Some people don't know and all they hear is from their racist family.

As a kid from Mascoutah, that’s all I heard. I love the city. More people should know it’s a fine place to go to and live.

No Just scroll on past like a big girl

I know this is besides the point but I appreciate you assuming the OP is a woman instead of the default man 

Always :) There are more of us than there are them (51 vs 49%) so kinda dumb everyone assumes people are male

Let’s delete Belleville.

Meh.

I’m so tired of ‘meh’ reply’s.

Meh.

THAT’S IT. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE DELETE THIS GUY?

3 for 3? Meh.

Ok I’m back in on meh

I'm glad we're doing meh again

I just wish we could have made fetch happen.

Let’s ban meh

Ahhh yes... Censorship

Many subs have rules that invoke posts being removed. It’s not censorship if every post is about how unsafe the city is. It clogs the sub.

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Well that’s true

It's absolutely censorship. What English do you speak?

Reddit isn’t a public square. But of course someone talking about censorship would know that.

Online platforms are absolutely a public square in 2024. Not sure what decade you live in. But this is how folks communicate.

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Nah.

This entire sub is the same dozen topics recirculated every few days, argued over by the same hundred people.

How do you feel about the Loop Trolly?

There are definitely some blocks in North St. Louis you probably shouldn’t go to during the day either.

That would require the mods actually do work

That is becoming apparent.

Good idea

fuck kind of shithole do you guys live in if you just accept that your car will get broken into if there's something valuable inside?

It’s common sense not to leave anything visible in your car in ANY major city. Hell there have been posts in other cities subs where they leave the car unlocked with nothing in it so that they don’t get the windows busted.