Interesting you should say that. My daughter has backpacked through much of Asia by herself, traveled in central America by herself, all between the ages of 17 - 21. She was with SFPF for a while so she knows guns and self defense. She and I did a road trip when she moved from SF to Louis, stopping for a night in Memphis. She said that she felt more unsafe and uncomfortable there than anywhere else she had ever been.
That was exactly my feeling. I didn't sleep a wink all night. We had a chair pushed against the door and a pistol on the nightstand. We drove 4,000 miles round trip that vacation and stayed in a lot of places. I was never afraid until Memphis.
Wow...I cannot imagine!
Was it the uncleanliness? Slum area? Rundown?
Was it the faces on the person on the street?
My family spent a day in Memphis and had a great time... Did the Graceland tour, took a riverboat ride, and got a guided “tour” of Sun Studio, where Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many other famous artists from the ‘50s recorded some of their greatest hits.