I was doing research recently for a story, because when I place a story or character in a specific place or time I don't want to go and just make crap up, and I was researching two areas of my beloved (um...) New Jersey, and I found a place called East Orange and rediscovered a place I already knew, called Camden. Perhaps you know these two areas. Perhaps you know them because you know to avoid them if you want to live. If you don't, here's NiteOwl to inform you.
I'm pretty scared, and I'm not even there. I mean, East Orange has a pretty high crime rate--sometimes higher than the national average--and Camden's not too clean, either. One area of NJ I found had a 213.5% crime rate, and I was planning on using that one for my book instead, but that was property crime only; turns out this place has a basically zero-percent physical crime rate, the kind that I'm looking for.
I mean, you can just Google it; those two are constantly ranked high on the "freaking dangerous" list, although maybe not in those exact terms. I found a website where people talk about different areas they are planning to move to and stuff and some people were discussing East Orange; all I saw was bad, dangerous, bad, and a recommendation on what kind of gun to bring (apparently, nothing less than a nine mm).
I think I found where my book is going to be set.
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