Yeah.
My medschool was in downtown Gary, Indiana. GARY, INDIANA.
It was a thin slice of hell getting there. When you come down the main drag toward campus, it was an absolute nightmare. People there just think differently from most people.
I saw lots of whores, crack and otherwise, and some pimps. They used our library to come in off the street and go #2
One was cleaning up in the sink.
One time we were at a stoplight and a bunch of Nation of Islam guys came over and started pounding on our car window. I'm not sure what we did wrong, but it was scary.
I want to stress it wasn't a black-white thing...it's just that people in Gary have a different way of looking at things. Not a very positive outlook, let's just say that.