For sure, In Jamaica too. Most of my friends have guns but never used them but just incase. I feel much safer here for sure. It is like when I leave Narita airport I get into G mode and transform into a different person.
Good point, and for some people, that community might be a gang/organization with ideals that that may not be inline with your true self but in order to be a part of it, you confirm. And that is a pressure that takes toll in many ways.
Oh yeah, it is interesting that we are here building communities and earning assets in the process and to the outside it may look like a completely different thing. We are at the forefront of something revolutionary and it is insane when you realize we are so early.