Yep. I was taking older nieces to a concert at the Tweeter Center in Camden last summer, and we got a bit lost. Scared the wee out of me.
We had the blessing of getting turned around during the day, and that was unnerving enough. My husband and I have lived in New Haven CT (gang central), NYC, and outside of Newark as I said, but Camden is in a class all its own, isn’t it. We were taking our kids to the aquarium there a few years ago and missed our highway entrance on our way out of town. We saw falling down buildings, open drug deals and solicitation, crowds of thugs, cold stares, and thankfully, a traffic cop. :)
Words don’t do the picture justice - it was like a free-for-all of up-to-no-good, and nobody cared, and for the first time in all my city living, I felt the intense need to leave the area as quickly as possible for fear of danger to my family. We both did. It was eerie.