Amarillo is a big truck stop an hotel Motel stop on I-40.
I live about an hour away from there an seen tjhe east side an the north side turn into a third world shit hole.
After serving for 26 years all over the world I feel I am more than qualified to grade an declare areas as third world shit holes. More so here as it was a great place to live before I entered the service in 72.
I carry (have my CHL) an won’t shop or travel to that town unless I absolutely have to. Police ignore the bums beggars an dare I call em panhandlers to a point they are emboldened an aggressive .
All that said one should never go armed where they wouldn’t go unarmed if possible.
Getting very hard to do such in this era of socialist entitlements an the criminals camouflage of race.
More an more cities an small towns all over the CONUS where this story could have been written about. Amarillo just close to me so add my observations to this story.
Stay Safe ...
***I live about an hour away from there an seen tjhe east side an the north side turn into a third world shit hole.***
I’ve seen Tulsa OK do the same thing. I rarely go there any more. South Peoria used to be nice. Now they have section 8 housing and lots of crime just south of I-44 (Skelly Bypass). Lots of nice areas forty years ago are now seedy. I felt safer unarmed in NYC last week.
The areas of Amarillo I saw when stopping for the night on my way to visit my dad in Las Cruces raised my hackles a little in the early eighties, and I was a not-exactly world wise eighteen years old.
Hard edged, wary, tired looking people working in the establishments, a lot of shady looking sorts patronizing those establishments mixed in with truckers who looked ready to shoot anybody who messed with them. And the tourists passing through like myself, who looked awfully naive, vulnerable and unaware.
Don’t get me wrong, I know there are some fine people in West Texas, know a few now, and no doubt there are some fine places, but it took years for me to view the place as anything but awful because of that experience.