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Bethesda - Safe at 11:00 PM?

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I will be visiting the NIH/NCI campus in Bethesda in some days. But the trouble is I will be getting into the Washington, IAD airport around 10:00. I hate taxis. They freak me out. So I plan to take the metro to the campus from the airport. I am guessing it will be close to midnight when I make it to the Bethesda campus.

Do any of you have any ideas about how safe this area might be - say compared with Buffalo downtown at night? I really don't want to get into trouble. The conference is quite important and I want to get there and back without broken noses, blown head etc. Any information would be awesome! Thanks!

PS: According to Neighbourhood Scout
- Bethesda is safer than 62% of the cities in the US.
- Annual Crimes
Violent 42
Property 800    
842 annual crimes per 1,000 residents

Chances of becoming a victim
in Bethesda 1 in 1305
in Maryland 1 in 134

PPS: Oh well. I went ahead and looked up Buffalo as well.
Buffalo is safer than 6% of the cities in the US.
- Annual Crimes
Violent 3,804    
Property 16,555    
20,359 annual crimes per 1,000 residents

Chances of becoming a victim
in Buffalo 1 in 77
in New York 1 in 221

Man. It isn't THAT unsafe here, is it?! Do you believe this??
212 words · edited Sep 10, 2010

💬 3 comments

  1. heidi ·

    I'm pretty sure it's not possible to go from Dulles to the NIH at 10pm via Metro system. You'll need to get one of the blue flyer minivans.

  2. heidi ·

    The NIH campus on Rockledge is completely car-focused. As you can see from the google map, it's tucked in the armpit of the I-270 split.

  3. tinypliny ·

    Thanks for the information, @heidi. Very helpful. I hate having to worry about safety all the time and at these times I wish I was trained in some kind of lethal combat.

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