The thing is, having lived in Paris, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, i must say my concerns are mainly as i stated, i got spoiled by life in Tokyo especially. The type of safety im talking about is what some people have already mentionned. In Paris you get cat call all the time, both in London and Paris people with mental issues can aggress you, those kind of encounters happen a lot in metro/underground, not to mention thievery in the streets, or just accidently looking into people’s eyes when they get triggered and immediately become aggressive and want to confront you. Then there’re the shady/sketchy areas which, compared to the « sketchy » areas in Tokyo for example, it’s just another level. So im not even going to all the rape or murder stuff, but day to day basic safety and freedom of walking in the street, just going on about my own thing… im very worried to not be able to get used to how it is in europe.
Yes it personally affects me too, lived in Paris before and that’s one of the reasons i left that city lol. Which is way im more considering Dusseldorf now over Berlin for example… And it’s not just streets or exterior infrastructures, im also a bit worried about the interior conditions of apartments. These major europeam cities have lots of historical buildings remaining which are beautiful of course but also naturally leads to not always renovated, i dunno how much of them are the case but yeah