>>1274592As someone who traveled for a couple months in the Caucasus, it's not very dangerous except for some few specific areas you're not likely to go to anyway.
The problem is that you're a sheltered kid, and going alone anywhere that isn't a sheltered safe location holds dangers for you. That doesn't mean you're 100% going to get robbed or killed. Just that there are many dangers you're simply not aware of and so could walk right in...
It would be dangerous for you in some bad neighborhoods in the US, and it certainly would be in some shithole in Russia with corrupt to none existent police.
It's difficult to explain, but if you expect to deal with logical and reasonable gentlemen... well you have no clue. The key is being aware of risks at all times and avoid shitty situations in advance, because if you get into a situation where a half drunk bidlo is asking you to hand over the money you don't have... well you're already halfway fucked. Just to name an example.
You need to be able to read the neighborhood, to read the situation. To understand how to approach things and what to say and not say in certain situations.
This has nothing to do with Caucasus in specific, you can get fucked in a shitty neighborhood of Moscow just the same, going alone and looking like a clueless westerner.
