The weather has been so nice lately and I love to go on walks and some jogs but my neighborhood sort of ruins it for me. It’s pretty safe but is not in the greatest shape (litter, no parks, hardly any trees, main roads with lots of traffic without many side streets to take detours on, no shops, old men hanging around staring and catcalling, at the bottom of a big hill you need to walk up to go anywhere). I could always walk further or take transit to some nicer areas to hang outside but just having to walk through my neighborhood at all to better places is discouraging (plus I’m a little lazy about that). 

I’m moving back to my home state in one month but I don’t want to spend all of June anxious and afraid to be in my own neighborhood. I think my biggest issue right now is dealing with the creeps - I hate being stared down by them, not to mention the ones who try to engage with me.

Has anyone felt like this before or have any tips? I know this is largely an anxiety issue that feels a lot larger in my mind than it actually is, but knowing that doesn’t make it much easier.