It is easy to talk about fear of the unknown. In fact, fear usually arises from anticipated realities – situations we convince ourselves we will encounter (no matter how likely they actually are to occur).
Places we do not know well ought not intrinsically to scare us. True, if you happen to be completely lost in a strange place without a map, you might reasonably feel a little anxious; and there are certain parts of the world it wouldn’t do to roam alone.
But that is a matter of circumstance, not of location alone.
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