It is not easy to get to a place you do not know and claim to tell how it is.
Reality is often much more multidimensional than that.
All aspects, feelings, experiences and opinions can rarely - if ever - be boiled down to a single quote heading.
People are also different.
And that's all too well, I think.
Life can also, at the same time, be both green apartment areas, neighborhood cooperation, stolen bicycles and insecurity, drug sales, sunny afternoons, hard-working people and violent crime.
Although many want something else.
But after being on site in Kristianstad after Tuesday's shooting at the parking lot outside Coop in Näsby, listening to and talking to residents in Gamlegården and Charlottesborg - areas that the police currently classify as vulnerable - and local police, there are some things I carry with me thoughts.
Fear of bullets - and talking
The first is the obvious feeling of insecurity and fear that many people actually feel.
Not only to happen to be hit by the bullets of gang crime but also to talk - with us journalists and also the police.
But there are also those who want to talk to us, give their picture of the events and how their everyday lives are affected.
One of them is Balen and his colleague who works in the center of Gamlegården, who notices the drug trade in the area, how young gangs roam in the absence of the police.
How the cafeteria is empty of people, meetings and coffee cups.
Who wants the police to move into the mall.
- It has been like this for the last five, six years.
It just gets worse and worse, day after day.
And Ami, who has lived in the area for 30 years and has never experienced anything like it.
Who saw one of the injured loaded into an ambulance.
And Antigona, who lived there for 10 years.
- You are simply scared.
Now that this has happened, I will not show up in that business.
Casting insecurity
Or the mother of many children Nora and her friend Hillwa who Aftonbladet spoke to, who no longer wants to let the children play outside themselves anymore and just as Mohamed who lives in Näsby wants to move to another part of Kristianstad.
- I will do it soon, I want to find security for my family.
The other thing that lingers in me is how incredibly sad it is that a vanishingly small group of criminals can cast insecurity in an entire area.
At the same time as the shootings in Sweden continue to be at a high level, more and more shootings have occurred in public environments.
According to criminologist Manne Gerell, the trend is also that it is becoming more common for outsiders to be affected by the type of violence that occurred in Gamlegården-Näsby.
When a large number of bullets were fired in the middle of the crowd, outside the local shopping center on a sunny afternoon in August.
A societal problem
The third thing I think of, when I sit on the train back to Stockholm, are a few words from Martin Thornell.
The strongly committed municipal police who work tirelessly to increase the security and safety of residents in the vulnerable areas.
"This is not just a police problem, it is a societal problem."
This does not only apply to Kristianstad.
And before this text has been published, a new shooting has occurred, in Berga center in Linköping.
Two underage boys are seriously shot in what the police assume is "a gang-related context".
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How common is it for the wrong person to meet in a shooting - the criminologist answers. Photo: Johan Nilsson / TT, SVT