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> I live in a very nice area of DC, cars would get rifled through every ~2 months or so > Generally sounds like you'll probably want to stay in suburbia. It r

by anjc 6y ago

> I live in a very nice area of DC, cars would get rifled through every ~2 months or so > Generally sounds like you'll probably want to stay in suburbia. It rather sounds like you have a strange perspective on urban living. I can't speak for the US, but it isn't normal in any city in Europe for your car to be rifled through every 2 months in a nice area of a city. It isn't even normal for bad areas of cities. If it happens once in a person's life it would be bad luck.

MiroF 6y ago
> I can't speak for the US, but it isn't normal in any city in Europe for your car to be rifled through every 2 months in a nice area of a city. I don't know how you have knowledge of the normal number of car break ins in every neighborhood of every city in Europe, but yes car breakins are not infrequent in the urban US. Ours was probably particularly frequent because it was being targeted by some sort of organized setup, but it is not uncommon. It's a function of the amount of inequity - Europe is generally has somewhat less wealth inequity in the United States and less generational poverty.
- anjc 6y ago
  > car breakins are not infrequent in the urban US. Ours was probably particularly frequent because it was being targeted by some sort of organized setup, but it is not uncommon. > Generally sounds like you'll probably want to stay in suburbia. So the poster you replied to was correct to say that they can just move to cities where it isn't accepted that cars are frequently broken into. They don't have to stay safe in suburbia after all.
  - MiroF 6y ago
    It is still quite frequent, if not as frequent as I experienced it (still, incidence is quite high in the Bay for instance). I don't really feel like mustering the mental energy to argue with what are ultimately pretty nit-picky objections. In sum, car breaks in happen, policing it generally doesn't work very well, stop & frisk is bad, don't vote for people who do it, thank you for coming to my ted talk.

by anjc 6y ago

MiroF 6y ago

> I can't speak for the US, but it isn't normal in any city in Europe for your car to be rifled through every 2 months in a nice area of a city. I don't know how you have knowledge of the normal number of car break ins in every neighborhood of every city in Europe, but yes car breakins are not infrequent in the urban US. Ours was probably particularly frequent because it was being targeted by some sort of organized setup, but it is not uncommon. It's a function of the amount of inequity - Europe is generally has somewhat less wealth inequity in the United States and less generational poverty.

anjc 6y ago
> car breakins are not infrequent in the urban US. Ours was probably particularly frequent because it was being targeted by some sort of organized setup, but it is not uncommon. > Generally sounds like you'll probably want to stay in suburbia. So the poster you replied to was correct to say that they can just move to cities where it isn't accepted that cars are frequently broken into. They don't have to stay safe in suburbia after all.
- MiroF 6y ago
  It is still quite frequent, if not as frequent as I experienced it (still, incidence is quite high in the Bay for instance). I don't really feel like mustering the mental energy to argue with what are ultimately pretty nit-picky objections. In sum, car breaks in happen, policing it generally doesn't work very well, stop & frisk is bad, don't vote for people who do it, thank you for coming to my ted talk.