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>Cities are safe, This may be up for discussion, and the unsafest places usually happen to be parts of large cities. >Mid/small size cities (1-3 million) Re
by jansan 6y ago
>Cities are safe,
This may be up for discussion, and the unsafest places usually happen to be parts of large cities.
>Mid/small size cities (1-3 million)
Really? Where are you from, that those cities are considered small/mid size?
- nl 6y agoOne of the big issues when talking about "city size" is the definition of city. When people outside the US talk about "San Francisco" they mean the 9 county San Francisco Bay Area[1] (pop: nearly 7m), and almost never the City of San Francisco[2] (pop: nearly 900K). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
- Hokusai 6y agoYou are right. Metropolitan area makes more sense. There are administrative reasons for a metropolitan area to be subdivided in cities or towns but effectively it acts as just one city. I was thinking about Paris (city 2 million, metro 12.5 million) or Barcelona (city 1.6 million, metro 5.5 million). Similar to your example.
- mymythisisthis 6y agoCities are also layers of people. You'll find, many times, that some of the wealthiest neighbourhoods are a 5 minute walk from some of the poorest. But, the people will never interact. So safety stats about cities are misleading.