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It’s pretty hard to overstate how relatively safe modern life is, even modern cities that are considered unsafe. Heck, in Ancient Rome being out after night fa
by ashtonkem 6y ago
It’s pretty hard to overstate how relatively safe modern life is, even modern cities that are considered unsafe.
Heck, in Ancient Rome being out after night fall was considered a death sentence. Aside from the high murder rate, that’s when all the supply carts arrived. Being on foot surrounded by carts before the invention of consistent urban lighting was a very dicey proposition.
- inglor_cz 6y agoWell, Johannesburg could probably play the medieval murder league on the expected level.
- ashtonkem 6y agoI stand corrected, medieval London was safer than Johannesburg. Current london has 18.4 murders per million residents, which gives us a range of 276 to 368 murders per million for medieval London (15-20x). Last year Johannesburg had 68.3 murders per 100,000, or 683 per million. So current Johannesburg is roughly twice as dangerous per capita than medieval London.