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Spoken like someone who truly does not live here. Check out this cool little late night snack place in St. Paul.[1] The idea is a bunch of little food trucks,

Spoken like someone who truly does not live here. Check out this cool little late night snack place in St. Paul.[1] The idea is a bunch of little food trucks, but it’s all inside so you can enjoy it during the winter, too. What a cute date idea, right? Go out and see a movie, then get some late night tacos. It’s right in downtown, surely it’s safe. Oh wait, it’s not at all safe. Fourteen innocent people were shot because some gang members showed up and opened fire indiscriminately. It hardly made the news. I almost moved to uptown a few months ago and I am unbelievably happy that I decided to move to safe and boring Wayzata instead. I’ve lived in Houston and I never felt uncomfortable about walking around Montrose and Alabama at 1am, and I go to the rougher parts of Milwaukee regularly (Dineen Park), but I’ve never felt more exposed than in Minneapolis. I feel safer in most of Chicago than I do in most of Minneapolis. This was at Hennepin and Lagoon: https://www.fox9.com/news/video-showing-shots-being-fired-during-vehicle-sideshow-in-uptown-sparks-safety-concerns.amp https://www.fox9.com/news/video-showing-shots-being-fired-du... [1]: https://www.truckparkusa.com/virtual-tour https://www.truckparkusa.com/virtual-tour [2]: https://kstp.com/news/3-men-in-custody-shooting-seventh-street-truck-park-bar-st-paul/6266171/ https://kstp.com/news/3-men-in-custody-shooting-seventh-stre...

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Just to clarify, are you saying that because one single bad event happened, it therefore means something general about where that single bad event happened? You say you feel safe in Texas?[0] Interesting. 34 people were murdered in St. Paul in 2020 [1]. The population of St. Paul is 311,527 [2]. That puts the murder rate at ~10.91 per 100,000 people. 400 people were murdered in Houston in 2020 [3]. The population of Houston is 2,304,580 [4]. That puts the murder rate at ~17.36 per 100,000 people. Can you please explain to me why you feel safer in a place that is substantially more murderous? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_in_Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_in_Texas [1]: https://www.stpaul.gov/news/saint-paul-police-department-releases-preliminary-2020-year-end-crime-statistics https://www.stpaul.gov/news/saint-paul-police-department-rel... [2]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/stpaulcityminnesota https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/stpaulcityminnesota [3] https://abc13.com/houston-2020-murders-murder-rate-police-worse-in/9178057/ https://abc13.com/houston-2020-murders-murder-rate-police-wo... [4]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/houstoncitytexas https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/houstoncitytexas

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TameAntelope 5y ago

Just to clarify, are you saying that because one single bad event happened, it therefore means something general about where that single bad event happened? You say you feel safe in Texas?[0] Interesting. 34 people were murdered in St. Paul in 2020 [1]. The population of St. Paul is 311,527 [2]. That puts the murder rate at ~10.91 per 100,000 people. 400 people were murdered in Houston in 2020 [3]. The population of Houston is 2,304,580 [4]. That puts the murder rate at ~17.36 per 100,000 people. Can you please explain to me why you feel safer in a place that is substantially more murderous? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_in_Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_in_Texas [1]: https://www.stpaul.gov/news/saint-paul-police-department-releases-preliminary-2020-year-end-crime-statistics https://www.stpaul.gov/news/saint-paul-police-department-rel... [2]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/stpaulcityminnesota https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/stpaulcityminnesota [3] https://abc13.com/houston-2020-murders-murder-rate-police-worse-in/9178057/ https://abc13.com/houston-2020-murders-murder-rate-police-wo... [4]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/houstoncitytexas https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/houstoncitytexas