I don’t mean to downplay Chicago’s crime problem, which is very bad, but if you’re not a gang member and you don’t live on the south side your odds of getting

I don’t mean to downplay Chicago’s crime problem, which is very bad, but if you’re not a gang member and you don’t live on the south side your odds of getting murdered in lakeview are literally orders of magnitude lower than your chances of dying in a car crash in rural Colorado where you have to drive long distances to get anywhere and everyone has a pointlessly huge truck optimized for inflicting maximum carnage in an accident. When you go from a dense, transit friendly city where people drive less to a rural auto-oriented one, your odds of dying an untimely and violent death go up dramatically, even if the latter has much less crime.