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Something tells me you spend very little time in cities, period.
by uoaei 4y ago
Something tells me you spend very little time in cities, period.
- FredPret 4y agoOn the contrary. I've never lived in a non-city, and have spent most of my life surrounded by 10m+ people. Check your biases.
- uoaei 4y agoAnd what of the bias that says "every city that I deem 'unsafe' is indeed unsafe"?
- FredPret 4y agoYou can look at the murder rate per 100k people and draw a conclusion, all without any bias.
- uoaei 4y agoThis assumes that the sample of murders over the population is uniformly distributed. But I think it's very obvious this is not the case! Would you please read up on the kinds and degrees of relationships between perpetrator and victim in the statistics? You will find that the vast majority of cases involve two people who already have a prior relationship, and typically a close relationship either in a social or business sense. Random murders happen so rarely, you can be confident in the assumption that your family is safe unless you get involved with some sketchy people. But then, it's your responsibility to avoid those people, not the city's job to do that work for you.
- downut 4y agoLooking at wikipedia's list, I have walked all over Ensenada and Guadalajara w/o problems. In fact, I really enjoyed them. But I know how to walk a city and read a barrio. Mexico City is really something, FWIW. I will say that I have felt more uncomfortable walking in certain parts of LA, NYC, Oakland, Chicago, and yes SF (I lived SOMA in early '90s, before the boom), than I have in Mexican cities. (Not minimizing the carnage, if you live outside of the nice parts, I'm sure it's hell.)