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Could the weather have anything to do with it? Could also be partly the lack of tourists or type of tourists, compared to warmer areas.
by dm2 13y ago
Could the weather have anything to do with it?
Could also be partly the lack of tourists or type of tourists, compared to warmer areas.
- Swisscoder 13y agoI agree the Cold weather has to do a lot with the behaviour of the people. Also Iceland is one of the Ten Least Crowded Places in the World.
- subsystem 13y agoYes, but... "With a population of 200,852, Greater Reykjavík comprises over 60% of the population of Iceland in an area that is only just over 1% of the total size of the country." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Reykjav%C3%ADk_Area http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Reykjav%C3%ADk_Area
- kyllo 13y agoBoston is less than 2 hours' drive from New Hampshire and has plenty of violence. I think New Hampshire's cities are small and just don't really have ghettos the way most large American cities do. The violence happens in bigger cities that are pretty nearby, but happen to be outside NH's borders. Southern NH is kind of like an extended suburb of Boston.
- zequel 13y agoMass has very little gun violence, in fact, ~ 3.1 per 100k. "Plenty of violence" isn't a helpful statement.
- kyllo 13y agoOK, so now we get to play "compared to what?" OP is about murder rate, not gun violence rate. (2011): National rate: 4.7 Northeast rate: 3.9 MA rate: 2.8 NH rate: 1.3 MA's rate is lower than the national average and lower than the Northeast regional average, but more than double than NH's average. My argument is that NH has a particularly low murder rate because it doesn't really have any big cities--the populated areas are mostly suburban. High murder rates correlate with high population density (and poverty). If the nearby metropolis of Boston were inside NH's borders, then I think NH would have the higher murder rate. Do you disagree with that assessment?
- sp332 13y agoActually NH has a substantial tourist industry. Mainly for fall foliage and lots of accessible day-trip mountain hiking.
- msrpotus 13y agoAlso during the summer. There are lots of people with vacation homes there.
- rorrr2 13y agoViolence has more to do with how poor people are and whether there are gangs in the area.
- Coincoin 13y agoI personally think northern countries have less crime because you can't survive alone in the cold. His anecdote about the stranger picking him up should have been a clue. People in a critical situation tend to help each other more and when you are in an hostile environment 6 to 8 months a year, it tends to grow on you.