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Boston 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 t
by kyllo 13y ago
Boston 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?