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Mon 21 Nov, 2005 11:40 pm
SAFEST 25:
MOST DANGEROUS 25:
1
Newton, MA
1
Camden, NJ
2
Brick Twnshp, NJ
2
Detroit, MI
3
Amherst, NY
3
Atlanta, GA
4
Mission Viejo, CA
4
St. Louis, MO
5
Clarkstown, NY
5
Gary, IN
6
Lake Forest, CA
6
Washington, DC
7
Thousand Oaks, CA
7
Hartford, CT
8
Colonie, NY
8
New Orleans, LA
9
Cary, NC
9
Richmond, VA
10
Dover Twnshp, NJ
10
Birmingham, AL
11
Irvine, CA
11
Baltimore, MD
12
Troy, MI
12
Richmond, CA
13
Greece, NY
13
Memphis, TN
14
Parma, OH
14
Jackson, MS
15
Hamilton Twnshp, NJ
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Tampa, FL
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Danbury, CT
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San Bernardino, CA
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Simi Valley, CA
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Compton, CA
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Sunnyvale, CA
18
Springfield, MA
19
Sterling Heights, MI
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Miami, FL
20
Livonia, MI
20
Cleveland, OH
21
Lee's Summit, MO
21
Dayton, OH
22
Farmington Hills, MI
22
North Charleston, SC
23
Orem, UT
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Little Rock, AR
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Fargo, ND
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Oakland, CA
25
Stamford, CT 25
Cincinnati, OH
And get this, the safest city with populations of over 500,000 is San Jose, California.
Oh yeah, Newton, MA is safe. As boring as a puddle, but safe.
The dangerous places mostly seem to be large cities everyone has heard of. The safe places are motly little towns hardly anyone has heard of.
I lived in Central New York State for several years, and I couldn't tell you where Greece NY or Amherst, NY is.
I'm not sure how fair it is to put some bedroom borough with hardly anything going on up against a large, diverse community with all sorts of places to go and things going on.
My cousin's live in Lake Forest, CA. It's barely a place. Sorry... housing tracks, some malls and gas stations. Not that they aren't happy there, but that it's a stretch to call it a city, as in 'urban'.
I see we agree on that one, Ossobucco.
Hard to get into trouble when the whole "town" consists of one housing subdivision after another.
Completely.
I must say though that I spelled cousins with an apostrophe, how embarassing.
Don't feel bad, I've seen that mistake sneaking in on published articles.
Ever since they changed the rules on editing-a good change, on balance-if you make a mistake you know you should not have made, you're stuck with it.
It's a fault of mine, rather like spelling here 'hear'. I know better - but my primitive typing brain takes over my fingers..
Back on Lake Forest, CA, I seem to remember that they didn't have a post office, or only a very tiny one, when I was last there, much less a city hall, and so on. Whether I'm right on that or not, it's ridiculous to consider this in the same sort of review as, oh, Atlanta..
osso, Have you visited the Rocklin - Lincoln area in the Sacramento valley? It's the same sort of "urban" area with nothing but new housing developments and shopping centers. The commute there are as bad as the bay area during commute hours. It's too sanitized for my taste; all the houses and lawns look the same, and they can't park their cars on the street at night. Some people love it; I hate it!
I'm surprised the commute in that area is as bad as the Bay Area. One thing about "towns" consisting of subdivisions-individual houses with sizable lawns take up a lot of space. So you can't cram as many people onto the streets as you can in a genuine city with apartments, etc. The population density would appear not to be there.
I'm surprised the traffic gets that heavy.
I wouldn't live in any of the "noncities" on that list myself, I'd die of beige. No, I haven't, CI. I do visit old Sacramento though - I have friends that have a bunch of old houses on 19th Avenue, talk about urban.
As a kid growing up in Sacramento, the avenues were the high-tone are of town.
Met the owners of Frank Fats restaurants. I met one of the daughters over 40 years ago, so she didn't remember me, but she remembered my roommates.
littlek wrote:Oh yeah, Newton, MA is safe. As boring as a puddle, but safe.
At least I have heard of Newton, MA.
Not sure why, though.
Re: Safest cities in the US
cicerone imposter wrote:[
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Colonie, NY
CA
Lol, this is my neck of the woods. This makes perfect sense. The Colonie police are known for not doing sh*t!!!! And here I thought they were just lazy.
Just testing pix name change.
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