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02-01-2008, 12:15 PM
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Location: Clear Lake
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No surprise given its current state. Lots of people living like that for too long can raise the tension. No doubt plenty with their hands stuck out, depending on the govt to make everything better, too.
However that article is flawed and sensationalized and doesn't help the area at all when people consider working there, and then read that junk. You can't take reliable stats from just 1 month. 3 murders in a town of what, 57000? So thats 1 murder per 19000 people? I'm sure somewhere in small town America they have already seen 1 murder this year. So for example, 1 murder for 5000 people is a rate 4x worse than Port Arthur. Just doesn't mean anything useful. We'll see how things go 6 months deep into this year.
And of course, let's hope the boom that's going on over there now will fix things up in the next few years.
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02-01-2008, 12:51 PM
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Location: Tyler County Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tstone
No surprise given its current state. Lots of people living like that for too long can raise the tension. No doubt plenty with their hands stuck out, depending on the govt to make everything better, too.
However that article is flawed and sensationalized and doesn't help the area at all when people consider working there, and then read that junk. You can't take reliable stats from just 1 month. 3 murders in a town of what, 57000? So thats 1 murder per 19000 people? I'm sure somewhere in small town America they have already seen 1 murder this year. So for example, 1 murder for 5000 people is a rate 4x worse than Port Arthur. Just doesn't mean anything useful. We'll see how things go 6 months deep into this year.
And of course, let's hope the boom that's going on over there now will fix things up in the next few years.
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Well thought out post!
I think the real issues in PA are the things you seem to allude to. I doubt the industrial boom will have much effect on the general population. Most of the workforce is being recruited from out of town. And most of the population doesn't have those leanings to get involved (as you hinted). I worked around PA in the 70's and 80'sand even lived within the city limit for 5 years and the place is just horrible now even compared to then.
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02-01-2008, 02:26 PM
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happy happy happy, everybody's happy
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: southwest houston
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Raleigh, NC had three murders in the first weekend of 2008 after having 20-something the last couple years. It had as many as Houston for the first week or so despite having >1.5M fewer people.
So what?
PA has a good deal of crime for a city its size, but a one-month stretch isn't enough to really mean anything.
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02-01-2008, 03:09 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Chambers County
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If only it was for one month...PA has had massive problems for the last 15-20 years. PA is flat out dangerous, you don't want to be there after dark. The outside people coming in will try their very best to move to "mid county", as soon as they can. I know what I am talking about.
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02-01-2008, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Texas
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Not all of PA is dangerous, but I do agree that many parts are. Besides, this is the wrong forum for this. Should have been made in the "Texas" section, not Houston.
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02-02-2008, 09:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: from houstoner to bostoner ;)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Guerilla
Besides, this is the wrong forum for this. Should have been made in the "Texas" section, not Houston.
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Agreed.
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02-02-2008, 09:58 AM
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Location: Tyler County Texas
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A lot of construction folks from H town working there now with their huge projects starting up!
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02-02-2008, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: from houstoner to bostoner ;)
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Way to tie it together, BobTex! lol
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02-02-2008, 12:49 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: New Orleans, LA
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Way to post misinformation.
New Orleans barely has over a quarter-million (I think around 260,000-280,000 people currently) people right now, not a half-million (where in the f*** did that blogger get their stats, New Orleans hasn't had a half-million people since the 80's). I think that has a huge impact on the rate of New Orleans's murders (12 already, goddamn).
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