Where in Montana? Need help! (Billings, Missoula: 2014, insurance, violent crime)

[AirborneVespa]

Montana is extremely safe. Bottom line. We lived in Butte in a 1910 Victorian uptown and for those 3 years I never took the keys out of my car which had the house key on it, and so never locked the door. The wife would lock the door if we went out of town for a weekend or longer, but she forgot a couple times, too.

Unless you are married to a wife beater or you are using Meth, Montana is safe.

[nowhereman427]

[mrwumpus]

Originally Posted by AirborneVespa

Unless you are married to a wife beater or you are using Meth, Montana is safe.

So you're saying all the high larceny rates in many Montana towns are made up?

[nowhereman427]

Originally Posted by mrwumpus

So you're saying all the high larceny rates in many Montana towns are made up?

Isn't the larceny and property crime rates even higher in Wyoming?

[AirborneVespa]

Originally Posted by mrwumpus

So you're saying all the high larceny rates in many Montana towns are made up?

I am saying use perspective when you look at any statistics, especially if they use percentages. And consider the population size, too.

a 1% property crime rate in a city of 1,000. is a heck of a lot less crime than a 0.01% property crime rate in a city of 1 million.

All in all a thread on Montana crime is pretty silly.

And in almost all cases, crime is localized. If you live in a trashy area you'll have crime. And those crime stats will apply to the entire city, even if all the crime is localized to a 3 block radius 5 miles from everyone else.

[mrwumpus]

Originally Posted by nowhereman427

Isn't the larceny and property crime rates even higher in Wyoming?

I don't know but Montana was the first place I had property stolen from (by movers I was paying $35/hr no less!) and the local Facebook groups seem to have a couple posts a week of somebody whose business was broken into or child's bike was stolen.

That being said there's not much random violent crime here, probably because everybody and his uncle carries a gun.

[NDak15]

All in all I'd say as long as you're not on the reservations you're pretty safe and even those aren't going to be like South Side Chicago or someplace similar.

[nowhereman427]

I'll stick with a house near the Bureau of Land Management or a forest in hopes of not having subdivisions pop up around me.

[SailCT]

Originally Posted by AirborneVespa

Montana is extremely safe. Bottom line. We lived in Butte in a 1910 Victorian uptown and for those 3 years I never took the keys out of my car which had the house key on it, and so never locked the door. The wife would lock the door if we went out of town for a weekend or longer, but she forgot a couple times, too.

Unless you are married to a wife beater or you are using Meth, Montana is safe.

I heard that Butte on St. Patrick's Day gets lively!

[AirborneVespa]

Originally Posted by SailCT

I heard that Butte on St. Patrick's Day gets lively!

On a two-tree block area of downtown - but yes, it gets packed.

Butte is one of only three (I think) cities in the US that treats the population as adults, and drinking outside is allowed.