brown recluse spiders hang out in dark and quiet places. you can read a FAQ on them, it is not a big deal. I have seen a few in my day, you just be careful and don't go digging through the back of your neglected attic through 5 year old boxes in the dark without a second thought. turn the light on, make some noise, check yourself, wouldnt hurt to wear gloves. and most importantly, do not freak out and act hyper. just brush the spider off and trap it in a jar (or squash it if you must, *sigh* big city people...).
Never seen a black widow, been here 30 years. On the other hand, one time we had a snake in our bathroom. But 99.9% of the snakes I've seen are beneficial, garden snakes, gopher snakes, stuff like that. Besides, we have lots of hospitals close by if you get bit. Thats a joke.
Ok to be serious though. I know of someone who worked downtown, got abducted in braod daylight and raped on lunch break. Someone at might high school was beaten to death by a lead pipe by her boyfriend in the TU dorms in the 1990s. I know plenty of women who get smacked around by their boyfriends, including some members of my family. Then there was the teenager who got raped on her way home from the 4th of july riverpark celebration, a few years ago, by the same nutjob who had been exposing himself to workers at local libraries for several months. Then there was the little girl who got abducted and raped and killed in midtown in the past year or two. Yes this stuff happens in many cities, tulsa may not be better or worse, but to pretend it doesnt happen in 'good areas' is just stupid. I know plenty of people who got in fights, and one kid at my high schools mom killed her dad at the front door with a pistol in the 1990s.
Now, is Tulsa any worse or better than other cities? You need to look at statistics. For example, this page:
Safest and Most Dangerous U.S. Cities, 2007 — Infoplease.com, tulsa is not the worst, and its not the best. Broken Arrow -is- one of the top safest cities in the counttry, and it is a Tulsa suburb. so there ya go. Then again I knew of two people in broken arrow who were child molestors - one of them ran the skating rink and one was a boyscout and army soldier. And I used to every day drive by a broken arrow church whose administration covered up one of their ministers who was a child abuser. Again, do not pretend you can move to some utopia where bad things never happen.
Except maybe Canada. they have far far less crime than the US does. But bad things happen in Canada too.
If you want real statistics, look up some police sites. the tulsa police have a crime map that includes sexual assaults.
Here ya go, if you are too lazy to google yourself, this site
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says that Tulsa has 1.9 times higher than average rape rate for the nation. But that tells you nothing about individual neighborhoods.
You can look at a map of crime within tulsa at the tulsa police website:
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