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It's not high at all, Chicago a city with a population of 2.7 million has a high homicide rate, in 2016 some 762 people were murdered in Chicago and there were 1200 shootings.
Chicago is a tale of 2 cities. One city is safe, rich, exciting and beautiful (mainly the north). The other is crime-ridden, poor, run-down and depressing (mainly the south).
If you live in one, you will likely not notice the other. The wealth in north Chicago has actually increased over the last few decades.
This is now. In the 80s/90s Taiwan was extremely violent.
Besides the bad traffic alone offsets all the low crime rate, amongst other things.
Sure.
But, the question of this Thread is:
How safe do you feel in your city at night?
I feel incredibly safe in Taipei.
Even if we talk about the 80s and 90s - I was here, then, before martial law was lifted - and I felt extremely safe back then, too.
As a foreign national, living in Taipei is quite safe. Always has been. Just stay away from trouble and you're fine.
That's the great thing about Taipei. Trouble doesn't come looking for you. You really need to look for trouble if you want to find it! Me? I've no interest in finding trouble!
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Chicago is a tale of 2 cities. One city is safe, rich, exciting and beautiful (mainly the north). The other is crime-ridden, poor, run-down and depressing (mainly the south).
If you live in one, you will likely not notice the other. The wealth in north Chicago has actually increased over the last few decades.
There are certain US Cities which do have notable high crime rates, however the vast majority of the US is very safe.
America itself is divided between very safe secure suburban areas and certain inner city problem areas where most of the violence, which is ogten gang related takes place.
If the US could clean up places like the poor areas of Chicago or cities like Baltimore, just as they have done with NYC then US Violent Crime would be not that different to other countries.
I know the US has had some success in addressing the problem of gang violence and drug related crime in some cities, as this is the often the root cause of many killings.
That's the great thing about Taipei. Trouble doesn't come looking for you. You really need to look for trouble if you want to find it! Me? I've no interest in finding trouble!
That's kinda the same to every city. If you avoid the dangerous areas you'd always be safe and sound even in Mexico or Brazil. It's good that there are virtually no dangerous or shabby neighbourhoods in Taiwan, but that goes for all countries in East Asia, it's hardly special.
Honestly I'd take a slightly more dangerous city with better traffic over a city full of morons manslaughtering with cars and motorcycles any day. Not to mention the food safety, pollution, noise etc. So ****ing done with it.
There are certain US Cities which do have notable high crime rates, however the vast majority of the US is very safe.
America itself is divided between very safe secure suburban areas and certain inner city problem areas where most of the violence, which is ogten gang related takes place.
If the US could clean up places like the poor areas of Chicago or cities like Baltimore, just as they have done with NYC then US Violent Crime would be not that different to other countries.
I know the US has had some success in addressing the problem of gang violence and drug related crime in some cities, as this is the often the root cause of many killings.
I live 35 minutes from Baltimore city. I know people who live in the city and they do complain about the crime. One person recently got their bike stolen.
Even though Baltimore has some nice areas, I would personally not be comfortable living there because it's too close to the riff raff. Nobody wants to deal with that crap. The Baltimore suburbs are nice and affluent though.
My actual "city" is DC. I consider it to be a lot better in terms of safety.
I live in Irvine, California which if you are familar with it is a cookie cutter suburban city. I have lived here for close to 15 years now. It is a city about 68km or 42 miles southeast of Los Angeles. It has a population now close to about 250,000 people. It is deemed a safe city with low crime. But, of course there are people who say it is not as safe as some like to advertise it. However, I feel quite safe at night here- it is also pretty dead here at night since everything seems to close down here at 9 at night (21:00). The community is largely families, some young professionals and university students. And the median income of the residents is above average for the area.
I live in Irvine, California which if you are familar with it is a cookie cutter suburban city. I have lived here for close to 15 years now. It is a city about 68km or 42 miles southeast of Los Angeles. It has a population now close to about 250,000 people. It is deemed a safe city with low crime. But, of course there are people who say it is not as safe as some like to advertise it. However, I feel quite safe at night here- it is also pretty dead here at night since everything seems to close down here at 9 at night (21:00). The community is largely families, some young professionals and university students. And the median income of the residents is above average for the area.
Who on earth would say Irvine isn't safe? Nothing happens there. Lol I would say most of Orange County is safe, even the areas that people are scared of and say are 'dangerous.' Those people don't know what dangerous is.
Who on earth would say Irvine isn't safe? Nothing happens there. Lol I would say most of Orange County is safe, even the areas that people are scared of and say are 'dangerous.' Those people don't know what dangerous is.
Time to time you will see somebody post in the California-Orange County forum stating how Irvine is not as safe as people claim. But, then, it is all relative. I feel quite safe in Irvine, even at night. I wonder what would they say if you compare it some other city that is a lot more dangerous- and there are plenty of cities that fit that bill.
I walk around without a care, but I live in a town so there isn't much crime anyway.
Same here, except our metro area has about 2,000,000 people. Plus a lot of us carry guns (legally) just as a precaution.
The murder rate here is pretty low for the US. In my particular suburban locality (about 120,000), murder of any kind is pretty rare.
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