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Old 09-21-2015, 08:42 AM
 
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The entire area is fine. It's not the 1970s anymore.
The shootings/muggings I cited occurred in September 2015, not back in the '70s.
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Old 09-21-2015, 08:47 AM
 
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Bachslunch, it seems that you have a very low tolerance for city living. Coming from Atlanta, two muggings and three shootings/stabbings is nothing. I grew up in a very wealthy suburb that boasted worse stats than that!
As I said, I can and have managed just fine living in an urban setting for many years. If my tolerance were "very low," I wouldn't have done so.
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Old 09-23-2015, 10:26 AM
 
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This is hilarious. No parts of Cambridge are dangerous, ever.
Really? Have you heard of the two shootings that happened in Cambridge recently (kendall sq)? Or the bag containing a body that was found next to biogen and turned out to be a guy killed his roomate, chopped him up and left his remains there?

Cambridge is expensive, but I wouldnt call it a super safe place where one should never be worried. I work at MIT and I get updates all the time about crime going on in the area. I'm sure there's plenty they dont tell us as well.
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Old 09-23-2015, 10:38 AM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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The shootings/muggings I cited occurred in September 2015, not back in the '70s.

So? You think because a place has a mugging or a shooting every so often it isn't safe?

That's nuts. Under that criteria no place is safe.

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Really? Have you heard of the two shootings that happened in Cambridge recently (kendall sq)? Or the bag containing a body that was found next to biogen and turned out to be a guy killed his roomate, chopped him up and left his remains there?

Cambridge is expensive, but I wouldnt call it a super safe place where one should never be worried. I work at MIT and I get updates all the time about crime going on in the area. I'm sure there's plenty they dont tell us as well.

Yup, heard about them. Does anyone think Kendall isn't safe? Of course not. It's super safe.
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Old 09-23-2015, 10:44 AM
 
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Um, no i wouldn't call it super safe. I feel safer walking here than i would through Roxbury, but certainly some of the things that take place in Kendall are alarming. In addition to shootings there are also frequent reports of muggings.
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Old 09-23-2015, 10:45 AM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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Um, no i wouldn't call it super safe. I feel safer walking here than i would through Roxbury, but certainly some of the things that take place in Kendall are alarming. In addition to shootings there are also frequent reports of muggings.

Where do you consider super safe in this urban core? Which happens to be one of the safest urban areas of its size in the country.
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Old 09-23-2015, 03:37 PM
 
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Um, no i wouldn't call it super safe. I feel safer walking here than i would through Roxbury, but certainly some of the things that take place in Kendall are alarming. In addition to shootings there are also frequent reports of muggings.
And we're back to attacking neighborhoods that were traditionally associated with minority groups . . . which is where these threads about "bad neighborhoods" always seem to end up. Fort Hill is statistically safer than Kendell Square in terms of violent crime. Why would you make the blanket statement that you feel safer in Kendall than Roxbury?

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Old 09-23-2015, 04:39 PM
 
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Where do you consider super safe in this urban core? Which happens to be one of the safest urban areas of its size in the country.
No urban core is "super safe." Some urban cores are dangerous like Baltimore, Detroit and Chicago while some are moderately safe like Boston and Seattle. In all urban cores there is the risk of rape, assault or mugging etc, etc. No urban core can be classified as "super safe." Since other people are the source of criminal danger super safe only exists in small towns.
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Old 09-23-2015, 08:34 PM
 
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Even Disney has crime. Only difference? They pay big $$$$ for people on C-D to never hear about it.

There are two types of people here on this thread-- the pro-urban (of ehich I am one) and the sky is falling suburbanites.

I've never heard us urban people claim there is NO risk and NO crime. We just don't buy into the hysteria.
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Old 09-24-2015, 07:06 AM
 
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No urban core is "super safe." Some urban cores are dangerous like Baltimore, Detroit and Chicago while some are moderately safe like Boston and Seattle. In all urban cores there is the risk of rape, assault or mugging etc, etc. No urban core can be classified as "super safe." Since other people are the source of criminal danger super safe only exists in small towns.
Timberline742 apparently doesn't think Chicago has safety problems and seemingly equates it in safety with Sudbury and Melrose. From earlier in the thread:

"I've lived in Chicago as well. People claim it isn't a safe city too. It is. The violence goes on between criminal groups and rarely spills over. Totally safe city to live in. Just as Cambridge is. And Belmont. And Subury. And Melrose. Etc"
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