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Ottawa's are high compared to the murder rate in Windsor or Quebec City. Crime, however, seems to as a rule be much higher in the West than in the East.
You mean like Vancouver? Which only makes sense because it's one of the largest cities. However there doesn't seem to be as much population near Windsor,so that would make sense also.
As another poster opined; you really need to be a tad more specific, as I could suggest that if you move from a thriving urban setting to a rural one in Canada and couple that to the higher cost of living you might find the transition a little more than you can handle all at once.
I sort of alluded to it in my original post...my main concerns were crime and economy. As for urban vs rural...I had been looking for the most rural places in US I could find such as Montana,so I suppose the Canadian equivalent might be the prairies of Saskatchewan. Though if I opt to stay closer to my roots in the east,I'd be looking at somewhere like the Ottawa region.
If your typical coffee table discussion at work is centered around your loss of liberties and security while bemoaning the gun grabbers attempts to restrict your FREEDOM; you're in for major dissappointment as those things just do not tickle the national phyche up here. Should you, in fact wish to discuss that stuff ad-infinitum; you'll empty a Tim Horton's faster than a cry of "there's rat poop in my chile bowl"!
Right now everyone is talking about the NBA Finals, i think id rather hear people talk about security and guns than how much they love Lebron James....
I'll admit that block on Game 2 was pretty amazing tho
Right now everyone is talking about the NBA Finals, i think id rather hear people talk about security and guns than how much they love Lebron James....
I'll admit that block on Game 2 was pretty amazing tho
Didn't even know it was on...tho I've heard I'd better brush up on hockey if I head up north
What is your take on living in Canada vs US? From what I see the US is becoming so corrupt(big brother) and crime ridden(shootings everywhere,like the wild west). Those are my major concerns,aside from health care and economy(is yours going downhill as well?)...
The US is the country of extremes to me -- stately homes a stone's throw from the hood, high schools full of Harvard-bound kids 3 miles from Hopeless High, trend-setting sophisticated restaurants vs. KFCs, Neil deGrasse Tyson vs. Ann Coulter... Canada has more of an egalitarian streak (socially and fiscally) so the extremes aren't quite as extreme. Regarding corruption, we aren't in a position to teach anything to anyone. Violent crime rates are a lot lower in Canada, but property crime rates are similar.
I lived in Pittsburgh from 2005 to 2009 and I loved it. Everything was marginally different from what I was used to, some marginally good, some marginally bad. But overall the "Canada is great while the US has become a third world country" line is most likely uttered by people with personal biases and a profound misunderstanding of statistics.
You mean like Vancouver? Which only makes sense because it's one of the largest cities. However there doesn't seem to be as much population near Windsor,so that would make sense also.
No I don't mean like Vancouver, I mean comparably sized Western city to comparably sized Eastern city across the board. So Saskatoon and Regina to Windsor and London; Victoria to Halifax; Kelowna to St. John's or Sherbrooke; Calgary or Edmonton to Ottawa etc... Vancouver, though smaller, would have a higher crime rate than a metro area like Montreal for example. That doesn't mean Western Canada is crime ridden or extremely dangerous, it's probably safer or comparable to similar regions in the US, just that there's an obvious trend of modestly higher crime rates in Western Canadian communities generally, it even seems to hold true in aggregate when looking at towns. I won't venture a guess as to why, it's probably complicated and has to do with the way the West was settled, the type of economy it has and had, demographics, and a whole slew of other stuff.
No I don't mean like Vancouver, I mean comparably sized Western city to comparably sized Eastern city across the board. So Saskatoon and Regina to Windsor and London; Victoria to Halifax; Kelowna to St. John's or Sherbrooke; Calgary or Edmonton to Ottawa etc... Vancouver, though smaller, would have a higher crime rate than a metro area like Montreal for example. That doesn't mean Western Canada is crime ridden or extremely dangerous, it's probably safer or comparable to similar regions in the US, just that there's an obvious trend of modestly higher crime rates in Western Canadian communities generally, it even seems to hold true in aggregate when looking at towns. I won't venture a guess as to why, it's probably complicated and has to do with the way the West was settled, the type of economy it has and had, demographics, and a whole slew of other stuff.
It's not politically correct to say this, but crime is a significant problem in the First Nations communities of Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg and Edmonton.
In BC cities the crime is more spun-off from the drug trade and the transient population.
I was just researching crime around Ottawa and the stats said there was something like only 11 murders in 2012...heck we have that in Philly in only a couple weeks
Yeah,no...Ottawa pop is like 800,000,Phila is like a mil...not quite 10X
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