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That's how San Diego does it. The entire city is like an upscale suburban community. Btw I wouldn't be surprised if SD still has 0 for the year, as I haven't seen any updates from there.
You know there might be truth to this, and why NY/LA had a massive decrease in crime, meanwhile Chicago is still putting up 90s numbers. There's very little, if any, cheap real estate left in New York/LA. They gentrified their ghetto neighborhoods early. Meanwhile outside of a couple hoods, the whole south and west sides of Chicago are INCREDIBLY cheap. Chicago gentrified its northside neighborhoods (which are safe), but didn't really do too much with its south and west sides. Criminals cant afford to pay 2000 rent for a studio. You can rent homes for like 300-400 a month in the bad sides of Chicago. Meanwhile in LA, crappy shacks in south central LA are going for $800k. Don't get me wrong, theres still rough parts in both cities, but nothing like in Chicago where its just miles of cheap real estate.
It's like NY/LA priced out crime lol. Chicago nowadays is cheaper than many mid sized cities like Austin and Tampa and Nashville.
San Diego has 2 according to the crime map I looked up. One on New Years day and another on the last day of January.
That's still impressive for a city with more than double the population of Boston. Both cities seem to be immune and not suffering the same fate as Austin and Portland.
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You know there might be truth to this, and why NY/LA had a massive decrease in crime, meanwhile Chicago is still putting up 90s numbers. There's very little, if any, cheap real estate left in New York/LA. They gentrified their ghetto neighborhoods early. Meanwhile outside of a couple hoods, the whole south and west sides of Chicago are INCREDIBLY cheap. Chicago gentrified its northside neighborhoods (which are safe), but didn't really do too much with its south and west sides. Criminals cant afford to pay 2000 rent for a studio. You can rent homes for like 300-400 a month in the bad sides of Chicago. Meanwhile in LA, crappy shacks in south central LA are going for $800k. Don't get me wrong, theres still rough parts in both cities, but nothing like in Chicago where its just miles of cheap real estate.
It's like NY/LA priced out crime lol. Chicago nowadays is cheaper than many mid sized cities like Austin and Tampa and Nashville.
Although NY and LA are nowhere near the 1990's levels, they have reversed course and much higher than the 2010's levels. What about Philly? Is it relatively cheap compared to NYC?
That's still impressive for a city with more than double the population of Boston. Both cities seem to be immune and not suffering the same fate as Austin and Portland.
SD land area is over 300 sq. mi, Boston is 44 sq. mi.
Boston has almost 2x the population that San Diego does, in the same relative area.
The cities (proper) are EXTREMELY expensive. They've essentially priced out crime (murders in particular)
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Although NY and LA are nowhere near the 1990's levels, they have reversed course and much higher than the 2010's levels. What about Philly? Is it relatively cheap compared to NYC?
Housing in Philly is literally half the price of NYC. The gap is that wide.
I recently watched the 5 seasons of The Wire, a HBO series set in Baltimore between 2002 and 2008. Excellent drama about the crime in the city.
But it's sad that after 15 years the crime keeps exactly the same as it was shown in the series. I wish that was only a representation of hard times that stayed in the past.
Fort Worth is at 10 or 11 after two people found shot dead in the Northwestern part of the city extremely close to being in the city limits of suburb River Oaks. Either a double murder or murder suicide.
You know there might be truth to this, and why NY/LA had a massive decrease in crime, meanwhile Chicago is still putting up 90s numbers. There's very little, if any, cheap real estate left in New York/LA. They gentrified their ghetto neighborhoods early. Meanwhile outside of a couple hoods, the whole south and west sides of Chicago are INCREDIBLY cheap. Chicago gentrified its northside neighborhoods (which are safe), but didn't really do too much with its south and west sides. Criminals cant afford to pay 2000 rent for a studio. You can rent homes for like 300-400 a month in the bad sides of Chicago. Meanwhile in LA, crappy shacks in south central LA are going for $800k. Don't get me wrong, theres still rough parts in both cities, but nothing like in Chicago where its just miles of cheap real estate.
It's like NY/LA priced out crime lol. Chicago nowadays is cheaper than many mid sized cities like Austin and Tampa and Nashville.
No. Chicago is seeing a large number of violent crimes in the wealthy loop and many northside/northwestside neighborhoods. It isn't the kind of war-like violence seen in the deeply impoverished west and south side neighborhoods, but the violence is a citywide problem and it absolutely does not spare the gentrified areas.
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