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Since some of the posters here in the Fort Lauderdale area, probably Donald Trump supporters, seem to think I come up "fake news" and that facts and figures I put down in my posts about Fort Lauderdale are pulled out of my hat, I copied and pasted sections of an article on the Sun-Sentinel website that was also printed in an issue of that local newspaper about just how unsafe it is to live in Fort Lauderdale these days:
With one of the highest rates of traffic fatalities per capita in the United States, Fort Lauderdale is dead last in a ranking of the 182 safest metro areas, according to personal finance website WalletHub.
And that’s a list that includes cities that have drawn attention in recent years for violent crime — places like Chicago, which was ranked 135, and Baltimore, which was 151.
The nation’s two largest cities, New York (132) and Los Angeles (143), were deemed safer than Fort Lauderdale.
The WalletHub study considered the various ways in which a person can feel threatened or insecure into three larger categories: home and community safety, natural disaster risk, and financial safety.
The community safety category took into account crime and public safety, looking at metrics like the rates of various crimes including murder.
The natural disaster risk considered the probability of each metro area facing earthquakes, floods, hail, hurricane storm surge, tornadoes or wildfires.
The third, financial safety, took into account the unemployment rate as well as the rates of poverty, foreclosure, identity theft and others.The study ranked the importance of each of these three general categories, with more weight given to home and community safety than the other two.
Fort Lauderdale was ranked 147 when it came to most traffic fatalities per capita.
Fort Lauderdale also was among the worst cities for financial safety, as it was a four-way tie for the 115 spot when it comes to percentage of households with emergency savings. The three other cities all are in South Florida: Miami, Hialeah and Pembroke Pines.
For reasons that were not clear, a ranking for natural disaster risk wasn’t available for Fort Lauderdale — despite the threat of hurricanes.
Right, Ft. Lauderdale is more dangerous than Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, St. Louis, DC, etc etc.
I'd rather have more traffic fatalities than murders, rapes, robberies. At least I have somewhat control over my driving habits.
What a ridiculous ranking, if you want to know the truly most unsafe places in America, I suggest looking at the FBI crime stats.
I was recently turned onto this Broward crime mapping site after an incident where I live. I lease a condo in a fairly large development. Several neighbors who own Honda Accords came out to find their cars sitting on bricks with all the tires/rims gone. It was quite startling as I lacked an imagination where this was possible. After doing research I found reporting in Broward and M-D showing that this type of crime was prevalent and on the rise.
When I searched the Broward crime mapping site it showed the exact location and the crime was reported as theft of vehicle parts. I could also review all manners of other crimes in my area.
Since some of the posters here in the Fort Lauderdale area, probably Donald Trump supporters, seem to think I come up "fake news" and that facts and figures I put down in my posts about Fort Lauderdale are pulled out of my hat, I copied and pasted sections of an article on the Sun-Sentinel website that was also printed in an issue of that local newspaper about just how unsafe it is to live in Fort Lauderdale these days:
With one of the highest rates of traffic fatalities per capita in the United States, Fort Lauderdale is dead last in a ranking of the 182 safest metro areas, according to personal finance website WalletHub.
And that’s a list that includes cities that have drawn attention in recent years for violent crime — places like Chicago, which was ranked 135, and Baltimore, which was 151.
The nation’s two largest cities, New York (132) and Los Angeles (143), were deemed safer than Fort Lauderdale.
The WalletHub study considered the various ways in which a person can feel threatened or insecure into three larger categories: home and community safety, natural disaster risk, and financial safety.
The community safety category took into account crime and public safety, looking at metrics like the rates of various crimes including murder.
The natural disaster risk considered the probability of each metro area facing earthquakes, floods, hail, hurricane storm surge, tornadoes or wildfires.
The third, financial safety, took into account the unemployment rate as well as the rates of poverty, foreclosure, identity theft and others.The study ranked the importance of each of these three general categories, with more weight given to home and community safety than the other two.
Fort Lauderdale was ranked 147 when it came to most traffic fatalities per capita.
Fort Lauderdale also was among the worst cities for financial safety, as it was a four-way tie for the 115 spot when it comes to percentage of households with emergency savings. The three other cities all are in South Florida: Miami, Hialeah and Pembroke Pines.
For reasons that were not clear, a ranking for natural disaster risk wasn’t available for Fort Lauderdale — despite the threat of hurricanes.
Still, I think the ranking is a little skewed, since how can you measure general safety by traffic fatalities and petty crime? When I think of unsafe I think of violent crimes like murder, rape, assault, robberies, and gang activity. Not theft or fraud crimes and bad drivers.
Still, I think the ranking is a little skewed, since how can you measure general safety by traffic fatalities and petty crime? When I think of unsafe I think of violent crimes like murder, rape, assault, robberies, and gang activity. Not theft or fraud crimes and bad drivers.
It's a stupid article to rank a place unsafe because a hurricane can happen or because of unemployment or foreclosure rates.
So if only 1/3 is based on actual safety and crime it's a useless rating.
Just look at the op's forum name and all of his posts, I believe that they are all negative, I think all he sees in the negative of everything in life, I seriously doubt he will be happy anywhere he goes. As to the article, no place is 100% safe from crime and accidents, life is what it is, I find South Florida a lot safer than where I used to live and where my wife comes from and besides, Florida is a concealed carry state, thus making it a lot easier for those of us who wish to carry and are capable of carrying, to hopefully never end up victims.
I wonder what drives someone to post incessantly negative articles time after time. If things are so terrible, they should move away from the area.
If the heat and humidity is so terrible, move to a place that has no heat and humidity. Did you really not know there was heat and humidity here before you moved to South FL?
Actually, when I first moved to Florida from Chicago, it was to Key West, where I lived for 8 years until the rents became too expensive for the rate of pay the hotels, etc. were willing to pay the workers there. The hotels and many of the guest houses started hiring companies that brought in workers from former Eastern Bloc countries and the former Soviet Union because the corporations that were making their moves into Key West wanted to maximize their profits by not having to pay benefits to full time workers and unemployment taxes to the state of Florida. The companies the hotels hired could keep their employees in line by threatening to deport them back home if they had issues with working overtime with no overtime pay, etc.
The housing market in Key West also got tighter and tighter and rents went higher and higher because the City didn't put any controls on the number of homes and apartment buildings that could be converted into guest houses, stores, etc. The quality of the housing went down because landlords could charge more without making proper repairs and doing upkeep. Sound familiar?
I then moved to South Beach and lived there for about 6 years until again the corporations started to make their move in and the quality of life again went down the tubes like it did in Key West with rising rents, low wages and a City government that was more interested in catering to developers and landlords than to the citizens of Miami Beach. A very tiny storefront on Lincoln Road now goes for about $30,000. a month to rent it and you're lucky if you can find a studio apartment for less than $1,000. a month. Minimum wage in Florida, a right to work state which means an employer can let you go with no reason given and where employment rights attorneys are few and far between, is just a little over $8.00 per hour.
Unfortunately, I didn't do my research before moving to Fort Lauderdale from South Beach. I didn't realize that this area has a very thin corridor of so called "nice areas" east of Dixie Highway with a smattering of "nice area" pockets in Wilton Manors and Oakland Park. Downtown and the area just north of downtown, has gone the way of Key West and South Beach, allowing for unbridled development while having an antiquated city sewer system that hasn't been updated in years. There have been recent incidents of overflows of raw sewage into the streets here and there are warnings put out after rainy weather about not going into the water at the beaches because of high bacteria counts from raw sewage leaking into the waterways that are connected to the ocean here.
There has been a White and African-american flight out of the areas west of I-95 to the point that my African American friends tell me that that won't go into those areas that are now populated with an influx of unskilled immigrants coming in from the Caribbean from still earthquake devastated areas of Haiti and hurricane devastated Caribbean island countries. So much for Trump's Wall across Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants walking across the border, Right? Anyone who bothers to get their head out of the sand and check the facts would realize that the illegal immigrants living in South Florida don't walk in here across the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
I've found that the mentality of a lot of the people here seems to be along the lines of, "Well, it's not as bad as it used to be," usually referring to Wilton Manors before the Gays moved in and opened businesses and renovated homes and brought the property values up there and put pressure to the City of Wilton Manors to clean up and landscape Wilton Drive and the surrounding neighborhoods.
It seems to me that the posters who complain about other posters who actually do contact city officials about doing the jobs they are elected and paid to do, are some of the same people who have kept Fort Lauderdale behind the times as they sit in front of their wide screen tv's and let politicians run downtown Fort Lauderdale into the ground allowing for high density high rise after high density high rise to be built with no first floor space set aside for businesses to open to provide services to the residents in those high rises causing the residents of those high rises to take to having to drive on our already traffic filled streets to go to a restaurant, drop off their cleaning, etc.
These high density high rises are also the reason that Fort Lauderdale has had raw sewage come up through the drains as no improvements have been made by current and previous elected public officials in this area to make sure the city sewer system can handle the increase of sewage entering the sewage drains here from these high density high rise buildings.
The reason so many of us sit so long waiting for trains to go by that can be put above or underground on our busy streets or hit traffic light after traffic light because of the bad timing of them here, or that we have to pay for parking to go to a public beach run by the City of Fort Lauderdale that won't provide public restrooms like they do on South Beach, etc., is because of the people who, instead of contacting public officials and complaining like I do on a regular basis about the lack of basic services provided here for people who are paying for them, seem to prefer to spend their time writing posts where they complain that someone would actually dare to point out the negative things that are increasingly happening in this area.
The posters who complain about other posters stating facts about Fort Lauderdale are the kind of people who have contributed the most to making Fort Lauderdale an increasingly difficult place for the average person to live in because of their own lack of doing anything to push public officials to make this a better place to live.
If they don't want to read posts that state the facts of what it's like to live in Fort Lauderdale, which is increasingly being threatened by rising the rising sea next to us and the canal and river waters connected to that sea because of Broward County refusing to address the issue, then maybe they should step up to the plate and actually try to make this a better place to live and spend their time contacting public officials instead of just complaining about others who let other people know about the perils of living here before they move here.
I wonder what drives someone to post incessantly negative articles time after time. If things are so terrible, they should move away from the area.
If the heat and humidity is so terrible, move to a place that has no heat and humidity. Did you really not know there was heat and humidity here before you moved to South FL?
Why, would you not like to see any improvement in South Florida? Oh the complacency...
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