Which city is safer between Dallas or Houston? (Happy: apartment, neighborhood)

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by Mr. Clutch

I generally agree with you on this. I'd personally rather deal with hurricane threats than tornado threats, but most issues with flooding here can be alleviated just by paying a bit of attention to the weather forecast and not buying in the areas that do flood repeatedly/easily.

The state needs to do like Florida and buy proprieties that repeatedly flood. Naturally, Florida should be the most flood prone state. But they manage it better.

[BobTex]

Originally Posted by LocalPlanner

Allison was 2001. And there's been a number of serious flooding events, whether tropical storms or otherwise, since then, not all of which had a lot of advance warning.

Ahhhh, mixed up my "A's" and was thinking Alicia (1983?)

My point is that with flooding such as it is the true danger (the thread is about a danger comparison) can be essentially neutralized . Not so with a tornado.

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by BobTex

Ahhhh, mixed up my "A's" and was thinking Alicia (1983?)

My point is that with flooding such as it is the true danger (the thread is about a danger comparison) can be essentially neutralized . Not so with a tornado.

Well, maybe in theory it can be "neutralized" - but that would involve many billions of $ and potential moving a whole lot of people from where they're living now.

[malcorub16]

Spring Break party (10 people shot 1 dead) then a rap concert shooting (12 people shot one dead) both in Dallas, yikes. All within a two week span. What's happening there?
Is Dallas turning into Chicago?

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by malcorub16

Spring Break party (10 people shot 1 dead) then a rap concert shooting (12 people shot one dead) both in Dallas, yikes. All within a two week span. What's happening there?
Is Dallas turning into Chicago?

We need to stop these baseless misconceptions. Chicago is number one in the nation in murders (unless Philly passed them up?) but Chicago is also the third largest city in the country by w large margin. Chicago is no where near as violent as St Louis or Baltimore. It’s just a lot bigger. Some parts of Chicago are as dangerous as the worst parts of St Louis but as a whole it’s not the worst

[malcorub16]

^^ Not baseless at all, compared to other monster size cities NYC and Los Angeles, Chicago has a much higher murder rate and has for many years now.

Of the top 10 largest cities (not metros), only Chicago, Philly and Dallas made this list of 65 cities.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/mur...st-u-s-cities/
note: 2022 article with official 2019 FBI stats.

Other Texas city that made this list is 38. Beaumont, Texas, which happens to be near Houston but not even part of its metro.

[usc619]

Dallas is much safer than Houston. Of Course the Houston homers will jump on here and say otherwise lol.

[malcorub16]

I'm just going off of the link I provided with FBI stats, but even Wikipedia shows Dallas with a higher murder rate than Houston in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._by_crime_rate

BTW I am from San Antonio and live in San Diego. I have no PERSONAL experience, just stats.

I will say, this article shows that Dallas was the only major Texas city whose homicide rate actually dropped in 2021. But it doesn't show murders per thousand to compare it to the other cities. So it could have been really high in 2020, and then drop significantly in 2021 but still be high rate.

https://thetexan.news/homicides-in-t...ept-in-dallas/

Austin's murder rate increase of 87.23% in 2021 is astonishing, it was generally regarded as a VERY SAFE city 3-4 years ago. But again, unsure of the murders per thousand rate for Austin in 2021 to compare it to other cities.

[Mr. Clutch]

https://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/weath...torms/2931405/

This is what Houston is definitely at lower risk for - hail and tornados.

[rabbit33]

Between Dallas and Houston? I'd think Centerville, Willis, Cosicana, or the Woodlands.