Posted on 06/05/2015 6:35:45 AM PDT by grania
http:www://safewise.com/safest-cities-America
This site lists the 100 safest cities of over 10,000 in population for 2015. (sorry, don't know how to make this computer post the thread. perhaps someone could help me with that)
(Excerpt) Read more at safewise.com ...
I was surprised by the relative lack of Southern locales.
My city is about 15,000. It's incorporated in Texas as a city.
At least in Texas, the difference between town and city is the governance, not the population.
#83...Holiston, MA...my home town. No old money there. But there are LOADS of what one could call Yuppies. You know, guilty white Obama voters. It is unrecognizable from the town I grew up in.
They didn’t seem to be able to fudge away from the obvious correlation of low crime rates and demographics.
Northern Plains and Northern Rocky Mountain states are poor, violent, polluted hellholes. Only the toughest of Freepers could survive there.
All the rest: stay clear!
Looks like most of the list locations have very heavy constitutional restrictions, particularly gun ownership and ability to protect yourself. Less freedom equates to safer in the mind of the liberals.
Seriously. There is less neighborhood "diversity" in the liberal Northeast than just about anywhere else. It's done through zoning. "Why, sure, ANYONE can live in Safetown New Jersey, regardless of race, color, creed, sexual orientation or place of national origin -- just so long as they have the requisite $2.5 million to buy the average Safetown house on the minimum 4-acre lot".
Where is this?
“And hoping Stevenville, Texas will be in the top 5”.
True for NJ, NY and MA but Pennsylvania is a Second Amendment friendly state. You can own a machine gun there — which some find amazing since you can see Pennsylvania directly across the river from the NJ State Capitol Building in Trenton.
Any list of “cities” hides too much information. A list of the 100 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods or Zip Codes would be far more useful, though it might present a set of facts that don’t square with the MSM’s agenda.
Uhh, very few of the places on the list are actually “cities”.
Texas, too. Scorpions, rattlesnakes, mosquitoes, ticks! Angry hogs, armadillos, and deer!
And Rain! Lots of rain! You are in constant danger of being washed away to drown.
Stay away!
South Park Township, PA (#5) is not really a city. It is a sprawling fringe suburb, fairly rural in some places, much of which is actually occupied by a very large county park.
Unless the squirrels start committing daylight hold-ups, not much chance they won’t be on the list.
Ping .... this is responding to your quote (that I referenced in my post).
Where is Murphy Texas? I used to live in Baileys Prairie Texas and there was no crime there either, if you discount speeding on the highway .
It seems to be the deliberate focus of the article. I know towns in Colorado and Wyoming of over 10,000 in population that have virtually zero crime. I don't think the people who compiled this list did more than glance briefly west of the Mississippi. Kind of typical.
See the map in post 47.
What I saw:
The towns have stable populations, the right size population for effective public safety (12,000-15,000 or so), don't have areas where high concentrations people live or gather, and there aren't places where people gather and cause mischief. There isn't much in the places on the list that helps people blend in if they're outsiders.
The town I'm in isn't rich or trendy, by any means. It isn't void of minorities, but no critical mass of them. But the town was nicely laid out, so everyone has some space and there are nice sidewalks that keep people where they belong.
Contractors are working hard to ruin all that at our expense. Being on that list gives us folks some leverage while we fight the stupid construction projects!
Just askin', but I'd bet my last dollar I know the answer and I would be a winner. It would be just the opposite of the 100 most dangerous cities.
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