Well-stated, AAM. I am a woman who will not wait to reason with nor try to "take down" an enraged man. My Beretta will do the job for me.
"When it comes to crime, the east side of Austin seems like West Lake Hills when compared to south Atlanta."
Thank-you for making that plain to little lass. I live "outside the perimeter" to the northeast and do not feel very safe at all. But wait....I feel "But I've lived in Atlanta and dodged bullets by catching them in my teeth" coming on as her snappy, know-it-all retort!
"When it comes to crime, the east side of Austin seems like West Lake Hills when compared to south Atlanta."
Unfortunately for Stockbridge, although it's in Henry County it's sandwiched between and slightly south of two of the very worst neighborhoods in S. Atlanta (one of which I have to drive through almost daily), and it's along I-75. When crime spreads, it tends to spread along the interstates.
Even if "statistically speaking" there are no mean and nasty people in that rosy-tinted Utopia where our Anglophile friend has taken up residence (although the UK crime stats don't bear this out), there sure are a significant number of them around here. . . . in Atlanta, gun control capital of the South.