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How some of you people can live in a city...ANY city...is beyond my comprehension. I don't even want to live in a village.

All you hear out in the country are the horror stories, but NYC is one of the best places in the world to live and work in. Sure, nasty stuff happens, but dumb cruelty and sadism can be found all over the world; there it just gets more coverage.

True, New York is an amazing city. For the record, crime in NYC is at a thirty year low. .

We have murders here in Boca Raton too, by the way .. not too often, thank goodness.

All you hear out in the country are the horror stories,

What "country" is that? I live in northern Baltimore County, along the Pennsylvania border, and couldn't be happier. My nearest neighbor is about 3/4 miles from me - I can't see the next house when the cornfield out front grows. I don't panic when the kids don't come in at the exact time I expect them. Growing up, I lived in the suburbs of Baltimore City, in a somewhat affluent neighborhood. We had two cars stolen. There were assaults, robberies, vandalism... Where I am now, the only "horror stories" I hear about are usually gossip at the local store. Then again, there was a drug dealer last year who was brought out this way, shot, and left to burn in his vehicle. That one is getting some mileage. In short, if I'm residing in a "horror story," I hope it doesn't end.