I was surprised to see Cincinnati so high on this list... but it was also in the top 10 murder per capita list on an earlier thread. 90% of Cincinnati murders are black on black and confined to certain parts of town.
I have lived in Boston and Philadelphia. For the past four years I’ve been in Pittsburgh. If you can find a good job, which I did, it is far far cheaper to live here than most places in the Northeast. I think it’s a great place to live.
The Cincy riots in Spring 2001 are what made me a dedicated FReeper. The coverage here was amazing.
Not much came of it, from a national perspective, due to 9/11 coming so soon (relatively) afterwards. But not a good event.