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Washington really is turning into a shit hole. I guess legislators saw Portland and San Francisco and thought, “that looks like a great way to run a city!”
Portland and San Francisco aren't even in the top 20 worst cities for crime in the U.S.
Granted, San Francisco is #21, but I can't imagine why you didn't say "Memphis, TN" (#1) or "Little Rock, AR" (#5)...
They never have a reply to this one.
I brought up the existence of per capita statistics in another thread about gun violence in cities, and *crickets*
Numbers hurt people's politics
D.C. didn't make the list either.
Yep. I've been to D.C. I've been to Baltimore. I didn't feel unsafe at all despite the right constantly using those as examples of cities that are war zones.
Neither does Chicago or Detroit.
And while SLC and San Francisco have some rough areas, there are a lot of high quality services and perks of living there (if you can afford it).
Sadly, Memphis doesn't surprise me.
EDIT: Funny to see Boulder being on the #4 as best places to live while Denver is on this list.
I've lived in both, you figure out how and where not to go pretty quickly.
As long as you have common sense most places aren't too dangerous. Just keep to yourself if you're in the sketchy neighborhood and don't hang around at night. I think these representative are use to small towns where meth heads steal your ladder and don't kill because usually people know who they are.
And that's true about pretty much any city. Just learn where the sketchy parts are and avoid them.
That said, people even get carjacked in those small towns. It can literally happen anywhere.
I live in a small city in SoCal, Yucaipa for those curious. And people lement that the city is getting so dangerous now, meanwhile the worst crime I know of was a methhead shooting someone in a fucking parking lot. Ya can still walk around at 2 in the morning and the worst threat would probably be the cars.
Can't believe they legalized car jacking smh
It is though one effective way of increasing public transportation usage.
EDIT: If I see this converted in a news article.....
It's all coming together now...Car jacking are a liberal conspiracy to reduce emissions!
There's plenty of public transportation, assuming any member of the public can requisition any car at any point.
lol I take it you've never been to Portland
the 'ole "Portland is now a flaming crater becausw the news showed me a picture of a flaming trash can" narrative.
Has it ever been great. I was looking at a position at university of maryland at one point and it was sorta crazy as anywhere you could live was either really cheap and scary or expesive and luxurious. I could not find anything in-between.