I’ve lived in a big city for years now. Never seen anybody get mugged, or shot, or carjacked, despite doing activist work that often has me visiting poor minority neighborhoods.

The only time I ever really felt uneasy was when I had to walk alone at night through a neighborhood where all the businesses had bars on the windows. Worst thing that happened was a couple of people asking me for money, and they didn’t give me any shit when I said I didn’t carry cash.

But any time I visit the small town where I grew up there’s always someone or another acting like I came back from a fucking warzone lmao

    • American_Badass [none/use name]English
      11•1 year ago

      I do feel much more comfortable driving in my town of <500 people. Although our traintrack crossings don’t have arms, and I feel like I’m constantly swerving deer. I guess I also share the road with a lot of side by sides, 4 wheelers. It probably is more dangerous, but there isn’t a stop light for miles.

    • GayActorMichaelDouglas [none/use name, he/him]English
      1•1 year ago

      Deaths from fucking car accidents which happen waaaaaaay more often in suburban and rural areas.

      Only on a technicality. You’re never more than 5 minutes away from an ER in the city so of course you have a better chance to survive. Most small towns are 30 minutes away from an ER, if that. Unless you believe rural people are genetically pre-disposed to car accidents then the problem is lack of public infrastructure.

      This has the same understanding as quoting FBI crime by race statistics without the overall societal context.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]English
        2•1 year ago

        the problem is lack of public infrastructure.

        Yes. That’s it. I never claimed it had anything to do with something inherent to the people who live in suburban and rural areas, but in those areas people drive more and at higher speeds, which means more deaths.

        If you built a robust bus network in every town of 1000 people it might fix that problem but those towns don’t have that.