Do you live in a safe neighborhood?

Now that I am here in Singapore, I have to say that I am in the safest place in the world. There is no crime. Even if I go home at 1 - 3:30 on the morning, I can walk along the street with no feeling of unsafetiness.

I really do feel like I live in a safe neighborhood. I love living here because we live at the end of a quiet court. We have neighbors all over that watch out for all of the kids so I feel safe letting my eight year old and four year old play in the front yard on their bikes and scooters. Though it isn't something that really happens on a regular basis, I also don't freak out when I forget to lock the door at night. I love living where we live.

I live in a fairly safe part of Nottingham, there's certainly worse areas and I haven't experienced many issues. There's only the odd few families which are anti-social around here, some are a right pain and lucky I'm only close to one of them but I think it's improving still. There's only one area I don't feel safe. I'm not easily scared though, I'll go toe in toe with idiots when it comes to problems and I'm one of the only people around where I live who stands up to anti-social behaviour. I don't want my children growing up somewhere that people allow thugs to control the area :)

Hi there, So I feel very safe in my neighborhood. Even when I go out around my town, but if I have to go to the city. I don't feel safe. There's so many people around and the buildings are very tall. It's just very scary for me to go into the city.

I have not lived in any area ever where I can feel safe to just leave my doors open. I thinks is nice you can do that and you can feel that way after being mugged twice. Where I live is still safe and peaceful but we are always watchful over things, and demand the police to patrol often.

You are indeed fortunate. In our city outskirts are more vulnerable for dacoities, i.e., group attacks with no holds barred. The law enforcement (police) tends to be weak in areas less populated, mainly because the coverage area becomes too large. It must be heavenly living in such free open area, far from the utter congestion in city centres as you call downtown. The type of mugging, though rare in our city, they do happen, particularly during late hours and lonely places. Robberies are quite a frequent occurrence in apartments as well. While poverty, need for extra money, trying to get money without working are some of the basic reasons, the ineffective policing is the main reason for this insecurity.-- I like your photo, if it is yours.

We live on 5 acres in the country so yes we live in a safe neighboorhood BUT it might be our location we are on a main street and there are houses around us and cars all the time. Our house is also very active, always someone coming and going at different times. So someone would have to be brave to try to break in. Our neighbor is on a sideroad with no houses around her and in the woods. She has been broke into 3 or 4 times! We have a large town north of us that until the last couple years I would have said was a safe city but lately all the news cast is about crime in this city!

I have lived in a village about 18 miles away from the city where I used to live. It is a much quieter place and also safer than the place we used to live. _Derek

I have lived in my city all my life. When I was growing up it was very safe. Over the years things have changed. It was small things at first. Now a days its more drastic. There have been ALOT of murders between youngsters. Alot of racial tension. But I would have to say that its safe enough. NOT as safe as I'd like it. I wish we could have no crime. Right now its not safe enough for anyone anywhere. I just hope that if we come together as a country, then a state, then a city, a neighborhood, and eventually as a family unit. This country will be safe for all it's residents. dl

I live in a low income apartment complex and it is not that safe. Alot of people who do not speak English. There is a little boy that used to come in the apartment to play with my grandson and he would just pick up things and put them in his pockets. I noticed it one day and wouldn't allow him back. Things are stolen and you really have to be careful.

A person is only as safe as the people around him/her. If they are willing to help in any given situation, you are safe; if they are afraid to help or just don't care to, you are the single source of your safety. That is the case in the city, suburbs or country. A woman fell in the theater, fracturing a shoulder and knee. She was going to one of the 'absolutely have to see' movies and some teens got boisterous and shoved her. Though surrounded by easily a hundred or so people, not one person bothered to help her. When I got to her, I was the first not to walk over or around her. I called 911, but was ashamed of the 'humans' around me, who let that poor woman lay there in pain. While out with my husband, who is in a massive wheelchair, he ran over my foot while I tried to get doors opened for him. Not one other person offered help with his wheelchair or when I could no longer stand on the foot. If our son had not been with us and arrived with the van, I honestly don't know what we would have done. Not even the people who worked at the mall and saw the problem could be bothered to assist or call for help.

I'm sorry hearing about what happened to you too. I feel safe wherever I go. I have lived in some rough places and seen a lot of things and been in dangerous situations, so I'm used to this. Now days I feel that no place is safer than others, especially for me. And since I'm getting older, the odds go up that I might be confronted. I'm generally a big man, but my stepfather who is pretty big himself but is a diabetic who has to go to dialysis, was robbed. He had an operation after that so I'm wondering if they did something to him. No one talks about it. And since I walk wherever I go, I don't go out at night that much.

Well our area is surrounded with lot of traffic through out, since it is on a highway, we can just call it lucky, that a check post is close to our street, so we feel it is safe, so far we hav'nt faced any problem as such, though we have come to this area just a couple of years.

I think I am in a pretty safe neighborhood. No one loiters around. No one's having party every night. No one is being loud and obnoxious. But maybe that's because there's just three houses in our bright-lighted street. But still, no one is really totally 100% safe. You always have to be cautious. In fact, even if it's safe here, my family still has six dogs to guard our house.

I do feel safe where I live. I live in a small town. I cannot imagine how it feels to be mugged. I hope you never have to go through that again.

I am sorry you have been mugged and your Friend to that is not good I am in a safe area and even down town it is not to bad, but of course I will cling to my Bag to make sure it is not snatched I do not go to Town on a Night I only go Day time when I need to do Shopping Please be careful

Our block I feel is very safe. Though, what concerns me is that we have had a registered offender several houses over. The city forced him out of the area but now there is another on the next block over (against a child under 16) so I worry for my kids safety if they are playing outside. So someone is usually watching them & we have a dog too. Though I think that's why my hubby keeps the dog that drives me bats because they can hear what we cannot KWIM?

I have my back door open quite a lot but the front door only if we are within sight of it. There are bag snatchers and pick pockets in town, we have signs up to warn of them and the police were giving out lanyards to clip to ladies handbags so they have a tether for around their necks in case someone makes a grab. At night ,the youths hang around on the pavements outside of fast food restaurants, clubs and pubs and it is not nice to have to walk past them.

I live in a place where crime rate is minimal but we have to be careful at nights and also at day time.Of course the cops are very strict but than too we have to be careful

I live in a place where crime rate is minimal but we have to be careful at nights and also at day time.Of course the cops are very strict but than too we have to be careful