How Safe is Your Neighborhood?
By kelly60
@kelly60 (4547)
United States
March 2, 2007 3:11pm CST
Whether you live in a big city or a small town, how safe is the area where you live? I ask this because I live in a small town and have always felt safe here.
You may have read in one of my previous discussions though that not too long ago someone found a hit and run victim dead along the roadside about 30 miles from where I live.
Then last week a storeowner was brutally beaten and stabbed multiple times while opening her store in a rural area about 15 miles from my home. From what I heard, someone found her unconscious with the knife still lodged in her head.
I want to know, whether you live in a big city or a small town, how safe do you feel the area where you live is.
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6 responses
@dionmanis (130)
• Indonesia
25 Mar 07
yes i very agree, non how much but what can be
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
4 Mar 07
We live in a small town. It is a pleasant place to live. Low crime rate. But, that does not mean that violent crimes do not happen. Recently the town was shaken up a bit when a local school teacher was accused of shooting his wife in the back of the head while she slept. That was a bit disturbing. I know the accused having worked with him for a number of years. It just goes to show that you never know.
@kareng (59050)
• United States
4 Mar 07
I live outside the city in the suburbs. I feel pretty safe in my local neighborhood but not so safe in the city. We had a shooting in the largest mall here last month. Then last week a shooting in a neighborhood south of LSU where I work. This is only 10 minutes away from campus at most. I feel pretty safe at work because our building is close to the Campus Police. However, I don't feel very safe in the city or driving through the city. It seems like any public place is just a time bomb for disaster these days.
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@kelly60 (4547)
• United States
9 Mar 07
I agree that my own neighborhood is a pretty safe place. I also don't worry too much about going into other areas around town. I'm not too sure I would want to work there by myself again like I used to though, especially at one of the stores that is off the beaten path like the one that was robbed.
@balthazar_196 (566)
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2 Mar 07
My area is by no means safe, we have so many people with knives and other kinds of weapons attacking innocent bystanders. I hate my area because everyone is some kind of hoodie thug who loves to attack people and so yea not a nice place.
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@alisilence03 (85)
• Romania
25 Mar 07
I live in a small town, and it's not really safe at all beacause where I live there are a lot of gypsies.my parents move here because here are the most cheap apartments.i didn't agree with this change but I have to comply with it.in the night I'm afraid to go out.youi never know when they accost somebody.it is very dangerous.is safety to take a taxi or something and not go for a walk in the night.
