>Dana was there last year :) and saw you there :) I also talk frequently to >good friends who still live there. > >You're still on that kick about what a nice safe place it is these days. >huh? I always love hearing that from people who never leave Northern >Virginia. >
Can't be me, I go throughout the general area. Besides briefly visiting somewhere is not the same as living there. The DC MSA (metropolitan statistical area - see the Census for a definition) is no more dangerous that other equivalently sized MSA's and considerably lower than most, http://www.researchtriangle.org/data%20center/livability/public_safety.php, According to the FBI, the Washington DC metropolitan statistical area's crime rate is considerably lower than Atlanta, Columbia, Baltimore, Charlotte NC, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, New York,Orlando, Phoenix, and Winston-Salem. See http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/documents/CIUS2004.pdf for more information In other words the crime rate in the DC metropolitan statistical area is considerably lower than most equivalently sized MSA's throughout the country. So as you were saying? To put it another way, what do you think is more reliable, someone's semi-uninformed opinion based mainly on anectdotes or hard data. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:301448 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
