yeah and the crime rate per capita is actually quite high in Albuquerque, but it is confined to certain populations only. I personally can walk around at all hours with very little likelihood of trouble.
You are being disingenous, as usual. I see your statistics and laugh. They only mean what they do in fact mean and no more. I said you should be careful where you walked at night, just as you would in New York. I'm not saying it's worse on the macro scale, I am saying that if you don't freaking know, bad places are very very close to good, and there are a lot of very naive tourists who wander into them. I didn't briefly visit, I spent five years driving people around in the middle of the night, and that included everyone from drug dealers to rape victims to someone's rich auntie going to down to bail an erring teenager out of jail, to yes, people who didn't know better than to try to buy drugs behind the Greyhound. That includes the Palisades, Benning Heights, Takoma Park and the Shaw, not to mention Suitland, Glassmanor, Sunshine and Bethesda, and you in your innocence think I don't know what I am talking about because you don't feel scared to drive on the Beltway. That's fine; but you should stay there if you don't know and don't want to learn, is all I am saying. I doubt you could find half those neighborhoods on a map. And you airily talk of self-informed opinion. I *did* briefly visit a yeah ago and it was pretty much the same only more so. A bit more construction in Greenbelt and College Park, University of Maryland hasn't changed, and Wheaton might be a hair more Spanish. Oh and gee, the taxi drivers are a LOT more scared. I saw violence twice while I was there and I was only there what, four days for CFUnited? And I am not counting the guys cleaning their nails with their switchblades in front of the after-hours joint two blocks from the hotel. They were actually quite nice, and so were the drinks. The guy who made the mistake of eating the food there got sick though. ::shrug:: Actually, go take a walk down around oh 9th and L or so and ask a few people to be your neighbor. Or go over-indulge at the Brickskeller and then pass out on the P Street Beach. It might do you some good, especially since I know you have no idea why that's funny ;) I have work to do. Hatton, enjoy your visit and let me know, if you find out, whether they still have those hissing cockroaches at the science museam. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Larry Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >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:301455 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
