Safer in the City???

[jerrybob]

Interesting article......used to live near LA......I feel much safer in my small community.....

You may be safer living in the city than the country, study finds - latimes.com

 

[mjarrels]

Research why the US Government wants every one to live in cities!

mark

 

[Midniteoyl]

Less likely to die from an injury... Hmm, bullet holes and knife wounds, but not from a slip and fall

Whatever.. bogus story.

 

[300UGUY]

If you read the article, the difference is mostly due to car accidents. In the city, things are more congested, you just don't get going that fast, and most accidents are fender benders. In my rural area, folks drive very fast on 2 lane roads, and if you lose it, you are possibly hitting a big tree or a oncoming truck. In the last 20 years we have had 3 accidents that have killed 4 or more kids at once in this area, all of them driving fast and hitting trees. Growing up in the city, I never heard of anybody getting killed or injured on farm equipment. We have had a couple of folks killed in tractor or equipment accidents. I still am not moving back to the city, but I don't doubt the stats. Be careful out there!

Don't forget, in some rural areas, you might be 20 or more miles from a EMS vehicle, or any other help. When my grandfather had a heart attack in the city, EMS was there within 5 minutes. Out here, 10 minutes would be considered very good, and 20 minutes acceptable, depending on location, time of day, and probably a lot of factors I don't even know. We had a elderly neighbor who moved back into the burbs, due to ill health. The person who bought that house is now considering the same move, for the same reasons.

 

[Midniteoyl]

I did.. still bogus story.

 

[300UGUY]

Less likely to die from an injury... Hmm, bullet holes and knife wounds, but not from a slip and fall

Whatever.. bogus story.

Growing up in the Detroit area, the only person I knew that got killed by a gun was a kid that got shot by another kid playing with a shotgun. The guy with the shotgun was 18, the victim, 15.

 

[kamesama980]

Then there's the pollution factor (especially being an LA paper that printed the article), stress, cost of living, etc.

Most of the causes of death they list are essentially preventable (kids/teens playing with guns) unless, for example, it's the other person doing 95 on a back road in a blind curve.

I'd like to see actual numbers. sure the difference might be "4 times more likely" but if the starting chance is 1 in 100,000 there's not that much actual difference.

There's also a big difference in degrees of urban/rural. How big is the city, how far from the hospital is your 1000 person small town vs 50k person large town vs 1m+ population city. I live just outside of town. If you were dropped off there in a blindfold you'd think it was the middle of nowhere but the 50k pop. town is 5 mins away and a very good hospital 10 minutes away (at the speed limit with traffic)

 

[MacLawn]

kame (turtle, eh?), good points there. Anyway, give me either big city or country. What I have a hard time enduring is the suburbs. I'd just as soon live in a city apartment as suburbs. I prefer my present rural life, but within 30 minutes of great hospitals. At me age, got to think about that!

 

[MH8675309]

Interesting article......used to live near LA......I feel much safer in my small community.....


But why would you want to live in the city. Paying for water that has run through other people and being at the mercy of the infra structure to make sure you have everything you need? I can see the stars at my place. If the power goes out I can still get water. I can get beef in a hurry if I need it. I guess to each their own,,

 

[KenB2920]

This is funny to me. I completely disagree. Although there may not be farmers in the city, there sure is alot of construction equipment with people getting hurt all the time. If you only consider safety in regards to physical injury maybe there statistics are correct. I disagree but I can't refute it.

Now I don't consider safety just physical injury. Is it safe if I get "robbed" but not hurt? Is it safe when my house gets broken into? Is rape considered in this injury report? Although these aren't fatal, they do injure you psychologically.

Now a "farming" injury may be worse, there are tons of lawnmower injuries, people falling off ladders, roofing etc in the city. So add these statistics and tell me what you think "safe" is.