For one thing, inner city murders are dispute resolution for people who don't believe in the courts far more often then they're random. If you're not involved in gang feuds, you can write off a good chunk of the murder rate. You also have to look at those stats adjusted for density. Chicago has a lot of murders because it is large, for example. Per capita it is unexceptional.
Cities are made less safe when only the desperate remain. Funding for services that contribute to safety (schools, mental health, homeless shelters, even police) crumbles with the tax base. A middle class re-immigration to the cities in theory brings with it the money and political will to rebuild those services. What we see now in decaying cities is not an essential property of cities, but an effect of their abandonment. New York is a great case study about how a city can clean up and bounce back from this, though it's tactics were sometimes flawed.
In places without the density to support transit, you are less likely to be the victim of a street robbery but also far more likely to die in an auto accident, particularly a DUI. I have insurance for my phone and a backup debit card at home. I only have one life.
So no, probably not. Particularly the further away ones. As "average daily hours in a car" grows, your safety does not.
For one thing, inner city murders are dispute resolution for people who don't believe in the courts far more often then they're random. If you're not involved in gang feuds, you can write off a good chunk of the murder rate. You also have to look at those stats adjusted for density. Chicago has a lot of murders because it is large, for example. Per capita it is unexceptional.
Cities are made less safe when only the desperate remain. Funding for services that contribute to safety (schools, mental health, homeless shelters, even police) crumbles with the tax base. A middle class re-immigration to the cities in theory brings with it the money and political will to rebuild those services. What we see now in decaying cities is not an essential property of cities, but an effect of their abandonment. New York is a great case study about how a city can clean up and bounce back from this, though it's tactics were sometimes flawed.
In places without the density to support transit, you are less likely to be the victim of a street robbery but also far more likely to die in an auto accident, particularly a DUI. I have insurance for my phone and a backup debit card at home. I only have one life.
So no, probably not. Particularly the further away ones. As "average daily hours in a car" grows, your safety does not.