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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
This isn't about city or non-city (with the understanding that people know what constitutes a "city") except that certain conditions and criminogenic environments have the potential to increase with increases and other changes in populations. But people do get killed in Small Town, USA just as they do in Big City, USA---just as they get killed in Smaller City, USA.
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It's interesting you bring this up, I was just talking about it with my wife recently. When I started law school, we moved from the Boston area (Brookline, which is basically in Boston) to a small-ish town. There's a convenience store right down the street from us, and I walked down there around 10 pm. It's only about a 5 minute walk from my house, and there were no cars or people out on the road, but for some reason, the quietness made me feel more nervous. Now, my town is extremely safe, with very low rates of violent crime, but I think I'd just gotten so used to Boston, where there are people out and about almost 24/7, that the lack of crowds made me nervous.