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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
New Mexico is also a huge state. There are plenty of nice low-crime towns and areas-near-towns in the state.
Connecticut is considered somewhat idyllic, all things considered (other than high taxes). And yet, Hartford, the state capitol, has a higher crime rate than New Mexico - as of 2018 data, 1 in 93 people will become victim of a violent crime in Hartford, CT.
Compare with North Haven, CT (where I lived many years): less than one in 1000 will be victim to a violent crime.
Compare that "less than 1 in 1000" to the Villages - 22 out of every 1000 people in the Villages are victim to violent crime.
So it was safer to live in North Haven CT, than it is to live in the Villages.
Also, 20.7792% of all statistics are made up; the other 94.019977% are arbitrary.
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I was in CT once during a spring break and had a wonderful time. Nice people.
I can't even remember the number of times I have experienced burglaries, thefts of anything literally not nailed down, and so on in Albuquerque, even when I was a child: bicycles, car tires, a letter sweater from my car, trailers, doors taken off my jeep and the light switch from its dashboard while it was parked in my driveway. My places of business there have been burglarized countless times. I have also been physically threatened, punched in the face, held at gunpoint and knifepoint in Albuquerque, as a child as well as an adult. Virtually everyone I know in Albuquerque and I know many people there has been a victim of crimes, predominantly multiple residential burglaries and vehicular theft over the years. I remember sitting down a few years ago, after I had lived elsewhere for perhaps twenty years, at a table of seven other lawyers at lunch during a continuing education class. They were all talking about the last time their car was stolen or their house broken into. What astounded me is they were so calm about it as it was not big news there.
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