How do you feel about crime in your part of the world?

[Alice I]

I am jealous of pallas artemis and Avalon-Queen.
Your homes sound lovely and I am impressed that you can and do appreciate your good fortune in this respect.
I like where I live for the most part but it would be soooooooo much better if I didn't have to worry about my girls being outside after dark.
(Not that I let them out after dark at their ages but they will be growing up before I know it and will be out until sundown. It is then that I refer to in this post)

[pallas artemis]

I am jealous of pallas artemis and Avalon-Queen.
Your homes sound lovely and I am impressed that you can and do appreciate your good fortune in this respect.
I like where I live for the most part but it would be soooooooo much better if I didn't have to worry about my girls being outside after dark.
(Not that I let them out after dark at their ages but they will be growing up before I know it and will be out until sundown. It is then that I refer to in this post)

Yah, it is nice!! Anywhere within 20 miles of my home I don't have to worry about locking my car or if I rolled my windows up! My little sister is eleven and she can ride her bike or go for a walk basically where ever she wants ( as long as she tells us she's leaving). There is less stress!

[Won Wheezy]

Yeah, it's the same in Austria if you're in the country or in little towns. But in the cities you should lock your doors. You never know.

[fierce]

when my dad goes to the supermarket in his work van, he leaves the door open and the keys in the ignition. he says he hopes someone steals it, but so far it hasn't happened. People know people where he lives, he's a bone fide local and anyway, who'd want a plumbers van?

[Alice I]

who'd want a plumbers van?

Well I guess that depends. The tool and equipment that your dad carries around in his van are worth lots of $$.

In my town sad to say that would be a really bad move.

[pallas artemis]

My old car was such a junker that I never locked it even in larger cities. I always figured that I'd probably get more out of it if it was stolen than if I sold it. Alas, everyone else apparently felt the same cos no one ever took it!!

[Groo]

I live in Bombay, India and i think though there are robberies murders and stuff around, the city isnt crime-ridden and is quite safe. I can fearlessly come home at 1 in the night, but i dont think the situation is the same in the interior villages.

when i was 13, me my mom and my old grandmother were home at 2 in the afternoon when the doorbell rang. my mom quite unthinkingly opened the door, as we always do, and 5 people forced their way into our house. they robbed the place, assaulted and tied us all up and decamped with the money.
today i shudder to think what all they could have done

but i still feel safe in the city.

[ganymede]

i live in karachi, the largest city in pakistan. over here it's the norm to have at least 600 motorcycles and cars lifted ever month, and aout 5 murders and suicides every day. nowadays the trend is that a bomb blast at least every six months is a must - not to mention all the looting, firing, mugging, etc etc that's part of daily life here - mercifully i live in the suburbs so it's not that bad.

[platinumstepper]

here in southcarolina we used to not have much crime but now days abot every week someone gets caught breaking into a store or gangs fighting and people getting killed i wish they would stop or somewhat stop because about 2 weeks ago my cousin died because he got caught breaking into a store. and it hurts to lose someone but it was his faught so cant blame no one else for the mistake. i dont like crime at all.

[bludy mery]

Whell, talking about safty ?. you know like wars and suiside bombers and stuff like that... thats kind of something you shuld get used to if you live in Israel...
the middle east is NOT the safest place to live in these days... ( whell mabey Iraqe is worse. much worse.)( thnx to bushy... look what you have done)...

and being a jew isn't safe jenerally in any place in the world...
but mainwhile I live ( tfoo tfoo tfoo)
and I live in a verry small town and nothing really terrible happends... some stealing or breaking into houses sometimes...

[bludy mery]

* meanwhile
* Iraq is quite in the middle east too

[Ron Weasley]

Krum when i`d life in your town i wold be scared.

in austria it`s not so dangerous because there the crime rate is not very high but sometimes there are some harder crimes like murders or kidnapings.

I`m glad to life in austria, it is a beautiful country.

[Krum]

It's not a town...it's the capital .And that's the scary part.There are much better cities to live in but this is my home and hate...er...love it

[b.scheller]

Well, most of the violent gun-related crime happens in Toronto, but there have been shootings near my house and in other cities close to Toronto.

It's mainly gang related, fighting for turf and such. Hamilton is pretty safe though.

[SunsetG|rl]

In Romania very very few people actually have a gun. But there seems to be an increase in the rate of violence particulary in highscools. Like they've all gone mad and they keep stabing one another. There for many highscools have recently taken very many security measures. It's rather creapy to hear every week that in another highscool somebody put his knife in somebody else. Brr... It's odd how this seems to be a rather recent mania.