Are you at risk? Are
we at risk? What is "being at risk?" Could I be injured, murdered, or hurt in the area where I live? Many people say that living in an urbanized area puts you at a greater risk of being murdered or injured because the concentration of people is so high, could this be a
stereotype? What about those who live in a suburban to semi rural area? I would think that due to the high solidarity in suburbanized areas theives, murderers, rapists, gunmens, and "wierdos" have a greater chance to pursue what ever they want because of the following factors:
- Low police patrol
- High income family households
- Unlocked doors (whenever I sleep over my grandmum's house we'd sleep with the front door unlocked)
- Lack of streelights and illuminated sidewalks
Meanwhile in an urbanized area such as the one I'm in, New York City, even though we have a greater population than those smaller municipalities surrounding this city and semi rural towns miles away from the city, we have more police officer patrolling our streets. People
are aware that living in an urban area poses a greater risk of danger, therefore the investment to be kept safe is there. Since in New York City we've built on every square centimeter of land our neighbors are a lot more closer than they'd be in suburban areas we
lock our doors.
Could a main factor be that before suburbanizing, back when the industrial revolution occured and everyone lived in cities, the dagerous risks were high in urban areas and by suburbanizing, all the criminals (had no automobiles) couldn't go to the suburbs plus their pleasures were fulfilled in cities and as people started earning a higher income they started moving out to what seemed safer-than-the-city suburbs they grew confident of the safe guard--distance. Are you at higher risk in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle, London, Paris, Moscow, Roma, and Madrid than you'd be in Charlestown, West Virginia or any other semi rural area? Post your opinions!!!
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