Ask HN: Where do you live? • Hacker News Board

sunir wrote: post #472

electromagnetic wrote: post #402

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Toronto isn't the safest, compared to other big cities it's certainly very good, but considering the commuter regions have crime rates well below the national average it's certainly better than the other big cities. The GTA is an amazing place to live. I'm in Halton (which has the lowest crime rate for all the GTA) and crime just isn't considered where I live. I believe the biggest crime in my area is car break-ins i…

Just some additional data on this for interested readers: Chicago (2.8M) and Toronto (2.5M) are very similar cities, in size and standard of living. Toronto has about 1/7th the homicide rate. In 2008, Chicago had 509 homicides http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/jan/02/local/chi-hom... In 2008, Toronto logged 70. http://www.thestar.com/Article/560516 Mind you, Chicago also tops the U.S. for homicides per capita,…

I am constantly annoyed at all the homicides I have to step over every time I get off the homicide-laden trains in Chicago. I wish they'd do something about it. I see at least three at the Jackson stop every day. Sometimes there are even homicides in my back yard! It takes them forever to pick up, and if you just take them and put them by the garbage cans, the garbage trucks won't take them.

It's almost enough to make me want to move to Canada.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you live?

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Post by tptacek » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 6:42 PM UTC

thomasswift wrote: post #11

Chicago, IL. I think I'm the only person awake right now too.

Does Oak Park count? =)

Re: Ask HN: Where do you live?

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Post by williscool » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 6:43 PM UTC

abalashov wrote: post #78

Atlanta, GA, US.

Another +1 for midtown actually a student at Georgia Tech