America's Safest Cities

[Drip]

Is your town or favorite stomping place on this list?
http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/26/safest-cities-ten-lifestyle-real-estate-metros-msa_chart.html?partner=yahoore

 

[Oggiedoggie]

My city isn't listed among those wussies.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Some interesting tidbits in there:

Boston was rated the safest in terms of traffic fatalities; Orlando the worst. I would have probably guessed just the opposite.

Safest place to work (i.e. based on workforce death stats): Minneapolis. Deadliest workplace: Indianapolis. What industries in Indy contribute to that? (Besides the Speedway).

Least likely place for a natural disaster: Milwaukee. I guess a stampede caused by running out of beer at Summerfest doesn't qualify.

 

[playthrough]

Jeez, it's not like 100 people die at the Speedway every year. Don't know how my fair city managed to be, um, dead last in that category.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Some interesting tidbits in there:

Boston was rated the safest in terms of traffic fatalities; Orlando the worst. I would have probably guessed just the opposite.

Safest place to work (i.e. based on workforce death stats): Minneapolis. Deadliest workplace: Indianapolis. What industries in Indy contribute to that? (Besides the Speedway).

Least likely place for a natural disaster: Milwaukee. I guess a stampede caused by running out of beer at Summerfest doesn't qualify.

Boston makes sense when you think about how ****ty the traffic is there. Cars can't get up enough speed to kill anybody.

 

[Bob Cook]

Jeez, it's not like 100 people die at the Speedway every year. Don't know how my fair city managed to be, um, dead last in that category.

Indianapolis is an industrial city in a state that doesn't exactly kill itself, no pun intended, to enforce workplace safety.

Although it's encouraging that you, as a worker, stand a better chance of praying with someone trying to rob you than you do getting shot.

 

[Ashy Larry]

Some interesting tidbits in there:

Boston was rated the safest in terms of traffic fatalities; Orlando the worst. I would have probably guessed just the opposite.

Safest place to work (i.e. based on workforce death stats): Minneapolis. Deadliest workplace: Indianapolis. What industries in Indy contribute to that? (Besides the Speedway).

Least likely place for a natural disaster: Milwaukee. I guess a stampede caused by running out of beer at Summerfest doesn't qualify.

Boston makes sense when you think about how ****ty the traffic is there. Cars can't get up enough speed to kill anybody.

exactly. Even without traffic the winding roads prevent people from going too fast.....those cows knew how to make a safe path! I wonder if the slower cows stayed to the right on the cow path....hmmmm.

 

[TrooperBari]

Some interesting tidbits in there:

Boston was rated the safest in terms of traffic fatalities; Orlando the worst. I would have probably guessed just the opposite.

Safest place to work (i.e. based on workforce death stats): Minneapolis. Deadliest workplace: Indianapolis. What industries in Indy contribute to that? (Besides the Speedway).

Least likely place for a natural disaster: Milwaukee. I guess a stampede caused by running out of beer at Summerfest doesn't qualify.

Boston makes sense when you think about how ****ty the traffic is there. Cars can't get up enough speed to kill anybody.

True, and Orlando's roads are likely rife with rubber-necking turistas driving rented vehicles packed with hyperactive munchkins who can't wait to see Mickey.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Very few workplace deaths in Detroit.

I suppose that's the one positive of massive unemployment in Detroit.

 

[mustangj17]

Detroit-Warren-Livonia-

Detroit and Livonia could not be more different. Grouping them together is redonkulous.

 

[ServeItUp]

Some interesting tidbits in there:

Boston was rated the safest in terms of traffic fatalities; Orlando the worst. I would have probably guessed just the opposite.

Safest place to work (i.e. based on workforce death stats): Minneapolis. Deadliest workplace: Indianapolis. What industries in Indy contribute to that? (Besides the Speedway).

Least likely place for a natural disaster: Milwaukee. I guess a stampede caused by running out of beer at Summerfest doesn't qualify.

Boston makes sense when you think about how ****ty the traffic is there. Cars can't get up enough speed to kill anybody.

True, and Orlando's roads are likely rife with rubber-necking turistas driving rented vehicles packed with hyperactive munchkins who can't wait to see Mickey.

To say nothing of the retirees and snowbirds in their 400 square foot Cadillac death traps.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Detroit-Warren-Livonia-

Detroit and Livonia could not be more different. Grouping them together is redonkulous.

They were grouped together as a metro area (and most likely places like Troy or Rochester were also included in this).

They just listed three fairly large cities for the bold-faced headline.

Livonia probably helped make Detroit's score better.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Boston has always had many accidents and very, very low fatality rates. It's hard to build up a lot of speed in gridlock.

 

[deskslave]

Some interesting tidbits in there:

Boston was rated the safest in terms of traffic fatalities; Orlando the worst. I would have probably guessed just the opposite.

Safest place to work (i.e. based on workforce death stats): Minneapolis. Deadliest workplace: Indianapolis. What industries in Indy contribute to that? (Besides the Speedway).

Least likely place for a natural disaster: Milwaukee. I guess a stampede caused by running out of beer at Summerfest doesn't qualify.

Boston makes sense when you think about how ****ty the traffic is there. Cars can't get up enough speed to kill anybody.

True, and Orlando's roads are likely rife with rubber-necking turistas driving rented vehicles packed with hyperactive munchkins who can't wait to see Mickey.

Not to mention you can walk outside all year round, as opposed to Boston, where outdoor pedestrianism will lead to a hypothermic death rather than an automotive one five months out of the year.

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

Hmm, I went from living in the #4 safest city to #15.

And Plan Zero [Plano, TX] will be pissed that Arlington was listed as the third city in the D/FW metromess instead of them.

 

[mustangj17]

Detroit-Warren-Livonia-

Detroit and Livonia could not be more different. Grouping them together is redonkulous.

They were grouped together as a metro area (and most likely places like Troy or Rochester were also included in this).

They just listed three fairly large cities for the bold-faced headline.

Livonia probably helped make Detroit's score better.

They use the same grouping for unemployment numbers. Livonia is the biggest city they could find? Warren is huge, but Livonia seems like a misfit. Maybe the biggest city on the west side though.

 

[slappy4428]

Jeez, it's not like 100 people die at the Speedway every year. Don't know how my fair city managed to be, um, dead last in that category.

Cause you're a benign people.. little cheese, a little beer and you want to go to sleep.

 

[playthrough]

Jeez, it's not like 100 people die at the Speedway every year. Don't know how my fair city managed to be, um, dead last in that category.

Cause you're a benign people.. little cheese, a little beer and you want to go to sleep.

I don't know how that translates to death...but you're damn right I like beer and sleep.