Not quite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
> Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east.
> I live in an city most SV techies would sneer at and things don't go missing from my porch or the neighbor's porch.
Ironically, this reads like someone in a well-off neighborhood with no idea what happens in other neighborhoods in their non-SV city.
Everyone "knew" growing up in middle-of-TX town which parts of town you didn't want to park overnight on the street in, or where you didn't want to leave a bike. Even beyond just reputation, you could often tell by the houses - people didn't put chain link around the front yard and bars over the window just for fun.
> Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east.
Surprise when you live near more people, there's more chance you live near a criminal.
It's all anecdata. I lived in a remote rural area that had like no property crime for over a decade, then a spate of break-ins.
The police do absolutely nothing there too. They supposedly dusted our whole house for fingerprints after the break in and couldn't find a single one, including our fingerprints.
Entire house. not a single fingerprint. After receiving federally-sponsored forensics training they publicly boasted about.
Someone from SV assumes the whole world is like SV. Water is wet. More news at 11.
Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east.
I live in an city most SV techies would sneer at and things don't go missing from my porch or the neighbor's porch.