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Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time by esoterica on Thursday July 14, 2022 @09:06PM (#32103393)
> I remember it being major news when a few houses were burgled when I was a kid.

On a per capita basis "a few houses being burgled" in a rural area is probably more burglaries than NYC sees.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...

You are less likely to be murdered in NYC than the average rural area. I don't know where you live and it's possible that your rural area is safer than average, but in general the myth that so many smug rural Americans subscribe to that the typical rural area is safer than big bad New York City is just totally, completely wrong.

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Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time by AuryGlenz on Friday July 15, 2022 @01:21AM (#32104864)
Right, but that was when I was a kid. I'm 34 now and I don't recall hearing of any other burglaries in that area. Just as one neighborhood in NYC can't be compared to another, you can't mix all rural areas in to one "typical" zone.
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