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Re:Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities by cscurmudgeon on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:03PM (#34176453)
Cities may have a soul but they lack a heart (and a brain too).

  From 2018 through 2020, the NCVS found that the violent-crime rate in urban areas was between 29 percent and 42 percent higher than the rate in rural areas

  The property-crime rate in urban areas was nearly twice as high in 2021 as in suburban areas (157.5 to 86.8 victimizations per 1,000 households)
https://www.city-journal.org/violent-crime-in-cities-on-the-...
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Re:Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities by dublinben on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:41PM (#34179079)
Crime is just one of many quality of life factors. Mortality rates are significantly worse in rural areas than urban areas, and the gap is widening.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-rural-a...

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Re:Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities by cscurmudgeon on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:05PM (#34179326)
There is a difference between rural areas and suburbs.

I don’t see whether the study you linked counts suburbs as urban or as rural.

Most studies do urban, suburban or rural.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/demogra...

Without that split, claims about suburban communities are hard to separate out.

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