10 Great Cities for Young Adults

[salame]

Originally Posted by jiveturkey

I have no doubts that our crime rate is higher. And downtown travel has increased dramatically downtown over the last 5 years or so because of the condo boom and P&L.

I'm arguing that even as the city has changed the crime has stayed primarily where it's always been. I don't believe that light rail would have much of an affect. Crime works best when you have a get away that doesn't involve standing around waiting for a the next train.

he is just saying that more people generally = more opportunity for problems

[jiveturkey]

Originally Posted by salame

he is just saying that more people generally = more opportunity for problems

And I'm saying that there have been more people down there over the last couple of years and crime hasn't gone up. I've actually heard that it's gone down (nothing to actually back this up though).