America's Safest Cities

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

 

My city isn't listed among those wussies.

 

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 shitty the traffic is there. Cars can't get up enough speed to kill anybody.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Very few workplace deaths in Detroit.

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.