Where are you more likely to get murdered? CP

[TrudyCampbell]

In the city, surrounded by insane people and lots of people in general.
In the country, surrounded by no one. Except maybe a giant bear.
I don't like to vote in polls about murder.

[TrudyCampbell]

Sept 1, 2013 17:40:45 GMT -5 @pcloadletter said:

In the city. So many crazies in the city. I'm completely safe in the country with my unlocked doors.

Until a murderer or a BEAR just strolls on in!

[rjamz]

Country! I passed what legit seemed like a serial killer house on my run. Plus more people have guns out here. You know how I know? I hear them shooting them. GUNS!

Guns baffle me. Not trying to start a debate - I actually cannot wrap my head around owning a gun even though my dad has one (or three)

[TrudyCampbell]

Sept 1, 2013 17:47:01 GMT -5 @pcloadletter said:

Sept 1, 2013 17:44:52 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Country! I passed what legit seemed like a serial killer house on my run. Plus more people have guns out here. You know how I know? I hear them shooting them. GUNS!

Guns baffle me. Not trying to start a debate - I actually cannot wrap my head around owning a gun even though my dad has one (or three)

Today is the start of dove hunting season here. Lots of gun shots this morning. TrudyCampbell we have no bears here. We have coyotes. They aren't scary. 

Wait, so at night, when you're asleep, are the doors locked?

[muppetinma]

I don't know, to tell you the truth.  Cities have crazy people, but look at what I saw in the mountains with my family last week . . . . 

[muppetinma]

Sept 1, 2013 17:48:56 GMT -5 @pcloadletter said:

Sept 1, 2013 17:47:42 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Wait, so at night, when you're asleep, are the doors locked?

Nope. We don't even lock them when we leave 

I wouldn't say that I lived in the country, but I didn't have a key to my house growing up.  College was the first time I had to worry about unlocking my door to get inside.  Oh, and until I moved to Atlanta, I also left the keys in my car when it was parked at home.  

[TrudyCampbell]

Sept 1, 2013 17:48:56 GMT -5 @pcloadletter said:

Sept 1, 2013 17:47:42 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Wait, so at night, when you're asleep, are the doors locked?

Nope. We don't even lock them when we leave 

[TrudyCampbell]

The front door to my building is locked. My front door to my actual apt is locked TWICE- one deadbolt and one chain lock. Aaand then I still lock my bedroom door after I'm in it.

I guess this doesn't help my case that I feel safer in the city, lol.

[TrudyCampbell]

@pcloadletter you best be locking bigapple's doors when you stay in NY!

[TrudyCampbell]

I am pretty freaking scared of this coyote. 


Didn't Jessica Simpson's dog get eaten by a coyote?

[kkfeb04]

WTF is that muppetinma?

[monkeybabe]

When I lived in my hometown we never locked the doors. Unless my uncle that lived in Texas was in town. Then we locked our doors, because he's a creepy motherfucker and my mom didn't want him waltzing into the house with my parents at work and a house full of teenage girls and a young boy.

I voted the city, but honestly, I'm less paranoid walking the streets of Portland at night than I was walking down dark, empty streets in rural Northern California.

[muppetinma]

Sept 1, 2013 18:23:44 GMT -5 kkfeb04 said:

WTF is that muppetinma?

It's my sister, in a bigfoot costume, roaming the woods of NH.  She then befriended some of the neighborhood animals.

. . . . in my family, I'm the "normal" one. . . . . 

[devonpow]

Country. In the city I have the police station right by me and neighbors practically up my butt who will hear me scream. Plus I always have cell service!

There was a terrible story in rural NH a few years ago about teenagers who broke into a house and killed the mom/almost killed her daughter while they slept in a "murder just for fun" spree. They picked the house purely because it was the most secluded. I still get freaked out by that now when we rent houses for vacations in secluded areas.

[Regina Philange]

I can see myself getting murdered in both places.

[TrudyCampbell]

Another plus for city- when you call 911 they can get to you so quickly!

[rjamz]

Sept 1, 2013 18:47:12 GMT -5 devonpow said:

Country. In the city I have the police station right by me and neighbors practically up my butt who will hear me scream. Plus I always have cell service!

There was a terrible story in rural NH a few years ago about teenagers who broke into a house and killed the mom/almost killed her daughter while they slept in a "murder just for fun" spree. They picked the house purely because it was the most secluded. I still get freaked out by that now when we rent houses for vacations in secluded areas.

WHY WOULD YOU TELL ME THAT STORY??

Guess who's sleeping with the lights on and a chef's knife tonight!

[spaghetticat]

I kinda wish I didn't even open this post. MH gets annoyed because I lock the door so fast all the time, that occasionally he will get locked out.

[livinreality]

But what about suburbia?? Hmm not country, not city....

Last summer I accidentally left our house 2-3 times and never had any problems, things just get crazy getting 2 kids and a man-kid out of the house... we have dogs so coming home has never really bothered me other than how forgetful I was.

[monkeybabe]

So, I live in the city, and I don't usually lock the door when I'm in my house. I lock the door if we leave the house, but not when I'm in it. Maybe I'd be more inclined to lock them if we didn't have two large, loud dogs sitting in our front window most of the day, but we do, so I don't. If I go down to the basement without Zoe, I deadbolt the front door, though.

[Deleted]

@therealmc are you my long lost twin? Did you grow up in a log home too?

My Dh gets so annoyed by the car keys in the car thing at my parent's house.

Confession? One night I had to walk home from my "next door neighbor" house at night. My house was down a 1/4 mile wooded lane. I was walking and heard a strange noise. I looked up and could have SWORN I saw a bear. I ran sofa king fast. Told my dad I had seen a bear. He looked at me funny, walked down the lane and laughed.


It was a raccoon. As if I hadn't been around 100s of those suckers in my life. He threatened to revoke my country girl card.

[katfco]

Sept 1, 2013 19:45:37 GMT -5 @thadsrad said:

@therealmc are you my long lost twin? Did you grow up in a log home too?

My Dh gets so annoyed by the car keys in the car thing at my parent's house.

Confession? One night I had to walk home from my "next door neighbor" house at night. My house was down a 1/4 mile wooded lane. I was walking and heard a strange noise. I looked up and could have SWORN I saw a bear. I ran sofa king fast. Told my dad I had seen a bear. He looked at me funny, walked down the lane and laughed.


It was a raccoon. As if I hadn't been around 100s of those suckers in my life. He threatened to revoke my country girl card.

We lived in a small New England town, kind of in between a city and a rural area. My sister's high school boyfriend was walking one night and came across a bull moose, just standing there. He happened to have a camera in his bag and snapped a picture. Not the brightest bulb in the bunch, but at least the moose didn't care.

[laurack]

The factual answer I assume would be city, seems like that would make the most sense.

I live in the suburbs and we don't lock our door at night. If hubby is away I might lock it though.

[TrudyCampbell]

I really don't understand the logic behind not locking your door at night, no matter where you live. Wouldn't you rather just lock it on the off chance that it could matter?

I guess I can understand not locking when you leave because then you'd have to *gasp* use keys to get in when you get back and that is annoying?? I don't know, I'm grasping here!

[laurack]

I don't know, we just never really think about locking the door?

We live in a very low crime neighborhood though. I mean, like pretty much no crime. i guess we could be the first though...

[fryjack2]

I've lived in Boston for 10 years. I feel much safer here now than when I was growing up in suburbia. We didn't always lock our doors back home, and it was so safe.

When I am home now, or in the suburbs, I get scared. Its too quiet and eerie. I don't think I can live in the suburbs again.

devonpow I hate that story. That little girl was treated at Children's and I remember how awful it was. I think all the guys involved got life in prison. As they should have.

[jfh]

My parents don't have keys to their front door (lost them immediately on building the house 30 years ago) and they leave their keys in the car center console at all times. No way is it safer in the city!