Too many factors to say one is safer than the other. City and rural both cover a lot of demographic ground. For example, it’d be ridiculous to say South Chicago is safer than Evergreen, AL. Look at crime reports for your city. I’d bet the higher income areas report more crimes, despite being seen as “nice”. Maybe those people report more, maybe it’s simple theft, whatever, get complicated doesn’t it? Living in a meth infested trailer park in Evergreen though, yikes.
In any case, my semi-rural place is theft free. It’s upper-lower-class to lower-middle-class. Not broke enough to steal from one another, not rich enough that thieves cruise the hood. But in my experience, more people = bad.
Too many factors to say one is safer than the other. City and rural both cover a lot of demographic ground. For example, it’d be ridiculous to say South Chicago is safer than Evergreen, AL. Look at crime reports for your city. I’d bet the higher income areas report more crimes, despite being seen as “nice”. Maybe those people report more, maybe it’s simple theft, whatever, get complicated doesn’t it? Living in a meth infested trailer park in Evergreen though, yikes.
In any case, my semi-rural place is theft free. It’s upper-lower-class to lower-middle-class. Not broke enough to steal from one another, not rich enough that thieves cruise the hood. But in my experience, more people = bad.