Quote Originally Posted by taansend
I live in downtown San Diego and its as safe as houses. Obviously not the houses in New Orleans.

Anyway. I get home from work at about 3am and usually have to park about half a mile from my place and have no worries walking home.

I find that the States is a lot safer than the UK. Not sure if its cos they have guns here or people are generally less violent or maybe because I lived in shitty parts of London and now I live in nicer areas of the US.

I do find that crime here tends to be more within ones ethnic circle. Black on black, Hispanic on Hispanic and the only time I have had any bother is from some Northerners down my local English pub . Luckily, I had a handful of change which I tossed on the floor. They soon forgot about me
there were 23,000 reported american murders last year. The good parts here may be better than the good parts over at the UK, but I can assure you the bad parts here are A LOT worse.