Huh. My home town is 96.1% white.
Mine's 45% white.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Aug 11, 2005 12:34:09 pm PDT #7450 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2005 12:35:19 pm PDT #7451 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
LA is 29.7% non-Hispanic white. Not that that has anything to do with my neighbourhood, but still.
EpicTangent - Aug 11, 2005 12:35:41 pm PDT #7452 of 10002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
My town lists a population of 72,422, with 72,419 living in "urban" and 3 living in "rural". Who are the 3 people living in Rural Mira Mesa? Where the heck is Rural Mira Mesa? The canyons?
Allyson - Aug 11, 2005 12:36:38 pm PDT #7453 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
LA:
654 murders (17.1 per 100,000)
1,415 rapes (36.9 per 100,000)
No one tell my mom, k?
Gudanov - Aug 11, 2005 12:36:41 pm PDT #7454 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
My home town (Topeka, KS) is 75% white, 25% college educated, and has a crime rating of 614.
Hil R. - Aug 11, 2005 12:37:09 pm PDT #7455 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Huh. Crime index 41.8 for where I grew up. Neat.
Also, their temperature things seem a bit screwy. At least, it sure seems like the average high for July ought to be higher than 85. Maybe it's just that a few 100+ degree days crowd out the less-hot days in my memories.
Gudanov - Aug 11, 2005 12:39:06 pm PDT #7456 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
654 murders (17.1 per 100,000)
Topeka beat that in 2001 (17.9 per 100,000).
Topeka decimated LA's rape rate. (68.5 per 100,000).
You can tell your mom that LA is safer than Topeka, KS.
Jessica - Aug 11, 2005 12:41:22 pm PDT #7457 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's fascinating comparing the stats for Chevy Chase (where I grew up) to DC (2 blocks from where I grew up).
Jesse - Aug 11, 2005 12:41:43 pm PDT #7458 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The thing about murder rates is, I really only want to know the number of people who got killed by strangers. It's easy for me to convince myself that no one I know would kill me.
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2005 12:42:26 pm PDT #7459 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's easy for me to convince myself that no one I know would kill me.
I don't know -- when wee fists of rage get going ...