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?
Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
EpicTangent - Aug 11, 2005 12:35:41 pm PDT #7452 of 10002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
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 ...
Cass - Aug 11, 2005 12:42:45 pm PDT #7460 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Awww, these housing figures are from 2000. They are like wee little tiny numbers compared to median costs now. Like wee little numbers that were divided by two or three. t weeps
JZ - Aug 11, 2005 12:44:03 pm PDT #7461 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The town where I spent my early childhood, Orinda, is 84.4% white, has a bare handful of Chinese and Japanese Americans, a smattering of other Asian ethnicities, and no Black people at all. Median income is $117,000/year. 97.8% have graduated high school, 73.9% college, and 34.3% beyond.
The town where I spent the rest of my childhood, Walnut Creek, is 80% white, 6% Hispanic, 1.1% Black (the site notes that this is significantly (their emphasis) below the state average), and a tiny tiny hint of everyone else. Median income $63,000. 95% of the folks have HS degrees, 54% bachelor's, 20% beyond.
San Francisco is 43.6% white and contains a sizeable chunk of just about everyone else, with Irish being the single largest ancestry for white folks. Median income as of 2000 was $55,000. 81% of us finished high school, 45% college, and 16.4% something above and beyond.