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Some googling tells me Florida and North Dakota are the safest states in the US.

Outside US it's Antarctica, but it sounds rather inconvenient..

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Florida has hurricanes though.

Not to mention the risk of "Florida man".

There's a reason for all those Florida man stories! Might change your mind about them: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-g...

Or the sunny day floods and the eventual submersion.

Also alligators!

Also sinkholes and flooding caused by global warming!

In Florida you are a dice roll away from getting your house leveled every decade.

I would think Arizona is safer than Florida. A lot of DR datacenters in Phoenix.

Arizona ranks very low on frequency of natural disasters, but there is a lot of temperature related aggression. Its kind of normal to be threatened with a gun.

That is absurd. I’ve lived in Arizona for almost 15 years and I don’t think I know of a single person who has ever been threatened with a gun.

Over 40 years in AZ and same experience.

What's the source of that information?

Personal experience. Here is a study to back up the relationship between heat and aggression:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6f7e/ce3f7045e645f6b5891a80...

If true, this doesn't bode well for the recent heat wave in Alaska, which is already the most violent and dangerous state in the US.

I'm in North Dakota right now for a few days from SF... you'd be trading earthquakes for mosquitos, ticks, and snow!

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