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Part of the reason we're fat as fuck is that giant parcels of land make driving everywhere mandatory.

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Better then living in a crowded city where they let rabid hobos attack you on the bus with effectively no consequences.

Never been attacked by one, but was taught the difference between "then" and "than" in elementary.

Heh I was almost forced to face the fact that my argument was bad but I see here that you made a typo hahaha tough luck pal

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Nobody ever gets assaulted or murdered in the country, eh?

At far, far, far lower rates than in the city, so I really don't know what argument you thought you just made.

I live in the countryside. In 2018 our small neighboring town of about 13k residents had their first murder since 1965, and none since. That works out to about 0.12 homicides per 100,000 residents annually. By comparison, Baltimore has 22 per 100,000 annually.

Baltimore is also like top 10 nationwide for murder, you might as well have cherry-picked some Southern city like Birmingham to really drive the point home. The odds of you being murdered in NYC are 1/10th of dying in your car in Mississippi.

My point is mostly that cherry picking a city-specific assault scenario and acting like it’s super common is no different from me saying “better than living in bumfuck louisiana where cletus will sexually assault you in the back of his pickup truck.”

The murder thing is also an error of faulty generalization. As a counter example, Opelousas, Louisiana, a nothing town with barely more people than yours, has a murder rate of 39/100k, higher than your example of Baltimore, and much higher than New York (3.92/100k).

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