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Meanwhile their towns are full of drugs and family annihilations.

I truly believe the rural population here has it 100% backwards regarding whether urban or rural areas are safer.

Go watch some bodycam footage. The wildest shit is all rural red state stuff. It is bad out there and they believe (very wrongly) that it's worse in the cities.

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RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
My mom said she would never raise a kid in a small town because there is nothing to do except get in trouble. All her cousins either went to jail or got pregnant young, she figured a city has opportunities, summer jobs, libraries, rec centers, things to keep kids occupied and out of trouble.

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- fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It would be less boring, that’s for sure
  
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GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You make a good point. I remember when I was about to start school, my parents moved us to a rural area because they felt it was safer for raising children. The house we moved into was two doors down from a meth lab on one side and a pedo on the other. That was in the '80s.

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- SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I wouldn't call Washington "rural"...
  
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  - fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Depends on where you are. There’s scary rural areas, it’s not all Seattle
    
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WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Of course, crime’s always going to happen when you take away resources and intentionally impoverish the citizens. But it gets even worse when the cops use a gun to solve every problem they come across.

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