[meteorite-list] Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Safety, or Terrorism Concerns

From: Raremeteorites <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:15:02 -0700
Message-ID: <D6DD8E37A93C438ABE87E905E28102A1_at_HPDESKTOP>

You are correct that many inner city areas in the United States are
dangerous. Take Detroit, Michigan for instance where anybody that lives
there, who can, is fleeing and houses/businesses can be purchases for
$1,000.00 or less. Stockton and Oakland, California made the top ten
several years in a row and then there is Chicago, Illinois which is no safe
walk in the park either. Newark, New Jersey, no thanks!

People ask why I moved out in the middle of nowhere seven years ago. One
reason was to get away from all of the weirdoes, tweekers, thieves and
freaks that large cities seem to attract here in the U.S. and the
Seattle/Tacoma area in Washington State is considered safe by American
standards? Give me rattle snakes and scorpions any day which are more
predictable than some of the crazies I have run into.

I would feel a lot safer in the disputed zone between Morocco and Algeria
than along the U.S./Mexican border where dead bodies are piling up unchecked
at an alarming rate.

Adam







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From: "Marco Langbroek via Meteorite-list"
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Safety, or
Terrorism Concerns


>
> As things stand, you face a decidedly higher risk loosing your life in the
> USA than in Morocco or Tunisia.
>
> It is funny that many Americans apparently do not realise that their own
> country is a lot less safe than many others.
>
>
>> Traveling anywhere including
>> just down the street isn't as safe as it
>> used to be.
>
>
> I disagree. In many areas of the World it is safer now than it ever was.
>
> Take my country: even though some politicians and media peddle the
> fear-factor here too, truth is crime and homicide rates have never been so
> low as they are today.
>
> Unfortunately, there are also a few areas in this world where the shit has
> hit the fan (but then: there always have been). And the media attention
> (and self-serving political image mongery) connected to that create an
> impression of an increasingly unsafe world, while in large parts of the
> world in fact there is an opposite trend.
>
> Don't buy into the fear-mongering (but do be sensible of where you go).
>
> - Marco
>
>
> -----
> Dr Marco Langbroek
>
> e-mail: marco at langbroek.org
> Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek
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