Lincoln is a really safe place to live

[Rocketsocks]

To find America’s 10 safest cities, we looked at metropolises with populations above 250,000. We ranked them by violent crime rates—the number of violent crimes (murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault) per 100,000 residents in 2010, as reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

 

We also ranked each city on the traffic-fatality rate per 100,000 residents based on 2009 data, the most recent available, from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. We then averaged the ranking for each city to arrive at final scores. In the event of ties, the city with the lower crime rate got the higher ranking.

 

 

Here are America's five safest cities:

 

#5 Lincoln, NE

Car fatality rank: 1

Violent crime rank: 16

Lincoln, NE is NO. 5 on the safest cities list.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plano Texas is the safest city in America. Someone should interview Rex Burkhead and ask him what it's like moving from a safe city like Plano to a crime-ridden city like Lincoln.

 

 

 

http://realestate.ya...ities-2011.html

[rawhide]

But Lincoln has safer streets

And totally shocked that there was a Cali city in the top 10

 

GBR

[HUSKER 37]

Wish I knew what figures they used and how close some of them were.

 

Mesa, AZ at #7? I usually think of it as the 2nd scariest part of the valley.

 

And Henderson, NV is mostly vacant homes (The only place hit worse by the housing forclosures than my (PHX) area).

[Blaze1up]

Plano #1 what else would the home of superman be

[HSKR]

Plano #1 what else would the home of superman be

 

Obvious those stats need to be updated since superman moved to Lincoln.

[HSKR]

Lincoln has to be near the top on oddball crimes. Cat bong smokers, toilet paper mask robber, wizzing on library books, etc. There have been some really weird ones to come out of Lincoln. I guess weird is better then murders though.

[Rocketsocks]

Another article today says that Lincoln is the third best starting over city in America. All six, except for a Utah city, are in the Great Plains.

 

 

Third-best starting-over city: Lincoln, Neb.

 

Population: 297,200

 

Lincoln has only 4.1% unemployment -- the lowest rate for any U.S. city.

 

Sperling attributes much of that to the fact that Lincoln hosts Nebraska's state capitol, as well as a Goodyear tire factory and several financial/insurance firms.

 

The city is also home to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, which provides jobs and contributes to the community's high 15.1% singles rate.

 

"Lincoln is a nice, clean city with lots of parks and a good community feel," Sperling says, although he admits winters "can be brutal."

 

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[Excel]

Damn Henderson NV looks nice...

[Hoosker]

Boulder, CO is always ranked as one of the best cities to live in. I'm sure majority of the people on here will disagree either because of the University, hippies or a combination of the two, but I would live in Boulder if I had the choice.