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I'm originally from Michigan, so the Florida Man headlines and bath salts don't apply to me. I feel ya though.

See you left a shit hole for a better bath salts and more creative crimes? Would not be my path, but we live in a beautiful country that allows mobility on all fronts.

Good ole columbus ohio. About a block south of Worthington, which is an affluent suburb.

It wasn't in one of the "bad parts" per se. But there was a small patch of section 8 housing nearby.

Nothing like getting mugged by a couple of fine young democrats that you already subsidize with your tax dollars.

Off of High Street? I used to live on Highfield Dr, about 3 or 4 blocks south of Worthington. It was a nice neighborhood until they built the low income apartments at the end of Broadmedows drive. It didn't take long before crime in the area went from practically nothing to an every night occurrence. We moved shortly there after.

And yet I've never heard anyone claim that people are wantonly fleeing Ohio as a whole, or even Columbus in particular, because they're "afraid of being robbed at gunpoint."

Yet apparently this is such a common occurrence in California that it comes up in conversation as a reason to move? 

Shit, my wife grew up in Long Beach and went to the same high school as Snoop Dogg (not at the same time obv), and I've never heard her complain that she was afraid of being robbed at gunpoint living there. Long Beach has a reputation, but a lot of it is pretty damn posh.

My other SIL lives in Belmont Shore. Really nice place.

Well I am glad that you could afford to live in some safe little bubble with low crime rates. That's awesome.

I don't give a crap about Californians like you though, my empathy is solely for those law abiding citizens who have to live among their criminal element, while people like you wag your finger at them from atop your ivory towers in your gated communities and call them "Xenophobes" or whatever buzz word is en vogues among the White liberal elite these days.

And here I thought strawmen were bad.

What you were describing is a pretend version of California. It just is. I’m sorry to tell you this.

I grew up in the middle of town. On a busy street. One whole town over from Oakland. Things are pretty fine. I didn’t live in a bubble. I didn’t even really live in a suburb. But please, continue wagging your finger from your expensive retirement community. And in a State famous for polygamy and child brides. Maybe that’s the appeal that is bringing out of staters in.

But please, continue wagging your finger from your expensive retirement community. And in a State famous for polygamy and child brides. Maybe that’s the appeal that is bringing out of staters in.

Yeah, there are a lot of Polygamists here. They make for pretty wonderful neighbors actually, particularly in comparison to the type of people who reside in Section 8. 

Instead of mugging you at gunpoint, they will bake you a loaf of bread and bring it over to your house. Pretty pleasant change of pace, actually. 

Westerville is not Columbus. 

Looked this up and sorted based on robbery rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

It looks like the population number cutoff to be included as a city is right around 215K people. 

Among that size and larger, the lowest rate of robbery of any city in the US is--drum roll, please: 

Irvine, CA

Also lowest in the nation for violent crime in general.

And this isn't some "ivory tower"... Irvine is in Orange County which has a collective population of over 3M people, and Orange County has the 4th-lowest violent crime rate per 100K population in the entire state of 58 counties.