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There’s plenty of drugs and crime in the boonies, too
Yeah but there's white picket fences and at least two Lowe's, so you can say "hey let's go to the good Lowe's today."
This town has three Krogers. The downtown Kroger was the shitty Kroger. Then they renovated it and we all realized it was all three Krogers that were shitty and now that one isn't.
I'm still disappointed that they closed the Market Basket on Boston Road in Billerica. Now I have to go down to the Market Basket on Boston Road, or even all the way to the Market Basket on Boston Road!
I mean, by density it seems like there just would be less unless you are claiming a much higher drugs and crime per capita in the boonies. And you can drive by at 55mph and avoid it much more IME.
Usually the drug use is kept on people's properties.
And the people, you know, actually own their property.
As far as crime? Well, my car was never broken into until I moved in with my friends in the center of Houston.
We've all had our cars broken into without the guy ever getting caught. Also had a stabbing murder right down the street, so that was nice.
Ever since leaving the major city, I haven't really experienced any crime personally. Not that it doesn't happen, it's just way more prevalent in major cities.
Ya, because I totally get stabbed by used needles and homeless people in the boonies..
I'd argue the types of crime happening in the boonies is vastly different than downtown, but the drug selling is probably higher. Going by the police blotters for the towns in my area:
Number one crime in the biggest city: Car theft.
Number one crime in the country: Farmers shooting their pets.
But there's definitely hella drug dealing going on in the cuts. Ain't no cops, less likely to be seen.
Doing drugs in the boonies is a lot less likely to attract police attention and the related Police violence due to the 'war on drugs'. So drug use is still very high, just easily overlooked and doesn't impact others in the same way as dense cities.
US perspective of course.
If a meth lab blows up in the boonies and no one survived to hear it, did it blow up at all?
Dark humor aside, the types of issues faced in rural and semi-rural communities are just different than the issues faced by more urbanized environments. I live in a somewhat suburbanized area in a rural county. And crime is really only something we read about in the news. I have never had a package stolen off my porch. The neighbors did grab a package to keep it from getting soaked in the rain and their kids brought it by later. No one has ever been mugged walking to the pool or park. Car jacking is something one does to their car, to put it up on blocks. And gun violence out here is much less kids shooting each other over drug turf and more grandpa getting seriously depressed and shooting himself.
Adding on to your point, the populations perception of the police would play a factor, too. If everyone within a community truly believed that police only caused more problems than they solve, many crimes wouldn't be reported.
In other areas, the police might not care because it's easy for them to ignore the problems that they can't see.
Yeah but whenever they try to accost me on the side of the road I can just roll coal in their face and drive away