Originally Posted by
degnaw
Where did you get your crime statistics from? Having lived in Stockholm for 6 months, it's one of the cleanest and safest cities I've ever been to and I seriously doubt the crime rate is as high as 134 per 1000.
Also, according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's...livable_cities , Stockholm is in fact on the list (above Montreal, in fact)
Never been there myself - this is the page referenced:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden "(approximately 151 offences/1000 inhabitants)"
For Quebec I took the info on Quebc from the page for Canada:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime...nada#section_2 "6,626 offences /100,000 inhabitants. Deviding by 1,000 gives 66 / 1,000 inhabitants.
Yup - sorry - I missed it on that page. However, what keeps me in Montreal is the cost of living here vs Toronto, Vancouver or Ottawa - which includes the likelyhood of finding and keeping a job, and the relative pay scales. I have family in all those cities.
Stockholm doesn't look all that great to me from that perspective either. And I see absolutely no reason for anyone to refer to this city as a "craphole".
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living...ity2=Stockholm