Originally Posted by
Burton
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
OK, 66 vs. 151 seems more reasonable than 6 vs. 151 (as initially stated), and it doesn't really say anything about violent crimes vs burglaries vs victimless crimes. And while it is expensive compared to other places, wages are proportionately higher there and there are plenty of cheaper suburbs to live in (I paid only $400/month for a student apartment there, which is in fact cheaper than State College).
I didn't say anything about Montreal (I'm sure it's a nice city), I'm just addressing your perception of Stockholm as a seemingly high-crime city because it definitely is not.