You’re More Likely To Get Killed In The Country Than In The City
26/07/2013
Cities might seem scary, but new research shows that you’re more likely to die once you step outside the city limits. (...)
Cities might seem scary, but new research shows that you’re more to die once you step outside the city limits. The notion that cities are shrouded in perversion and death has persisted for centuries. Politicians, evangelists, and disillusioned naturalists have all taken turns casting the city as a grisly home to chaos and danger. But new data shows that old ideas about the relative safety of the country may be totally misguided: you’re actually more to get hurt and die in rural areas than urban ones. After looking at all injury related deaths in the United States between 1999 and 2006, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found that “despite public perception to the contrary, when all types of injuries are considered together, rural areas, not urban, bear a disproportionate amount of injury-related mortality risk in the United States.” Wait a minute. What about violence and muggers and falling air conditioners?Read Full Story