In my search for a new place in the world to live, one criteria would be the murder rate. Generally this is the number of people murdered (Wikipedia calls this “intentional homicide”) per year per 100,000 people. In the United States, which is a pretty violent country, the number is 5.8. I was looking at moving to Chile, which has a pretty low crime rate (for Latin America) and a murder rate of 6.3, just a touch above the US. In lieu of Chile, I was thinking of Costa Rica, which comes in at 17.7, much, much higher. One place I wasn’t looking at, mostly because of crime, is Mexico, which had a rate of 24.8. The number for Costa Rica really gave me pause. Maybe instead, I could go to Spain, which has a rate of only 0.7, one of the safest countries in the world. Then I wondered what the rate for my home state of Georgia was. It is a little higher than the average for the US, at 8.2. It is harder to find numbers for Dekalb County, but one source says it is 9.3 and another said 13.7. Now Costa Rica doesn’t look quite as bad, but Spain is looking really, really good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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