Only place i can afford a house with decent land and not be house poor is hamilton. Trump has crushed this city already with tarrrifs. My issue is the distances I hvae to drive. All the construction companies are moving further away from toronto. Its my only chance, and AI says fuck it buy stonks. I live at the green X
They have their own football team too
Compton is fine. It aint the 90s anymore. I used to go there to see a couple friends often.
Yes in the 90s it was probably more dangerous in Compton than in Afghanistan in 2011. Nowadays as with the general trend of crime it’s not a complete war zone and just a shithole
Compton, California, has a violent crime rate of approximately 1,141–1,200 per 100,000 residents, based on recent data, with property crime rates around 2,673 per 100,000. To find a foreign city with a similar crime rate, we need to compare this to global cities with available crime statistics, focusing on violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault) and property crimes (burglary, theft, vehicle theft).
One foreign city with a comparable crime profile is Kingston, Jamaica. Kingston has a violent crime rate of around 1,100–1,300 per 100,000 residents, driven largely by gang-related homicides and robberies, similar to Compton’s challenges with gang activity. For example, Jamaica’s murder rate is approximately 40–50 per 100,000 (higher than Compton’s 18–36 per 100,000), but other violent crimes like robbery and assault align closely, with Kingston reporting around 1,200 violent crimes per 100,000. Property crime rates in Kingston are also comparable, estimated at 2,500–3,000 per 100,000, including high rates of burglary and vehicle theft.
Both cities share socioeconomic factors like poverty (Compton ~23%, Kingston ~20–25%) and gang influence, contributing to their crime rates. However, data for Kingston can vary due to underreporting, and crime is often concentrated in specific areas like Tivoli Gardens, similar to Compton’s south neighborhoods.
Precise global crime comparisons are tricky due to differing reporting standards, but Kingston’s overall crime dynamics make it a reasonable match. If you want me to dig into another region or specific crime type, let me know!
Hamilton is 900 per 100k and guns illegal
Winnipeg the native ghetto 1400 violent attacks per 100k people
Murica looken pretty nice righ' now I tell u hwhat
Compton is literally just a suburb with unkempt homes now. The gangs are just old people and their kids still pretending they bang by sitting on lawns and drinking.
If you feel unsafe in Compton you're just paranoid.
You can find nicer homes in nearby cities. My buddy has a nice house in Carson.
People and gangs in LA are definitely active and responsible for a bunch of crime to this day it is not a fad where the members have grown old and largely settled down there are multiple generations of gang members and you are born into some of these gangs especially in places like Compton. Yes I’m not saying you are in mortal danger driving through Compton, just visiting especially during the day you will be 99.9% of the time fine and have no real issues especially just going over to visit friends and maybe going out to eat or something with them while you are there.
My experience living in ghettos, if you just go to work and home and spend your time doing things outside of the area you live in then you’re not going to be in many dangerous situations.
However buying a house in these areas I still don’t recommend as living in these areas long term unless you just don’t go outside and spend all your time in nicer areas of LA just open you up to tons of bullshit happening. House getting robbed, shootings nearby, car getting stolen etc
I still have my apartment in south LA it’s rent controlled so I just never stopped paying rent there, I lived there for years, people thought I was crazy living there but yeah it’s cheap and I didn’t really have any issues. Had a car blow up in front of my place, some house on the street behind us got shot up, some drunk driver hit my car at night and smashed the backend up completely and drove away but that’s really it and none of those things were like particularly bad in the 4-5 years I actively lived there. I know some Mexicans moved in across the street and started throwing loud ass parties every weekend into the late night but i don’t live there anymore so it doesn’t really matter. Oh and starting around the first or second week of June people start blowing up loud ass fireworks all night
But also like I said I mainly just went to work and would spend my time outside of the area I lived in and when I was ready to go to bed I would just go home and sleep. They opened up some nice coffee shop on Jefferson while I was living there so I would get coffee there in the mornings and shit sometimes and I would go through the drive thru at Popeyes and jack in the box and deal with homeless people occasionally. Oh and pumping gas would sometimes have some interesting interactions with people, have seen people like freak out at the clerk and start trashing the store and I’m just standing there trying to put 20 on my pump, dudes trying to do the CD scam, random ass homeless people etc. I don’t know, it’s not like terrible shit, but there’s definitely plenty of places to live where you just don’t have people doing that type of shit
rent free
Ayo what if I stayed there for a lil vacation with my girl while you weren’t there haha…it must be sick…
Idk if there’s caveats but everything u posted sounds like normal LA business to me
I've only lived in Pomona when it comes to LA county and aside from the occasional meth addict it felt very normal. It had a reputation for crime but I just don't think crime today in LA anywhere is the kind of thing that affects people's lives. Aside from property value of course.
Just a random anecdote but this reminds me of how much homeless scared me when I visited SF in 2006 lol. It is no big deal but to the unnormalized it becomes much more evident
If you aren't pimping and not doing drugs, that is.
Where I live it’s also the same in terms of overdramatization. I don’t pay it much mind because 99% of things I read are from people who truly have no idea or are unknowingly sensitive
it doesn't until it does, but really the point im trying to make is the more active you are in your local area the more likely it is something bad will happen to you eventually in these areas. of course if you don't go outside then the odds of becoming some random victim of crime is relatively low, albeit still higher than a nicer area. now that I'm thinking back there was like a stabbing across the street too and I lived across the street from some shitty motel so there was some like general attractor of sketchy individuals in the area with that too.
does crime in general get publicized and overblown for sure, its not like you're walking into a war zone where you have to get in gun battles with local fiends like fallout 3 everyday but I just would not classify Compton as merely some suburb with some worn down houses, its an area you definitely do not want to live in unless you simply have no other options, or you/your family are from there
