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Originally Posted by marothisu
Appreciate your post and I think you made it known you've lived in Atlanta recently. I just wanted to pick on the bolded part though.
Yes, warmer. Atlanta safer - uh well you're comparing a city of over 2.7 million people to a city of just shy of 500,000 people. For any city, you have so many different areas. Chicago benefits from being much larger than Atlanta. Keep in mind that Chicago is large enough to have entire continuous areas that have more people than the entire city of Atlanta that are MUCH safer than Atlanta (and most cities for that matter). Near North Side, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Uptown, Lincoln Square, North Center, Rogers Park, and West Ridge have a combined population as of 2020 of 544,563. It had 19 total murders for 2021 or a rate of 3.49 per 100K people. For the record, this is barely higher than the rate of Toronto for 2021 and lower than Seattle for 2021 (and Seattle's population isn't that much higher than this area's).
By contrast, Atlanta had 498,715 people in 2020 with 156 murders as of Christmas for a rate of 31.28 per 100K which is nearly 9 times higher murder rate than that part of Chicago with a similar population. But on that same token, I could find you some areas of Chicago that are probably double or worse that rate of Atlanta. Point being - Chicago is large enough that it's dumb to say it's more dangerous or safer than XYZ. i think this goes for most big cities. There are big areas of the city that are very safe and then there's parts of the city that are not. Labeling any entire city as such usually doesn't do it justice.
However, Just for the sake of your argument, I will. Atlanta actually in 2021 had a higher murder rate than Chicago by 3 per 100K and in January 2022 at least, Atlanta's murder rate was nearly double that of Chicago's. Chicago's increase the last few years gets press but Atlanta's has been bad. In 2018, Chicago had a higher homicide rate by a little bit but now Atlanta's is actually higher than Chicago's.
In 2021, Atlanta had a little bit of a lower robbery rate than Chicago but I believe Atlanta may have had a higher rate of aggravated battery/assault than Chicago. Burglary rates are lower in Chicago and motor vehicle theft is a bit lower in Chicago than Atlanta (this is NOT carjacking - carjacking is a type of robbery).
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Good points. And yeah I'm defintely cognizant of the crime in Atlanta, it's skyrocketing so much that the richest neighborhood in the city is trying to secede.
I'm glad I moved up here couples years back. Chicago has its problems, but I much prefer it to Atlanta. I could understand why a large family would prefer Atlanta, its safer (in the suburbs), warmer, the houses are bigger, and (up until recently) it was cheaper than Chicago. Also Atlanta doesn't have the gang culture that permeates the whole city like Chicago does.
I'm young, single, with no kids, so Chicago is definitely the city for me! I was super bored in Atlanta, there are no neighborhoods like Lakeview or Wicker Park in Atlanta. The nightlife is far superior here. The transit is superior...you get my point.