Safest Place to live

[jusforsean]

With all that we face, hurricanes, tornaodes, floods, terrorist attacks, nuclear war, where do you suppose the safest place to live is???

[Janice]

I don't think any place is really safe. If a natural disaster doesn't get you, terrorists or a virus will or maybe a meteror.

[alicia-w]

that's not very comforting.

statistically, there has to be a place safer than somewhere else...

according to Forbes magazine, the safest places to live in the US are:

Honolulu
Boise City, ID
Santa Fe, NM
Yakima, WA
Spokane, WA
Medford, OR
Corvallis, OR
Salem, OR
Las Cruces, NM

[wx247]

I have always felt that the Heartland of America is safest to live in terms of terrorism and high crime/low cost of living/etc. Natural disasters on the other hand... that's another story...

[azsnowman]

Pinetop is relatively safe, no floods, no hurricanes, no tornadoes, so far no earthquakes we do however have to deal with wildfires BUT.....with the thinning process underway in the forests THAT is about to be quashed Oh and tourists.......they'll kill ya with their driving

[TexasStooge]

No matter where you go, you can't hide from Mother Nature.

[Stephanie]

I think that every area of the US has their own specific weather issues that make them dangerous.

[cajungal]

I don't live my life in fear. Otherwise I would not be able to enjoy life. I live near the coast in SE Louisiana. An hour drive southwest of New Orleans. Hurricane prone area. We escaped the brunt of Katrina by only 50 miles. I been on this planet for now 30 years and a hurricane has not destroyed my home yet. I don't really worry about it because I can't control all the what ifs. I just live day by day.

[azsnowman]

I think that every area of the US has their own specific weather issues that make them dangerous.

Absouletly Stephanie.....once in a great while we will have a "killer" thunderstorm with MEGA Microbursts that do as much damage as a F3 tornado but it's rare! Like the old Blue Bonnet Margarine commercial, "It's not nice to fool (with) Mother Nature!"

[Yarrah]

Uhm...here

No hurricanes and tornadoes
No floods (unless the 50 dikes around my city all break at the same time)
No terrorist attacks (they'd target Amsterdam or Rotterdam)
No nuclear war (who would bomb this city?)

[conestogo_flood]

Here in Canada, most things you have to worry about is blizzards. Any city in the territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories or Nunavut would be perfectly safe. There isn't any crime in most the cities too.

Uranium City, Sakatchewan
Prince Albert, British Columbia- maybe wildfires
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan- the odd tornado
High Level, Alberta
Gillam, Manitoba
Better yet, any town in the northern provinces
Moosonee, Ontario
Keyano, Quebec
Any city in Labrador
St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador

[coriolis]

Occassional flood, thunderstorms, here.

Those Forbes surveys miss a lot of places.

The biggest threat to me is falling in the bathtub or getting hit by a car on my bike.

You have to die of something. No use arguing about how you're gonna go!

[Sean in New Orleans]

I would think in the Rocky Mountain regions, Forbes mentions, would be the safest cities...they really only have cold and blizzards to deal with....but, aaaah, we do see some rather large fires in these regions, don't we?!?

[pojo]

The Fox Cities, Wi (Appleton, WI area) the cops are usually tending to speeding tickets instead of chasing criminals way from a crime scene. Mother Nature really isn't a factor either.

[HurricaneHunter914]

The ISS right now is the safest place from natural disasters in my opinion. (Meteors aren't really much of a threat).

[Cyclenall]

I say certain parts of Canada for sure. Artic circle maybe too.

[Rainband]

Uhm...here

No hurricanes and tornadoes
No floods (unless the 50 dikes around my city all break at the same time)
No terrorist attacks (they'd target Amsterdam or Rotterdam)
No nuclear war (who would bomb this city?)

I love Holland. My family is from there. I visted in 1987 and If I could choose a place to live then it would be where my Oma lived Ossendretch It was beautiful and everyone was so friendly.