Originally posted by ~The Wickerman~
Well I dunno.....saying that a country is dangerous only for people that live outside of it sounds pretty .......... delusional. Are you telling me that no US citizen has been killed by another US citizen? Or that no US citizen has died on US soil? Wow.... awesome country 😂
Yeah, you KNOW that the United States is such a dangerous place right? I mean..who would know better?
Surely not someone that lived here..
🙄 Ignorant person you are.
Originally posted by botankus
I can't believe I was called a hick by someone who equates the strain of walking 1000 miles (a little obvious, I might add) with taxes!As said before, if you don't live here, you have no idea. I think 90% of the population doesn't live in these big cities which take up all of America, as you seem to think.
ON the taxes I must have confused your post with someone elses.
ANYWAY. I have some stats for your twisted interpretation of the US form the 2000 US census.
Percent of Populaiton living in Urban Areas: 79.219 %
Percent of Populaiton living in Rural Areas: 20.781 %
Percent of Populaiton living in Urban Areas w/ population over 200,000: 58.274 %
Seems as if you need a fact check.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/cps2k.htm
Originally posted by ~The Wickerman~
Well I dunno.....saying that a country is dangerous only for people that live outside of it sounds pretty .......... delusional. Are you telling me that no US citizen has been killed by another US citizen? Or that no US citizen has died on US soil? Wow.... awesome country 😂
It was a jab at our foreign policy, which you clearly missed. You can die in your own home, does that make your home dangerous?
If so, then everywhere is dangerous, so quit with the naieve interpretation of reality.
Originally posted by Alliance
ON the taxes I must have confused your post with someone elses.ANYWAY. I have some stats for your twisted interpretation of the US form the 2000 US census.
Percent of Populaiton living in Urban Areas: 79.219 %
Percent of Populaiton living in Rural Areas: 20.781 %Percent of Populaiton living in Urban Areas w/ population over 200,000: 58.274 %
Seems as if you need a fact check.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/cps2k.htm
It was a jab at our foreign policy, which you clearly missed. You can die in your own home, does that make your home dangerous?
If so, then everywhere is dangerous, so quit with the naieve interpretation of reality.
Its 2006, dude. The census you are quoting here is 6 years old. A lot can happen. Plus I read somewhere that a lot of people are moving to the suburbs because that's where all the jobs are moving. If suburbs are considered "urban" in this census then it is very misleading. Suburbs are a lot more safer than the cities. If I could move outta the city and to a quiet little suburban neighborhood I definitely would.
Originally posted by Marxman
Its 2006, dude. The census you are quoting here is 6 years old. A lot can happen. Plus I read somewhere that a lot of people are moving to the suburbs because that's where all the jobs are moving. If suburbs are considered "urban" in this census then it is very misleading. Suburbs are a lot more safer than the cities. If I could move outta the city and to a quiet little suburban neighborhood I definitely would.
Listen. The US urban population does not go from 80% to 10% in 6 years. You would notice. Thats just a ludicrious suggestion.
The census is the only concrete measurement. Measurements taken inbetween are wither often predictions based on trends and the most recent census or are based on smaller serveys that dont nearly capture the entire population.
If you look at the two statistics I gave, the first was Urban populations, which includeds suburbs (sub-URBAN no sub-RURAL). This represents 3,629 areas in the US. I also gave a statistic that gave the percentage of people living in Urban areas with a population over 200,000, of which there are only 13 in the US. Thats 60% of the population.
So basically, I don't see any wieght to your criticism.
If you want more clarification:
"For Census 2000, the Census Bureau classifies as "urban" all territory, population, and housing units located within an urbanized area (UA) or an urban cluster (UC). It delineates UA and UC boundaries to encompass densely settled territory, which consists of:
core census block groups or blocks that have a population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile and
surrounding census blocks that have an overall density of at least 500 people per square mile
In addition, under certain conditions, less densely settled territory may be part of each UA or UC.
The Census Bureau's classification of "rural" consists of all territory, population, and housing units located outside of UAs and UCs. The rural component contains both place and nonplace territory. Geographic entities, such as census tracts, counties, metropolitan areas, and the territory outside metropolitan areas, often are "split" between urban and rural territory, and the population and housing units they contain often are partly classified as urban and partly classified as rural. " - US Census Bereau
Originally posted by Alliance
ON the taxes I must have confused your post with someone elses.ANYWAY. I have some stats for your twisted interpretation of the US form the 2000 US census.
Percent of Populaiton living in Urban Areas: 79.219 %
Percent of Populaiton living in Rural Areas: 20.781 %Percent of Populaiton living in Urban Areas w/ population over 200,000: 58.274 %
Seems as if you need a fact check.
Okay, fair enough. There was a post a few pages back where I was talking about how you classify "urban" residents (considering soccer moms who live in the thousands of glitzy metropolitan suburbs are still classified as urban residents because they live within the city/county limits). For example, my brother lives off Roswell Road in Atlanta. There's not a house within ten miles of his place that sells for under $300,000 (yes, he took the career path with all the money instead of me), and he's classified as an urban resident. I'm not sure of the actual interpretation of that.