this should have been one of the first map i posted …
turn off dark mode to have colors render properly on this map …
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
New Hampshire has lowest homicide rate at 1.8 which is 4 times lower than 7.2 of Florida
but that isn’t really fair because NH doesn’t have any major cities in it …
however Massachusetts is still a very impressive ( low ) 2.5 rate, and is in 4th place …
also interesting that both NY and NJ are far lower than Florida and Texas …
Disctrict of Columbia at 23.7 is in the last place, partly because it is entirely an urbanized area, partly because DC is “Chocolate City” and also perhaps due to Hillary Clinton LOL
it isn’t so much that i am afraid of dying ( i could care less - life is a joke ) but rather this map reflects the quality of demographics overall …
it’s the same as how i don’t care if you have any college degrees but because Cinderellas are physically incapable of doing math any area that is rich in high school dropouts is also likely rich in blacks who also happen to be the murders and so on … making “educational achievement” map extremely useful …
you can find “educational achievement” and other maps on https://bestneighborhood.org
i am thinking what are the most important maps ?
probably:
1 - homicide
2 - educational achievement
3 - gun rights
i put homicide at number 1 because both education and gun rights play into it … namely the lowest homicide rates are in areas where people are both educated AND gun owners, like in Switzerland or New Hampshire …
and i put educational achievement over gun rights because both having a gun and living among intelligent people make you safe, but guns ONLY make you safe whereas living among intelligent people has MANY benefits
after those top 3 i would then look at all the other maps i started out with namely for weather and so on …
San Diego has the best weather in US but it’s also on the border with Mexico …
Florida has OK weather but it’s over-run by Caribbeans …
Seattle has mild weather but apparently it is kind of misty there same as how SF is foggy …
New Zealand has great weather but is run by lunatics and is on the opposite side of the planet from civilization …
Singapore has great weather but you need to speak Chinese …
Buenos Aireas has good weather but you need to speak Spanish …