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0 pointsctdonath12y ago0 comments

The extent of the jurisdiction may be a squishy factor. The "greater metropolitan area" may extend well beyond the strictly-speaking city limits.

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bmelton12y ago· 1 in thread

Very fine point. I don't know that I've ever looked at data that represented crime in "a given city" and "surrounding areas".

Might indeed be the tipping point. Thanks!

hga12y ago

Indeed. In the case I'm most familiar with, a whole lot of people decamped from impossible D.C. to Prince George's county, Maryland.

Now, to someone who lived in Arlington, Virginia for a dozen years the crime in PG was awful. To someone living in D.C. I strongly suspect PG was not bad at all, and being allowed to own a firearm in your house made I'm sure a significant difference.

Or take Boston, which the WASPs kept small after the Irish took over the city; without looking in more detail, the top level Wikipedia page indicates annexations stopped after 1874 with one non-WASP exception (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park,_Boston).

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