NEWSFLASH: You probably won’t get shot in Ithaca
Ithaca - as the shirts attest - may be gorges, gangster, cold, your mom, ad infinitum, but probably best of all, Ithaca Is Safe.
According to a new study, you’re less likely to get shot, mugged, hit by a tornado, earthquake, poisoned by mercury (but maybe TCEs), attacked by terrorists (but maybe college kids will piss on your lawn), or lose your job in Ithaca, which was ranked the third safest small city out of 138 U.S. towns with populations under 150,000.
The ranking was part of the fourth annual Farmers Insurance Group of Companies study and was compiled by a database company called Best Places.
Last year they ranked Ithaca as they fifth safest small city, so we must have gotten just that much safer since then. I know I feel safer.
What’s most interesting about this study - and I know, cuz I did some serious research on The Google - is that the top five safest small cities have at least two colleges. And out of the top 20, 16 have at least one college.
Now, I’m no scientist, and there’s no real way to prove this without me expending actual effort, but it seems there’s a correlation between higher education and general peacefulness. Just hope that you’re not a dog named Princess.
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