A PHYSICALLY DANGEROUS WORLD OUT HERE IN RURAL AMERICA 🙂 And you wonder why peo

http://scienceblog.com/64835/want-to-be-safe-move-to-the-city-no-really/IT’S A PHYSICALLY DANGEROUS WORLD OUT HERE IN RURAL AMERICA 🙂

And you wonder why people are conservative there….. Conservatism is a prohibition on hubris. Rural opportunity costs are high, risk is higher. But most of rural danger come from just fixing your house, and driving a car. 🙂

“Although the risk of homicide is higher in big cities, the risk of unintentional injury death is 40 percent higher in the most rural areas than in the most urban. And overall, the rate of unintentional injury dwarfs the risk of homicide, with the rate of unintentional injury more than 15 times that of homicide among the entire population. “