Why South America is Safer Than The US

Caracas Venezuela? No fucking way. The only way to be safe there is to be rich, everyone else suffers.

When you are super rich, every place is safe for you.

The chilean and argentinian small cities are very safe. Not dubai safe but better than the US and bigger part of Europe.

If you like living in the countryside, Brazil can be good. But any urban center here is riddled with crime and is very dangerous. I fled the city to live in the mountains and it was the best decision of my life.

I'm from Toronto and idk how we are so high on that list. In the last 10 years we have seen criminal activities at an all time high in this city. It never used to be this bad, but now car thefts, house robberies, stores getting looted. The situation here has definitely worsened and if we are one of the safest cities in N.A. my word, I don't even want to imagine how bad the rest are. The other day I went to my local Walmart to get an ink cartridge for my printer. The bloody cartridges were locked up and I had to ask a representative to open the case to get me one. It never used to be like this. I am amazed we are so high on that list.

I have a family member who traveled to NY for vacation and was shoothed by someone on the street at night. This doesnt happen in Buenos Aires, since the city is sourrounded by police. We have crime but not in a big city!!

If the priority is quality of life, I fail to see the logic of moving from megalopolis in North America towards megalopolis in South America. I live in a small coastal town (38,000 inh.; 22 beaches and many islands) in Southeast Brazil nowadays and it's quite fine, but I would never move back to a city such as Sao Paulo or Rio unless I had no option whatsoever. Traffic sucks, infrastructure sucks, bureaucracy sucks and crime rates are rampant...

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I have lived in Colombia all of my life, and I have traveled to the United States. I can tell you this is about perspective. For example, I felt fear in Orlando, Howard Johnson Hotel, or the metro in NYC, but not in other places of Orlando or New York. I feel safer here in Colombia, at least there is no way to find a crazy man shooting everywhere with no reason.

It is NOT safer. In Brazil our Brazilian guide said. Do not make eye contact walk behind me don’t even wear a plastic watch. She said they can knife you because they think you looked at them funny. Another story 2 bus loads of cruise ship tourists held up at gun point IN A CHURCH. Told to strip, everything gone, cameras, wallets jewellery all of it that was in Fortaleza. Yes maybe Argentina is better and Uruguay