Washington, DC: Worst city ever?

[DoomYoshi]

The homicide rate is 21.9.

In Afghanistan (nationwide stats for 2013) it is 10.9.

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The HIV rate is 2.4% (that is after dropping by 18% since 2008 and 46% fewer cases reported in 2013 than 2012).

Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Burundi, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo all have lower rates than that.

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Don't get me started on the not-fitting suits.

[notyou2]

Yes but they sell good suits there.

[degaston]

[Phatscotty]

The homicide rate is 21.9.

In Afghanistan (nationwide stats for 2013) it is 10.9.

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The HIV rate is 2.4% (that is after dropping by 18% since 2008 and 46% fewer cases reported in 2013 than 2012).

Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Burundi, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo all have lower rates than that.

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Don't get me started on the not-fitting suits.

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What is their unemployment? demographics? median income?

[DoomYoshi]

Unemployment is a bullshit stat. Because I am a full-time student, Canada doesn't count me as unemployed.

[kuthoer]

Unemployment is a bullshit stat. Because I am a full-time student, Canada doesn't count me as unemployed.

So....you leach off your parents? How lucky you are to have 2 parents and a country that has Socialized medicine.

Your chances in Washington DC of having 2 parents to leach off and having good medical insurance is slim to none. Lucky that you were born in a country that actually supports leaches like yourself. In America we're expected to rise from the mud of poverty on our own.

I think the American poor should immigrate to Canada, where life is easy. America will continue accepting poor Mexicans to keep our wages low, so the top 1% will continue to enrich themselves.

[DoomYoshi]

Unemployment is a bullshit stat. Because I am a full-time student, Canada doesn't count me as unemployed.

So....you leach off your parents? How lucky you are to have 2 parents and a country that has Socialized medicine.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I actually own the house my parents live in and they lease from me. To say I leach is a ridiculous accusation. I make my money in the 6 months of the year that I do work. During that time I work, I pay money into an "unemployment insurance fund" which is legally mandated. Since I am, according to their definition, not unemployed, I am not allowed to collect from the unemployment insurance fund, not even the funds that I put in myself. The government puts as much distance between me and my first million as possible. I'm still on pace to make it by 30 though.

Socialized medicine? I don't go to the doctor. The worst thing I ever had was chicken pox. Bad things don't happen to good people.

[kuthoer]

Ahhhh, to be young again and feeling that nothing will harm you. At least Canada has that safety net ready for you, when and if you take that hard fall.

[thegreekdog]

I've been to DC a few times (in a tourist capacity and in a work capacity) and it seems okay. I've been in worse cities (e.g. Camden, New Jersey).

[mrswdk]

Unemployment is a bullshit stat. Because I am a full-time student, Canada doesn't count me as unemployed.

Why should a full-time student be counted in unemployment statistics?

[patches70]

In answer to the title of the thread- Probably.


Also-

I've been to DC a few times (in a tourist capacity and in a work capacity) and it seems okay. I've been in worse cities (e.g. Camden, New Jersey).

yeah, Camden is right up there among the worst.

[degaston]

The homicide rate is 21.9.

From what I can find, there were 103 murders in DC in 2013 and a population of 646,449 which works out to a rate of 15.9. Not great, but then if it weren't for one incident of a nut with a gun killing 12 people, it would have been 14.1. Even at the 15.9 figure, DC is still below the 2012 rates for New Orleans, St. Louis, Baltimore, Newark, Oakland, Stockton, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Memphis, Atlanta, Chicago, Buffalo, and Miami. Not to mention Caracas, where the homicide rate is 122. And you think DC is the worst city ever?

In Afghanistan (nationwide stats for 2013) it is 10.9.

So now you're comparing one city with an entire country?

I'm not saying it's perfect, but why all the hate?

[DoomYoshi]

Unemployment is a bullshit stat. Because I am a full-time student, Canada doesn't count me as unemployed.

Why should a full-time student be counted in unemployment statistics?

Since I can't find a satisfactory job. I take online courses. I could work whenever. The jobs that would be worth my time aren't there.

[DoomYoshi]

I'm not saying it's perfect, but why all the hate?

No hate lol. I wish I lived in DC, so I could go to meetings and such.

[mrswdk]

Unemployment is a bullshit stat. Because I am a full-time student, Canada doesn't count me as unemployed.

Why should a full-time student be counted in unemployment statistics?

Since I can't find a satisfactory job. I take online courses. I could work whenever. The jobs that would be worth my time aren't there.

Why does this make unemployment rates a 'bullshit stat'?

[Army of GOD]

DY, you can't find a job because you make terrible threads.

[AndyDufresne]

DY should really stop putting "CC Topic Creation" on his resume under his list of skills.


--Andy

[DoomYoshi]

Unemployment is a bullshit stat. Because I am a full-time student, Canada doesn't count me as unemployed.

Why should a full-time student be counted in unemployment statistics?

Since I can't find a satisfactory job. I take online courses. I could work whenever. The jobs that would be worth my time aren't there.

Why does this make unemployment rates a 'bullshit stat'?

Unemployment should be a measure of people trying to find a job but unable to.

Right now it is a measure of nothing. It counts or doesn't count people based on nothing.

[BigBallinStalin]

Unemployment is a bullshit stat. Because I am a full-time student, Canada doesn't count me as unemployed.

Why should a full-time student be counted in unemployment statistics?

If the Canadian bureaucracy follows the standards of the US' Bureau of Labor Statistics, then DY doesn't count as either employed or unemployed. He's simply omitted from the labor pool.

If one is a "full-time" student who works a part-time job and if he leaves/gets fired, then he can count as unemployed so long as he 'searches' for a job every month or so.

[DoomYoshi]

So I have to get a job in order to be considered unemployed. Great.

[saxitoxin]

I'LL HIRE YOU, DOOMYOSHI

[Army of GOD]

Don't do it DoomYoshi. Saxi pays you in SaxBucks, which have little to no value (when compared to AoGRubles, of course).

[DoomYoshi]

I don't have a Green Card, and I'm probably on the bottom of the list to get one since I've already been deported for working in California.

I will try though. What do you want me to do, saxi?

[saxitoxin]

AOG WILL HIRE YOU, DOOMYOSHI

[saxitoxin]

I will try though. What do you want me to do, saxi?

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