How safe is Toronto?

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AnnaG

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Riyko said:
My parents are refusing to let me go to Toronto because they don't feel it's a "safe" place to go and they say it's a foreign country blah blah blah. I'm going to be 20 soon so I don't think that's a problem.

So how safe of a place is Toronto actually? is it safe enough for a 19 year old girl or is it not that safe, but it's safer to go with someone?
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I'd look at what the people who deal with the safety issue in Toronto for facts. Something like these people:

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect

In 2008 people seemed to think it was a pretty safe cit:

Crime down in Toronto - thestar.com

I can't see any point in comparing it to other cities, though, because it really doesn't make any difference what the safety of another city is if you are in Toronto.
 
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AnnaG said:
I'd look at what the people who deal with the safety issue in Toronto for facts. Something like these people:

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect

In 2008 people seemed to think it was a pretty safe cit:

Crime down in Toronto - thestar.com

I can't see any point in comparing it to other cities, though, because it really doesn't make any difference what the safety of another city is if you are in Toronto.
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Toronto is safe. You just need to know the areas to avoid. I have lived in Toronto safely for over 30 years
 
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If you are twenty, you are an adult.

"When I was young and twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
'To save pounds and crowns and guineas,
From Toronto stay away!'"
A E Housman
 
VanIsle

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Kreskin said:
Totonto is full of eastern Canadians. Better to pack heat when there.
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Where is that place you speak of??? I've never even heard of Totonto. Is that a place where the Lone Ranger goes with Tonto and why he "packs heat"? :p:p;-)
 
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AnnaG

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VanIsle said:
Since he lives there - he should have a better idea of how things are over and above your links.
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Since he probably has a limited experience with Toronto he cannot say what it is like in every neighborhood, he likely cannot give a general description of safety in Toronto, but only descriptions of a few specific areas. Do you know what every area of the Island is like?

Besides, one of the links I gave was from the Toronto City Police and I would imagine they live in Toronto, too.
 
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SirJosephPorter

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LittleRunningGag said:
Well now, I wouldn't go that far. Weyburn, SK still qualifies as a city (I think) and the one murder they've had in the last five years was the talk of the town for months. :wink:
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You are not comparing like with like. Weyburn is a small place, I had never heard of it before this. I looked it up, its population is 9433. It is hardly fair to compare it with a mega city like Toronto.

However, Toronto is much safer than big cities in the west, like Winnipeg, Calgary, Saskatoon or Vancouver.
 
Kreskin

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From what I saw recently, it's much safer in downtown Toronto than downtown Vancouver. Drugs aren't nearly the problem as it is on the west coast.
 
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Kreskin said:
From what I saw recently, it's much safer in downtown Toronto than downtown Vancouver. Drugs aren't nearly the problem as it is on the west coast.
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Better climate (warmer winters and BC's law system is too easy going).
 
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O.K. lost the plot there.
The most dangerous thing in T.O. is biking and locking wheels into the Red Rockets imbeded tracks.
I remember when Moses dumped his Bonneville at Queen Spadina in the wet.
Broken wrist but party on.
Small wheel diameters like bicycles are most susceptible.
 
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