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Iluvrvcamping
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Nov 06, 2013

Safety issues in Southern Texas and Mexico border

This will be our first season as Snowbirds. Before joining this Forum I would of not considered the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas as one of the places we would stay. I've always heard that the bo...
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Dog_Folks
Explorer
Nov 10, 2013
naysmitj wrote:
You can see city statistics at this website.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Fort-Myers-Florida.html

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Brownsville-Texas.html

Cheers


Wow, I apologize. These statistics sure opened my eyes!

Murders per 1000,000: Ft. Myers, 31.7 Brownsville, .06

Auto Thefts /100,000: Ft. Myers, 313 Brownsville, 91.2

Overall Crime Rating: Ft. Myers, 561.4 Brownsville, 289.6
(higher the # The worse)

I promise I will never say that area has high crime!

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