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    Chiang Mai ranked No.1 city in Asia on safety index

    The northern city of Chiang Mai in Thailand has been ranked as the safest city in Southeast Asia and 31st in the world, according to a recent report. The findings were published as the Crime Index and Safety Index by City 2023 by Numbeo, the largest crowd-sourced global database that tracks these statistics.

    Chiang Mai was ranked first in Southeast Asia with a safety index of 75.5 and a crime index of 24.5. The safety index measures the perceived safety of walking alone in daylight and at night, while the crime index indicates the level of crime in a given city.

    The capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, was ranked as the safest city in the world, with a crime index of 11.2 and a safety index of 88.8. In contrast, the city of Caracas in Venezuela was ranked as the least safe city, with a crime index of 83.6 and a safety index of 16.4.


    Bangkok was ranked seventh in Southeast Asia with a safety index of 59.5 and a crime index of 40.5. Despite being lower than Chiang Mai, the ranking reflects the government’s efforts to curb crime and improve the lives of its citizens, as well as increase confidence among foreign visitors.

    Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has expressed his gratitude to the government agencies responsible for maintaining safety and security across the country. He acknowledged their efforts in dealing with crimes, improving people’s lives, and boosting confidence among foreigners.


    Notable safe cities include Taiwan, ranked third overall and first in Asia, Quebec City, the safest in North America and sixth overall, and San Sebastian, Spain, the safest city in Europe at number eight overall. The safest American city is the Los Angeles suburb of Irvine, ranked number 26.


    On the other end of the spectrum, South Africa holds the distinction of having two of the three worst-ranked cities, with Durban third to last and Pretoria second to last. In the UK, Preston is fourth from last, just barely edging out Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, a region where cannibalism still exists.


    In the US, Baltimore is the worst, ranked at 405, beating out Memphis, Tennessee at 403 and Detroit, commonly used as an example of an out-of-control dangerous city, which ranked at 402nd.


    Numbeo, a crowd-sourced database, provides information on housing, crime rates, healthcare, transportation, cost of living, and more. The website is known for its comprehensive data and is used globally to evaluate the quality of life in various cities.


    Top 50 Safest Cities in the World:
    Rank – City – Safety Index
    1 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 88.4
    2 Doha, Qatar 85.6
    3 Taipei, Taiwan (China) 85.0
    4 Ajman, United Arab Emirates 84.6
    5 Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 84.3
    6 Quebec City, Canada 83.8
    7 Dubai, United Arab Emirates 83.6
    8 San Sebastian, Spain 83.1
    9 Bern, Switzerland 82.0
    10 Munich, Germany 81.2
    11 Trondheim, Norway 80.9
    12 Zurich, Switzerland 80.8
    13 Eskisehir, Turkey 80.8
    14 Muscat, Oman 80.1
    15 Tartu, Estonia 79.0
    16 The Hague (Den Haag), Netherlands 78.6
    17 Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China) 78.6
    18 Basel, Switzerland 78.4
    19 Yerevan, Armenia 78.4
    20 Ljubljana, Slovenia 78.3
    21 Groningen, Netherlands 77.9
    22 Zagreb, Croatia 77.6
    23 Cluj-Napoca, Romania 77.5
    24 Tampere, Finland 77.5
    25 Eindhoven, Netherlands 77.2
    26 Irvine, CA, United States 77.1
    27 Stavanger, Norway 76.7
    28 Coquitlam, Canada 76.7
    29 Reykjavik, Iceland 76.1
    30 Tallinn, Estonia 75.9
    31 Chiang Mai, Thailand 75.9
    32 Tokyo, Japan 75.7
    33 Timisoara, Romania 75.6
    34 Prague, Czech Republic 75.4
    35 Seoul, South Korea 75.3
    36 Helsinki, Finland 75.2
    37 Aalborg, Denmark 75.2
    38 Rijeka, Croatia 74.5
    39 Oakville, Canada 74.4
    40 Canberra, Australia 74.4
    41 Bergen, Norway 74.3
    42 Krakow (Cracow), Poland 74.3
    43 Tbilisi, Georgia 74.2
    44 Graz, Austria 74.1
    45 Warsaw, Poland 74.0
    46 Mangalore, India 73.9
    47 Brno, Czech Republic 73.9
    48 Wroclaw, Poland 73.8
    49 Lausanne, Switzerland 73.8
    50 Utrecht, Netherlands 73.8


    Bottom 20 Least Safe Cities in the World:
    Rank – City – Safety Index


    402 Detroit, MI, United States 25.9
    403 Memphis, TN, United States 25.2
    404 Rosario, Argentina 24.8
    405 Baltimore, MD, United States 24.4
    406 Alice Springs, Australia 23.9
    407 Port of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago 23.8
    408 Recife, Brazil 23.7
    409 Salvador, Brazil 23.4
    410 Port Elizabeth, South Africa 23.1
    411 Natal, Brazil 22.9
    412 Fortaleza, Brazil 22.9
    413 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 22.4
    414 Kabul, Afghanistan 20.2
    415 San Pedro Sula, Honduras 19.5
    416 Johannesburg, South Africa 19.3
    417 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 19.1
    418 Preston, United Kingdom 19.0
    419 Durban, South Africa 19.0
    420 Pretoria, South Africa 18.0
    421 Caracas, Venezuela 16.6

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    Where is Singapore? Think it would certainly be high up.

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    You can find the whole list here Current Safety Index by City

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    Thanks.

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    Preston being more dangerous than the slums of Brazil

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Where is Singapore? Think it would certainly be high up.

    The article I read had Singapore as 3rd in Asia (I think)

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    Useful to know.


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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    Preston being more dangerous than the slums of Brazil
    Have you been to Deepdale for an away match recently.

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    I guess that golf pro that took a baseball bat to vehicles and motorcycles not stopping at the crosswalks on Suthep Road finally made a difference!

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    ^^
    Preston may be a shithole but i doubt it has tribes of headhunters with machetes ala PNG

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    Clearly they're excluding kicking out time when all the pissheads are hammering down the streets on bikes and in pickups.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Numbeo, a crowd-sourced database
    Not a credible site at all. A crowdsourced website means any anonymous poster can go in to skew the data. Tokyo should be at the top of the list, but on that site it has Irvine, California above Tokyo. Ya right. Orange County is very safe, but it is not on the same level as Tokyo.

    In 2012, Columnist Alistair Walsh suggested in an article written for the website Property Observer, that Numbeo's information is based on what people say and should be taken with a grain of salt. This is because no third party check or audit on the accuracy of data exists.[3]

    Numbeo's ranking of crime-ridden cities is not based on any confirmed stats. Instead, it is based on ‘reviews’ left by anonymous users of the site, making it easy to quickly build an image of a city in either a extremely positive or negative manner. Comparison against other international city data sources conducted by Ray Woodcock in 2017 suggests that Numbeo is often very inaccurate and misleading.[4]

    In 2017, a Swedish man showed how easily Numbeo stats could be manipulated, by pushing the Swedish city of Lund to become the most dangerous city in the world on the website's "Crime Index Rate" in less than a day. Trulsson added that Numbeo should hardly be considered stats, as anyone can change the data, as many times as they want, in complete anonymity.[5]

    In 2022, a Numbeo claim that Bradford, England was "Europe's most dangerous city" went viral on social media and was reported on in British press.[6][7]

    Same for France, in 2022, a newspaper named Le Figaro used Numbeo's ranking to compare violence and insecurity and titled "Insecurity: Nantes, Paris, Marseille, French cities unscrew in the world ranking of the safest cities" without criticism on the method of calculation, which is based on ‘reviews’ left by anonymous users, even if numbers are not realistic, like saying France is more dangerous than Mexico. While Mexico have seen at least 13 journalists killed in 2022, no one have been killed in France.[8][9]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbeo

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    Seems there are a thousand and one polls about complete bullshit so far this year.

    Perhaps not worthy of attention.

    Definitely not news.

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    ^^
    TD’s seasoned traveler gives us the facts.

    How was Tokyo last time you visited?

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    Lol you're using wiki to debunk a crowd sourced website.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Not a credible site at all. A crowdsourced website means any anonymous poster can go in to skew the data. Tokyo should be at the top of the list, but on that site it has Irvine, California above Tokyo. Ya right. Orange County is very safe, but it is not on the same level as Tokyo.



    Numbeo - Wikipedia
    Speaking of highly unreliable and subjectively biased crowdsourced sites - Wikipedia comes to mind. A disreputable history awashed in the dominant paradigm cabal.

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    Nice to see Donosti/San Sebastian home of Arteta tops Europe its my favourite city after Prague, and probably best food outside Tokyo.



    Outside Roppongi Tokio and most of Japan is as a safe as a kindergarten. I used to leave y wallet on the bar in Funibashi when going to the bathroom or vending machines as did all the locals. I did that in Donegal as a boy but sleepy Ulster a tad different when I lost wallet for same reason in Sydney.

    Preston while a nice town good ale dogs and LoyToy level pukka PIES when I had lunch there in 2019 is like most UK cities mayhem after pub closing time due to British swill and closing times, traditions.Luckily the odiots don't have guns, such brawls were rare during my years in Florida California ad Hawaii as even the most stupid drunk knows if you start something that quite little guy from rural Surin or outta Compton or the Snubbyland projects may be pistol packing Pete.

    Nearly all of Latin America is dodgy, the Asians just rob unless they want your kidneys too.
    For those who recal Baltimore Bosnia, Belfast or Beirut during the day the rest of the word seems pretty tame except US since fentynyl and 3d printed untraceabale guns.

    C Mai has the King Harry the Prolific Queen Miskit the wise newshound and at the Lizard Lounge Lulu the blowboy

    Nearby lakes forests , even grammar correction twixt the hill tribes.

    If you like safer even clamer Chiang Rai for grown ups who like fresh air easy parking , Chinag Saen for even remoter bongs and of course for Herman;'s hermits like me I have reduced my risk analysis to Nuclear Holcaust against which I have no defence and married life for which I have strategic defence in depth, ad regular retraining in how to survive disant in-laws. and be happy .

    Nooners told me one of less happy posters lives by my in-laws , no wonder so sad .

    Interesting that Taiwan is considered a city a large Island , kinda of suggest the whole poll is the sort any of us could knock out faster than an angry wank.

    Its clickbait filla sae as all those statements

    Sia leads world in snail attractions
    IMF sees brighter future f recession doesn't materialize and 9/10 cats do countodown

    I have lived or stayed in these and would generally agree plus Vienna Bath and Pamplona


    2 Doha, Qatar 85.6 A HOT HOLE AVOID UNLESS BRIBED

    4 Ajman, United Arab Emirates 84.6 A HOT HOLE AVOID UNLESS BRIBED

    8 San Sebastian, Spain 83.1 Gourmet and Fish lover's paradise

    14 Muscat, Oman 80.1 A HOT HOLE best Arabs

    16 The Hague Netherlands 78.6 A DIJK HOLE AVOID SNOOTY DIPLOMATS AND DIM CLOGGYS

    18 Basel, Switzerland 78.4 HOFFMAN LA ROCHE HOLE

    24 Tampere, Finland 77.5 COLD HOLE GREAT SPY MUSEUM

    30 Tallinn, Estonia 75.9 LIKE TAMPERE WITH CUTER LADIES

    31 Chiang Mai, Thailand 75.9 EXCEPT the burning season if you choose to breathe outdoors

    32 Tokyo, Japan 75.7 TAKE 2 LOYTOY BUCKETS OF CASH

    34 Prague, Czech Republic 75.4 THE CREAM SLIM RISKS IN DAYLIGHT FINE FOLKS BEER NO 1

    36 Helsinki, Finland 75.2 UNDER A TRAM DRUNK TERRIBLE END BUT GREAT FINNISH

    40 Canberra, Australia 74.4 MAIN HAZARD GET LOST WALKABOUT IN BUSH OR MY EX

    47 Brno, Czech Republic 73.9 HAVING VISTED THE CELLS BETTER THAN ANY US CITY

    50 Utrecht, Netherlands 73.8 FALLING OFF A BIKE OR A DYKE INTO A COFFEE SHOP HAZARD

    mANY NICE PLACES IN NETWHELRANDS I LIVED IN HAARLEM AND OFTE VISTED ENKHUIZEN LEIDEN AND HILVERSUM , NAARDEN IS TEH HIDDEN GYM BARELY 20M WEST OF MOKUM A WALLED MOATED TOWN WITH MANY ATTRACTIONS HOME TO MY MENTOR KOMENSKY
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    I just want the chance to use a bigger porridge bowl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HuangLao View Post
    Speaking of highly unreliable and subjectively biased crowdsourced sites - Wikipedia comes to mind. A disreputable history awashed in the dominant paradigm cabal.
    Oh dear.

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    Nice to see Chiang Mai in #1. I almost always felt safe there, but not always with the throngs of tourists around.

    Quebec City eh.. must be all that wine that cheers people up..
    It is a beautiful city, especially the old part..I've been there once.

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    Seoul only 35 on the list of safest cities in the world - people quite literally fall asleep pissed on benches and put their wallet and phone next to them - and Preston, old railway town Preston, on the list of the most dangerous?

    What you gonna do? Get ambushed by a load of angry ticket collectors?
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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Oh dear.
    I think he's getting ChatGPT to write his bollocks for him these days.


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