[baybal2]

A friend of mine from Allwinner had his apartment burglared (despite living in a walled community,) a coworker had his money stolen out of his bag in a cafe.

Shenzhen was not always that safe. Back 10 years ago, the city had unenviable reputation, but it went from one of most unsafe to one of safest.

That was done at the cost of having a police post every 100 meters (quite literally,) and it is not cheap.

[gingabriska]

It's a big city so you can always find such rare cases somewhere.

Doesn't tell us much about how safe a particular city is.

[ekianjo]

Shenzhen was almost nothing 10 years ago and now it has something like the GDP of Hong Kong. It has changed massively in a very short time.

[njepa]

Not 10 years ago. Maybe 30 years ago. There were a number of 40-50 floor skyscrapers being completed in the '90s.