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by wittyusername 2157 days ago
I live on the beach. Like actually I wake up and there it is staring at me in bed, my porch is covered in corrosion and salt air persists everywhere.

It may be an invention but a few years into living here damned if it isn't one of the few things that resists hedonic adaptation. I feel way more relaxed here, granted I was coming from a major metro but I sometimes things that get hyped up actually are great!

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Do you mind sharing where you live? One day I think I'd like to live on the beach.
Puerto Rico! If you are a US citizen you can just get up and move here. Lots of videos on YouTube to describe what it’s like and what it’s like to move here.
Before anyone gets too excited, keep in mind that the homicide rate for the US is 5 per 100,000, El Salvador (the highest) is 52 per 100,000, and Puerto Rico is 30... closer to El Salvador than to the US which isn't even that low.
An incomplete list of contiguous US city homicide rates PR is closer to than El Salvador as of 2018:

X 60.94 - St. Louis

X 58.64 - Baltimore

38.88 - Detroit

37.09 - New Orleans

28.52 - Memphis

22.78 - Washington DC

22.12 - Philadelphia

22.07 - Buffalo

20.70 - Chicago

18.88 - Cincinnati

18.84 - Pittsburgh

18.46 - Indianapolis

17.74 - Atlanta

16.62 - Milwaukee

16.27 - Oakland

14.95 - Fort Wayne

14.88 - Tulsa

13.60 - Orlando

13.45 - Toledo

13.26 - Nashville

12.62 - Greensboro

12.32 - Albuquerque

12.18 - Jacksonville

11.77 - Houston

11.38 - Dallas

11.09 - Columbus

10.54 - Stockton

09.72 - Miami

Does the 'X' mean that those cities have clinched the division title?