What's the most desirable crime rate in an area to live in?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Medium crime.

Low crime areas are always either mind-numbingly boring or quite expensive. High crime areas also tend to be pretty boring in addition to the obvious. I know I used to rave about how high crime areas were more fun, but really, they usually aren't. Medium crime areas are fun and vibrant and can be affordable.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I've always lived in low-crime areas, it's hard to imagine wishing for more crime...

It's not the crime that's desirable, it's correlation. Low crime areas are always either rural or suburban areas that are boring as hell or gentrified places that are quite unaffordable. The only low crime areas that are ever fun to live are some college towns if you're in college.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

So then I'm immature because I haven't moved from where I live to a low crime suburb?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

TNF is right about high crime areas which also tend to be boring. But it's a fact that "hip" or "fun" neighborhoods are always at least medium crime. Low crime areas are always either insanely unaffordable or dull as dirt suburbs or rural areas.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It was inspired by an IRC discussion and is more about correlation than causation.

I could've easily moved to Edina or Burnsville or somewhere like that sometime in the last couple years but have not. But crime is far higher where I live. So it's clear there's other factors involved otherwise no one who can afford it (which is plenty of people based on Census data) would live in urban areas.

One of my friends who lives one neighborhood over is an IT systems engineer. I think it's safe to say he doesn't live in a somewhat gritty urban neighborhood because he can't afford anywhere else.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Those are not uncommon but all quite rural and boring.