Most Dangerous Small Towns & Cities In Canada 

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Im black, and lived in an all white small town called Devon just about 30 minutes outside Edmonton. It was low key my favourite town I’ve lived in. Everyone was friendly, they didn’t care that my family was the only Black family. They treated us like equals. Not to be racist or anything, but from experience, all white towns in Alberta tend to be super safe and have friendly people.

I grew up in a small town in Canada, and while my town was very safe, it seems like the cold and darkness does something to people. I swear the further north you go, the worse the issues get.

I grew up in a small town of 1,900 people in Canada, and the crime rate was almost non existant. We used to say that if someone took a crap at one end of town, everyone at the other end knew before the toilet was flushed LOL. We had 4 police officers and everyone knew everyone.

High crime is also to do with repeat offenders and the revolving door arrest and release protocol. The same persons doing most of the criminal offences in small towns.

As someone who lives in Williams Lake and has been kidnapped at gunpoint, I would say this is pretty accurate

Grew up in Selkirk and also lived in Thompson. This is not surprising!! We don’t call it “Sel-crack, Methatoba” for no reason!! 🙈

My best friend moved to Thompson this summer to work in the mine, I thought I might never see him again. He was back home in the Maritimes in only *three days.* Thompson was an absolute nightmare.

I'm an Ontarian living in Manitoba for 20 years. They call Selkirk, Sell Crack. Everyone in Manitoba drives drunk.

Some common denominators of your top 10 that you failed to mention. They are all policed by RCMP. They all have a large indigenous population in the area, some are offenders but many are victims as well. Many are centres of high paying but temporary work like forestry, mining, pipelines that attract transient workers without roots in the community. Some may be offenders but many are also victims of crime. Indigenous and transient populations also attract a high number of alcohol and drug related crimes.

How about the top 10 safest small towns in Canada- it would be interesting to compare the similarities and differences

Funny every reference to "gangs" shows Hells Angels, which are basically Unicorns in the big picture. Indigenous gangs do virtually all the heavy lifting.

The problem with all these small towns (atleast in manitoba) is that when somebody makes trouble on a reserve or their farm, they get exiled and sent to towns like portage la praire or Thompson. It sucks for the people who live there but the government keeps putting huge housing projects in the middle of the towns which is causing all the crime

I'm from that area and I definitely would never move back. I left when I was in my teens and it is very sad when the reserves have crooks that are supposed to be their for the people but they aren't. It sickening to see how this generation is. I taught my children (now adults) to finish school get a degree and work. To this day they never want to go visit at my reservation. I don't blame them nothing there. We don't receive any type of money and we are doing fine. Except the fact that we are being treated poorly in the city even though we have our own home and work everyone thinks that we get free money and it's totally the opposite we work and pay taxes like everyone else. I keep myself humble and I definitely am a person who sees most chief and council steal from their own people. Nothing is going to get any better unless they start trying to cleaning up the reservations.

Canada, Australia and New Zealand all seem to share a similarity with rural crime being far more prevalent than urban crime.

As an Indigenous person from Canada, I can honestly admit that we are almost the equivalent of African Americans in the US in terms of crimes, reservations here are almost worse than ghettos in the states it hurts when I hear of our own people killing eachother, (sometimes even family memebers killing family memebers) over drug dealing, I dont know why we reapeat this cycle over here in Canada

I do utility work for a big company(Not gonna name for my job security), went to a res by fort Mac called Janvier, the company we do telecoms for had sent over 4 sub contracted companies and they all left because of people there are too violent, the place was disgusting, every home dam near looked like a dump, crack heads everywhere, lady was tweaking out and ran infront of my work truck lol We got sent in as no other company was willing to go finish the fibre optics installation for the res, our placer got a knife stuck up to him for his glasses When I went there there were cars burning in the ditches, locals tailing me for half an hour, we had a lay down that was well hidden and the locals stole a bunch of our fibre optics cables thinking it was copper, returned it all bunched up and partly stripped 😂 They had broken into our structures to pull our big mainline fibre out and try to strip it infront of the police for copper, the cops asked them what they're doing and they simply replied "Looking for copper to sell" no copper in fibre optics lines lol We had to be escorted everywhere with people to watch our backs and protect us just so we can work, place was an absolute nightmare

If we want to reduce the crime rate in the small towns of western Canada we probably need to reduce the rate of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder among the indigenous population. That will require a change of lifestyles in the indigenous community.

As a senior living in Canada all my life I can say the turning point in relation to crime was after the introduction of the "Young offenders act". It's long past time that we start to make our youth accountable for their actions IMO.

When we were kids in The Pas, Manitoba, the only time we were safe to walk around town was when Hell's Angels would come to town every summer to sell drugs. We didn't do drugs but their competitors, Indian Posse raised a lot of hell for us. Tons of drinking, homelessness, random acts of violence, and the cops seem to do absolutely nothing but stop drunk drivers and speeders. It's basically Thompson but crimes usually go unreported because it's a waste of time and you yourself might get grief from the RCMP. They're absurdly corrupt and lazy.

I worked in thompson couple years back and all i can say is its a totally different world out there. People lining up in liquor stores in the early mornings, mouthwash and alcohol is behind locked shelves in pharmacies. Never seen anything like that

All these places are in western Canada the wild west. I still find Canada to be a very safe place after travelling the country coast to coast to coast. Alcohol and drugs cause problems in small towns when people are bored.

I’m from Wetaskiwin. I think every town on this list is close to an Indian reserve. The one south of me is a dry reserve so a lot of the people from there come to town to buy alcohol and then cause problems. It’s so bad.

I lived in east asia from 2004-2014 and never felt like I was in danger. My biggest reverse culture shock was coming back to my own country, Canada, and constantly on the lookout for getting robbed and assaulted. People have tried to rob me just walking around, try to break into my home, and seriously assaulted friends of mine. It's very sad what Canada has become. I don't care which side takes care of this left or right, but something has to be done.

Terrace went from a very safe friendly place to a straight up open air mental asylum over the course of 2009 to today. Most people dont walk downtown now because of the amount of junkies.

My grandfather's 101 years old, he's lived in the same house for seventy years in a small town no bigger than a thousand people at most, never having to so much as lock his door. Then about ten years ago something started to change, all the drug addicts, criminals and drug addicted criminals from the small to mid size cities seemed to all come to the realization that these small communities were at best case, a half hour from police intervention. Now the disabled bodies worry about being beaten and robbed and the able bodied worry about ending up in court and the national news for defending their homes. This all started right around the same time as a certain somebody took office in Ottawa, and I don't believe in coincidence.

Red deer should have got an honorable mention for JUST barely being above 100k population threshold.

I live in a small town (population 7,200) on Southern Vancouver Island. I'm exactly halfway between Victoria and Duncan. Crime in those two cities is awful. I'm so grateful their crime doesn't seem to be affecting us yet. Homelessness and drug addiction are the the main issues. Fortunately, rural farming communities are spared these problems.

Basically in western Canada as long as you’re about 100km plus away from any native reserve you’re pretty safe. Inside that and you can physically watch the area deteriorate the closer you get to the reserves.

The population of Grand Prairie is clearly not 12k as the video says. I forgot to change the population on the template I made. Everything else is good though. :)

Great video, exposing the hard truth about small town crime where native populations are prevalent. There is no easy solution to this.

Small towns in Canada feel very much like the way bad neighborhoods in big cites like harlem or parts of detroit felt. As in nobody ever gets out. Because Canada is so spread out, the idea of leaving everything you know behind, even if everything you know sucks, can be impossible. So people stay and stagnate and get bitter and violent and it can compound so quickly

It’s sad. I have watched my small Canadian city of 40k people go from the safest, friendliest place you could imagine, to a meth-riddled hellhole with routine shootings and public machete attacks. All in the span of about 10 years.

I grew up in Thompson,Manitoba and I still have family there.One of the best decisions I made in life was moving away, it's just sad it took me 34 years to make that decision.I have many memories growing up in Princeton towers and living in Eastwood area, not all were good ones.

I lived in prince albert sk for a few years working as a 911 Dispatcher. It was a very interesting time in my life that has admittedly left me a bit jaded and paranoid. I no longer live there, I chose to settle to a very small and safe farming community about an hour away. The crime in PA doesn't have much to do with the people that live there. Prince albert is the gateway to the north, a very transient community. Members of northern communities poor into prince albert constantly with nothing to do and they wreak havoc on the citizens there. There is a lot of gang activity as well. If you live in PA you pretty much either work in the medical field or you work at a jail. The provinces 2 federal prisons are in PA. So the city attracts a lot of prison visitors from all over the province and attract many people from the north requiring medical attention. They get themselves here often with a few of their family members and they just sort of don't leave. They hang around the city with no jobs and victimize people and properties. Glad I don't live or work there anymore.

Damn I knew Williams lake was gonna be on here😂💀

Recently Canada released updated CSI scores and I have compiled every city into a Google Sheets document with their CSI scores -- I thought I should share some of my findings as they are pretty interesting - Since 2019, Thompson has overtook North Battleford for the total CSI Score, prob thus the reason why a 11 months ago I found Thompson had a significantly higher total crime rate; because since 2019 North Battleford has gone down in crime, becoming pretty similar to Wetaskiwin in crime - MacLean's did not include Fort McMurray, as whilst Fort McMurray is a city, it has jurisdiction over the nearby oil sands as the municipality of Wood Buffalo -- despite this, over 95% of Wood Buffalo residents live in Fort McMurray, so it is unfair to disclude it - On the same note as the most recent note, Fort McMurray would've been the worst city for crime in this list, as it had a CSI score of 610.50 in 2019. Currently it is the 2nd worst behind Thompson and ahead of North Battleford. Fort McMurray is so bad for crime that in 2011, Vice (the news organization) made a documentary just about how bad crime, pollution and poverty are in Fort McMurray - For some reason, MacLean's did not include any of the cities from the territories -- if included, Yellowknife would've made the list, having a CSI score of 236.68 in 2019. Currently it sits as the 7th worst - Since 2019: Selkirk, Grande Prairie, Terrace, Williams Lake and Quesnel have seen among some of the highest crime decreases in the country, although Selkirk has spiked again as of the most recent year - Since 2019: Penticton, Leduc, Timmins, Courtenay and New Glasgow have seen among some of the highest increases in the country - Iqaluit, Nunavut only has around 7.5k people so it wouldn't count, but I felt it would be interesting as like a sidenote as it would be the worst for total CSI at 538.22 -- although it sits decently below Thompson for it's violent CSI score If you are interested in seeing the up to date CSI ratings, I'd be more than happy to share as it took a decent bit of time -- as well I will include the territory cites (Yellowknife & Whitehorse), and include Fort McMurray

Anytime we’d go up to PA for hockey tournaments the native teams would come to our hotels and slash our tires.

I love the Firewatch OST in the background, Such a great touch

I wonder how many people watch this to see if their city made the list 😅

Small communities used to be great places to live, crime was almost non existent, there were dances, card parties, potlucks and church was central.

I was born and raised in North Battleford. Things were a lot different back then ('70s). It's sad to see what has happened but unfortunately you aren't allowed to talk about why that is so it isn't going to get better.

I was born and raised in Thompson. And i love how all of the pictures of it were of the East end of town which is the bad end. The homeless population is so high because alot of homeless people from outlying nearby reserves make their way to Thompson and dont leave.

Notice how there are no entries from Eastern Canada? Why? Because the common denominator in all of these cities is indigenous crime. Each and every city/town listed has significant indigenous populations and you barely note this except in the portion on Thompson. Indigenous crime stats are a repudiation of centuries of the same failed approach of managing aboriginal affairs by Ottawa. Simply throwing money at band councils and expecting nothing in the way of progress in education and development. It is sad.

Wetaskiwin resident here ✋🏻 had my car stolen right out of my garage in the morning before work. I got it back like an hour and a bit later b/c I posted on Facebook that if anyone sees my car to call the cops. Found my car at the local Esso gas station and like 7 cop cars surrounding it 😄

I grew up in a small town and can confirm we had a huge crime problem, I always said we were trying to get out of the shadow of big cities by being 10x worse.

Nice Firewatch music. I’m a fan of the game. Very informative thank you

Always and will always love that place (Grande Prairie) . But I'll never forget waking up at 12 years old to go to school, and having to walk past the rotary house thing that they have there, (basically tent city where the homeless get pushed into to keep them out of the way of the rich oil people). One morning in particular I remember seeing a young woman (maybe 20-25) in the freezing -35 degree windchill in nothing more than a tank top being arrested, a needle dug into her arm above the cuff. My mom said nothing, just told me and my brother to look away. I Just remember thinking how cold she must be. Not to mention the hundred others lined up in tents (overflow from the shelter) behind her.

You should address the "elephant in the room" and overlay a map of indigenous populations in these regions ...

Much appreciated, but I am already depressed. No one wants to start a business in a drug / crime town so nothing will change until the leaders make the change. These are local problems and the Feds are only throwing away our money.

Just on another note I live near wetaskiwin and I lived in nb and I lost alot of friends over the years, i changed in my 20s i saw who was all involved and it doesn't start in those cities it starts on the reserves who are pushing it through those cities

In some of these towns the RCMP are either understaffed or sitting on their butts in the detachmant or their cruisers.

According to stats Canada, indigenous people commit 7 times more crimes than non indigenous people. There’s more indigenous people out west and north, which explains the higher crime rates.

It’s shocking to hear that Thompson, Manitoba is, per capita, the most violent city in North America given the crime rate in many parts of Mexico.

My buddies and I stayed at a Travellidge in North Battleford about 2 years ago. Lots of general damage to the room, but the scariest bit was that the bathroom door was badly damaged and looked like it had been forced open through the frame while it was locked. Literally do not want to know what happened there.

I was staying at a place overnight one time just outside of Saskatoon and almost got mugged by Sasquach.

I live in a town just an hour outside of North Battleford, and the crime can almost be felt in our small town still. Our police suspect that people from that place just drive out here, and then set out to steal a vehicle, place it in a field and then light it on fire. Things are worse in the city. You always keep your windows up, so people don't come and start trouble. Never roll your windows down in North Battleford to talk to anyone. Youth violence is a huge issue, also.

Times sure are changing here in Canada. Very sad to see indeed. I'm 59 years old and I've seen so many stats and yes it's increased substantially. Here where I live, was a very dangerous city but the city did a huge clean-up and although we still have crime, it's lowered. Have an awesome day everyone

I have family in North Battleford and have been there lots. What is said here is bang on!

Heard of basically all these towns when I was in the military, the amount of people who join just to get out of there is crazy. Meanwhile there'd be like 1 in 50 who are from a bigger city

You know what all these have in common? Being near Reserves, First Nations, etc. and lack of funding/personnel to respond to the drugs, etc

Small towns, small budgets, I guess, and here in Canada, we don't keep criminals in jail, automatic release for even repeat violent offenders.

Winkler Manitoba's police chief in a city of 13,000 recently announced cancellation of their annual bike auction as there were rarely any bikes stolen I was born at Winkler hospital 1958. ( Dr Wiebe)

I grew up in a small Canadian town and we too had crime almost daily... Once I realized there was a high score, I've gone above and beyond to make sure that crime never sleeps

My family moved to Prince Albert in 1970 at that time it was a very nice and clean city. I moved away in 1994 and my kids grew up in a small community.... all of my sons live in small communities now as adults.

Quesnel is my hometown! It certainly wasn't perfect when I was growing up, but the homelessness and crime rates have skyrocketed in recent years. So sad to it going downhill :(

I have visited Prince Albert a few times since my girlfriend is from there. A couple years ago she was at a party, a gang member showed up partway through and stabbed and killed one of the kids there. Scary stuff man.

Im from Sudbury and we have our problems but have lived all over Canada as a teacher. I have lived in BC, Alberta Sask and Manitoba and I always felt far more unsafe than in Ontario. Most of these problem cities are cities high in unemployment and higher in drugs /alcohol. Dont blame the Indigenous , they were forced to areas that are extremely isolated , have very high unemployment and generational trauma. In Ontario we are all too busy working 3 jobs to afford anything to be criminals. I literally taught on reserves near 6/10 cities mentioned here. I dodged some bullets.

Great production value as always! I still can't believe you don't have more subscribers.

I've lived in NB for a while now. It's definitely rough here but it's honestly still less sketchy than the slummy neighborhoods I lived in Edmonton as a young person. The worst I've had happen in NB is a broken car window (nothing stolen) over a decade ago and some bags of cans taken from my backyard of my old rental house over 6 years ago. A lot of the crime here has to do with gangs and drug trafficking or theft of unlocked vehicles. If you aren't involved with sleazy people, you'll likely be fine so long as you lock your stuff up and have security for your home.

Notice how all these towns have a high indigenous population. That becomes an even bigger problem if you walk down the street and they think you owe them something, just based on the color of your skin.

I moved to the city of thompson in 2000 and believe it or not i love it here in the north. Im from Toronto.

In Prince Albert the drug use here is pretty bad. In any shopping area theres a lot of homeless people begging for money and also passed out whereever they can sit. As a kid it wasn't this bad but when the government decided to stop allocating welfare benefits to rent for drug users the homeless situation shot through the roof. Thanks Scott Moe

The problem with crime statistics is what does not get reported does not get recorded. I used to live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and worked as a security guard in a large shopping mall for 11 years. The amount of shoplifting there was insane. There was one woman who worked there who also has worked retail all across Canada because her husband got moved around because he was military and she said she had never seen anything like the level of retail theft anywhere else. Thing is most of it never got reported. It was a business decision; just write off the losses because the store would have to pay to send their employee to court as a witness and it wasn't worth it. They also did not want the liability of employees making the wrong call leading to getting sued for false arrest or possibly getting assaulted by the thief. There were also lots of assaults that did not get reported. Often both parties involved were just engaged in an ongoing dispute which often involved illegal activities so there was no way they wanted the police involved. I knew of a case of a kid who was acting tough and got a gun stuck in his mouth and had the facts of life explained to him. He said nothing for fear of retaliation. There was a "code of silence" involved....don't be a rat. If all these crimes were properly counted I am sure Dartmouth, Nova Scotia would definitely be in the top 10 for sure.

I grew up in Wetaskiwin in the 80's .. I dont remember it being so unsafe that I couldnt roam the streets at night.. I remember a little crime, but I felt safe for the most part.. Perhaps I was just innocent or naive... What I hear about it now makes me sad..

I live in Dauphin, and honestly I’m surprised things aren’t worse here. We’re kind of the odd one out considering our circumstance

I lived in Thompson for over 20 years, the citizens have their own set of rules that must be followed or you are guaranteed to get violently assaulted by a group of people, two main rules, don't walk anywhere after 7pm (even in a small group is not safe) and avoid the T.I at all costs (unless you're a regular). the population balloons every summer due to the high amount of reserves around it, people migrate to the city to live homeless (even though they have homes in their respective towns) and drink. then in the winter, everyone goes home because its too cold (-40 average in Jan / Feb) or they die in an ATM lobby (True Story). Leaving that city was the best feeling ever!

Who live in these small towns. Show the inhabitants and we will know what the cause is.

Sir I had to add a little sarcasm, love your talk your right on...

Surrey, especially Newton, is kinda crazy now I loved it there personally, very beautiful there with lots of people and infrastructure

I live in terrace, we have a huge problem with homeless people and drug abuse. When I was a kid the town was safe enough that I could go to the corner store at night unsupervised, now I don’t want to leave my house after dark. If the criminal is First Nations our police won’t do anything about it, I know a guy who was assaulted on his property by a homeless First Nations man and the police cuffed him, not the homeless attacker. Our police force has been neutered and can’t put the druggies and other criminals in prison where they belong.

Pretty sad world we live in. Makes me sick to see what’s happening to our country. I think to start we need to shut the revolving door to criminals and drug traffickers. There is known criminals with over 100 convictions and they keep putting back on the street until they’re convicted of rape or murder. Sickening.

I drive for a living across Canada and I can tell you the problem is getting worse and worse not better this country is collapsing

Maybe you should compare the CSI score with the native population percentage.

I knew my city, which is Lethbridge, made that list! The crime here over the last 20 years has skyrocketed really badly

Should update this video for 2023. Dawson Creek will be in your top 4 guaranteed.

You can pretty much blame natives for most of the small city crime issues. I know that's not politically correct, but it's true. Their communities have massive problems with drug abuse and crime. You'll notice that most those small cities you listed have a disproportionately large number of natives in them. For example North Battleford is 25% native, Prince Albert is 45% native, Williams Lake is 15%, Selkirk is 35%, Thompson is 45% etc. while in any of our largest cities they make up no more than 1-2% of the population (though in Edmonton they're about 5%, and surprise surprise, Edmonton has much higher crime rates than Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal etc.). It's very similar to blacks in America, where you find a direct, linear correlation between the percentage of the population that's black and crime rates. Except in America, they mostly congregate in the inner cities rather than in small rural towns. And obviously it's important to note that this isn't attack on those groups. But these things need to be brought to people's attention so that we can actually address the problems instead of trying to turn a blind eye and pretend nothing is happening, or pretend that it's completely random and that nothing can be done about it. Millions of people are suffering in these communities in the name of political correctness, and in the name of sparing feelings. I for one don't care about hurting people's feelings by stating the objective truth, and neither should anyone else. Swallow the pill and fix the damn problem.

The mystery is not hard to solve. There is a certain population that is responsible for the majority of crimes. That population is growing and most of the crime is within that same population. These are the names of the gangs in Saskatchewan: Native Syndicate, Indian Posse, Crips, Saskatchewan Warriors and Redd Alert. You can draw your own conclusions.

The thing about the crime rates in the smaller towns is that the rates don't take into account people from the outlying areas that come into the town, commit some type of crime - which then gets added to that towns crime statistics, then go home to the outlying area. The rates would be different if the people in the surrounding areas were accounted for in the crime statistics for the towns themselves.

Valuable info here. I recently retired and have to pick a place to spend my final years.

I was surprised that Ontario had no towns on this list.

I live in an arm pit right outside of Edmonton. I used to live in the city and I never had my car broken into. While being in Devon, about 20 mins outside of Edmonton, my car has been broken into at least 3 times. My brother has had his car broken into at least two or three times. I know numerous people who've had their gas tanks drilled into. The town has a population of 2,000. Even though it's a short jaunt to the city, unless you have a car, there's no way to get there. I'm bored to death living here. I can't imagine what it's like being 16.

Despite 70% of Canadians living east of the Manitoba/Ontario border, 100% of the Towns on list are west of that border. Well done on pronouncing Quesnel properly. I live 200km North of Whitehorse so I laughed at calling Terrace and Thompson "North". Thanks for that.

I currently live in Lloydminster and just a few days ago somebody died in their home, my friends were filming the situation. There’s different spots around the city of where the crime is, so I used to live around the rich neighborhood where nothing really happens, but now I live more around downtown where there’s A LOT of fires and drugs. Like sometimes me and my family drive past a few homes and my dad will just tell us about how someone was keeping illegal drugs in their basement. But I was pretty shocked that we were 11th though, like damn😭

you should do a video similar to this but only focus on eastern canada because all of these were western/central. like do ontario to NL, i think that would be interesting

I moved from Vancouver BC to a small New Brunswick village and i have never felt so unsafe. The crime is off the charts and never changes because everyone is related and refuses to do anything about it. I'm moving back to Vancouver so i can feel safe again- go figure.

Make more of dark info vids like this for Canada based on statistics and news articles. Good work.

Selkirk ?!? … I’ve played many Softball Tournaments there and gone there and found it was a great town … reminded me of my own … Cambridge Ontario Canada

I’d be interested to see how these compare to other countries in North and Central America.

I'm from Quesnel and all of our issues are because of PG, Vancouver and the government. When Vancouver had the Olympics they thought it'd be a good idea to start just sending their homeless everywhere rather than dealing with it and since then Quesnel has been getting insane amounts of homeless people that are mentally ill and we don't have enough housing or help for them, they consistently rob our cars (if you live on the westside) and they even rob our stores, but things get worse when we talk about the cesspool of garbage called PG, those A holes cant keep their drug wars out of our town, we used to have a drug family making sure that drugs came in but that the town still stayed nice and safe but since they got arrested all the gangs from PG have started having their wars here because they want their town to be nice. lastly the government gives us no money to fix crap, our cops aren't allowed to arrest anyone for crimes, we legally cant defend our homes without getting sued by the intruder and since all these harsh drugs have been decriminalized bylaw cant even do anything about the people smoking crack in the center of downtown. I used to be able to walk downtown as a kid and there would be some normal homeless and stuff but now its only sketchy homeless people who look like their gonna pass out, are passed out, or are gonna attack you. like there used to be just nick and like a few other homeless but now we got like $5 or $10 (Jennifer), there's this old lady who always says she had the same car as me and then asks me for money or smokes but I'm like we have mental health and addictions go there to get help. my town is safe and beautiful we just get a bad wrap statistically cause all of the real bad areas lie about their crap were just honest that other towns are fighting their wars in ours so we essentially just get punished and shunned for asking for a bit of help.