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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved

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Originally Posted by Karthik View Post
http://www.toronto.ca/quality_of_life/safety.htm
We all know the Championship won't move to Toronto anytime soon. But assuming that Atlanta's crime rate is typical for a large metropolitan city may be a bit excessive.
Karthik, I will agree with your overall statement and would amend my post to "United States city" if I was still allowed to edit it. The table you provided has some very favorable statistics toward Toronto. Thank you for making that point.

Having been to Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton & Vancouver I can agree they are beautiful and overall safer than similar per capita cities in the USA. I would be extremely happy to go to the Championship event in Toronto. For reasons (weather, passports etc.) detailed in other threads here that might not happen anytime soon.

It is very difficult to find very current statistics on crime however I found an older one that mentions muggings, car thefts and assaults which are not shown in the table you provided. That article shows Toronto has more of those crimes per capita than NYC.

Again, overall there is no doubt that your typical large Canadian city has a lower overall violent crime rate per capita than a similar USA city. Canada is a beautiful and safe country and I jump at the chance to travel there.


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I was showing how the lack of confetti might not be a negative thing. Otherwise you'd have a 2006 negatives thread where I posted about how the confetti balloons were annoying, followed by a 2007 negatives thread where someone said they wished there was confetti. Poor FIRST would be all confused.
Bongle, Sorry I misunderstood your post.

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Originally Posted by Bongle View Post
...which reminds me: It would be really nice to have the match schedules posted in such a way that we don't have to pester poor dangerousdave all friday to get our team's schedule. If you're going to have a webcast, the schedules should be online.
Hey, I did not feel pestered. If I didn't want to help I didn't have to. I imagined if I was stuck at home how would I feel? Sorry I couldn't help more. It was difficult fighting for position when they posted the 2 sets of papers showing each fields matches. Thankfully someone soon posted all of the matches on CD. Dave
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Last edited by dangerousdave : 17-04-2007 at 18:33.