Rolf wrote:

> As a casual observation, my major motivations for leaving South Africa
> were crime and opportunity... For Canada, and Australia, you can get a
> feel for each of those by reading up on the news:
>
> http://www.thestar.com/  <-- the Toronto star - note that there is no
> violent crime in the major headlines...
> http://www.smh.com.au/ <-- Sydney morning herald - 3 of top 5 stories
> are murder (or attempted)....
>

To put violent crime in perspective in Toronto. The metropolitan area has
about 3.5M people. There has for the last few years averaged about
one murder a week. The major news story earlier in the year was
more people had been killed on the streets jay walking.

I live outside of Toronto crime of any sort is low.

w..


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