Friday, February 10, 2012

Is Taiwan Safe? Oh yeah!


One student mentioned her parents’ concern about sending the child so far away. I wish I can say something to comfort parents' worry, but I know no matter what I say, parents will be still "WORRY". I still remember when Andrew was born, I complained about being unable to sleep to a nurse at the hospital. Then said to us: "you will never sleep well for the rest of your life" Well, of course she exaggerated a little. But now, two boys after, I kind of understand what she meant. As parents, we will always WORRY

But I do have something to offer, data. The crime rate in Taiwan is a lot lower than Chicago, even US. In the past few years, US homicide rate is around 4.8~5.0/100,000, while Taiwan is 3.2~3.5. These US data is national wide statistics. That means even though you factor in all the small towns around the country, the US homicide rate is still higher than Taiwan. I guess you don’t need me to mention Chicago.

So, to your worry, I can say that Taiwan is safer than US, not to mention Chicago.

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