How safe do you feel in Boston? According to Forbes Magazine, area residents should feel more secure than few others in the country.
The magazine ranked the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy-New Hampshire area the fourth-safest (tied with Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash.) in the nation, based on criteria that included population, violent crime, workplace fatalities, traffic death rates, and natural disaster risk.
Boston finished the survey as the safest city in the nation for traffic deaths, which probably makes sense if you understand the meaning of the term, "gridlock." Its lowest score was under the category of natural disaster, where the area finished 28th, presumably for the likelihood of blizzards and hurricanes.
Nearby Providence-New Bedford-Fall River finished sixth in the survey, 11th in traffic death rates and tied with Boston for the risk of natural disaster.
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