I&#x27;m Canadian and I&#x27;d say about 95% of America is almost as safe as Canada. Or at least as safe as Brampton, Ontario (a poorish city, but not crazy).<p>That last 5% is fucked up though. Detroit itself is beyond fucked up. I used to run a construction site at Jane and Finch (Canada&#x27;s worst intersection at the time) in 2004-2006 and a couple years later I went through Detroit while picking up my friend&#x27;s car. No contest between the two. The bad part of Detroit (70% of it) was like a failed 3rd world country. I was literally told to leave the area of town I was in when I got to the closed (at least for people importing a car) boarder.<p>I got pulled over by cops kinda near that area and you could tell they had an obvious power trip &quot;respect my authority&quot; vibe to them.<p>But then there is Salt Lake City, or Kansas City, or even poor, but hospitable places like Cleveland. They feel just as nice as Canada. Nice cops. Nice people. No sense of foreboding. America has a huge range of situations.