How many streets in NYC, that are the bad areas?

This is asking for trouble, but London or NYC?

• I'm american. I'm from Brooklyn, NYC and I can tell you I love that city so much. But I've been reading on forums and theres so much beef with London and NYC In my opinion its like comparing cheesecake to chocolate cake. They taste different, but both so goood. What I like about New York: The Skyscrapers, I love walking through manhattan and being surrounded by marvels of engineering. The accesibility, all five boroughs are accesible via train 24/7. And even if you dont want to take the train, the island of manhattan is so dense that you could really just walk from the financial district to central park without busting your a$$. The 24 hour culture. For instance, there are just as many people on the street at 4am (in certain neighborhoods) as there are people walking around at 4pm What I dislike: The NYC superiority complex. I mean I do believe that NYC is the best city in the US, but thats just cause I'm from there, people from Chicago, LA, or Houston will say otherwise. New Yorkers tend to think of themselves as the center of the universe. The crime. Some areas are very dangerous. And since its the US guns are all over so it makes it more dangerous. What I like about London The history: Its crazy to walk down a street and know that about 2000 years over history happened in that same spot. The fact that its in the UK. I find the UK in general to have a higher quality of life. The safety. Yeah some areas like Brixton, Peckham, and Tower Hamlets are pretty sketchy..but i feel a lot more safe in peckham than i do in Harlem or the South Bronx What I dont like about London Some of the architecture. I mean some areas are so beautiful, but since the nazis reall destoryed a lot london a lot of the structures built in the 50's 60's and 70's are very visually unnappealing The High Taxes. In NYC a single person pays about 30% in taxes. The UK its more like 45% The fact that most of london (not soho!) closes down pretty early. The streets are pretty dead at night. Im not trying to start trouble, but Im curious as to what you londoners think

• Answer:

  New York, nice to visit. Taxes - I find the USA very confusing on taxes as prices are quoted without tax and therefore you have to add tax to work out how much you're paying. In the UK, prices automatically include tax so the price you see is the price you pay, each state has it's own rate and some goods are exempt in some states or cities e.g. clothes in NYC . The rate of income tax in the UK varies according to how much you earn, if you only pay basic rate tax (plus National Insurance, - what is know as Social security in the US) it is 31%, 22% for the tax and 9% for National Insurance.