Yeah, plus the diving sucks in St Louis. Which is one of the many reasons I have never vacationed there. The common refrain, "It's safer than ____", is a useful way to put things into context, but it's not without its pitfalls. For example, I live in Hong Kong because I get paid to do so, because the tax rates are low, because it has the infrastructure I need, etc. There are probably good reasons that you live in St Louis (though, I confess, it's hard for me to imagine what they might be :joke. But I wouldn't vacation in Hong Kong, and you probably wouldn't vacation in St Louis if you had no ties to the city. Where you vacation is a choice, and whether you vacation is also a choice. So Cozumel doesn't just have to be better than St Louis, it also has to be better than Bonaire, Saba, Key Largo, etc., and it has to better than staying home (and saving the cost of vacation).
Oh, and Monroe County where the Keys are is like .0251 murders per 1,000 in 2009, .066 in 2010. So CURRENTLY more deadly, murder-wise than Coz.
Oh dear, I just checked it for the rural county I live in and it rounds to .04. Coz is EVEN safer than out in the country around me....
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