dlbert said:
With an average of 13 murders per 100'000 people, St Martin is well below the Caribbean average, for example Jamaica has 52 per 100k people.
I was curious, so I looked it up. The national average in the USA for murder is 4.5 per 100.000. In my home state of NC, the rate is 5.1 per 100,000.
So by my calculator, the US is 3 times safer than SXM. However, what I worry about as a visitor is theft, and I was definitely hit by this. This is the only place in the world I have visited where theft was an issue (for me).
