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Not so safe, but it all depends where you live in the city and all that. Downtown / midtown is the best, anything else is hit or miss. Areas on Moross St. by Grosse point are just as nice as anywhere else. Also, even though Detroit is arguably the most dangerous city in the country, suburbs are very safe.
Well Cary can back it up. Cary is consistently named one of the safest places to live both regionally and nationally, the FBI released crime data in in 2013 that actually named it the lowest in total crime rate in America among all cities with populations of 100,000-500,000.