We came from California about 10 years ago - California is worse. If you can afford to live in the nice areas (and there are many more nice areas covering a much larger percentage of the city than bad) the crime rate is low. We never see homeless people in the nice neighborhoods - and there are far fewer here than where we came from in CA. We don't even see that many downtown, although there are some. The school systems in our nice neighborhoods are not bad. We don't hear about children being kidnapped every day. It certainly is not on the news and the news reports everything including having a cat stuck in a tree. We feel perfectly safe here. As the population increases, property crime does tend to increase, but we have not had very little in our neighborhood or surrounding areas. Our friends have the same experience as we do and live in a variety of nice areas around Reno. If you live in one of the few poorer areas, your experience may be different.
Gaius | | Report Abuse

Although I prefer Carson City over Reno for quality of life and excellent city leadership and agree with you that crime is exploding in Reno, I have to point out that comparing any city in CA to Reno for crime is misleading. CA has decriminalizing crime, so the stats are skewed.
Cryssy | Carson, NV | Report Abuse