People in Roland Park live nineteen years longer than residents of the Southwest.
They're four miles apart!
(Also interesting: RP residents live a year longer than the residents of Homeland, and 10 years longer than denizens of the Hampden/Remington area)
(Average US life expectancy = 78 years)
It's also sobering to compare the SW to other countries, like, say, Libya.
More on from Hermann on the SW's crapulence
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It's a great neighborhood with loving, caring parents. I hear their fathers out on the corners yelling "boy, boy, boy" or "girl, girl, girl" all hours of the day & night.
Pretty interesting information about death.
It appears that whether you live in SW or Roland Park, the biggest killers are heart disease and cancer. I wonder what the breakdown by age is for each mode of death?
I am assuming the life span in the SW is being reduced via the murder rate, no?
I doubt the murder rate is having as much as an effect on lifespan as poor eating habits, obesity and lack of exercise.
I like the measurement of "YPLL"-- years of potential lost life.
When you add that up, things that take a young life are more heavily weighted. As deadly as heart disease and cancer are, they are the result of genetics and long-term lifestyle choices so they affect old people disproportionately.
"Murder" is an affliction of the young.
If a ton of old people die of something, it doesn't have the same effect on average lifespan as one young person being murdered - ie death by cancer at 65 (cancer survival rates in the US are the highest in the world, by the way) doesn't affect average lifespan nearly as much as a murdered 20 year-old, or a 17 year-old killed in a car accident.
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