I'm just wondering what country you're originally from. I'm from America and it's most certainly no worse here than it is there. In fact, without doing any actual research on the subject, but just basing my opinion on how much crime I hear about on the news, I'd say there's less here than in America.

Anyone have stats on this?

By the way, no country is completely crime-ridden or completely crime-free. Big cities will always tend to have more crime than small towns, no matter what country you're in. And part of that might just be population. Naturally more people means more diverse types of people, including those bad elements.