What would you say is higher in North County the cost of living or the crime rate?

Answer 1

high cost of living going up, low crime rate going down


http://www.realestatelibrary.com/costofliving.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060414/news_7m14stats.html

Answer 2

These two things aren't really directly comparable.

Cost of living is measured in several ways. For example, you might compare median home prices, or the cost of a representative "basket of goods".

Crime rates are expressed as the number of incidents of a particular type of crime per capita.