In two years in Sevilla, and several weeks in other parts of Spain, I have never had anything stolen. And in five + years in New York City, I can say the same thing. I also spent time in France, Ecuador, and Italy without any problems. But on New Year's Eve, during a month-long backpacking trip through a dozen countries in Europe, we were drunk in Rome. My friend put down her bottle of cheap wine to signal for a cab, and a bum snuck in and walked off with the bottle. That was the only thing we lost on the trip. But, while I was in Ecuador, my family's house in Massachusetts was broken into and my stereo was stolen.