Crime rates
#167
Re: Crime rates
Actually, my experience from living and working abroad is that many people in the UK have no clue what it is like and expect it to be some sort of nirvana, when actually the issues are pretty much the same in all developed western countries when it comes down to crime, taxes, immigrants etc. It partly stems from the parochial UK tabloids telling them that issues are bad in the UK without placing them in an international perspective.
Clearly the one-off rise in living status due to the higher prices of UK property tend to allow people to live in larger properties in better areas in their new country, but apart from that the stats tend to indicate that most of these countries are pretty similar in most ways - the US tends to be a little further away from the others with its large religiosity, gun issues, lack of socialized health care etc, but still has a lot more in common with the rest of the west than it does the east or developing countries.
The idea that the UK is going down the pan/to hell in a handbasket/to the dogs (and on) seems quite laughable really.
Clearly the one-off rise in living status due to the higher prices of UK property tend to allow people to live in larger properties in better areas in their new country, but apart from that the stats tend to indicate that most of these countries are pretty similar in most ways - the US tends to be a little further away from the others with its large religiosity, gun issues, lack of socialized health care etc, but still has a lot more in common with the rest of the west than it does the east or developing countries.
The idea that the UK is going down the pan/to hell in a handbasket/to the dogs (and on) seems quite laughable really.
#174
Re: Crime rates
Like I said earlier, if the great Neil Young grew up there, it sure as hell can`t be too bad.
#175
Re: Crime rates
They may indeed feel (and be) safer as they have moved up the location tree due to the reason above - they could do a similar thing by moving to a safer area in the UK. Otherwise you are now talking about perceived safety/crime and not actual, real crime that - I suspect that many perceive that they are safer because they don't have the local media banging on about how bad it is all the time.
Last edited by Cape Blue; Sep 10th 2008 at 9:33 pm.
#177
Re: Crime rates
Ever been to New Jersey?
#178
Re: Crime rates
Jules have you been to New Jersey? I've stayed in downtown Elizabeth for a few nights on a stop over. It's not one of the nicest areas, but we never heard a siren or a gunshot and managed to get to ABC liquor store without getting mugged
#179
Re: Crime rates
I have said that there is a one-off rise due to the equity from their UK house, I don't believe that the general economic climate has been, or is currently, much different in the UK than any other western economy.
They may indeed feel (and be) safer as they have moved up the location tree due to the reason above - they could do a similar thing by moving to a safer area in the UK. Otherwise you are now talking about perceived safety/crime and not actual, real crime that - I suspect that many perceive that they are safer because they don't have the local media banging on about how bad it is all the time.
They may indeed feel (and be) safer as they have moved up the location tree due to the reason above - they could do a similar thing by moving to a safer area in the UK. Otherwise you are now talking about perceived safety/crime and not actual, real crime that - I suspect that many perceive that they are safer because they don't have the local media banging on about how bad it is all the time.
#180
Bitter and twisted
Joined: Dec 2003
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Re: Crime rates
I doubt if you have ever lived in any of the places that you are claiming are so safe and so much better than the UK.
You are, indeed, an armchair adventurer.