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Crime in your area
May 25th 2011 | 10:17 am
#92
Lowering the tone
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 8,154
From: Here and there
Re: Crime in your area
I was once asked if i could spare some change by a homeless fella while he was taking a shit in Kitsilano, Vancouver. I was tempted purely for his multi-tasking skills.
I'm pretty sure taking a shit off the back of a bench down the street is illegal. Never saw that in my little Yorkshire village therefore crime is worse in the whole of Canada
I'm pretty sure taking a shit off the back of a bench down the street is illegal. Never saw that in my little Yorkshire village therefore crime is worse in the whole of Canada
May 25th 2011 | 10:25 am
#94
Lowering the tone
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 8,154
From: Here and there
Re: Crime in your area
With such multi-tasking, entrepreneurial and contingency planning skills, I'll wager your shitey vagrant won't be on the streets for much longer, and will soon be serving up donuts in your local Timmies. Hurrah and thrice hurrah for this blessed land of opportunity.
May 25th 2011 | 10:34 am
#95
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,710
Re: Crime in your area
With such multi-tasking, entrepreneurial and contingency planning skills, I'll wager your shitey vagrant won't be on the streets for much longer, and will soon be serving up donuts in your local Timmies. Hurrah and thrice hurrah for this blessed land of opportunity.
May 25th 2011 | 10:36 am
#96
Beep
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 8,311
From: Here
Re: Crime in your area
With such multi-tasking, entrepreneurial and contingency planning skills, I'll wager your shitey vagrant won't be on the streets for much longer, and will soon be serving up donuts in your local Timmies. Hurrah and thrice hurrah for this blessed land of opportunity.
*sorry
May 25th 2011 | 10:53 am
#97
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 704
From: Cheltenham, UK was Vancouver, BC
May 25th 2011 | 10:53 am
#98
Thread Starter
Nuther day in paradise.ca
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 7,269
From: Ajax, Ontario
Re: Crime in your area
Now thats English humour....
May 25th 2011 | 11:54 am
#99
Born again atheist
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 30,259
From: Europe (to be specified).
Re: Crime in your area
It's not humour, it's the simple truth.
May 25th 2011 | 1:33 pm
#100
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 487
From: Ottawa
Re: Crime in your area
Either you've not lived in the UK or ever frequented the UK because this is quite the norm for suburbia. A small lane with only three houses! Admittedly surrounded by 1000's of Wimpy homes but certainly not a cheap area.
May 25th 2011 | 1:41 pm
#101
Beep
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 8,311
From: Here
Re: Crime in your area
I've lived in a few places in the UK and still own property there. Not once have i encountered what you describe.
How many houses have you lived in in the UK? How many of these houses were in different areas? How many of these houses suffered the situation you describe on an ongoing basis?
May 25th 2011 | 1:55 pm
#102
Sidecar Falcon
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,504
Re: Crime in your area
I have only seen one punch up since I arrived in Canada and that was between two women, although I use the term "women" in the loosest possible sense of the word, seriously they were both rank.
May 25th 2011 | 2:33 pm
#103
Thread Starter
Nuther day in paradise.ca
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 7,269
From: Ajax, Ontario
Re: Crime in your area
To Summarize then
Crime exists in Canada, like anywhere else in the world. But it does not appear to effect Expats as much as it does, or did, in the UK.
Most of the reported, gun crime, is gang related and nothing to worry about as it does not directly effect the regular peeps on here
Canada is not safer, than the UK, its just we live in safer areas now.
Glad to hear that the majority here are not directly effected by huge amounts of crime.
Clear as Mud, case closed....LOL
Crime exists in Canada, like anywhere else in the world. But it does not appear to effect Expats as much as it does, or did, in the UK.
Most of the reported, gun crime, is gang related and nothing to worry about as it does not directly effect the regular peeps on here
Canada is not safer, than the UK, its just we live in safer areas now.
Glad to hear that the majority here are not directly effected by huge amounts of crime.
Clear as Mud, case closed....LOL
May 25th 2011 | 2:50 pm
#104
Born again atheist
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 30,259
From: Europe (to be specified).
Re: Crime in your area
To Summarize then
Crime exists in Canada, like anywhere else in the world. But it does not appear to effect Expats as much as it does, or did, in the UK.
Most of the reported, gun crime, is gang related and nothing to worry about as it does not directly effect the regular peeps on here
Canada is not safer, than the UK, its just we live in safer areas now.
Glad to hear that the majority here are not directly effected by huge amounts of crime.
Clear as Mud, case closed....LOL
Crime exists in Canada, like anywhere else in the world. But it does not appear to effect Expats as much as it does, or did, in the UK.
Most of the reported, gun crime, is gang related and nothing to worry about as it does not directly effect the regular peeps on here
Canada is not safer, than the UK, its just we live in safer areas now.
Glad to hear that the majority here are not directly effected by huge amounts of crime.
Clear as Mud, case closed....LOL
Next task: when should you say affect instead of effect?
May 25th 2011 | 3:03 pm
#105
Thread Starter
Nuther day in paradise.ca
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 7,269
From: Ajax, Ontario
