You blog it Ding, because I'd be interested in following your progress having landed here in the Uk. It would have to an honest appraisal of course!

Are you fed up, or would you not consider moving to a better area? The fact that you make a living with "Scumbags" and have done so for some 13 years, maybe you'll find they operate different here, and seek different things.

As previously mentioned on this thread, you'll find things have changed dramatically here in the UK inside 10 years, - for the worse that is!

I think "Brianscottie" raised a good point in that here, gangs tend to be more interested in ordinary folk - rich and easy pickings maybe? I'm not sure.. But they do.

Oh, I can see by your tone you take exception to the word "Scumbag" that just tells me you're in for a shock, as you'll find it's a familiar phrase here - even amongst the elite!

My advice to you, - wise up! You're going to need it

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I hope that the UK pulls itself out of the mindset that currently prevails, I really do.

When did you say you was coming back to the UK? Because as we are just about to slide into one of the worst recessions in 46 years, they reckon crime - which makes sense, will escalate on a scale never seen before!

But Jackie Smith thought she'd kept that little fact tucked away from the public eye, until a whistleblower found the email of course

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Please don't generalise - things haven't changed in my area at all, my children are living the exact same childhood as I did. I'm sure it's changed massively in some areas of the UK but that's a very sweeping statement and certainly not true here.

I've said it many times before and I'll say it again, I really do not recognise this crime and yob ridden UK that many on here describe, it doesn't match my experience of it at all.

You are a very lucky person, who is also generalising.
We base our opinions on personal experiences. You may not recognise the crime and yob culture of the UK but it most definitely exists. Denying it is not going to change what others have experienced. Just count your blessings.

I never said it didn't exist - if you re-read my post you'll see that I very clearly said 'my area' and also said 'I'm sure it's changed massively in some areas of the UK'. I was simply referring to my area and was not generalising at all. I don't doubt that some areas have massive problems, but I just pointed out that not all areas of the UK are like that.

Although having said that, I only know one person that has ever been a victim of crime (my grandparents who lived in Edgbaston and were burgled when I was a child) out of all the people we know that live all over the UK from central London to the highlands of Scotland. The only crime I've ever experienced personally was when I was in Toronto!

That's really something
My mum lives in a quiet part of a village just outside the city of Bristol. She's been broken into three times, an attempred break in, had her car broken into while it was in the driveway and had a car stolen/broken into while parked in town on at least four other occasions.

That's awful. I think we've all just been incredibly lucky, my brother and his now wife lived in Bedminster in Bristol for 3 years (as as you'll know if you're familiar with Bristol it's not exactly a nice area), and have now been in Long Ashton nr Bristol for 2 years. Never even had so much as a car wing mirror scratched!!

I was thinking that too - my parents were burgled twice during the time I lived with them, I have personally been assaulted in a nightclub for no apparent reason when I was younger and I was also nearly on the receiving end of some roadrage (had the sense to quickly lock the doors ). And this was just a normal market town in the midlands...

Me too. In Toronto.

Wasn't someone off here was it? You've upset enough people

Now there was a coffee/keyboard moment.

Your failure to recognise it, does not mean it doesn't exsist!

I think the point is in your post:

I really do not recognise this crime and yob ridden UK that MANY on here describe,

We can't all be wrong now can we? I'd say you're in the minority for sure. I too have never experienced anything like Tiny Tears did, but I know of area's where it happens.

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Exactly

Yup! The suspects could be worldwide

It was a black real estate agent from the Beach. I've forgotten his name but there's only one. He may also be a poster.