is london safe?

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brianmanahan

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man, the food options are so great here compared to where i live. just about anything i could possibly want to eat, all within walking distance.

sure it might cost a pretty pence, but still. i can handle it for a week.

however, for lunch today i did get ye olde 99p mcd's cheeseburger. ahh, that taste of home. then i topped it off with a 3.35 fancy latte, lol.
 
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Well, they just elected a crazy muslim for mayor....

So obviously, The answer to your question is No..No you will not be safe there




:p
 

StinkyPinky

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There used to be a lot of hoodlums in certain parts of London that were not 'supposed' to be the 'bad' areas, about 15 years ago. Don't know if they did anything about it since then. Elizabeth Taylor moved back to the USA in the late 90s or early 2000s citing that she couldn't walk down the street or go to a shop without security any time of the day, or leave the car parked on the street, due to a plague of nasty little juvenile delinquents, and eventually stopped going out altogether because her security guards were getting into confrontations every time they stepped out. Getting mugged in London is really not considered or treated as a serious crime. It's treated more like that is your penance or price of being one of the "haves". The juvenile system there was a revolving door joke, hoodlums could rack up 20 or 30 arrests, a dozen convictions, before getting anything more than weekend stint in detention and probation.

My brother lived in London for 6 years and was never a victim of any crime.
 

Monk5127

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i thought so too, but i was eating pizza with chorizo on it tonight and a couple of muslim girls sat down next to me

and i think they were silently judging me

Are you sure that wasn't because you were sat in public scoffing a pizza down?