Do you agree that the UK is probably the nicest peoples in the world ?
The people of england and all that looks so gentle and nice
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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
There's good and bad everywhere. Including in the U:K.
As a rule, the cities tend to have folk who are generally (in my experience) less likely to be helpful if you needed something like directions or advice.
That's probably because there's little sense of community in some places, and some are fearful of robbery or worse.
I think that's because the cities are often densely populated and folk are wary of people they don't know.
But it's not true of everybody.
I was once stuck in Birmingham wandering about looking for an address and found myself in a very Jamaican street and it suddenly dawned on me i might be in trouble being the only obviously white face !
Up the street there was an elderly lady sweeping her front step who kept looking down the street at me.
As i was trying to navigate this map and work out if i should just turn around and run, three rather tall Rastafarian looking gentlemen left her house and started walking down the street toward me......(Mayday !Mayday!)
As they got to me i was starting to panic looking to see if i could work out an escape route if i was about to be robbed or beaten (see how awful your mind works when you're unsure of your surroundings ???)
They got to me and in that beautiful lyrical accent asked me if i was ok.
I told them i was looking for a community centre somewhere nearby because i was meeting colleagues there.
They laughed and said "Oh we're headed that way we'll show you"...and they did !
On the way we chatted about the area; what was good, what was bad.....the subject of Cricket came up and that was it ! We were talking and laughing all the way !
Turns out i was only a couple of hundred yards out.
So even in the most uncomfortable places there are excellent wonderful people quite happy to help you out if you find yourself stuck
As a rule, the cities tend to have folk who are generally (in my experience) less likely to be helpful if you needed something like directions or advice.
That's probably because there's little sense of community in some places, and some are fearful of robbery or worse.
I think that's because the cities are often densely populated and folk are wary of people they don't know.
But it's not true of everybody.
I was once stuck in Birmingham wandering about looking for an address and found myself in a very Jamaican street and it suddenly dawned on me i might be in trouble being the only obviously white face !
Up the street there was an elderly lady sweeping her front step who kept looking down the street at me.
As i was trying to navigate this map and work out if i should just turn around and run, three rather tall Rastafarian looking gentlemen left her house and started walking down the street toward me......(Mayday !Mayday!)
As they got to me i was starting to panic looking to see if i could work out an escape route if i was about to be robbed or beaten (see how awful your mind works when you're unsure of your surroundings ???)
They got to me and in that beautiful lyrical accent asked me if i was ok.
I told them i was looking for a community centre somewhere nearby because i was meeting colleagues there.
They laughed and said "Oh we're headed that way we'll show you"...and they did !
On the way we chatted about the area; what was good, what was bad.....the subject of Cricket came up and that was it ! We were talking and laughing all the way !
Turns out i was only a couple of hundred yards out.
So even in the most uncomfortable places there are excellent wonderful people quite happy to help you out if you find yourself stuck
