A Thoughtful Sunday Afternoon Stroll...

...around part of the lovely small city of Lichfield in Staffordshire. A loyal American muses on the lies he was told before he came to live in the UK as he walks.

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4meAndyou · F

Checking population statistics, Litchfield has such a small Muslim population that they didn't even make the statistical charts. I wonder, however, what this man would say if he were to walk about in Birmingham?

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@4meAndyou The video is about the whole UK. Birmingham (where I visit regularly) is perfectly safe. Like any city, one takes the normal precautions. There are stats for London comparing US cities in the video and they show none are as safe as London.

4meAndyou · F

@FreddieUK Well, as a sort of mollification, I will tell you that I NEVER go to Boston. I consider it to be VERY unsafe.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@4meAndyou

I assume you mean Boston in Massachusetts
rather than the one in England. 🤫

Yes, our Boston is very unsafe.

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4meAndyou · F

@Thinkerbell A friend of mine had to go there, to the hospital a couple of years ago, and there was a shooting right outside the front door of the hospital. We started driving home, and the police were engaged in a high speed chase of said shooter, which ended on Rte 9 in Wellesley, (we heard later, on the news).

I also refuse to go to the Mall in Braintree because there are quite a few gang related shootings there.