Is everyone here American?

Me too.

There are also people I've chatted with from Spain, Germany, South Africa, India, New Zealand but most seem to be UK/US/Canada

I live in Wiltshire which is beautiful. I'm not sure you know what slum means. We have an unfortunate government at the moment.

Yeah I wasn't going to respond to that (re slum) as the point needs making differently, I'm not sure what Givuparedy was getting at.

I'm not saying it's great , it's not a slum though. It's an insult to slums that is.

You're going to have to stop speaking in riddles, I can guess at what you're trying to say but I don't like to do that in case I get it wrong. Also maybe we could move this conversation into politics as we've move away from the original topic.