When I was in England a year and a 1/2 ago I went by myself. A lot of my friends were really worried because I been a woman and doing it all on my own. Not once did I ever felt threatened or having to look over my shoulder to see if anybody's following I felt very comfortable. Never felt threatened. 😊
@@johnboy2562 You bet. Goldie Locks. Barbara Windsor. Very few people notice that. Years ago my son wanted to call his school pet hamster Maude Boggins, the teacher laughed, but declined.
I was privileged to live in Brighton, UK for 11 years. During that time I was never concerned about my safety. Not even when walking alone in the middle of the night anywhere around the city centre, seafront, as well as the suburbs! I never experienced nor witnessed anything wrong happening to me nor people around me! I loved walking around Brighton! -Mornings, afternoons, evenings, middle of the nights. Never felt endangered nor afraid!
That's good to know. I don't feel unsafe walking around Brighton but it does have a bit of "you never know what to expect" vibe. Perhaps its because I'm a woman :)
Oh plenty of sights on Brighton. My GF and I were subjected to a mass wolf whistle passing a Gay bar! To this day we cannot figure out who feels more flattered.
I’ve been to Disney World many times when my children were growing up, and I was often stopped by Americans asking us about the Uk , many comments were about our ability to easily travel to many countries in Europe
You will find high crime numbers in the UK because almost anything can be categorised as crime. Kids shouting and hanging about... recorded anti social crime, domestic incident, domestic crime, shouting at a retail worker can be a police matter, no car mot.. crime etc etc etc. At 66 I've never seen a gun or heard a gunshot, I've never seen a knife used in anyway except to cut food etc. I've never even felt threatened or at risk, even in arguments with strangers.
Am a Brit always lived in UK - I think regarding the gun thing we just don't feel the need to have a gun because they're not really a worry to us we don't ever think someone else may have one and use it against us and we definitely wouldn't be allowed to own one if the reason we gave for having one was 'self defense' as I hear a lot of Americans say
I agree and I see your point. I think even rational Americans are wondering if they should start "carrying" just to be prepared for self defense. It's crazy making.
@@HipOverFifty decades ago someone did a survey with criminals asking why they didn't have guns the answer was , if we have them the police would have to have them and people will die , were as now the police will chase you and if they catch you the worst that will happen is you might get roughed up by them and that's it. Not too sure about today's crims.
We have the right to own firearms to protect against tyrannical government - considering 100M people have died over the last 100 years at the hands of their government. As we're allowed to have them for this purpose, then you have to deal with the fact that bad guys can get them and you wouldn't want to be without one if you needed one. When seconds count, cops are just minutes away, so I'd rather have a gun in my hand than a cop on the phone. Gun crime is typically in very specific areas, it isn't even across the US. Stay away from drugs & gangs and you're highly unlikely to see gun crime. I never have. The crime rate among legal gun owners is extremely low, lower than the UK - which is where I'm from. It's a complex topic. Growing up in the UK I saw a lot of violence, far more than I've experienced here. Given, it was the 80's, you always had to be watching your back.
@Krishna patel Far too many reports of corrupt and ineffective Police in India; that the local populations know better to use community justice rather than waste time getting the official Police involved. Organised crime is rife because the Police are so easily paid off.
here are10 small tips to any US citizen that wants to come to visit England. 1. leave your attitude along with your guns at the departure lounge. 2. don't panic! it will be there waiting for you when you get back, we don't want it. 3. you cannot buy, nor carry a gun over here, this is not the wild west as it is in the USA. 4. enjoy the sites the food and the different cultures. 5. England has a culture, they have song, dance and food and we are proud of it. 6. The US has, Levi's jeans, McDonalds, mass shootings, guns and bombs and you are proud of it? 7. take lots of photo's, buy the occasional souvenir. 8. when you get back to the US "the home of the brave and the free," pick up your gun and your attitude, you will notice it is still there in tact as you left it. 9. Show your friends the photo's and tell them you had a nice time. 10. Oh and don't forget to tell your friends you experienced real freedom for the first time in your life not having to carry a gun!
There was a story in the Daily Mail today where an American women pulled a knife out while being arrested by police in her house and they shot her dead. That would never happen in the UK. UA-cam is full of videos of unarmed British police officers taking down people with machetes, knives and even Samurai swords. It's one of the things that make me most proud to be British!
Watching American cops tackle baddies they always seem a bit hysterical compared to the British ones. All that shouting and swearing but I suppose they face a lot more danger than in the UK.
@@stanleywoodison8699 I watched some body-cam footage the other day of a US cop, and it looked like 3 or 4 cops overall surrounding this old Caucasian disheveled homeless looking guy who was sat at a bus stop on his own; the guy was just sat there passively asking why he should comply with their "Simon says" requests, and refusing. He laid back, resting on his back pack whilst you could clearly hear the cops getting increasingly angry, up until the point that one cop shot him, then all the others opened up firing repeatedly. Clearly needless lethalality, where a tazer (at worst) would have subdued him enough to cuff him. It's Disgusting.
The cars in the UK have to have a Ministry of Transport Test each year to make sure the vehicle is roadworthy, There are powerful cars but there are also speed restrictions, CCTV is everywhere and along motorways can be seen if driving dangerously fast.
There are a lot of things classed as crimes in the UK that are not in the US, for example possession of a knife (without good reason), and the thresholds of sexual harassment are far lower in the UK.
May I congratulate you. We can see your growing confidence in your delivery of your content. As you become more relaxed you are even more enjoyable to watch
Australian here. Yes, I'm from the country that had a massacre in 1996 and the govenment took steps to see that that never happened again. I've been to the US three times and the UK once. I love visiting the US for all that there is to see and do there but I think of it like swimming in the ocean. We've all done it. I've done it but only very occasionally so the chances of me being eaten by a shark are very slim. By comparrison, if you spent your whole life in the ocean it'd be only a matter of time until you were eaten by a shark. My time in the US totals 20 weeks out of 62 years and just like the amount of time I've spent in the ocean, nothing bad happened but for the people my age who've spent their entire 62 years there, I wonder can many of them say the same. As for half the gun deaths being suicides, that may be but it stands to reason that if a person decides they want to end it and there's a gun in the house that's already loaded 'for protection from home invaders', they can do it before they've really had a chance to think about it. Back in 1977, a friend of mine did exactly that with a shotgun. That gun was for sport and is still legal to have here but if no gun was handy or as is required now, it must be kept unloaded in a locked safe, by the time the person goes to all the trouble of unlocking the safe and loading the gun, or they've walked to the nearest railway line or tall building, or started their car in the garage with the door closed and their eyes start to water from the fumes, they've had a few minutes or more to think about things and may decide against killing themselves. I wonder how many of those suicides in the US would not have happened had a gun not been within easy reach.
Very well said. Yes you have to wonder. It stands to reason that it's much easier to make a "permanent solution to a temporary problem" if there's a gun at hand.
Thank you and I hadn't thought of that topic! I'd recommend any state that has gun control laws to start, for example most states in New England do. Like Massachusetts for example
Your figure 162 given for Firearms deaths in UK seems high. The figure for year ending march 2021 was 35, with year ending march 2022 was 31 (figure from Office for National statistics England & Wales. I believe we collect the stats on a April to March year. I think your figure may have been for any firearms offences. Re comment on Knife crime, Fatal stabbings Year ending March 21 was 223 and for ending 22 was 260. There were many offences with Knives coming to 42 thousand and 46 thousand in each of those years. Hope that's useful
To add Many of the knife crimes in the UK are for things that are legal in the US. For example if you have a locking knife that is most likely illegal in the UK unless you can justify it for work and the place you have it.
@@johnclements6614 Sorry, to be clear, the stats I gave were for violence or aggravated assaults, not posession or similar. They were Homicide, Threats to Kill, Assault with injury and assault with intent to cause serious harm, Robbery, Attempted Murder, Rape and Sexual Assault. I agree our (UK) rules on what can be carried are a bit extreme
@@HipOverFifty Your figures for firearms include suicide and accident I believe. By firearm UK has 0.02 homicides per 100000 and 0.16/100000 suicides. USA has 4.46/100000 homicides and 7.32/100000 suicides. Above figures from Wiki. By knives UK Homicides by sharp object there were 261 last year according to House of Commons Library; about 0.39/100000. USA it is around about 0.50/100000. So you are less likely to be killed by a knife in the UK than US but the difference is not as dramatic as with firearms.
@@HipOverFifty The official figures for E&W are as follows: In the year 31 March 2021 ending there were 35 homicides caused by shooting ( out of a total of 594)
The UK quite probably isn’t no1 in any particular category. But as you say, when you add up all the different ways safety can apply, it is a far safer place to live in than the US. As a Brit, the US will always be my second favourite country, and i could happily live there if i was super rich. But that not being the case, the UK will always win. I have never felt in danger here, ever. 🥴
I was in the UK in 2017. I walkedf the streets with a $4000 camera. I still have the camera. I can't believe Japan was so far down the list. Been there twice and felt very safe both times.
Just a quick note regarding pistol ownership in the UK, we can own pistols but they are heavily regulated (sounds familiar 😅), the barrel length has to be over a certain length and I think the (revolver type pistol) is hand loaded a little like a musket, really only for very specific target shooting, also vets and farmers can have a relatively standard type revolver for as you mentioned (animal welfare/health situations), so other than what you mentioned little in the way of any type of pistol being something many people would be interested in, I was a target shooter before the ban on pistols and continued until 05 but I was just shooting air pistol and air rifle (both only target), it could be something that I could be interested in again, but it's a hobby that is quite intense and needs a lot of concentration and practice and I'm not sure that I want to get back into it at the level which I was at before, only the people in the club and a neighbour with a similar interest knew I was a shooter, it just doesn't have the same type of attraction here, it is competition and nothing more.
Thanks for sharing your real world experience. Perhaps if you've grown up in that culture where it's common to have a gun it seems "normal" but for the rest of us (I'm including you here :) it's not something we'd ever see as a necessity. Like you said... just not the same level of attraction, or dare I say need for a weapon.
Yes, the law is can you justify owning a hand gun (pistol) self-defence or sport aren't accepted reasons, you can add pest control, Terrier men and deer stalkers.
See you make your division not to carry and be dead okay I'll carry and be alive this is what the far left do to people glad I live in a place I have a choice I'll stay alive no crime here California no guns everybody gets killed by criminals
I visited the USA from the UK a few years back to meet up with distant relatives and a pen friend who lived near Cleveland, Ohio. We stayed 2 nights at a hotel in Cleveland which seemed quite industrial. My home town of Liverpool is not affluent and there's many with social problems. It's population is about 100,000 more than Cleveland but covers only about 52% of Cleveland's area. In 2021 Cleveland was reported to have had 179 murders. For the same year Liverpool had 10. I'm glad I only stayed 2 nights there.
Yes unfortunately Cleveland is not known to be a safe place. Ohio varies widely from cities like that to complete rural towns which are completely different in lifestyle.
Look, you're not going to get shot in the street, or in a mall, or in a school in the UK. Particularly if you stay out of London, although in London stabbing amongst teenagers is a problem.
But in England and Wales last year there were (only) 260 fatal stabbings, and 31 fatal shootings, too high I know but not the massive problem we are lead to believe.
@@MeStevely Yes, I'm neither a reasonably good snooker player, nor a mediocre skier. Though both are probably much better in their chosen sport than I am. Thinking about it they are probably better in each others sport than I am at either. I just like numbers (stats), I think I'm OK at them.
It seems to me that there is a lot of fear of crime in USA which may or maynot be justified but has lead to 2 individual cases of a person being shot dead because they got the wrong house/driveway in the last month!
There is fear of crime in the US because the party in charge doesn't enforce the laws..so common sense would dictate that criminals know this and exploit this. That being said, when the law abiding public knows that the government doesn't care about them...make a guess what will happen.
In the U.K. I could walk around even the worse areas in my home city without any concerns for my safety (I’m also a white male, so there’s that privilege as well, along with spending time in those areas in my youth). The only time I’ve ever felt a bit scared walking somewhere was in New York when I ended up in a very clearly dodgy area
My family and I cancelled our holiday to the states (Texas) this year on the advice of family living there. They said its too dangerous and more or less lawless now. They are coming back home for their children's safety.
You cancelled a holiday because of what one person said? Surely you should go and make up your own mind. I've been to Texas several times and never had a problem.
Hi I'm 59 and born and bred in the UK and to be absolutely honest I'd be to afraid to go to the US it's getting worse and worse not just gun crime but drug's and homelessness and it's so dirty so i definitely won't be going on holiday there.
A bit of a sweeping statement! The entire country isn't as you describe, no more than England is the same everywhere. But the gun issue is very real unfortunately.
Living in the UK, except for when I was actually being stalked, I have never had to give my persnal safety a moment's thought. When my sister went to the US, I couldn't sleep. I slept like a baby when she went to Zimbabwe.
I agree the UK definitely has a problem with knife crime. Although I wouldn't like to be in a position that I'm facing either, the way I think of it is if you are in a packed room when someone produces a knife at least there is a very good chance you will escape without severe injury. In a packed room with someone with a gun, especially one of those automatic rifles, there is very little chance that anyone would escape unscathed.
Most knife crime in the UK is generally thankfully committed by different gangs in inner city areas...most of the victims know their attacker....gangs way back used to have at least a code of behaviour, but gangland type crime from the states as filtered more into uk culture, where anyone can be a victim, not just an apposing member of another gang. It's a culture of if not got, take.
You started out good...but the mention of automatic rifles proves you don't know much about American gun laws thus your opinion is based on lack of knowledge. Furthermore American gun ideology are based on the rights we are given in our constitution unlike the UK.
In the UK, as in most countries in the world except the US, you cannot keep a gun for protection. If you carry anything for use as a weapon, it is illegal. However, if you are attacked your are able to use reasonable force to protect yourself, and if in the heat of the moment you grab an article, such as the weapon being carried by you attacker, to defend yourself.
I remember Craig Ferguson, when he hosted the Late Late Show talking about having to take his California driving test. Basically drive round the block once and don't kill anyone.
Well every state is different but it's hard to fail a US driving test. Of course I've heard the British test has gotten harder in recent years so I guess it depends on when you took it! :)
Quick question, i think its relavant, when you talk about the crime stats, being similar to the US, what crimes are these, Traffic, drugs, burgalaries, shop lifting, anti social. domestic desputes, friday night to much drink which is mainly the UK crimes, yeah there are some knife and guns. Against the US, i would be interested, s i have lived all over the UK since birth. so what crimes, would make us the same, As you mentioned gun deaths, so far higher, i would like to know the crimes that make us similar, because i dont see it
I'm 72. I've never seen or held a gun I've never met anybody who owns or wants to own a gun. I don't know where they can be bought but no doubt they can be bought somewhere. I've only been to new York in the USA and didn't feel very safe. I've been to quite a few countries but the one I felt least safe in was USA, although I only visited new York and no doubt it's not fair to judge a country just on one city.
I grew up around guns - shotguns and rifles. I have played with GPMGs, SLRs, SA80s, Pistols ... They are useful and/or fun to use. Thankfully, in the UK their usage is restricted to people who pass certain criteria. You have to be compos mentis, without a criminal record and have safeguards in place for the storage of your firearms and ammunition. All basic, common sense. Common sense is not that common in the USA, apparently.
It's kind of ironic that NY has cleaned up it's crime rate relative to London. But I would agree, you have a greater chance of running into someone not nice just because of the sheer amount of people that live in NYC.
@@HipOverFifty At the start of our stay there the yellow cab taxi driver stole my wifes handbag with her cards and cash in. Later on the new York train system when returning from seeing the site where the twin towers were there was a wino/druggie/homeless unkempt scruffy chap lying on the seats and when he was asked to sit up he went berserk spitting,shouting and being aggressive. That section of the train carriage emptied quickly. We got off about a minute later as soon as the train reached the next stop. After seeing Brooklyn bridge we got a bit lost and saw 2 policemen standing talking so I asked directions from one of them but was met with aggression from him. Stand back from me. (I was about 3 feet away). He never gave us any good directions and had a very unfriendly attitude, when he spoke to me he was shouting. All in all it was an experience I wouldn't want to go through again. Bus drivers who are not helpful, taxi drivers that steal your things, unfriendly cops. I do not think all America is like this but this was my experiences.
@@davidrowlands441 sorry to hear you had that experience. I'm afraid it can be a bit brutal in NYC and yes the police are often in a position of being feared than helpful.
I`m surprised there`s as many as 5 guns / 100 people here. A few years ago I heard that there was one chap who moved into the town where I grew up ( Barton upon Humber ) who was found to have a whole cellar full of guns - pistols, rifles..... you name it. He turned up to be an American fugitive, wanted by the FBI. His name was Robert Kleasen and he was wanted back in the `States to answer charges of Murder.
I'm pretty sure that owning a shot gun 🔫 has always been alowed, it's just extremely difficult to obtain a license for one. Years ago, there was an actual gun shop with a shooting range within it, in my small town in South Wales. When I was little, about, 10, my Dad took me there and the owner let me hold a Winchester riffle. Man I was surprised how heavy it was. OK I was around 10, but I literally couldn't pull it up level to my eye. I wasn't going to fire practice it, lol, I was just given it to hold.
@@HipOverFifty I agree about making the licence very had to obtain. But as a 10 year old boy it was cool (or would have been if I could lift the thing horizontal lol), just like in the movies lol. TBH not many kids get to hold a Winchester in Wales or the UK for that matter. And I think I can say a gun shop like that in any part of the UK was as rare then as it is now. I actually drove past the building, coming back from the city today, it's been a marine supply centre ever since.
How interesting. I have spent the past 20 years wishing I never left the UK for University to Canada. I always planned to return, but after earning 3 University degrees and many other certifications I stayed in Canada, until I could transition to the US. Not using any of my educational skills, I sell on the phone, and like a rat on a treadmill spend all my time working. Seldom socialize outside work. I enjoy being around others and also enjoy being alone. My Mother and close friends have passed so I would be 'like a stranger in a strange land' not knowing a soul, including not understanding EU currency. However, I'll give this some thought. I should have returned after my divorce while my mother was still alive. The weather is the main reason I stayed. I can't stand sunless days or cold weather. I get SAD and not seeing the sun is immobilizing. Have to consider the matter. I wonder about employment in the UK and pay structure to pay rent/bills, etc., I am in my 70's. All my $$ went on my ex and his 4 children so I'll be working till I drop. Cashflow could be a prob. I look 10 yrs younger which helps but is there a UK age stigma for job seekers? I work 40 hrs per week.
We emigrated to Canada when I was a tot I think because we could get in there but not the US. When my dad got a job in the US down we went, so I grew up there. I'm starting over here so why not try it too? I don't know where you are in Canada but as I recall there's a lot more cold weather. Yes the weather here isn't great but when it's sunny there's nowhere better to be.
I am in the US, PLEASE let me know how to move to the UK and what companies I can work for. I am a benefits coordinator for health plans and desire a life in the UK with my partner who currently lives in the UK.
I have lived all my 63 years apart from a few shop lifting when I worked in retail i have only had one crime committed againts me. In the 1990s my old VW golf was broken into. My fault I forgot to lock the passenger door, the central locking didn't work😢 I could tell they tried to take the radio as tuning knob was missing obviously they didnt tske it because that was faulty too you couldn't retune it so only played Radio 4 longwave handy for cricket commentary on Test Match Special and the daily church service but not slot else. The people who broke in did me one favour as they went through the piles of rubbish in the footwell they threw it out the door. My mate i was with at the time commented on how cleaner the car looked inside. I didn't report it to the police as I thought answering "what was taken" with "all the trash on the floor" would be a little embarrassing 😂
I worked for a UK office of a major US corporation. When it closed down I asked one of the American workers who'd been assigned to the office if he was going back to Denver. "No, I'm stopping here, it's way safer for me and my kids" In truth, everywhere has its problems and most forward looking societies aim to deal with them but America seems to stick its collective head in the sand over gun control and actually looks at pouring gasoline on the fire - concealed carry, reduced restrictions (because the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun).
Yes even Denver, "The Mile High City" where I lived for a few years, isn't immune to the plague of gun crime. You've nailed it. What's sad is the US seems to be going back to the days of the wild west, not forward.
Gun violence is very low, but England is far from safe in the major cities. Especially in London if you’re a woman. Such much as the same in the states, major cities have higher crime.
My elderly mother can go for walks for hours in the country side, through parks at night and use public transport (here in South West UK) and feel safe. Try that in the US. Also the UK has public right of way across farm fields - try that in the US and you'll get shot, how horrible is that. The UK is getting a higher knife crime over the past decade or so, but at least its not guns. Here where I live the crime rate (there are 231600 people here) is very low inc knife crime - the last knife crime (death) was in 2021, in 2020 there was 18 knife crimes. The Gun crime here is 2 deaths in 1 year. Rape is set at 3.6 per 10,000 people. Robbery is up by 7% since last year, could not find any numbers on this. Theft is down by 23.9%. However stealing of Cars is up a staggering by 22% since last year. However even with all these crimes, I and many of my friends, co-workers still feel much safe at night in parks, the country side and towns.
Yes agreed. I was just talking about that with a friend on a walk. You try right to roam in the US and you could be facing down the barrel of a gun and in some states they would have every right to shoot before asking.
@@HipOverFifty So not a very free country then to just go for a walk. Why is that? Whats the mental state of having a gun? Its so Alien to the rest of the world.
Speaking as a Londoner born & bred here more than 60 years ago, England and London are FAR FAR less safe and less pleasant than in my childhood. People here DO have guns, but they’re the criminals, who can obtain them through nefarious means. So innocent people have no protection whatsoever. There is a lot of knife crime and drug related crime in London, which has dramatically increased in recent years. There is far more dirt and litter in the streets, and roads are full of potholes which wreck your tyres. I’m glad you feel safer than in America, but I’m afraid England is a mere shadow of its former self. Will it get better again? Seems likely the downhill trend has some way to go… the country is deeply in debt and inflation is on the rise, which will make everything more expensive, and out of reach for many. But we do have quite a lot of nice country towns, not yet totally ruined!
I can understand why you would feel that way. I've been visiting England since I was a tot and have seen it change over the years. Unfortunately I think if we compare anywhere to what it was like "back then" it will suffer by comparison.
My perspective as a born-and-bred Brit: unfortunately the true _direction of travel_ for crimes against the person in UK is not good. You rightly mention knives and machetes; it's not uncommon for young teens to carry one. Firearms crimes are also more prevalent. Even the bare minimum provided by official figures show about 7000 firearm incidents with more than half involving a discharge. That might not sound a lot for a country of 70 million but things are getting worse with cost of living, public services on their last legs, inflation, job losses, housing shortage, rents & mortgages crisis, food banks... It won't be that long before things come to a head here.
I've lived in the UK all my life and not once have I felt or been threatened I'm over 50 and can travel anywhere here with no problems obviously certain areas of the country has it's problems like anywhere else but in general it's a safe country to live probably that's one of the reasons all the immigrants want to come here
Interesting comparison video, thank you. Could you ever see yourself taking out UK citizenship ma-am?. By the way, as someone who was born in London, welcome to you.
The problem with the US with its gun culture has got itself in a perpetual vortex where the supposed defenders of the citizens are actually afraid when they go to every call. That fear means the US Police react with ultimate violence to meet the perceived violence coming to them. They will shoot first instead of using community Policing more prevalent in UK Police forces where the threat of the gun is much less and a more considered reaction to vulerable people can take place. Basically something needs to be done about the over preference for guns. It will be difficult to change as it is so ingrained but there is no easy quick answer. But, change will need to take place because what happens in US happens in no other country in the developed World. Also an update on the mass killings in US I believe now stands at 197 for this year.
@@HipOverFifty I am a Brit, and I just find it inconceivable I would be shot for going to the wrong door, or going up the "wrong" drive! In fact because the UK is a small overpopulated ( some may say) island, if the same result happened here it would be utter carnage on the doorstep. But again thise incidents in the US are probably driven again by fear, and that fear is driven by the gun culture.
Can't believe there have been 162 gun deaths in UK, but if there have that'd be much worse when you also factor in we have just over a 5th of the population of the US. Edit: Somebody mentioned it might include suicides, we have definitely had a problem in the farming community, so maybe my shock is misdirected.
And we both have a criminal justice system that puts the criminal first, not the victim. I believe there are 27 charities looking after criminals, just one for victims in the UK.
@@HipOverFifty I'm afraid that history will look back and ask why the most advanced civilisation the world has ever seen got leaders of such low calibre that they allowed it to be destroyed in a couple of generations. Neil Postgate summed it up very well in "Amusing ourselves to death"!
re the car driving, when i passed my car test back in 1989 the roads were quieter,BUT i have direct experience in driving in all types of road conditions, whether it be fog,heavy rain or snow i have a unblemished no claims bonus for 17 years currently (2 cars previously stolen ruining previous insurance no claims bonuses), plus we have all vehicles fitted with 2 numberplates (except motorbikes), making catching car crime & crimminals easier, also a lot of traffic lights also have cameras on them to catch red light jumpers, which seems to be a national sport in the USA, we are taught to drive by qualified proffessionals and not some high school teacher, these driving instructors 99% have dual controlds on there cars to ensure the pupil does not unecessarily put themselves or others in danger, how many american instructors have dual controls ??, hence we are safer drivers, plus to aid the Police we have ANPR cameras to track wrong doers & intercept them, in america it seems like a simple fail to stop takes up to 10 officers to bring to a finish, here in the UK @ the most it might take 3 cars to perform a T pack ( pit manouver for americans), and maybee a 4th to deploy a stinger (spike strip), try watch Police interceptors or one of the dashcam programmes on channel 5, they do feature apalling standards of driving in the usa or try watching wham bam dashcam on youtube another perfect example of poor us driving standards, let along the lack of vehicle safety checks (MOTs), i myself am currently training to be a LGV Class 1 Artic driver so i do know how diffcult it can be to study for a license in the UK
No seat belt regulations, dual controls, speed bumps, cameras, theory exams, and a lot less vehicles when I past my 20 minute test back in 1972. Oh happy days.
Thanks for your comment. Yes a lot more "hands on" here with traffic and cameras in many ways yet in others you are given the benefit of your experience to do the right thing. I like that the police don't seem to patrol looking for trouble here.
There are different laws in the uk,the drink drive limit in scotland is lower than the rest of uk and hgv speed limits are also different except on the A9
some USA States see them self's as small country's and some of the bigger ones can be, And actually that what the US Cavil war was really about State V Feudal Control
@@HipOverFifty i'm so glad you enjoy living in the UK if History went done a different path North America might be more like Europe or Africa a lot off Smaller country's in stead of 3 big ones and in 1 or 2 hundreds year time might go that way
High knife crime in London is a major issue, and it's directly linked to a particular race; unfortunately I can't name the race because all the snowflakes and woke types would consider that a racist remark, despite it being factual and a true statement. You have to be really careful not to stereotype because it only seems to be prolific in particular parts of London with the highest concentrations of these people. The vast majority of the race that can not be named, are 100% honest law abiding citizens. Same old same old, a minority overall ruin the reputation of the majority.
I agree its safe but not free - over regulated in my opinon. The country that originated democracy and free speech is becoming the land of Big Brother.
35,766 fatalities in the year 2020 in the USA vs 1558 in the UK year 2021. Population of the uk 68 million, Population of the USA 331 million. USA has 23 times amount of fatalities with a population of just under 5 times more. Granted a higher % of drivers per capita might be a reason but it doesnt negate that it is safer in the UK.
Less overall crime in the USA because of the 3 times and out rule which means if you get charge 3 times you get life in prison in some states lot of petty crooks taken of the streets. USA has 2nd highest prison population thx to this.
I am an Englishman who’s lived all of my life in England and my American friends came over for a visit and asked me about our gun laws. I explained that I like to shoot game birds in the countryside with my brother, who is a gamekeeper, but that both he and I are very much in favour of the extremely strict gun laws in this country, and they were appalled, and utterly condemned me, saying that I was obviously a terrible left-wing extremist who didn’t believe in democratic freedoms. I was very shocked indeed at their attitude, because I see no dichotomy between being in favour of very strict gun laws, and going shooting! I thank God we have very strict laws for guns. I thought their condemnation of me was very strange indeed. My brother, who goes shooting every weekend as part of his job, was horrified at their attitude.
Interesting but yes what you experienced is a sort of fanatical insistence on the right to bear arms despite the evidence that it's killing US "freedom".
I think the figure might be a bit distorted. For example if a farmer has 3 guns that distorts it and I think that sort of distortion happens. So dividing the population number by the number of guns isn't a true reflection of gun owner ratio.
Don't get too excited, England is fast getting much more violent, especially in the cities, mainly due to unfettered immigration Although the authorities deny this to their shame.
1960's, 70' and 80's with MODS and Rockers fights and general football violence. Some people have a very short memory. "mainly due to unfettered immigration" Blaming immigrants? You really are talking out of your back side.
SORRY THIS GOT LONGGGGGGGG..... 😂😂😂 PART ONE Ive suffered with depression on and off all my adult life, and none worse so than after my son died aged 5½ years, 11 years ago. It's not something I feel i will ever get over especially as he died from chickenpox. There's just no fairness in that at all imo. One minute he'd caught chickenpox like all small children do, and recover from...however after a week he was put into a coma up in London, and died a week later in my arms.Naturally I was devastated, I barely spoke for two years, and if I did it was either distant and dissociated, or else raging angry. My depression plummeted to levels I didn't know were possible to reach, nor less to come back from as a sane person! I said many times, that I was glad I wasn't American, because I lost count of the times I felt i couldn't cope with the feelings any longer. Had I been an American, and owned a gun, I can tell you for certain i would no longer be here. Depression is an ongoing journey of low feeling, but if you add in the accute periods of extreme emotion that can drive you insane, those are the seriously dangerous times where it's so hard to cope, and nigh on impossible to imagine yourself ever coming back from.Nobody commits suicide because they've "had enough" of ongoing misery, it's not something you decide to do as a good rational decision you've made one day. Family members may immediately think, "but my loved one was totally calm when they came to see us, and killed themselves 30 minutes after leaving?" and yes that can often be the case. But the decision to take their life wasn't made in those 30 minutes. There would have been a meltdown or desperately deep period that occurred prior to that moment, in which the decision was made. I've attempted suicide a few times, although that was years and years ago, and not since my son died. But what often happens is that someone either takes their life "in the moment" that overwhelms them, or the decision is made in that moment and a plan starts to fall into place. For those who've planned it all out, they can often be surprisingly calm beforehand, and the family totally unaware they were at breaking point. Well that's technically true, the breaking point had been in the days or weeks prior. What you perceived to be the "calmest you'd seen them in ages" is likely very true. There's something extremely comforting in the planning stages, a resolution that's been formed in their mind. Finally they can see the path clearly ahead of them, and it's very reassurring to them to know they have finally figured out a way to heal their pain permanently. What looks like them "feeling better" is not an act necessarily, although they may be extra careful to keep it secret so that nothing ruins their plan. But it may genuinely be the period where they truly DID feel the most calm they'd felt in ages, because the planning stage is when their brain feels the most organised and assured they have found the perfect solution once and for all. There are times where in my desperation, particularly when I was younger, that i made proper plans to end my life, and can tell you that was such a relief of my symptoms during that stage. I'm sure it sounds bizarre or alarming to those who've never experienced it, but it is a bizarrely comforting time, knowing you've found the ultimate solution. Our brains work in mysterious ways and cope the only way they can depending on the situation, so don't ever think the person "lied" to you in the time leading up to their death. They were in a pact with their brain, a duo, a task force, and it's not personal that they were sworn to keep their military operation between them a secret. Enemies may have tried to thwart their mission, so they were only following orders. Obviously that's speaking metaphorically, rather than implying they believed themselves to be on secret duty or whatever. But whether people break, and act in the middle of their overwhelming meltdown, or follow through with a plan that was made in the moment of madness, there's no denying that guns make it far easier for their intentions to be carried through. If you take an overdose there's no knowing that it will work, and a very real possibility that you're left alive but with a worse quality of life than you had already, so for many people, choices such as overdoses are a risk. In other words, NOT a guaranteed solution and so therefore not much of a relief in terms of being successful. The overdoses i took back in my early twenties, were all in the heat of the madness, in other words not carefully thought through. But the third one i planned beforehand, and still failed - clearly - or I wouldn't be here now! 😊 In the end I had to dig in deep and seek counselling and psychiatric help, because I knew i couldn't rely on pills to do the job! Better to accept you have no solution at all, than to have a half cocked plan that may make my life worse, and still keep alive! It was the lack of viable and reliable options that made me confront the brain's "trick" of fooling you into believing you've figured out a solution. I realised it's just the brain's way of staying alive, by promising you any crazy solution, however desperate, in order to buy itself more time to think up a more sensible option. If it can get you to NOT act in the moment, and talk you into waiting to plan it out properly, at least you're alive, and it has the opportunity to think up something less "final" to sort out your problems. *AND YOU RAISE A VERY IMPORTANT AND MOSTLY IGNORED POINT - SUICIDE!* Thank you for highlighting that subject!
PART TWO I know for certain, if I owned a gun, I'd have stuck the barrel in my ear or down my throat long before now! When talking about gun statistics, most gun enthusiasts will often play down the total of gun deaths. If you said "100 people dead this month" for example, the typical reply is along the lines of "Yes but that number is misleading... 4 of those were from the gun malfunctioning, 3 were accidental, 12 were children having access because a parent didn't store their gun safely, 42 were people who killed themselves, so actually only 39 of those people were murdered!" As if: A) The statistics are lying. B) The 61 NOT murdered arent relevant. C) The 39 homicides were justified, and anyway, far less than the statistics would lead you to believe. "Ohhhhh, well, now you put it like that.....!?" 😳 Like, wtf? Just that shocking lack of compassion and complete lack of regard for the loss of human life, is enough reason to have a firm talk about gun use IMO! I'd rather be shot dead, than be someone who doesn't care about someone being shot dead! Americans always talk about intruders, like it's an almost guaranteed thing to experience! Yet they often go to sleep without locking their doors... 🤔. How about instead of living with the fact you shot and killed an intruder, who turned out to be a kid brought up in the system and abused, who only snuck in because they were hungry, how about installing secure dead bolts, outdoor sensor lights, clipping down bushes and branches that obscure the view to your front door from the street, putting in a gravel driveway that makes noise when walked on, keeping tools locked up safely, filling your windowsills with ornaments as a deterrent for someone hoping to climb in quietly, fitting window locks, CCTV equipment, joining or forming a neighbourhood watch scheme, covering the lower pane of glass in your front door so potential thieves don't see a pile of accumulated mail from outside and figure out you're away, fitting alarm systems, not putting expensive equipment and valuables in clear view from outside using net curtains or blinds where necessary to keep your possessions out of view, using timers to switch on and off lamps when you're away from home, fitting decorative trellis to the top of fences that would clearly give way if someone tried to climb over, putting all ladders away in the shed or garage and moving your wheelie bins to the driveway and not up against the house for someone to climb up on. If you did all that, and there's plenty of other ideas too, then you shouldn't be broken into in the first place! Most crimes are opportunistic, so don't make your home an attractive option for a would-be burglar! Even if someone did break in, there's no guarantee you'll hear them, or that they won't grab your gun first to shoot you. You're not going to shoot them if they're holding your child and threatening to hurt them, so a gun isn't guaranteed to save you. And why put yourself through that trauma and stress and risk anyway? A gun doesn't prevent it happening in the first place, vigilance and common sense does! (Not that I'm blaming any victims of burglary, but there are always things we can and should do to stay safe. I mean a girl walking home at 3am in heels and a mini skirt does not DESERVE to be raped, but she'd have to be an idiot to not know she was putting herself at risk in doing so, right? Prevention is always better than cure, is my point!) Lastly, thank you for advocating for our beautiful country, and for choosing to call it your home. I think many Americans are fed such ridiculous lies about .... Well, just about anywhere other than America it seems. I saw a video the other day of an American travelling to Europe, asking people if they knew whether Portugal had clean running water? I've never even been to Portugal or googled the answer, but I'm guessing it's pretty safe to assume - of course they fucking do! 🙄 I've heard others think Paris is in the UK, we get zero sunshine ever, that our socialised healthcare means we live in a country ruled by socialism, that we are bled to death by our taxes and petrol costs, and on and on the list goes of absurd beliefs! 😘😘😘 ♥️ (LIFE - and all it's subsequent "costs" are 30% cheaper in the UK, so whilst petrol MAY be more expensive, we don't have to drive five miles to find a shop. We don't have to drive at all. No a wage may be lower in comparison to the same worker's wage over there, but our worker has more money left after all expenses are paid, plus he's not working 70 hours a week with no sick days or holidays!)
@@HipOverFifty I have. I'm more comfortable with myself than I've ever been in life actually. I'm sure the menopause has helped enormously, I was always fragile emotionally around the time my period was due, and I just wasn't a very confident woman in my younger years anyway. But no longer having those hormone surges is bliss! Oh to be a woman, eh? 😂 😘
Hello there. Agree with you re gun control, but how & where to start, it'll require a mountain of legislation across all 50 states, it all goes back to when the US constitution was first written, the right for citizens to bear arms, you'll know what I mean. But the massacre of innocents in schools & shopping malls must be prioritised, I know how easily obtainable firearms are in some states of the US, even if the gun laws say that a weapon bought in, say, Virginia, cannot (theoretically) be used outside that state. But the current state of affairs needs to be addressed ASAP. All good wishes to you from Canterbury, Kent, UK.
Oh don't get me started on how religious "freedom" works in the US. So hypocritical. Apparently it's OK to let children be terrified of getting gunned down in school but a heinous crime to terminate a pregnancy.
Am over 50. I personally dislike living in the uk and am myself a self employed person living in a seaside resort in the north of England but a lot of uk people have different opinions depending upon there experiences and situation eg a person living in the city who has a good job and too preoccupied with it might think differently or the wealthy like the politicians and the royals . But personally I feel the only real positives about living here are the royal family , free nhs (which we have to pay for in our taxes anyways ) , and the economy, employment and education even though where I live there isn’t much of that . But for most it’s getting generally very hard for the young to find cheap housing , education is very expensive as your paying over £40k in student loans for a degree ,food prices and inflation are rising rapidly, a government who is full of promises who’s hardly delivering and isn’t really focused on the people but keeping themselves in power and concentrating on legally lining there own pockets and there’s a lot of inter party conflicts and dismissal , cost of renting has gone sky high , a lot of people can be quite unsociable if your a stranger and a lot of people are weary of each other and there are a lot of social and health issues , isolation and depression - overburdened nhs and long waiting times . The crime rate is fairly high in some parts . Some of the place looks gloomy - rundown shops and old houses , factories , warehouses and a lot of pollution including the air, water and all the chemicals in our overprocessed food - we are one of the most unhealthiest countries in Europe. Loads of homeless and people living in poverty looking to food banks , immigrants - brexit was supposed to have helped but it hardly hasn’t which was about the only distinctive thing the conservatives managed to achieve for us in the last 30 odd years and where I live there are large hotels housing these immigrants whilst the local council ignores the English homeless and druggies and prostitutes and other groups on the fringes of society that are living on the streets just outside . We also aren’t in with the euro like the rest of Europe so it costs more to go on holidays and the hassle of conversion and other problems it brings such as having to pay extra on buying goods from abroad as well as the problems this caused our businesses . Yeah we have the freedom to criticise the government at least which we do a lot of but we wouldn’t have to criticise the government in the first place if we had a good one . But a lot of it for me is the weather- most of the time in England the weather is crap especially in the north where I live - I work from home so because I don’t have loads of friends and family I like to go outdoors a lot to exercise and get fresh air to reduce the boredom of being inside but most the time the weather is gloomy eg it’s like I wanted to go for a long walk the other day and it was p***** it down all day for two days in a row and it’s mid summer - then we get tons of windy cloudy miserable days were it’s hard to motivate yourself to even leave the house - the weathers so unpredictable in the uk as well and you never know how it’s going to behave from one moment to another and that’s just summer - then there’s winter - freezing , raining, windy , Ice, cloudy , and where I live it starts geting dark very early and in mid winter it starts getting dark by 1pm and it can be dark as early as 3pm- and it’s almost as bad as this for almost half the year and it’s so depressing . And then when you eventually get a good day but because you’ve been so depressed having been stuck inside because of the bad weather you find it hard to motivate yourself to go outside and you’ll find you need a car a lot of the time especially in winter but it is a bit warmer in the south if your lucky enough to live there or can afford to live there but it’s not much warmer there either and there can be flooding in some parts . Then there’s all the heating bills you have to pay just to keep your house warm most of the year . Then when you do go outside your breathing in all the crap air full of pollutants so your probably doing yourself more harm than good and especially a lot of the beaches are polluted and the water is freezing and a lot of the food is highly processed and a lot of people are in poor health . I hate the UK- it’s just a small crappy post industrial island . I mean there are worst places in the world and other countries have there own problems but it wouldn’t be a bad place if the weather was better and the days were longer in winter as our economy is quite good and there are some interesting places to visit and there are things to do eg night clubs , bars, theatres , theme parks, cinema , beaches, countryside, large city centres and shopping , parks etc but when the weathers bad they are not that appealing . I personally wouldn’t recommend people come to live here if they have good weather and standard of living in there own country unless they are from a poor country with little prospects and not even for a holiday unless you want to visit a few of places worth visiting that have some cultural heritage like London inc Westminster or oxford or a warmer seaside resort like Cornwall - don’t bother with the rest . That’s why a lot of people move abroad from here which is what am going to do soon and am sure I’ll never look back .
We love to stab , chop and pound here in the UK. Stanley knives, cut throat razor , machetes, bowie knife, broken bottles pen knife, hatchet, chopper, axe, hammer, club, ice pick, mace, etc all nicely medieval . Surprised we don't all have the right to carry a broadsword or maybe we do!
@@HipOverFifty , The sort of knife I take with me when I'm going fishing from the local beach, is legal for that purpose, but would be very illegal if I was carrying it while walking around town. There are some types of knives which are always illegal, with others you have to have a good reason for having them in your possession. Other than that, you are allowed to carry a knife with a non locking blade not exceeding 3 inches.
I live in South Africa, the murder and rape capital of the world, where 1 farmer is killed every day often tortured to death, and there are 80 general murders per week and about 70 rapes per day. All the criminals have guns but they've virtually disarmed the population so most of us can't defend ourselves. You need a gun if you live in a violent lawless country, but I believe the key is that you don't get given a licence without a stiff profficiency test which includes affidavits that you are mentally stable. If crime increases in the UK it may be found that criminals are armed but citizens are defenceless. I hope you guys continue to have a peaceful country where having a gun is unnecessary
Good and bad everywhere, I have been lucky enough to travel and work in a number of Countries and Cities, one common factor, it always feels safer away from big cities. I loved living in Iowa, Hated San Francisco, Miami etc, loved living/working in rural Denmark, same applies to the UK big Cities, no thanks!
Gun control is not a reason to praise the UK in my opinion. Easy gun ownership is one of the positives of the USA that I envy. No nation on earth should have an unarmed citizenry, that allows a corrupt thieving ruling class to have guns. The former are at the mercy of the latter. The 'J' community cannot setup their one world communist government unless they can disarm the entire civilian population of the earth, and the armed American public is in their way! (If they cannot disarm America, they cannot form their world government). They try to get around this with their fake/staged shooting incidents in the media, which they think will shame and pressurise gun owners into giving up their rights to self defense. Thankfully the American people have not fallen for it!
Although sometimes the process is flawed, I have to say that if a UK cop has to use a weapon ( which has to be authorised by a senior officer) then there is _always_ an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct. Additionally, if a UK force does overstep the mark - as happened during the Coronation when the arrested a completely innocent bystander (Alice Chambers) - then there almost always trouble for the police. Policing by consent is, despite efforts of various governments, still a fundamental part of the UK scene.
I like the fact that when I spot a police man or women here I know they're more likely to be friendly and helpful. In the US they're rarely helpful and more likely threatening. Not nice!
@@HipOverFifty We have our bad coppers as well - as at least two horrific recent cases have shown (David Carrick and Wayne Couzens ) but all the police I have met were genuinely horrified by what happened.
No gun death figures have been released for this year. In 2020, there were 35. 60 would be high. 160 is not possible. As for other crime, our figures are much lower than the US. I don't know where you are getting your figures, but they are exaggerated.
The one interesting thing about gun crime in the UK is unfortunately it’s likely to be non British. Like the US all control of borders both legal and illegal has been abandoned.
Why move from freedom to non freedom no you cant eat that steak have this bug you must be crazy unless you lived in California then i can understand it
@@michaelplank8966 But you said "Why move from freedom to non freedom". Tessa moved from the US to the UK, not North Korea or Russia. The UK is a very free, safe country. I have also travelled around the world to around 40 countries and friendly, helpful people can be found all over. Presumably you haven't been to the UK because you would have known that steak is available in restaurants and supermarkets.
I'm real English I know stop being stupid everyday someone gets stayed or raped your craxy its very unsafe walk around London at night your find out as a boy I used to perfectly safe don't tell lies about this stuff it's just getting worse same as Germany the us is a lot safer because you can depend yourself you lefty say the most untrue stuff
@@stanleywoodison8699 I was unable to find any home office figures for Non-UK residents convicted of knife crimes in the UK. However, there are 67 million people in the UK and 6 million of those are none UK residents. Do the maths. If you just want figures for England and not the whole UK then you'll have to do a little more research.
There are a nasty core within the Met in London, but most police here are very good. The Met has failed in getting rid of a racist and violent minority and it stains them all.
I was privileged to live in Brighton, UK for 11 years. During that time I was never concerned about my safety. Not even when walking alone in the middle of the night anywhere around the city centre, seafront, as well as the suburbs! I never experienced nor witnessed anything wrong happening to nor people around me! I loved walking around Brighton! -Mornings, afternoons, evenings, middle of the nights. Never felt endangered nor afraid!
Other coastal resorts are not do good. Brighton is well off. On others there is a lot of poverty, drugs, alcohol abuse and petty crime..Your chance of being seriously attacked at random is extremely low but the chance of an ugly incident is not so low
When I was in England a year and a 1/2 ago I went by myself. A lot of my friends were really worried because I been a woman and doing it all on my own. Not once did I ever felt threatened or having to look over my shoulder to see if anybody's following I felt very comfortable. Never felt threatened. 😊
I totally agree! So glad you felt safe here :)
so glad to hear that.
@@maudeboggins9834 someone's a Carry On fan!😅
@@johnboy2562 You bet. Goldie Locks. Barbara Windsor. Very few people notice that. Years ago my son wanted to call his school pet hamster Maude Boggins, the teacher laughed, but declined.
@@maudeboggins9834 I'm not sure if Jim Dale needed to act too hard when that sheet was pulled away!😯☺️
David Soul of Starsky & Hutch has lived in the UK for decades.
Yes I saw that!
Not now he isn’t …. RIP David
I think that the MOT test (you have to have your car certified as roadworthy every year) also helps with road safety in the UK.
No doubt.
I was privileged to live in Brighton, UK for 11 years. During that time I was never concerned about my safety. Not even when walking alone in the middle of the night anywhere around the city centre, seafront, as well as the suburbs! I never experienced nor witnessed anything wrong happening to me nor people around me! I loved walking around Brighton! -Mornings, afternoons, evenings, middle of the nights. Never felt endangered nor afraid!
That's good to know. I don't feel unsafe walking around Brighton but it does have a bit of "you never know what to expect" vibe. Perhaps its because I'm a woman :)
Oh plenty of sights on Brighton. My GF and I were subjected to a mass wolf whistle passing a Gay bar! To this day we cannot figure out who feels more flattered.
Try it today
I've travelled around the world. I'm not a Brit, but I've always felt safer in England.
I’ve been to Disney World many times when my children were growing up, and I was often stopped by Americans asking us about the Uk , many comments were about our ability to easily travel to many countries in Europe
You will find high crime numbers in the UK because almost anything can be categorised as crime. Kids shouting and hanging about... recorded anti social crime, domestic incident, domestic crime, shouting at a retail worker can be a police matter, no car mot.. crime etc etc etc. At 66 I've never seen a gun or heard a gunshot, I've never seen a knife used in anyway except to cut food etc. I've never even felt threatened or at risk, even in arguments with strangers.
Am a Brit always lived in UK - I think regarding the gun thing we just don't feel the need to have a gun because they're not really a worry to us we don't ever think someone else may have one and use it against us and we definitely wouldn't be allowed to own one if the reason we gave for having one was 'self defense' as I hear a lot of Americans say
I agree and I see your point. I think even rational Americans are wondering if they should start "carrying" just to be prepared for self defense. It's crazy making.
@@HipOverFifty decades ago someone did a survey with criminals asking why they didn't have guns the answer was , if we have them the police would have to have them and people will die , were as now the police will chase you and if they catch you the worst that will happen is you might get roughed up by them and that's it.
Not too sure about today's crims.
@Krishna patel good point. Perhaps not "weak" but not effective and not able to help those most in need.
We have the right to own firearms to protect against tyrannical government - considering 100M people have died over the last 100 years at the hands of their government. As we're allowed to have them for this purpose, then you have to deal with the fact that bad guys can get them and you wouldn't want to be without one if you needed one. When seconds count, cops are just minutes away, so I'd rather have a gun in my hand than a cop on the phone. Gun crime is typically in very specific areas, it isn't even across the US. Stay away from drugs & gangs and you're highly unlikely to see gun crime. I never have. The crime rate among legal gun owners is extremely low, lower than the UK - which is where I'm from.
It's a complex topic. Growing up in the UK I saw a lot of violence, far more than I've experienced here. Given, it was the 80's, you always had to be watching your back.
@Krishna patel
Far too many reports of corrupt and ineffective Police in India; that the local populations know better to use community justice rather than waste time getting the official Police involved. Organised crime is rife because the Police are so easily paid off.
hi from Oxford and im glad you feel safe here...as all people should
Thank you, yes I do.
here are10 small tips to any US citizen that wants to come to visit England.
1. leave your attitude along with your guns at the departure lounge.
2. don't panic! it will be there waiting for you when you get back, we don't want it.
3. you cannot buy, nor carry a gun over here, this is not the wild west as it is in the USA.
4. enjoy the sites the food and the different cultures.
5. England has a culture, they have song, dance and food and we are proud of it.
6. The US has, Levi's jeans, McDonalds, mass shootings, guns and bombs and you are proud of it?
7. take lots of photo's, buy the occasional souvenir.
8. when you get back to the US "the home of the brave and the free," pick up your gun and your attitude, you will notice it is still there in tact as you left it.
9. Show your friends the photo's and tell them you had a nice time.
10. Oh and don't forget to tell your friends you experienced real freedom for the first time in your life not having to carry a gun!
Thanks for your comments!
Just to clarify, the majority of Americans do not own a gun.
@@suzetteshares Understanding gun ownership in America is not as simple as knowing who does and does not own a gun.
There was a story in the Daily Mail today where an American women pulled a knife out while being arrested by police in her house and they shot her dead. That would never happen in the UK. UA-cam is full of videos of unarmed British police officers taking down people with machetes, knives and even Samurai swords. It's one of the things that make me most proud to be British!
@@Sams_EnglishCountyTravels a common mistake, unfortunately 😂
Not sure I would credit the Daily Mail with the truth ;) but I wouldn't be surprised if that's true. It's a lot more civilized here :)
Watching American cops tackle baddies they always seem a bit hysterical compared to the British ones. All that shouting and swearing but I suppose they face a lot more danger than in the UK.
@@Sams_EnglishCountyTravels ambiguous - sorry!
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I watched some body-cam footage the other day of a US cop, and it looked like 3 or 4 cops overall surrounding this old Caucasian disheveled homeless looking guy who was sat at a bus stop on his own; the guy was just sat there passively asking why he should comply with their "Simon says" requests, and refusing. He laid back, resting on his back pack whilst you could clearly hear the cops getting increasingly angry, up until the point that one cop shot him, then all the others opened up firing repeatedly.
Clearly needless lethalality, where a tazer (at worst) would have subdued him enough to cuff him.
It's Disgusting.
Thank you! Great information
You're very welcome.
The cars in the UK have to have a Ministry of Transport Test each year to make sure the vehicle is roadworthy, There are powerful cars but there are also speed restrictions, CCTV is everywhere and along motorways can be seen if driving dangerously fast.
We haven't had 162 gun deaths this year. That was the total for the whole of 2019.
The reason for safer roads in the UK is down to the UK Driving Test. End of.
Or the roads are so congested you cannot speed ? If you are following me you could easily think I am drink driving but I am only dodging potholes
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So True.
There are a lot of things classed as crimes in the UK that are not in the US, for example possession of a knife (without good reason), and the thresholds of sexual harassment are far lower in the UK.
I think I alluded to that. Different crimes are not all perceived or prosecuted the same throughout the world.
May I congratulate you. We can see your growing confidence in your delivery of your content. As you become more relaxed you are even more enjoyable to watch
What a kind thing to say. I'm still on a very steep learning curve! But thank you so much for the atta girl :)
Australian here. Yes, I'm from the country that had a massacre in 1996 and the govenment took steps to see that that never happened again. I've been to the US three times and the UK once. I love visiting the US for all that there is to see and do there but I think of it like swimming in the ocean. We've all done it. I've done it but only very occasionally so the chances of me being eaten by a shark are very slim. By comparrison, if you spent your whole life in the ocean it'd be only a matter of time until you were eaten by a shark. My time in the US totals 20 weeks out of 62 years and just like the amount of time I've spent in the ocean, nothing bad happened but for the people my age who've spent their entire 62 years there, I wonder can many of them say the same. As for half the gun deaths being suicides, that may be but it stands to reason that if a person decides they want to end it and there's a gun in the house that's already loaded 'for protection from home invaders', they can do it before they've really had a chance to think about it. Back in 1977, a friend of mine did exactly that with a shotgun. That gun was for sport and is still legal to have here but if no gun was handy or as is required now, it must be kept unloaded in a locked safe, by the time the person goes to all the trouble of unlocking the safe and loading the gun, or they've walked to the nearest railway line or tall building, or started their car in the garage with the door closed and their eyes start to water from the fumes, they've had a few minutes or more to think about things and may decide against killing themselves. I wonder how many of those suicides in the US would not have happened had a gun not been within easy reach.
Very well said. Yes you have to wonder. It stands to reason that it's much easier to make a "permanent solution to a temporary problem" if there's a gun at hand.
Port Arthur and Dunblane were about 30-45 days apart and both had the same public outrage.
Seeing a policeman with a gun is somewhat of a rarity in the UK and that's the way we like it.
not in London and other UK city's
So do the criminals they have guns how stupid are you I don't know why I bother
But that's good you can enjoy more criminals because there not scared of the police they got it made
As an aside have you ever done a review of the safest States/County's in the USA , would be of interest, Thanks, like your vlogs.
I think Idaho is top of the safest list.
@@petergoddard1960 👍Thanks, thinking of migrating soon from UK
Thank you and I hadn't thought of that topic! I'd recommend any state that has gun control laws to start, for example most states in New England do. Like Massachusetts for example
Your figure 162 given for Firearms deaths in UK seems high.
The figure for year ending march 2021 was 35, with year ending march 2022 was 31 (figure from Office for National statistics England & Wales.
I believe we collect the stats on a April to March year.
I think your figure may have been for any firearms offences.
Re comment on Knife crime, Fatal stabbings
Year ending March 21 was 223 and for ending 22 was 260.
There were many offences with Knives coming to 42 thousand and 46 thousand in each of those years.
Hope that's useful
To add
Many of the knife crimes in the UK are for things that are legal in the US.
For example if you have a locking knife that is most likely illegal in the UK unless you can justify it for work and the place you have it.
@@johnclements6614 Sorry, to be clear, the stats I gave were for violence or aggravated assaults, not posession or similar.
They were Homicide, Threats to Kill, Assault with injury and assault with intent to cause serious harm, Robbery, Attempted Murder, Rape and Sexual Assault.
I agree our (UK) rules on what can be carried are a bit extreme
I did my research but I agree it seems high. It can either be down to our perception of what we think it should be or different reporting methods.
@@HipOverFifty Your figures for firearms include suicide and accident I believe.
By firearm
UK has 0.02 homicides per 100000 and 0.16/100000 suicides.
USA has 4.46/100000 homicides and 7.32/100000 suicides.
Above figures from Wiki.
By knives
UK Homicides by sharp object there were 261 last year according to House of Commons Library; about 0.39/100000.
USA it is around about 0.50/100000.
So you are less likely to be killed by a knife in the UK than US but the difference is not as dramatic as with firearms.
@@HipOverFifty The official figures for E&W are as follows:
In the year 31 March 2021 ending there were
35 homicides caused by shooting ( out of a total of 594)
The UK quite probably isn’t no1 in any particular category. But as you say, when you add up all the different ways safety can apply, it is a far safer place to live in than the US. As a Brit, the US will always be my second favourite country, and i could happily live there if i was super rich. But that not being the case, the UK will always win. I have never felt in danger here, ever. 🥴
I'm still very fond of the US and there's so much good going for it. Shame it's becoming an unsafe place to be.
I was in the UK in 2017. I walkedf the streets with a $4000 camera. I still have the camera. I can't believe Japan was so far down the list. Been there twice and felt very safe both times.
Oh I don't think Japan was far down the list! But glad you still have your camera :)
Tokyo is the biggest city in the world but is safe because they have very low immigration.
Just a quick note regarding pistol ownership in the UK, we can own pistols but they are heavily regulated (sounds familiar 😅), the barrel length has to be over a certain length and I think the (revolver type pistol) is hand loaded a little like a musket, really only for very specific target shooting, also vets and farmers can have a relatively standard type revolver for as you mentioned (animal welfare/health situations), so other than what you mentioned little in the way of any type of pistol being something many people would be interested in, I was a target shooter before the ban on pistols and continued until 05 but I was just shooting air pistol and air rifle (both only target), it could be something that I could be interested in again, but it's a hobby that is quite intense and needs a lot of concentration and practice and I'm not sure that I want to get back into it at the level which I was at before, only the people in the club and a neighbour with a similar interest knew I was a shooter, it just doesn't have the same type of attraction here, it is competition and nothing more.
Thanks for sharing your real world experience. Perhaps if you've grown up in that culture where it's common to have a gun it seems "normal" but for the rest of us (I'm including you here :) it's not something we'd ever see as a necessity. Like you said... just not the same level of attraction, or dare I say need for a weapon.
Yes, the law is can you justify owning a hand gun (pistol) self-defence or sport aren't accepted reasons, you can add pest control, Terrier men and deer stalkers.
Most vets have a captured bolt gun.
What rules do the criminals go by your all so weak and stupid that's one of the reasons I left no freedom
See you make your division not to carry and be dead okay I'll carry and be alive this is what the far left do to people glad I live in a place I have a choice I'll stay alive no crime here California no guns everybody gets killed by criminals
I visited the USA from the UK a few years back to meet up with distant relatives and a pen friend who lived near Cleveland, Ohio. We stayed 2 nights at a hotel in Cleveland which seemed quite industrial. My home town of Liverpool is not affluent and there's many with social problems. It's population is about 100,000 more than Cleveland but covers only about 52% of Cleveland's area. In 2021 Cleveland was reported to have had 179 murders. For the same year Liverpool had 10. I'm glad I only stayed 2 nights there.
Yes unfortunately Cleveland is not known to be a safe place. Ohio varies widely from cities like that to complete rural towns which are completely different in lifestyle.
Took train from MCR to LP, visited Liverpool One area, Slavery Museum & enjoyed it!😊👀
Look, you're not going to get shot in the street, or in a mall, or in a school in the UK. Particularly if you stay out of London, although in London stabbing amongst teenagers is a problem.
But in England and Wales last year there were (only) 260 fatal stabbings, and 31 fatal shootings, too high I know but not the massive problem we are lead to believe.
@@stephenlee5929 Did you used to play snooker? If so, I'm a fan. (John Higgins yada yada yada)!
@@MeStevely No, I wasn't a downhill skier either.
@@stephenlee5929 Oh - a different Stephen Lee then, sorry about that. But he was a really good snooker player until he got banned.
@@MeStevely Yes, I'm neither a reasonably good snooker player, nor a mediocre skier.
Though both are probably much better in their chosen sport than I am.
Thinking about it they are probably better in each others sport than I am at either.
I just like numbers (stats), I think I'm OK at them.
It seems to me that there is a lot of fear of crime in USA which may or maynot be justified but has lead to 2 individual cases of a person being shot dead because they got the wrong house/driveway in the last month!
Yes I read those stories. You are spot on. It's fear plain and simple.
There is fear of crime in the US because the party in charge doesn't enforce the laws..so common sense would dictate that criminals know this and exploit this. That being said, when the law abiding public knows that the government doesn't care about them...make a guess what will happen.
Great video. Very knowledgeable 👍
Thank you!
In the U.K. I could walk around even the worse areas in my home city without any concerns for my safety (I’m also a white male, so there’s that privilege as well, along with spending time in those areas in my youth). The only time I’ve ever felt a bit scared walking somewhere was in New York when I ended up in a very clearly dodgy area
Thanks for sharing your viewpoint 🙌
My family and I cancelled our holiday to the states (Texas) this year on the advice of family living there. They said its too dangerous and more or less lawless now. They are coming back home for their children's safety.
Interesting. Well I don't blame them, good advice. I used to live in TX but I wouldn't choose to live there now.
@@HipOverFifty likewise... we're British and lived in TX in 90s and loved it but would not dream of it now.
You cancelled a holiday because of what one person said? Surely you should go and make up your own mind. I've been to Texas several times and never had a problem.
Hi I'm 59 and born and bred in the UK and to be absolutely honest I'd be to afraid to go to the US it's getting worse and worse not just gun crime but drug's and homelessness and it's so dirty so i definitely won't be going on holiday there.
A bit of a sweeping statement! The entire country isn't as you describe, no more than England is the same everywhere. But the gun issue is very real unfortunately.
Living in the UK, except for when I was actually being stalked, I have never had to give my persnal safety a moment's thought. When my sister went to the US, I couldn't sleep. I slept like a baby when she went to Zimbabwe.
Glad you feel safe here as I do 😁
I agree the UK definitely has a problem with knife crime. Although I wouldn't like to be in a position that I'm facing either, the way I think of it is if you are in a packed room when someone produces a knife at least there is a very good chance you will escape without severe injury. In a packed room with someone with a gun, especially one of those automatic rifles, there is very little chance that anyone would escape unscathed.
Most knife crime in the UK is generally thankfully committed by different gangs in inner city areas...most of the victims know their attacker....gangs way back used to have at least a code of behaviour, but gangland type crime from the states as filtered more into uk culture, where anyone can be a victim, not just an apposing member of another gang. It's a culture of if not got, take.
Very true. You have almost zero chance of surviving an assault with an automatic weapon.
99% of knife crime in the uk is perpetrated by black people.....fact, not racism
UK knife crime is still significantly lower than the USA, per capita.
You started out good...but the mention of automatic rifles proves you don't know much about American gun laws thus your opinion is based on lack of knowledge. Furthermore American gun ideology are based on the rights we are given in our constitution unlike the UK.
In the UK, as in most countries in the world except the US, you cannot keep a gun for protection.
If you carry anything for use as a weapon, it is illegal.
However, if you are attacked your are able to use reasonable force to protect yourself, and if in the heat of the moment you grab an article, such as the weapon being carried by you attacker, to defend yourself.
I think that may be a problem with a written constitution. 250 yrs ago did those alive then ever think that the gun issue is what they had in mind.
Exactly. No they had no idea or concept of semi-automatic weapons. It makes no sense that those laws are still upheld in this day and age.
I took my first driving test in California years ago and found that much harder than my British test although i had to take it twice.
I remember Craig Ferguson, when he hosted the Late Late Show talking about having to take his California driving test. Basically drive round the block once and don't kill anyone.
Well every state is different but it's hard to fail a US driving test. Of course I've heard the British test has gotten harder in recent years so I guess it depends on when you took it! :)
That wasn't my experience I had to drive on the highway do all kinds of manoeuvres. I didn't have to do that on the English test.
you can have semi auto rifles in the UK but only up to 22 calibre
Quick question, i think its relavant, when you talk about the crime stats, being similar to the US, what crimes are these,
Traffic, drugs, burgalaries, shop lifting, anti social. domestic desputes, friday night to much drink which is mainly the UK crimes, yeah there are some knife and guns.
Against the US, i would be interested, s i have lived all over the UK since birth.
so what crimes, would make us the same, As you mentioned gun deaths, so far higher, i would like to know the crimes that make us similar, because i dont see it
No mass school shootings over here
Thank goodness. What a terrible thing to have to grow up with that fear.
I'm 72. I've never seen or held a gun
I've never met anybody who owns or wants to own a gun. I don't know where they can be bought but no doubt they can be bought somewhere. I've only been to new York in the USA and didn't feel very safe. I've been to quite a few countries but the one I felt least safe in was USA, although I only visited new York and no doubt it's not fair to judge a country just on one city.
I grew up around guns - shotguns and rifles.
I have played with GPMGs, SLRs, SA80s, Pistols ...
They are useful and/or fun to use. Thankfully, in the UK their usage is restricted to people who pass certain criteria.
You have to be compos mentis, without a criminal record and have safeguards in place for the storage of your firearms and ammunition. All basic, common sense.
Common sense is not that common in the USA, apparently.
It's kind of ironic that NY has cleaned up it's crime rate relative to London. But I would agree, you have a greater chance of running into someone not nice just because of the sheer amount of people that live in NYC.
@@HipOverFifty
At the start of our stay there the yellow cab taxi driver stole my wifes handbag with her cards and cash in. Later on the new York train system when returning from seeing the site where the twin towers were there was a wino/druggie/homeless unkempt scruffy chap lying on the seats and when he was asked to sit up he went berserk spitting,shouting and being aggressive. That section of the train carriage emptied quickly. We got off about a minute later as soon as the train reached the next stop. After seeing Brooklyn bridge we got a bit lost and saw 2 policemen standing talking so I asked directions from one of them but was met with aggression from him. Stand back from me. (I was about 3 feet away). He never gave us any good directions and had a very unfriendly attitude, when he spoke to me he was shouting.
All in all it was an experience I wouldn't want to go through again. Bus drivers who are not helpful, taxi drivers that steal your things, unfriendly cops. I do not think all America is like this but this was my experiences.
@@davidrowlands441 I've heard of others having similar experiences with the cops.
@@davidrowlands441 sorry to hear you had that experience. I'm afraid it can be a bit brutal in NYC and yes the police are often in a position of being feared than helpful.
Slight correction, you can have a semi-automatic rifle in the UK, you're just limited to .22lr.
I`m surprised there`s as many as 5 guns / 100 people here. A few years ago I heard that there was one chap who moved into the town where I grew up ( Barton upon Humber ) who was found to have a whole cellar full of guns - pistols, rifles..... you name it. He turned up to be an American fugitive, wanted by the FBI.
His name was Robert Kleasen and he was wanted back in the `States to answer charges of Murder.
I was surprised by that statistic too. I guess it only takes a few people to own multiple guns as in your example to push the stats up.
@@HipOverFifty Sure.
Our ladybirds are vicious here in the UK.
Hedgehogs are bastards if they're cornered.....
Don't corner a hedgehog. Let it live in peace.
@@leec6707 They go for your throat if trapped.!
I'm pretty sure that owning a shot gun 🔫 has always been alowed, it's just extremely difficult to obtain a license for one. Years ago, there was an actual gun shop with a shooting range within it, in my small town in South Wales. When I was little, about, 10, my Dad took me there and the owner let me hold a Winchester riffle. Man I was surprised how heavy it was. OK I was around 10, but I literally couldn't pull it up level to my eye. I wasn't going to fire practice it, lol, I was just given it to hold.
I think getting a license should be difficult and I can imagine a 10 yr old would have been a bit terrified holding a rifle!
@@HipOverFifty I agree about making the licence very had to obtain. But as a 10 year old boy it was cool (or would have been if I could lift the thing horizontal lol), just like in the movies lol. TBH not many kids get to hold a Winchester in Wales or the UK for that matter. And I think I can say a gun shop like that in any part of the UK was as rare then as it is now. I actually drove past the building, coming back from the city today, it's been a marine supply centre ever since.
How interesting. I have spent the past 20 years wishing I never left the UK for University to Canada. I always planned to return, but after earning 3 University degrees and many other certifications I stayed in Canada, until I could transition to the US. Not using any of my educational skills, I sell on the phone, and like a rat on a treadmill spend all my time working. Seldom socialize outside work. I enjoy being around others and also enjoy being alone. My Mother and close friends have passed so I would be 'like a stranger in a strange land' not knowing a soul, including not understanding EU currency. However, I'll give this some thought. I should have returned after my divorce while my mother was still alive. The weather is the main reason I stayed. I can't stand sunless days or cold weather. I get SAD and not seeing the sun is immobilizing. Have to consider the matter. I wonder about employment in the UK and pay structure to pay rent/bills, etc., I am in my 70's. All my $$ went on my ex and his 4 children so I'll be working till I drop. Cashflow could be a prob. I look 10 yrs younger which helps but is there a UK age stigma for job seekers? I work 40 hrs per week.
We emigrated to Canada when I was a tot I think because we could get in there but not the US. When my dad got a job in the US down we went, so I grew up there. I'm starting over here so why not try it too?
I don't know where you are in Canada but as I recall there's a lot more cold weather. Yes the weather here isn't great but when it's sunny there's nowhere better to be.
I am in the US, PLEASE let me know how to move to the UK and what companies I can work for. I am a benefits coordinator for health plans and desire a life in the UK with my partner who currently lives in the UK.
Hopefully your partner can help you find a good employer here, go to gov.uk for a list of wanted professionals and good luck!
Awesome and thank you for the tip! Much appreciated. 😃
Yes , gents , she is fabulous....now settle down .
I have lived all my 63 years apart from a few shop lifting when I worked in retail i have only had one crime committed againts me. In the 1990s my old VW golf was broken into. My fault I forgot to lock the passenger door, the central locking didn't work😢
I could tell they tried to take the radio as tuning knob was missing obviously they didnt tske it because that was faulty too you couldn't retune it so only played Radio 4 longwave handy for cricket commentary on Test Match Special and the daily church service but not slot else.
The people who broke in did me one favour as they went through the piles of rubbish in the footwell they threw it out the door. My mate i was with at the time commented on how cleaner the car looked inside.
I didn't report it to the police as I thought answering "what was taken" with "all the trash on the floor" would be a little embarrassing 😂
ha ha glad you've had a relatively crime free life so far!
2021/22 Total gun deaths in the UK was, in fact 28! Ownership is 3.3% of population!
Research may vary.
I worked for a UK office of a major US corporation. When it closed down I asked one of the American workers who'd been assigned to the office if he was going back to Denver. "No, I'm stopping here, it's way safer for me and my kids"
In truth, everywhere has its problems and most forward looking societies aim to deal with them but America seems to stick its collective head in the sand over gun control and actually looks at pouring gasoline on the fire - concealed carry, reduced restrictions (because the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun).
Yes even Denver, "The Mile High City" where I lived for a few years, isn't immune to the plague of gun crime. You've nailed it. What's sad is the US seems to be going back to the days of the wild west, not forward.
Gun violence is very low, but England is far from safe in the major cities. Especially in London if you’re a woman. Such much as the same in the states, major cities have higher crime.
My elderly mother can go for walks for hours in the country side, through parks at night and use public transport (here in South West UK) and feel safe.
Try that in the US.
Also the UK has public right of way across farm fields - try that in the US and you'll get shot, how horrible is that.
The UK is getting a higher knife crime over the past decade or so, but at least its not guns.
Here where I live the crime rate (there are 231600 people here) is very low inc knife crime - the last knife crime (death) was in 2021, in 2020 there was 18 knife crimes.
The Gun crime here is 2 deaths in 1 year.
Rape is set at 3.6 per 10,000 people.
Robbery is up by 7% since last year, could not find any numbers on this.
Theft is down by 23.9%.
However stealing of Cars is up a staggering by 22% since last year.
However even with all these crimes, I and many of my friends, co-workers still feel much safe at night in parks, the country side and towns.
Yes agreed. I was just talking about that with a friend on a walk. You try right to roam in the US and you could be facing down the barrel of a gun and in some states they would have every right to shoot before asking.
@@HipOverFifty So not a very free country then to just go for a walk. Why is that? Whats the mental state of having a gun? Its so Alien to the rest of the world.
Speaking as a Londoner born & bred here more than 60 years ago, England and London are FAR FAR less safe and less pleasant than in my childhood. People here DO have guns, but they’re the criminals, who can obtain them through nefarious means. So innocent people have no protection whatsoever. There is a lot of knife crime and drug related crime in London, which has dramatically increased in recent years. There is far more dirt and litter in the streets, and roads are full of potholes which wreck your tyres. I’m glad you feel safer than in America, but I’m afraid England is a mere shadow of its former self. Will it get better again? Seems likely the downhill trend has some way to go… the country is deeply in debt and inflation is on the rise, which will make everything more expensive, and out of reach for many. But we do have quite a lot of nice country towns, not yet totally ruined!
I can understand why you would feel that way. I've been visiting England since I was a tot and have seen it change over the years. Unfortunately I think if we compare anywhere to what it was like "back then" it will suffer by comparison.
Is it hard to find work in the UK ?
I wouldn't think so. Unemployment rate currently is 4%
The question is why does a person need an automatic rifle etc in your house?
No good reason at all.
@@HipOverFifty Agree. However a great proportion of Americans don't agree.
My perspective as a born-and-bred Brit: unfortunately the true _direction of travel_ for crimes against the person in UK is not good. You rightly mention knives and machetes; it's not uncommon for young teens to carry one. Firearms crimes are also more prevalent. Even the bare minimum provided by official figures show about 7000 firearm incidents with more than half involving a discharge. That might not sound a lot for a country of 70 million but things are getting worse with cost of living, public services on their last legs, inflation, job losses, housing shortage, rents & mortgages crisis, food banks... It won't be that long before things come to a head here.
Let's hope cooler heads prevail and we keep calm and carry on!
I've lived in the UK all my life and not once have I felt or been threatened I'm over 50 and can travel anywhere here with no problems obviously certain areas of the country has it's problems like anywhere else but in general it's a safe country to live probably that's one of the reasons all the immigrants want to come here
Interesting comparison video, thank you. Could you ever see yourself taking out UK citizenship ma-am?. By the way, as someone who was born in London, welcome to you.
Thank you for the welcome! I was lucky to be born here as otherwise I wouldn't have the wonderful opportunity to call England home.
The problem with the US with its gun culture has got itself in a perpetual vortex where the supposed defenders of the citizens are actually afraid when they go to every call. That fear means the US Police react with ultimate violence to meet the perceived violence coming to them. They will shoot first instead of using community Policing more prevalent in UK Police forces where the threat of the gun is much less and a more considered reaction to vulerable people can take place.
Basically something needs to be done about the over preference for guns. It will be difficult to change as it is so ingrained but there is no easy quick answer. But, change will need to take place because what happens in US happens in no other country in the developed World. Also an update on the mass killings in US I believe now stands at 197 for this year.
What you say is very true. It's an unfortunate self perpetuating loop that's deadly both to the individual and to US culture.
@@HipOverFifty I am a Brit, and I just find it inconceivable I would be shot for going to the wrong door, or going up the "wrong" drive! In fact because the UK is a small overpopulated ( some may say) island, if the same result happened here it would be utter carnage on the doorstep. But again thise incidents in the US are probably driven again by fear, and that fear is driven by the gun culture.
@@HipOverFifty I've never understood some Americans conflating "freedom" with "freedom to own guns".
Can't believe there have been 162 gun deaths in UK, but if there have that'd be much worse when you also factor in we have just over a 5th of the population of the US.
Edit:
Somebody mentioned it might include suicides, we have definitely had a problem in the farming community, so maybe my shock is misdirected.
I believe the US and UK both share a similar suicide rate.
@@HipOverFiftyin 2019, the UK suicide rate was 6.9 per 100k, in the USA, it was 14.5 per 100k according to the World Health Organisation.
And we both have a criminal justice system that puts the criminal first, not the victim. I believe there are 27 charities looking after criminals, just one for victims in the UK.
It does seem that way doesn't it?
@@HipOverFifty I'm afraid that history will look back and ask why the most advanced civilisation the world has ever seen got leaders of such low calibre that they allowed it to be destroyed in a couple of generations. Neil Postgate summed it up very well in "Amusing ourselves to death"!
re the car driving, when i passed my car test back in 1989 the roads were quieter,BUT i have direct experience in driving in all types of road conditions, whether it be fog,heavy rain or snow i have a unblemished no claims bonus for 17 years currently (2 cars previously stolen ruining previous insurance no claims bonuses), plus we have all vehicles fitted with 2 numberplates (except motorbikes), making catching car crime & crimminals easier, also a lot of traffic lights also have cameras on them to catch red light jumpers, which seems to be a national sport in the USA, we are taught to drive by qualified proffessionals and not some high school teacher, these driving instructors 99% have dual controlds on there cars to ensure the pupil does not unecessarily put themselves or others in danger, how many american instructors have dual controls ??, hence we are safer drivers, plus to aid the Police we have ANPR cameras to track wrong doers & intercept them, in america it seems like a simple fail to stop takes up to 10 officers to bring to a finish, here in the UK @ the most it might take 3 cars to perform a T pack ( pit manouver for americans), and maybee a 4th to deploy a stinger (spike strip), try watch Police interceptors or one of the dashcam programmes on channel 5, they do feature apalling standards of driving in the usa or try watching wham bam dashcam on youtube another perfect example of poor us driving standards, let along the lack of vehicle safety checks (MOTs), i myself am currently training to be a LGV Class 1 Artic driver so i do know how diffcult it can be to study for a license in the UK
No seat belt regulations, dual controls, speed bumps, cameras, theory exams, and a lot less vehicles when I past my 20 minute test back in 1972. Oh happy days.
Thanks for your comment. Yes a lot more "hands on" here with traffic and cameras in many ways yet in others you are given the benefit of your experience to do the right thing. I like that the police don't seem to patrol looking for trouble here.
My guess would be most Americans would say there is no reason.
If an American wants to be safe they are better off going to a state like New Hampshire or Vermont than trying their luck in London or Stockholm!
I will never understand why the US has different laws in different states.
The Constitution. States rights. Gives them some autonomy over their laws. Not sure it's still working.
There are different laws in the uk,the drink drive limit in scotland is lower than the rest of uk and hgv speed limits are also different except on the A9
some USA States see them self's as small country's and some of the bigger ones can be, And actually that what the US Cavil war was really about State V Feudal Control
@@HipOverFifty i'm so glad you enjoy living in the UK if History went done a different path North America might be more like Europe or Africa a lot off Smaller country's in stead of 3 big ones and in 1 or 2 hundreds year time might go that way
@@markparsons5497 Yes, but Scotland is NOT England - the US is ONE country. xx
High knife crime in London is a major issue, and it's directly linked to a particular race; unfortunately I can't name the race because all the snowflakes and woke types would consider that a racist remark, despite it being factual and a true statement.
You have to be really careful not to stereotype because it only seems to be prolific in particular parts of London with the highest concentrations of these people.
The vast majority of the race that can not be named, are 100% honest law abiding citizens.
Same old same old, a minority overall ruin the reputation of the majority.
Why would any ordinary citizen feel the need to own a gun ??
Agreed.
I agree its safe but not free - over regulated in my opinon. The country that originated democracy and free speech is becoming the land of Big Brother.
you have to allow for population and the traffic in a country.
35,766 fatalities in the year 2020 in the USA vs 1558 in the UK year 2021. Population of the uk 68 million, Population of the USA 331 million. USA has 23 times amount of fatalities with a population of just under 5 times more. Granted a higher % of drivers per capita might be a reason but it doesnt negate that it is safer in the UK.
@@scottythedawg That's what I was meaning, places like iccland new zealand seem safer but they don't have the amount of through traffic UK does.
Less overall crime in the USA because of the 3 times and out rule which means if you get charge 3 times you get life in prison in some states lot of petty crooks taken of the streets. USA has 2nd highest prison population thx to this.
I've had occasion to drive past the supermax prison in Colorado and its creep even though it's out in the middle of nowhere!
I am an Englishman who’s lived all of my life in England and my American friends came over for a visit and asked me about our gun laws.
I explained that I like to shoot game birds in the countryside with my brother, who is a gamekeeper, but that both he and I are very much in favour of the extremely strict gun laws in this country, and they were appalled, and utterly condemned me, saying that I was obviously a terrible left-wing extremist who didn’t believe in democratic freedoms. I was very shocked indeed at their attitude, because I see no dichotomy between being in favour of very strict gun laws, and going shooting! I thank God we have very strict laws for guns. I thought their condemnation of me was very strange indeed. My brother, who goes shooting every weekend as part of his job, was horrified at their attitude.
Interesting but yes what you experienced is a sort of fanatical insistence on the right to bear arms despite the evidence that it's killing US "freedom".
5 guns per 100 people here in the UK I didn’t think it was that high ,more like 1 per 1000 people I would have though .
The law is strange a rifles and pistol are firearms, a shotgun isn't unless it holds more than 3 cartridges
I was surprised at that as well.
lots of shotguns in the countryside
@@charlesunderwood6334 every farmer and his mother
I think the figure might be a bit distorted. For example if a farmer has 3 guns that distorts it and I think that sort of distortion happens. So dividing the population number by the number of guns isn't a true reflection of gun owner ratio.
I wouldn't live in America for love nor money, it has so many negatives.
I'll tell Mr Biden not to expect you then. ;)
@@HipOverFifty Hahahaha, I think I speak for many Brits and Americans ;)
Why?? Fetish for cold and rain. Like wearing welly,s in the summer.
Don't get too excited, England is fast getting much more violent, especially in the cities, mainly due to unfettered immigration Although the authorities deny this to their shame.
Where do you live, if you don't mind me asking.
1960's, 70' and 80's with MODS and Rockers fights and general football violence. Some people have a very short memory. "mainly due to unfettered immigration" Blaming immigrants? You really are talking out of your back side.
fascinating how divisive the gun ownership debate is in America. like marmite here.
It's as polarizing as politics.
SORRY THIS GOT LONGGGGGGGG..... 😂😂😂
PART ONE
Ive suffered with depression on and off all my adult life, and none worse so than after my son died aged 5½ years, 11 years ago. It's not something I feel i will ever get over especially as he died from chickenpox. There's just no fairness in that at all imo. One minute he'd caught chickenpox like all small children do, and recover from...however after a week he was put into a coma up in London, and died a week later in my arms.Naturally I was devastated, I barely spoke for two years, and if I did it was either distant and dissociated, or else raging angry. My depression plummeted to levels I didn't know were possible to reach, nor less to come back from as a sane person!
I said many times, that I was glad I wasn't American, because I lost count of the times I felt i couldn't cope with the feelings any longer. Had I been an American, and owned a gun, I can tell you for certain i would no longer be here. Depression is an ongoing journey of low feeling, but if you add in the accute periods of extreme emotion that can drive you insane, those are the seriously dangerous times where it's so hard to cope, and nigh on impossible to imagine yourself ever coming back from.Nobody commits suicide because they've "had enough" of ongoing misery, it's not something you decide to do as a good rational decision you've made one day. Family members may immediately think, "but my loved one was totally calm when they came to see us, and killed themselves 30 minutes after leaving?" and yes that can often be the case. But the decision to take their life wasn't made in those 30 minutes.
There would have been a meltdown or desperately deep period that occurred prior to that moment, in which the decision was made. I've attempted suicide a few times, although that was years and years ago, and not since my son died. But what often happens is that someone either takes their life "in the moment" that overwhelms them, or the decision is made in that moment and a plan starts to fall into place. For those who've planned it all out, they can often be surprisingly calm beforehand, and the family totally unaware they were at breaking point. Well that's technically true, the breaking point had been in the days or weeks prior. What you perceived to be the "calmest you'd seen them in ages" is likely very true. There's something extremely comforting in the planning stages, a resolution that's been formed in their mind. Finally they can see the path clearly ahead of them, and it's very reassurring to them to know they have finally figured out a way to heal their pain permanently.
What looks like them "feeling better" is not an act necessarily, although they may be extra careful to keep it secret so that nothing ruins their plan. But it may genuinely be the period where they truly DID feel the most calm they'd felt in ages, because the planning stage is when their brain feels the most organised and assured they have found the perfect solution once and for all. There are times where in my desperation, particularly when I was younger, that i made proper plans to end my life, and can tell you that was such a relief of my symptoms during that stage. I'm sure it sounds bizarre or alarming to those who've never experienced it, but it is a bizarrely comforting time, knowing you've found the ultimate solution. Our brains work in mysterious ways and cope the only way they can depending on the situation, so don't ever think the person "lied" to you in the time leading up to their death. They were in a pact with their brain, a duo, a task force, and it's not personal that they were sworn to keep their military operation between them a secret. Enemies may have tried to thwart their mission, so they were only following orders. Obviously that's speaking metaphorically, rather than implying they believed themselves to be on secret duty or whatever.
But whether people break, and act in the middle of their overwhelming meltdown, or follow through with a plan that was made in the moment of madness, there's no denying that guns make it far easier for their intentions to be carried through. If you take an overdose there's no knowing that it will work, and a very real possibility that you're left alive but with a worse quality of life than you had already, so for many people, choices such as overdoses are a risk. In other words, NOT a guaranteed solution and so therefore not much of a relief in terms of being successful. The overdoses i took back in my early twenties, were all in the heat of the madness, in other words not carefully thought through. But the third one i planned beforehand, and still failed - clearly - or I wouldn't be here now! 😊 In the end I had to dig in deep and seek counselling and psychiatric help, because I knew i couldn't rely on pills to do the job! Better to accept you have no solution at all, than to have a half cocked plan that may make my life worse, and still keep alive! It was the lack of viable and reliable options that made me confront the brain's "trick" of fooling you into believing you've figured out a solution. I realised it's just the brain's way of staying alive, by promising you any crazy solution, however desperate, in order to buy itself more time to think up a more sensible option. If it can get you to NOT act in the moment, and talk you into waiting to plan it out properly, at least you're alive, and it has the opportunity to think up something less "final" to sort out your problems.
*AND YOU RAISE A VERY IMPORTANT AND MOSTLY IGNORED POINT - SUICIDE!*
Thank you for highlighting that subject!
PART TWO
I know for certain, if I owned a gun, I'd have stuck the barrel in my ear or down my throat long before now! When talking about gun statistics, most gun enthusiasts will often play down the total of gun deaths. If you said "100 people dead this month" for example, the typical reply is along the lines of "Yes but that number is misleading... 4 of those were from the gun malfunctioning, 3 were accidental, 12 were children having access because a parent didn't store their gun safely, 42 were people who killed themselves, so actually only 39 of those people were murdered!"
As if:
A) The statistics are lying.
B) The 61 NOT murdered arent relevant.
C) The 39 homicides were justified, and anyway, far less than the statistics would lead you to believe.
"Ohhhhh, well, now you put it like that.....!?" 😳 Like, wtf?
Just that shocking lack of compassion and complete lack of regard for the loss of human life, is enough reason to have a firm talk about gun use IMO! I'd rather be shot dead, than be someone who doesn't care about someone being shot dead! Americans always talk about intruders, like it's an almost guaranteed thing to experience! Yet they often go to sleep without locking their doors... 🤔. How about instead of living with the fact you shot and killed an intruder, who turned out to be a kid brought up in the system and abused, who only snuck in because they were hungry, how about installing secure dead bolts, outdoor sensor lights, clipping down bushes and branches that obscure the view to your front door from the street, putting in a gravel driveway that makes noise when walked on, keeping tools locked up safely, filling your windowsills with ornaments as a deterrent for someone hoping to climb in quietly, fitting window locks, CCTV equipment, joining or forming a neighbourhood watch scheme, covering the lower pane of glass in your front door so potential thieves don't see a pile of accumulated mail from outside and figure out you're away, fitting alarm systems, not putting expensive equipment and valuables in clear view from outside using net curtains or blinds where necessary to keep your possessions out of view, using timers to switch on and off lamps when you're away from home, fitting decorative trellis to the top of fences that would clearly give way if someone tried to climb over, putting all ladders away in the shed or garage and moving your wheelie bins to the driveway and not up against the house for someone to climb up on.
If you did all that, and there's plenty of other ideas too, then you shouldn't be broken into in the first place! Most crimes are opportunistic, so don't make your home an attractive option for a would-be burglar! Even if someone did break in, there's no guarantee you'll hear them, or that they won't grab your gun first to shoot you. You're not going to shoot them if they're holding your child and threatening to hurt them, so a gun isn't guaranteed to save you. And why put yourself through that trauma and stress and risk anyway? A gun doesn't prevent it happening in the first place, vigilance and common sense does!
(Not that I'm blaming any victims of burglary, but there are always things we can and should do to stay safe. I mean a girl walking home at 3am in heels and a mini skirt does not DESERVE to be raped, but she'd have to be an idiot to not know she was putting herself at risk in doing so, right? Prevention is always better than cure, is my point!)
Lastly, thank you for advocating for our beautiful country, and for choosing to call it your home. I think many Americans are fed such ridiculous lies about .... Well, just about anywhere other than America it seems. I saw a video the other day of an American travelling to Europe, asking people if they knew whether Portugal had clean running water? I've never even been to Portugal or googled the answer, but I'm guessing it's pretty safe to assume - of course they fucking do! 🙄 I've heard others think Paris is in the UK, we get zero sunshine ever, that our socialised healthcare means we live in a country ruled by socialism, that we are bled to death by our taxes and petrol costs, and on and on the list goes of absurd beliefs! 😘😘😘 ♥️
(LIFE - and all it's subsequent "costs" are 30% cheaper in the UK, so whilst petrol MAY be more expensive, we don't have to drive five miles to find a shop. We don't have to drive at all. No a wage may be lower in comparison to the same worker's wage over there, but our worker has more money left after all expenses are paid, plus he's not working 70 hours a week with no sick days or holidays!)
Hoping you find peace.
@@HipOverFifty I have. I'm more comfortable with myself than I've ever been in life actually. I'm sure the menopause has helped enormously, I was always fragile emotionally around the time my period was due, and I just wasn't a very confident woman in my younger years anyway. But no longer having those hormone surges is bliss! Oh to be a woman, eh? 😂 😘
When it kicks off it will be medieval until we can get guns. O joy some fool let in another old person and gun controller
To get away from Trump!!!
Exactly.
Hello there. Agree with you re gun control, but how & where to start, it'll require a mountain of legislation across all 50 states, it all goes back to when the US constitution was first written, the right for citizens to bear arms, you'll know what I mean. But the massacre of innocents in schools & shopping malls must be prioritised, I know how easily obtainable firearms are in some states of the US, even if the gun laws say that a weapon bought in, say, Virginia, cannot (theoretically) be used outside that state. But the current state of affairs needs to be addressed ASAP. All good wishes to you from Canterbury, Kent, UK.
The U.S. does not need gun control laws. They have “thoughts and prayers”.
Oh don't get me started on how religious "freedom" works in the US. So hypocritical. Apparently it's OK to let children be terrified of getting gunned down in school but a heinous crime to terminate a pregnancy.
Am over 50. I personally dislike living in the uk and am myself a self employed person living in a seaside resort in the north of England but a lot of uk people have different opinions depending upon there experiences and situation eg a person living in the city who has a good job and too preoccupied with it might think differently or the wealthy like the politicians and the royals . But personally I feel the only real positives about living here are the royal family , free nhs (which we have to pay for in our taxes anyways ) , and the economy, employment and education even though where I live there isn’t much of that . But for most it’s getting generally very hard for the young to find cheap housing , education is very expensive as your paying over £40k in student loans for a degree ,food prices and inflation are rising rapidly, a government who is full of promises who’s hardly delivering and isn’t really focused on the people but keeping themselves in power and concentrating on legally lining there own pockets and there’s a lot of inter party conflicts and dismissal , cost of renting has gone sky high , a lot of people can be quite unsociable if your a stranger and a lot of people are weary of each other and there are a lot of social and health issues , isolation and depression - overburdened nhs and long waiting times . The crime rate is fairly high in some parts . Some of the place looks gloomy - rundown shops and old houses , factories , warehouses and a lot of pollution including the air, water and all the chemicals in our overprocessed food - we are one of the most unhealthiest countries in Europe. Loads of homeless and people living in poverty looking to food banks , immigrants - brexit was supposed to have helped but it hardly hasn’t which was about the only distinctive thing the conservatives managed to achieve for us in the last 30 odd years and where I live there are large hotels housing these immigrants whilst the local council ignores the English homeless and druggies and prostitutes and other groups on the fringes of society that are living on the streets just outside . We also aren’t in with the euro like the rest of Europe so it costs more to go on holidays and the hassle of conversion and other problems it brings such as having to pay extra on buying goods from abroad as well as the problems this caused our businesses . Yeah we have the freedom to criticise the government at least which we do a lot of but we wouldn’t have to criticise the government in the first place if we had a good one . But a lot of it for me is the weather- most of the time in England the weather is crap especially in the north where I live - I work from home so because I don’t have loads of friends and family I like to go outdoors a lot to exercise and get fresh air to reduce the boredom of being inside but most the time the weather is gloomy eg it’s like I wanted to go for a long walk the other day and it was p***** it down all day for two days in a row and it’s mid summer - then we get tons of windy cloudy miserable days were it’s hard to motivate yourself to even leave the house - the weathers so unpredictable in the uk as well and you never know how it’s going to behave from one moment to another and that’s just summer - then there’s winter - freezing , raining, windy , Ice, cloudy , and where I live it starts geting dark very early and in mid winter it starts getting dark by 1pm and it can be dark as early as 3pm- and it’s almost as bad as this for almost half the year and it’s so depressing . And then when you eventually get a good day but because you’ve been so depressed having been stuck inside because of the bad weather you find it hard to motivate yourself to go outside and you’ll find you need a car a lot of the time especially in winter but it is a bit warmer in the south if your lucky enough to live there or can afford to live there but it’s not much warmer there either and there can be flooding in some parts . Then there’s all the heating bills you have to pay just to keep your house warm most of the year . Then when you do go outside your breathing in all the crap air full of pollutants so your probably doing yourself more harm than good and especially a lot of the beaches are polluted and the water is freezing and a lot of the food is highly processed and a lot of people are in poor health . I hate the UK- it’s just a small crappy post industrial island . I mean there are worst places in the world and other countries have there own problems but it wouldn’t be a bad place if the weather was better and the days were longer in winter as our economy is quite good and there are some interesting places to visit and there are things to do eg night clubs , bars, theatres , theme parks, cinema , beaches, countryside, large city centres and shopping , parks etc but when the weathers bad they are not that appealing . I personally wouldn’t recommend people come to live here if they have good weather and standard of living in there own country unless they are from a poor country with little prospects and not even for a holiday unless you want to visit a few of places worth visiting that have some cultural heritage like London inc Westminster or oxford or a warmer seaside resort like Cornwall - don’t bother with the rest . That’s why a lot of people move abroad from here which is what am going to do soon and am sure I’ll never look back .
It all depends on perspective!
We love to stab , chop and pound here in the UK. Stanley knives, cut throat razor , machetes, bowie knife, broken bottles pen knife, hatchet, chopper, axe, hammer, club, ice pick, mace, etc all nicely medieval . Surprised we don't all have the right to carry a broadsword or maybe we do!
Knife related deaths per 100k. USA - 0.6, UK - 0.08.
Interesting concept! Please research that right to carry and get back to us ;)
@@HipOverFifty ,
The sort of knife I take with me when I'm going fishing from the local beach, is legal for that purpose, but would be very illegal if I was carrying it while walking around town.
There are some types of knives which are always illegal, with others you have to have a good reason for having them in your possession. Other than that, you are allowed to carry a knife with a non locking blade not exceeding 3 inches.
I live in South Africa, the murder and rape capital of the world, where 1 farmer is killed every day often tortured to death, and there are 80 general murders per week and about 70 rapes per day. All the criminals have guns but they've virtually disarmed the population so most of us can't defend ourselves. You need a gun if you live in a violent lawless country, but I believe the key is that you don't get given a licence without a stiff profficiency test which includes affidavits that you are mentally stable. If crime increases in the UK it may be found that criminals are armed but citizens are defenceless. I hope you guys continue to have a peaceful country where having a gun is unnecessary
Good and bad everywhere, I have been lucky enough to travel and work in a number of Countries and Cities, one common factor, it always feels safer away from big cities. I loved living in Iowa, Hated San Francisco, Miami etc, loved living/working in rural Denmark, same applies to the UK big Cities, no thanks!
When I was in Iowa, for a brief period, a cop shot himself in the foot taking his gun out of its holster. 😂
Gun control is not a reason to praise the UK in my opinion. Easy gun ownership is one of the positives of the USA that I envy. No nation on earth should have an unarmed citizenry, that allows a corrupt thieving ruling class to have guns. The former are at the mercy of the latter. The 'J' community cannot setup their one world communist government unless they can disarm the entire civilian population of the earth, and the armed American public is in their way! (If they cannot disarm America, they cannot form their world government). They try to get around this with their fake/staged shooting incidents in the media, which they think will shame and pressurise gun owners into giving up their rights to self defense. Thankfully the American people have not fallen for it!
Although sometimes the process is flawed, I have to say that if a UK cop has to use a weapon ( which has to be authorised by a senior officer) then there is _always_ an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct. Additionally, if a UK force does overstep the mark - as happened during the Coronation when the arrested a completely innocent bystander (Alice Chambers) - then there almost always trouble for the police.
Policing by consent is, despite efforts of various governments, still a fundamental part of the UK scene.
I like the fact that when I spot a police man or women here I know they're more likely to be friendly and helpful. In the US they're rarely helpful and more likely threatening. Not nice!
@@HipOverFifty We have our bad coppers as well - as at least two horrific recent cases have shown (David Carrick and Wayne Couzens ) but all the police I have met were genuinely horrified by what happened.
@@bonetiredtoo exactly, unfortunately we only usually hear about those bad apples!
No gun death figures have been released for this year. In 2020, there were 35. 60 would be high. 160 is not possible.
As for other crime, our figures are much lower than the US. I don't know where you are getting your figures, but they are exaggerated.
I do not want to travel to either the US or the UK
May I never again be required to do so
The one interesting thing about gun crime in the UK is unfortunately it’s likely to be non British. Like the US all control of borders both legal and illegal has been abandoned.
What utter ROT. Your black shirt is showing.
@@Poliss95Ahh but it allows you to pat yourself on the back for being woke … go back to your guardian paper and feel smug..😊👍🇬🇧
Trust me, you don't want to come over until the government changes next year. It's creeping towards fascism right now!
Why move from freedom to non freedom no you cant eat that steak have this bug you must be crazy unless you lived in California then i can understand it
What amazing knowledge of other nations you possess. "Non freedom" what does that mean?
@@ianhamilton3113 iv been all around the world the greatest places I know is sc and oriegen so much more friendly than any other place iv ever been
@@michaelplank8966 But you said "Why move from freedom to non freedom". Tessa moved from the US to the UK, not North Korea or Russia. The UK is a very free, safe country. I have also travelled around the world to around 40 countries and friendly, helpful people can be found all over.
Presumably you haven't been to the UK because you would have known that steak is available in restaurants and supermarkets.
I'm real English I know stop being stupid everyday someone gets stayed or raped your craxy its very unsafe walk around London at night your find out as a boy I used to perfectly safe don't tell lies about this stuff it's just getting worse same as Germany the us is a lot safer because you can depend yourself you lefty say the most untrue stuff
Safety? What a joke. You obviously don’t know about all the knife attacks and murders in good old sadik khan London
Think you'll find the US also "wins" on knife crime
Knife deaths in the US, are 7.5 times higher than in the UK.
London isn't the whole UK.
How many of the knife crimes were committed by native English folk?
@@stanleywoodison8699 I was unable to find any home office figures for Non-UK residents convicted of knife crimes in the UK. However, there are 67 million people in the UK and 6 million of those are none UK residents. Do the maths. If you just want figures for England and not the whole UK then you'll have to do a little more research.
Good riddance.
to what?
There are a nasty core within the Met in London, but most police here are very good. The Met has failed in getting rid of a racist and violent minority and it stains them all.
Just be weary of the cops
Hi Hon, I'm Amara....i'll comment soon but i'm impressed by what i see. Take Care.
I was privileged to live in Brighton, UK for 11 years. During that time I was never concerned about my safety. Not even when walking alone in the middle of the night anywhere around the city centre, seafront, as well as the suburbs! I never experienced nor witnessed anything wrong happening to nor people around me! I loved walking around Brighton! -Mornings, afternoons, evenings, middle of the nights. Never felt endangered nor afraid!
Other coastal resorts are not do good.
Brighton is well off. On others there is a lot of poverty, drugs, alcohol abuse and petty crime..Your chance of being seriously attacked at random is extremely low but the chance of an ugly incident is not so low
In the middle of the night? Are you a vampire?