[yakshaving_jgt]

> never seen anyone fight, almost no homeless people

…Do you live in a different London from me? You must be talking about London, Ontario, right?

There were at least three major Islamic terror attacks around my address in London in the past few years. I live just by Borough Market.

There were the three guys who drove the van into Borough Market and stabbed people, killing eight. There was the guy who drove his car into people on Westminster Bridge, killing five and injuring 50. There was also the murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich, in the street in the middle of the day outside a primary school. Lee Rigby was a colleague of my best friend. My best friend and I were walking exactly where the murder was to take place a few weeks prior.

I'm also quite shocked you don't notice the homeless in London. Before I started my career in IT — when I was a broke musician — I used to eat with them every day. Hare Krishna feed the homeless most evenings in Holborn, and at the time on some nights you could get leftover Pret a Manger meals outside the Rymans on the Strand.

There's almost always people sleeping rough around London Bridge, and in many places all throughout the city. And if you enjoy the nightlife you're bound to see at least some street violence occasionally.

[baby]

> major Islamic terror attacks

just lol. They were a few crimes, nothing major, and nobody in London really cared or seemed to be affected. Please stop spreading FUD.

> I'm also quite shocked you don't notice the homeless in London

Have you been to San Francisco, Chicago or LA? There is really no comparison.

[yakshaving_jgt]

…Nobody seemed to be affected? Are you on drugs? People died.

And yes, I have been to SF and LA. I have walked through the tent cities and seen the people defecating in the streets. That was never the question, and your whataboutery is not constructive.

[chmod775]

Spending the absurd amount of money that's going towards building a surveillance state on making staircases safer instead will save several magnitudes more lifes each year.

That's not because a lot of people break their neck walking up stairs, it's because how disproportionate and irrational the response to the terror scare is.

If news reported on every case of people dying a preventable death while utilizing something we have learned to build in a safer manner by now, they'd do little else.

It just isn't as flashy as people blowing up.

[Something1234]

Dying a preventable death is kind of embarrassing for the family and the deceased. Especially if it was caused by improper use of something worthy of a Darwin award.

[chmod775]

Losing your balance and breaking your neck while falling down some stairs is hardly worthy of a darwin award.

About 12,000 people die each year falling down stairs in the US alone.

Going by these numbers the proportionate response would be to spend at least a trillion dollars each year for a war on unsafe stairs.

A war on cancer on the other hand would eat up more than the US's GDP if it was to be in any way propotionate to the cost of lives.

Either would be more effective than the war on terror or the surveillance state at saving lives though.

[baby]

Regular crime in the city, I haven't even heard of people talking about it. Maybe in the few days following the attack yes, but come on. That's just FUD.

[yakshaving_jgt]

Ok — French guy who lives in California — tell me — a guy from London — what life in London is like.

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[shanghaiaway]

He has experience living in other global cities as a reference to London and you don't.

[yakshaving_jgt]

JFC. I have English, Polish, and Australian citizenships.

I have lived in London, Newcastle, Sydney, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Warsaw, and Gdansk.

I have travelled the world most of my life, and I now perpetually travel, more or less living out of a suitcase. I have long-stayed in six different countries this year alone.

Refrain from sharing your opinions online unless you actually know what you're talking about. Clearly, you don't.