Crime stats - where do you feel save?

[marine1]

I feel save at the bank

 

[The Voice]

Good point. I've been back in the UK for around two months or so; it is horrifying to see the difference in personal safety. No bars, no electrified fences, no high walls. Walking the streets late at night feels completely safe. The difference are night and day. Yet I feel we as South Africans are so used to that way of life it doesn't cross our minds. It never crossed mine until I got back to the UK...

Been back in the UK for two weeks now. It's going to take some getting used to (again): walking straight from the pavement to the my front door - no security gates to open. Looking out of windows with no burglar bars. Seeing cars (yes, even luxury cars) just parked out in the street overnight - and seeing them there the next morning. Seeing women walking in the streets at night. Seeing children playing outside... In SA, we're prisoners in our own homes, and that's no way to live, is it?

I guess freedom and safety are relative, though: I spoke to a Yugoslavian woman about a week before I left SA, and she loves our "freedom". I was like dafuq is she on about? Then I figured out she fled to SA when the war broke out there in the 90's. I guess freedom for her was not being rounded up and shot in the street. To each their own.