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1. shadow+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-09-23 21:40:57
As a visitor, London was absolutely lovely. I felt hands-down safer on its streets than the streets of my home city, for what it's worth.

Plus, hell of a good ramen shop near the West End.

replies(3): >>testde+l1 >>hitekk+Yb >>charle+4Z
2. testde+l1[view] [source] 2025-09-23 21:49:33
>>shadow+(OP)
Ippudo? Bone Daddies?
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3. shadow+o6[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-23 22:18:42
>>testde+l1
Kanada-Ya. Small and worth the wait.
4. hitekk+Yb[view] [source] 2025-09-23 22:54:03
>>shadow+(OP)
My girlfriend witnessed a robbery in London's city center ~2 weeks ago, in the second day of our visit. After that, we saw a homeless guy pooping on a wall; some of them screaming at others.

I didn't feel like I was personally in danger, but I'm also a guy who's lived next to American slums.

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5. charle+4Z[view] [source] 2025-09-24 06:19:31
>>shadow+(OP)
I almost had my MacBook stolen out of my backpack from me in London (Shoreditch) a few years in broad daylight - by a black person that didn't even speak English during the attempted robbery.

I'm from Africa so I'm born with the instincts that luckily prevented me from losing anything or getting hurt.

I was just visiting the UK for 3 weeks, but that gave me a perspective how bad immigration laws can turn it into something out of control.

Why does a place like Singapore, where 48% of its workforce are immigrants / expats - not have this problem.

It remains the safest place on Earth.

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6. defros+zZ[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-24 06:23:04
>>charle+4Z
To add to your anecdata, had you visited London during the time of Dickens you would have had your possessions thieved by a charming raffish urchin that spoke English in a dialect you also wouldn't have understood.
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7. jmcgou+j01[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-24 06:29:21
>>hitekk+Yb
Basically every Western major city is becoming like this.
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