lol ya the no-go zones are just fantastic. ask paul golding how he feels about what used to be a great city. now its a hotbed for Islamic terror. last time I checked Jacksonville doesn't have any no-go zones. not yet anyway.
All of Jacksonville is a no go zone. I mean, nobody wants to go zone. But it's also significantly more dangerous. London has a murder rate of 1.2 per 100K. Jacksonville is more than 6 times that at 7.3, and Chicago is more than triple of Jacksonville at 23.8.
London has 8.8M people and 102 people were murdered last year. 141 people were murdered in Jacksonville, a city of under 900K.So you think there are no go zones by cops in London because of safety? Give me a break.
But to be crystal clear for those who have never left their home states because they were fortunate enough to marry their cousins, there aren't no go zones in London. I hate to say this to a grown-up, but you do realize you can't believe every tweet you read or every blurb you hear on Fox & Friends...right? Sure, the Paul Goldings of the world who start sweating when they see a shawarma shop in the food court may not feel welcome, but they're not welcome in most places because they're assholes, it has nothing to do with the population. It's the same group that (still) believes Sharia law is enacted in this one part of Michigan, I swear, my uncle's cousin's friend went there one time...
Yes, there are absolutely slums and areas I wouldn't go in at night. But that's true of New York and Chicago and Detroit and Baltimore as well.
Tower Hamlets is often referred to as a no go zone. It's where Canary Wharf is, the second financial center of London, the financial capital of the world. It also hosts the largest fintech incubator in London. Yes, all the bankers and innovators and programmers are somehow surviving the grueling DLR rides every day. It's also where most of the American banks went, like JP Morgan and Citibank.
But sure, it's a no go zone...
There is heightened security and vehicle checks in sensitive areas like Canary Wharf, but no different than down at Wall Street in New York.
Despite all this, I know this was a wasted exercise. You're going to believe whatever fiction you want without independently verifying anything. It's not about reality; it's about imagination. And I can't change that.
But no reasonable person would choose to live in Baltimore over London. That's insane. But maybe you have the perfect username for a reason.
