gelston22 Mar 2011 10:55
Check crime according to Eurostat (independent and trustworthy) and look for eastern and western europe and tell me again where it is more dangerous to live? Agree there are people dying been shot but why would i care for a drug dealer to die? Domestic violence is what is important, in the place where my parents live in bulgaria (5000 people) there has been 1 murder for the last 60 years and it happened 6-7 years ago!
Seeing Eastern Europe is not different from the "Western Europe" nowadays, "foreign investments" keep coming and changing the countries. Is that for better? Not to me. While people cite how the GDP is growing so fast, people are getting higher and higher wages no one is mentioning the fact people now beg on the streets for food or look in dumpsters (UNSEEN before 1989),some people die because healthcare now is expensive, some people have no homes and sleep under bridges (still bulgaria and romania has the highest percentage of people owning homes in whole EU), or that no one i knew was using drugs in fact in 1994-5 while in hgh school out of about 10 schools in that part of the city all students knew of one guy who was acting funny (getting high) and people were making fun of him. Now people die because of drugs!!! Crime before 1989? You could leave your house or car open for days or weeks none will steal anything, people were afraid of prisons. When you go to prison YOU GO to PRISON. Not like now i hear people go to prison because they have nowhere else to sleep (talking about UK) and in prison there is good food, TV, cable, play pool all in all not too much different from a hotel (except you stay all the time there). Was surprised to find out that in scotland after you serve half of your sentence in prison you could autmatically get out, scotish law! Few nights ago while talking to a polish guy (in bad neighbourhood i agree) 10-15 kids age 10-15 walking by , someone from the crowd threw a bottle on the passing by bus and broke 2 windows, people were jumping all over inside the bus, glasses everywhere ... The driver stopped the bus, loooked at the kids, said nothing and left!!! Come on!! That sent shiver through my spine!!
That polish guy then told me number of stories while he has been living in edinburgh. So it was then when i decided that was it living in scotland, now i have to see what will i do with my business and getting mad i started it not even imagining in my wildest dreams crime could make me leave a country in "Western Europe".
Anyway ... felt i had to say all that.
ATB
P.S. I agree living in a quite town is safer, but voluntarily improisement is something i would not love to do ... besides whats the difference between living in a secluded town in the Highlands and a small town in Bulgaria? No benefits in regards to doing business in big cities for both but reduced cost for living in Bulgaria, that is guaranteed.