UK vs US homelessness
UK vs US homelessness
Blackburn with Darwen borough currently has seven rough sleepers on its streets the council’s leader has revealed.
Three weeks ago, I was living in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Terre Haute has a population of less than 60,000. Blackburn and Darwen has a population of over 150,000.
Terre Haute has an estimated 500 homeless people.
It will get down to 1°F/-17 °C there on Wednesday night.
Apple and oranges. You're comparing a random US town with one of the poshest place in the UK.Which is apparently factually wrong. I got the place mixed up probably...
Blackburn is one of the poshest places in the UK? What are you even talking about?
https://www.plumplot.co.uk/Blackburn-salary-and-unemployment.html
The only reason we're even staying here is that it was cheaper to stay here short-term than almost any other place in England with an urban population.
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No homeless folks "have it good".
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I suspect you work for the Blackburn and Darwen tourist board.
Seriously though, some areas of B&D are in the top 10% for deprivation in the UK. A far call from one of the "poshest places in the UK".
Looking at their post history, I suspect they're American. And not recently emigrated to the UK American like me.
I'm thinking one of the poshest places in the UK wouldn't be 30% Muslim. With a large proportion of that 30% being immigrants. Something tells me most non-white immigrants aren't that lucky.
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