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> You can literally go outside and talk to people. Only in small towns with high trust societies, sadly.
by alecco 1y ago
> You can literally go outside and talk to people.
Only in small towns with high trust societies, sadly.
- jen20 1y agoWildly untrue, unless you count London or New York City as small towns.
- Barrin92 1y agoSorry what? You can go out clubbing and drinking and meet 50 new people in Berlin every night. Pretty cheap too, even these days.
- justin66 1y agoOtherwise you’ll be assaulted by roving gangs. Or young people who will mock you for wearing your trousers too high.
- protocolture 1y ago>High trust society. I usually see this as an anti immigration dogwhistle. I live in an actual hellhole by these standards. For 40 years, every refugee or immigrant population was forced to live in my region. Every time the government wanted to do A/B testing on welfare, my region. When I first wanted to move here I considered that I would need amazing security and reviewed crime stats. OH NO, its a CRIME HOTSPOT. How could I subject myself to that, I would have to live in fear. Then I turned off "Drug Crimes" in the police statistics, and that completely normalised the results against much richer, whiter suburbs. If anything we have a greater density of churches, because everyone wants to hear the bible read in their tongue. Theres an islander community just over the main drag from me where twice a year I see like 200 big islander kids dressed in choir costumes being loaded into busses for a big church thing. My wife literally takes my toddler out for walks unassisted in the middle of the night. I have no issues talking to people, or being approached by people.