Reply #48: I live in the UK

[FunkyLeprechaun]

I lived in America for about 25 years before moving here to the UK. I play on a darts team and sometimes I talk to people who ask me, "Why did you move here? It's so boring, America must be so exciting!"

I then say, "I'm wondering if you like the NHS?" And they say yes. I add, "America doesn't have a system like that."

Puts them off visiting America.

Frankly, I don't mind the cameras. You have the same thing in the US, lots of surveillance in the shops and I've seen a lot in MN, where I'm originally from, on lots of buildings. It's funny when I see people criticising the UK's overindulgence of cameras, I point out that the same is occurring in the US.

If we have a shooting here in the UK, just as in the case of Rhys Jones, it's BIG NEWS! The Rhys Jones case was plastered all over the papers after his murder. Something like that in the US would go unnoticed because there is so much gun violence in the US that people are desensitized by it. People here now don't like the idea of visiting a country that has CCW all over the place, they feel that, as visitors, they wouldn't be safe.