it is 3.5 years since we moved out the country and hardly a day goes by without me being thankful i no longer live in a city.
London over the last 30 years has had several terrorist bombs. Also it's crime rate, especially shootings, has increased. Certainly in the area I lived it was not safe to walk around. One couldn't leave a car there and excpect it to be undamaged in the morning. The night time noise of fights and screaming and bam bam bam of loud music. The tension in the air. The pollution in the air. The fedid smell. The crowds of aggressive/scared people. Oh it is all so obvious when one has to go back for some reason. Like walking back to hell. And I lived there for 20 years and coped and didn't really give it a lot of thought till the last few bad years when things got out of hand for us. Not only have my surroundings changed, my world has changed. I see and feel a different side to life now. bw colin remmebrering clearly the 24/7 state of alert.
