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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.
No homeless folks “have it good”.
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”.
you can read more here.
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.
Sorry I must have remembered the place wrong. The last time I lived in the UK was in the late 90’s.
That’s why I pulled my post. No sense in misleading people.
There are some lovely places in that area, and like anywhere in the UK, I bet it has bits that are posh.
As a Northerner, there’s something nice knowing that you left with such a positive memory of the place.
The last 20 years though, they’ve been pretty brutal up here.