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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…
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.
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.