Brit shot on the eve of his wedding

I lived in the USA for many years, John, and you are quite correct in your comment.

Back onto the topic of safety in the Philippines.

I was in a supermarket early this afternoon, (I am currently in the Philippines).

An American Gentleman walked up to me and said words to the effect of "I never, ever, should have seen anything like that".

It took me a split second to realise that he was incredibly distraught, tremble in his voice, tears in his eyes.

He had just seen a truck drive out of a side road and over a couple of kids on a bike, I thought at the time he meant teenagers passing on a moto, I now guess he meant young kids on a pedal bicycle, totally crushed.

He said that he had xxxx medical certification, if he had been back home in the States he would have helped, here he could not help as by getting involved he would have been charged with full responsibility. Nothing he could have done anyway.

What makes the UK safe, our police force our intelligence service.
Yes there have been recent atrocities and a sad loss of life.
The world is a much more troubled world look at the events in France , Germany, Tunisia Australia America the list goes on.
But there's no place like home

Markham has a downer on the U.K. these days, I wonder if he thinks Davao is safer than London?

Says someone who lives in Dubai.

That sounds terrible, really sad story.

That's confusing.

Anyway, Philippines is even worse as far as Isis sympathisers go so still in no position to knock the UK.

At no time did I compare safety in UK with any other country. What I said and I stand by, is that UK, along with many many places in the world, including the Philippines, is becoming a more dangerous place than it once was.

The statistics don't agree.

oh okay, could not be bothered to read another out dated stats.

there's no highway code here, where I am it's even worse, bought a second hand car and got a licence could not believe how easy it was to transfer my British licence. Anyway had a few scares with trike drivers pulling out in front of me when I'm overtaking and bikes overtaking me when I'm making a left turn. Seen a few accidents mostly bikes with kids on laid out on the concrete. Ceres bus's on the wrong side of the road flashing their head lights.

Yep, going to Cebu to start My 13A spouse visa.

I noticed that you disagreed with my remark about London and Manchester being relatively safe compared to the truly dangerous cities in the world. I find that incredible but anyways. You and other members might be interested by this podcast on 'this American life' in two parts entitled Harper high school part one and Harper high school part two, which deals with the everyday lives of students in a high school in Chicago - another more dangerous city than London or Manchester.

https://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/487/harper-high-school-part-one

All too common

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/07/kiwi-reportedly-shot-dead-in-philippines.html

Murder rate in England and Wales rises 11% | UK news | The Guardian

My driving instructor told me to pull over somewhere safe.

Two minutes later he said, "Why haven't you pulled over yet?"

I said, "Because we're still in Manchester"

Some stats being conveniently ignored here.

Terrorism is less of a problem in the UK than it was in the 70s and 80s. People tit and say the stats are old, but I'm yet to see any evidence suggesting London and Manchester are more dangerous than 30 years ago. I'm also need convincing that Mancunians and Londoners are living in fear.