I went last weekend to meet a friend in London, we had a really good time. We wondered around the central part until late at night from Hide Park to Soho (they even let us in to a gay bar!) ,to the Big Ben to Waterloo Station (loved the Graffiti Tunnel there!) and finally to Covent Garden, I think there was a wetherspoons stop there somewhere. We headed back to the hotel around 02:30 in the morning. We were only on foot jumping from pub to pub, so we were pretty intoxicated by the time we got back. At no point during our bar hopping did I ever feel unsafe or even uncomfortable in any of the pubs.
Is UK safe? Absolutely! Do you still have be mindful of your surroundings, mind your own business, don’t flash expensive phones/jewellery around and stay away from isolated dark alleys? Absolutely! Same as in any other large city no? UK is great for a night out, I’ve had great late night outs in London, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Hull and Beverley, never had a problem in my life!
EDIT: and that’s just London, I actually feel safer in Liverpool than in London to be honest. Whoever says Liverpool is dangerous, I invite them to come here on a Saturday night to see how those young girls walk around the city, barely dressed in the winter, alone, without any stress at all.
Or come by on any school day to see how children leave secondary school and come home alone by themselves on foot or by bike / train / bus. These "unconscious" parents, who do not pick up their children from school by car… imagine that!
Here in UK there are people who have the legal power to stop car traffic to let children cross the road, here the cyclist has priority over the car (I admit that it does not suit me either, but I understand the logic), at any intersection if the car changes direction, it must also yield to pedestrians, regardless of whether there is a signalized crossing or not. All these small details, taken together, give you a nice cosy safety feeling in England UK :)
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