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.

  • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    6 days ago

    1. No homeless folks “have it good”.

    2. 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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      51·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • ExtremeDullard@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        8·
        6 days ago

        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.

        • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          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.