episode,we tried to lift them a bit and explained that generally it,s a safer place than the UK and that they had been extremely unlucky.
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I must say that I don't agree with the 'safer the the UK' opinion. Whether or not statistics show this it remains a fact that many people have had quite bad experiences. Perhaps I stay in a nicer bit of the UK, I don't know, but my apartment in Calis has been broken into twice this year (in spite of the addition of iron bars after the first incident)we made the mistake of only putting them at the back in an attempt to minimise the risk without turning our apartment into a cage. The play park had a flasher in it at the beginning of the summer - reported to Police and they moved the guy on (he was old and drunk). I have been followed by a man (whilst pushing my baby in her buggy during the afternoon), he made an attempt to strike up conversation in fairly basic English and when I spoke to him in Turkish he ran away! (Not sure of his intentions but I was not comfortable with his approach). My neighbours have all had either attempted or actuall break -ins, some happening when they were in bed at night and others when thay have been out. I have never experienced anything like this in the UK, maybe I'm lucky, but I don't have daily conversations with people who have experienced this intense level of attack on their property either. It is my fear now that someone will be hurt badly, because if someone comes into my property in the night when my kids are asleep, they should expect me to protect mine. All of these are events experienced by myself and not gossip as has been assumed of the comments of others in some of the comments.
