| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
|
 Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:07 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
| itaewonguy wrote: |
New Zealand has always been a high crime rate country.
but at the same time it can be a safe and nice place to live..
Domestic violence, gangs, murders, bashings, robberies, drugs, you name it.. it happens all over the island... New Zealand has a huge poor class! doll bludgers and low income familes, spread out all over the country...
New Zealand is an expensive country to live.. so they only focus on the middle class and rich.. the rest are left to the dogs!
4.5 million people! half of them are on social welfare probably!
not to mention the racism in new zealand is terrible too...
so much for the Paradise status it once use to have...still has it with marketing.. but for those who live there.. they know its a s%#t hole! |
Home is always home. However, I was burgled twice in the last two times I went home (in both Sth and Nth Islands). Makes you wonder when NZ is going to wake up to the fact that people with all those charges - should be locked away - some of them indefinitely.
PC. Sounds good, but useless in practice.
Don't even get me started on teenage diversion schemes. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
|
| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 12:17 am Post subject: |
|
|
Those statistics contain a disclainer:
| Quote: |
| Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. |
In other words...you could have a genocide in some third world country that goes officially unrecorded because of a lack of law enforcement and government.
You seem to make out that the US is a worse place to live than Darfur. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Also some countries simply have more laws. Singapore for one.
If we came up with an international standard for laws (maybe western views), Somalia has got to be it. Sudan would be up there too.
Is a traffic violation a crime too? That would put many countries up there in the rankings. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
interestedinhanguk
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:24 am Post subject: |
|
|
| BoholDiver wrote: |
Is a traffic violation a crime too? That would put many countries up there in the rankings. |
... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
koreabust
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:50 am Post subject: |
|
|
I have been robbed twice in Korea, and friends of mine have been robbed, I know friends who have had their motor bikes stolen , bicycle stolen, I know girls who have had their bags stolen in clubs, jackets stolen all in Korea.
Crime is everywhere, is there such a place as paradise? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Hotwire
Joined: 29 Aug 2010
Location: Multiverse
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:53 am Post subject: |
|
|
| koreabust wrote: |
I have been robbed twice in Korea, and friends of mine have been robbed, I know friends who have had their motor bikes stolen , bicycle stolen, I know girls who have had their bags stolen in clubs, jackets stolen all in Korea.
Crime is everywhere, is there such a place as paradise? |
I have had 2 cameras; 3 jackets and a million won stolen in Korea.
Somneone once stole my yellow and pink fluffy boa when I was in Itaewon one night too and that almost upset me as much as the rest combined! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Alphabet_Stew
Joined: 13 Jun 2010
Location: Earth
|
| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:14 am Post subject: |
|
|
| itaewonguy wrote: |
4.5 million people! half of them are on social welfare probably! |
Yep! Even 10 years ago they were all going to live in Australia to collect "social welfare" there.
That finally pissed off too many tax-paying Australians, so finally the government stopped it.
NZ always had the option of becoming a "state" of Australia - they never wanted it - but they DID want social welfare payments from Australia. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
|
| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:13 am Post subject: |
|
|
| BoholDiver wrote: |
Also some countries simply have more laws. Singapore for one.
If we came up with an international standard for laws ... |
Strikes me that many koreans would easily get a criminal record in the west for doing stuff that is openly tolerated here.
At the same time many people are being denied visas to korea on the basis of negligible, very minor offences back home. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
|
| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:38 am Post subject: |
|
|
Yes, many laws here are not enforced or simply ignored.
Isn't littering a crime? Or just an offense? How about jaywalking? Tax evasion? Perjury?
| Junior wrote: |
| BoholDiver wrote: |
Also some countries simply have more laws. Singapore for one.
If we came up with an international standard for laws ... |
Strikes me that many koreans would easily get a criminal record in the west for doing stuff that is openly tolerated here.
At the same time many people are being denied visas to korea on the basis of negligible, very minor offences back home. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
