So I would never assume crime in Cambridge happened like it did back home, as there was no crime back home
Right. And "back home" consisted only of your house and the village -- no surrounding towns? you never went to a bigger town, for example to do your shopping? You didn't get a free paper for any of the bigger towns in the area? (Our free papers and magazines were all for Loughborough and/or Charnwood, unless you count the "village magazine" which was basically a church magazine for all the Wolds villages, and told us useless things like who was on the church flower-arranging rota this week...) No TV at home? No friends at school who were more aware of the outside world than you? No indication even from your parents that anything existed beyond your cosy little home?
I thought I'd led a sheltered existence, but this is incredible.
BTW, if you mean Treswell in Notts, you may be interested to know that in the 1990s Nottingham was reported as having the highest murder rate in England.
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Date: 2005-01-19 02:57 pm (UTC)Right. And "back home" consisted only of your house and the village -- no surrounding towns? you never went to a bigger town, for example to do your shopping? You didn't get a free paper for any of the bigger towns in the area? (Our free papers and magazines were all for Loughborough and/or Charnwood, unless you count the "village magazine" which was basically a church magazine for all the Wolds villages, and told us useless things like who was on the church flower-arranging rota this week...) No TV at home? No friends at school who were more aware of the outside world than you? No indication even from your parents that anything existed beyond your cosy little home?
I thought I'd led a sheltered existence, but this is incredible.
BTW, if you mean Treswell in Notts, you may be interested to know that in the 1990s Nottingham was reported as having the highest murder rate in England.