Saturation
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The oddest thing between SA and the UK is the mental adjustment regarding security. There are two windows in our SA house I regard as weakest and I place a 1/4 inch wood board down, with about 50 spaced out inverted 1" nails hammered in, every night before bed so if anyone comes in you hear a scream. I sleep with two knives and something else by the bed aside from my wife. The bedroom door is especially strengthened (as are the window bars). I may have a couple of CS grenades and do have x6 S10 gasmasks for us all. When I visit a friend's house I'm always thinking how someone gets in. All of this is in Vredehoek, Cape Town one of the safest parts.
That said SA has some great Michelin restaurants for £20 a meal and great views.
In the UK we don't have bars and I don't sleep with anything but a baseball bat near by but we are alarmed.
What a hell of a way to live.