Hi I'm Joel and I'm Lia, and we are going to be talking about whether or not it is safe
to live in London.
The simple answer is yes, it is safe to live in London.
Is it safe to live anywhere?
It is just as safe to live in London as it is to live anywhere else in the UK.
However, I would feel a little bit safer if I lived somewhere really insignificant.
Really rural.
Where there is, literally, cows, and no threat.
I don't know why I'm laughing it's not funny.
It's really scary.
What is going on in London right now has been a wake up call.
What kind of world do we live in?
It could have been anyone.
That's the scariest thing.
I wasn't in London when the recent attack on London Bridge happened.
It was sad, it was shocking, I was watching it unfold on the news, but it was only when
I came back to London and saw my housemates and saw my friends that it really sunk in.
That could have just been us going to a restaurant, like we do every week, we go out for something
to eat.
The night that the London Bridge attacked happened attack happened, I was at a gig at
Alexandra Palace up in north London, and I didn't have phone signal.
When I came out of the gig I looked at Twitter and then I looked on
Facebook.
One of my friends said, "on lockdown inside the Miller Pub in London Bridge, something
going outside and they won't let any of us out" and then obviously loads of twitter posts
start coming through.
The first thing you think is oh my gosh I hope nobody I know has died.
The second thing you think of is, how many people have died?
And then you think, was it ISIS?
And it always is.
Especially so recently after Westminster and Manchester.
That's the worst part.
Thats the thing, we have said that we are not scared and it is just as safe to live
in London as it is anywhere else which is true as a general rule but obviously there's
more of a danger living in a big capital city, than there is living somewhere like Blackpool,
for example.
If you are thinking of travelling to London, don't not travel.
Millions of people are travelling in and out of London everyday.
I think thats the thing, our friends and family back home are warning us to be careful, but
nobody in London has changed.
Everybody in London is going about their everyday life.
The streets are jam packed, full of people.
Nothing has changed in London.
Except I think people are a bit kinder now.
You can sense it on the tube, whilst commuting.
Yes.
Everyone is a bit more generous, you can feel the love.
What they want is for you to be scared, and for you to not come, so don't let these people
win.
I did something on the Sunday, the day after the London Bridge attack, and eight people
didn't turn up from outside of London.
It was a work gathering, there were people from Wales, London, Cambridge, etc.
Pretty much everyone showed up except for the girls from Wales because of what had happened
the day before.
I think it's silly.
London is probably a safer place to be right now.
They want to catch you unaware as well, and now all eyes are on London.
Whats happening and where?
It's kind of the safest place to be.
It is quite impressive isn't it?
That in eight minutes, the attackers were dead.
What's more alarming though, and sorry to put a negative on this, is that the future
bombers and killers are still alive.
The UK has got so much sorting out to do.
Definitely.
We don't have the answers.
It's funny that's it come so close to the general election because all these parties
are saying they'll do this and that but we are questioninig, how do you know what will
work?
How do you know it will work, what you are trying to implement.
It's awful and it's really horrific, and it's sad that it will continue and there will be
another attack soon.
Who knows where it will be.
Have you seen, there has already been another attack.
In the paper today, there was a section saying 'Terror in the UK' and it was all about the
London and Manchester attacks and then there was 'Terror across the world'.
Since, there has been an attack in Australia that nobody has really reported and one in,
France or Germany.
Somewhere in Europe.
Killed with a hammer, they said it was it for ISIS.
In Australia three people had died.
Did you read that in the Metro?
(newspaper) Yes.
The thing is, I think Britain is now waking up a little bit and they are starting to report
things where British people have not been killed.
Usually the British media would just report incidents from abroad, highlighting how many
Brits have died.
It seems to be in the interests of the general British public to care more about how many
Brits have died in other countries than how many foreigners have died.
It is important for us to talk about world news because otherwise people will just saying,
yes, this is all valid, but look at what is happening in Syria.
Or Libya.
We know, but we only know about as much as we are told.
Of course, when it's your own people, it's such an alarming wake up call.
I guess its a little bit like that advert from Save the Children.
(See description box for link).
That was a really good advert.
Just because it's not happening here, doesn't mean it's not happening.
It is important to open your eyes to that but of course you are going to have a stronger
reaction to it when it's in your own country, you own city.
I had the same reaction, because even 24 hours, 48 hours after, they hadn't had all the names
released of who had died.
I could be going about my life and my friends might have died - at London Bridge.
It could have been anyone.
Even two days later they hadn't released any names.
Crazy.
This is the first time I've seen the point of the Facebook safety check feature.
Each time it has happened (an attack), I've thought it was cringe, marking myself as safe.
But this time I've actually thought it was a really good thing mainly for family and
friends that live outside of London.
Joel and I used to joke a little bit about that feature.
I know that is really bad.
We would find the whole thing a little bit like, over dramatic but now it's actually,
essential.
I marked myself as safe as soon as Facebook released the feature.
Right now, I'm going, oh, should I avoid that crowded place?
I know I need to go to Oxford street to get something.
My mum wants me to avoid crowded places.
Thats the other thing, my mum was on the phone on Monday.
She was like, how is it in London?
I said it was pretty much the same but everyone is a bit more jumpy.
Because, multiple times that day it was really windy and things had fallen over or scaffolding
had made a loud bang and you saw everyone on the street just turn and look.
Nobody does that normally, everyone is just in their zone.
That happened two times on Monday and I thought it was really funny how we we're all jumpy.
In response to a smaller London (crime) thing that is happening, everyone is getting their
mobile phones robbed out of their hands.
From guys on motorbikes, and sometimes guys on bikes with weapons.
Every time i'm on Facebook another three friends have had their phones snatched so whenever
I'm on the street I'm really careful not to use my phone whilst walking.
Usually I'd walk and if i'm on CityMapper, for example, for directions, I always have
my phone out.
I was at that bus stop across the road and an old lady was like "Don't use your phone
at the bus stop" and I was thinking, I'm in Hampstead, I can't even use my phone in the
nicest borough of London.
What the hell?
Thats the thing.
That's the dangers of living in a city.
All these things, there is always going to be crime and stuff like that.
It shouldn't have to be that way.
We can't not live our lives here because of this.
We can't choose to give up, say, whatever you're trying to do with your acting or your
comedy or this or that, just drop it for a bit because your safety is more important.
Yeah it is.
But what are we going to do if we don't live in London?
What is available to us?
Other than a quiet life.
To be honest it sounds selfish but I don't care if I die.
I genuinely, if I die tomorrow, I wouldn't care.
Obviously, i'd be dead, I wouldn't feel anything.
I'm just scared for friends and family and thats what I'm mainly worried about.
If I was to die, I think lots of people have that view.
If I die, I die, but everyone is more scared for their friends and family.
Nobody wants to be alive, you wouldn't want me to die.
You'd rather be dead than have to deal with a really close friend dying.
Yes, definitely.
Which is completely selfish but understandable.
So I'm scared for you, going out there, I'm not scared for me.
It's so weird.
Isn't that a crazy thought, and isn't it really weird that we text our friends asking if they
are alive?
It's 2017.
I texted you asking if you were alive.
Just checking.
We're both still alive.
Good.
Well I can see you typing so that's a good sign.
Well I had already checked.
I shouldn't be scared to ask but I didn't want to be that overbearing friend, asking
if you were ok.
I had logged onto WhatsApp and seen that you'd been online about fifteen minutes ago.
Ok, she's obviously fine.
I shouldn't be scared.
Gosh.
Anyway, this is stuff that is going on in London right now and we can't not talk about
it on this channel.
We do talk about culture, identity, London, etc.
Next week we will be back to normal videos but hopefully you found this insightful.
We've even had some comments from people asking, are you okay?
Because you live in London.
Which is really lovely.
We're fine.
Watch the Ariana Grande (One Love Manchester) concert if you have time.
She's absolutely incredible.
Amazing.
Just such a legend.
She is an ultimate legend.
Ledge!
Stay safe.
Peace and love.
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Seems so small.
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Don't you just feel like your online existence is so pointless now?
With what's going on, and us celebrating 7,000 subscribers on Youtube.
We probably shouldn't voice it as there has just been an attack in London Bridge.
It all seems so vacuous.
So vein.
Never mind.
Stay safe.
That's the main thing.
See you soon, lots of love.
Bye!