As a young Australian, I never thought I'd feel unsafe in Britain. Yet each time I step outside I'm overcome with a sense of fear as a crime so vanishingly rare back home seems to be normal here...
Daily MailIt's 6pm and I've just finished work for the day. After seven years in Australia's biggest city, Sydney, I never thought twice about slipping my phone in my back pocket or using it in the CBD. I'm aware that living in fear of my phone being stolen is inherently a first-world problem - and that it's a privilege to live and work in one of the world's most expensive cities in the first place. In London alone, one is stolen every seven and a half minutes It's now been eight months since I quit my job in Sydney, sold my car, and packed my life into a 30kg suitcase. Someone said to me it feels like being in the 'centre of the universe' because you have everything at your disposal: You'll zip off to different countries on weekends, say 'yes' to everything because YOLO, collect new friends like Pokémon, and do all the things you don't get to do in Australia - like experience good nightlife, buy same-day tickets to a West End show and maybe spot Harry Styles in the street.
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