Feel for Guardian Weekly journo Zoe Williams. Within a day of publishing a feature article on Denmark’s equality and most of all safety, where no-one locks things up, people leave babies in prams in the street and totally trust strangers, which she describes as “social trust”, for which Denmark scores the highest in the world, an assassin had a crack at killing the Prime Minister.
That said, the guts of her proposition is undoubtably true.
Sadly, not so in New Zealand. A fortnight back in Serbia, after I was asked where we were from, the response from the questioner was one of amazement that we were returning.
“I read an article recently about how dangerous life is in New Zealand”, my enquirer responded.
I actually predicted this on this blog about 4 years back. The assaults on tourists in particular were bound to eventually attract attention and so it’s seemingly happened.