Blackburn with Darwen borough currently has seven rough sleepers on its streets the council’s leader has revealed.

Three weeks ago, I was living in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Terre Haute has a population of less than 60,000. Blackburn and Darwen has a population of over 150,000.

Terre Haute has an estimated 500 homeless people.

It will get down to 1°F/-17 °C there on Wednesday night.

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    Apple and oranges. You’re comparing a random US town with one of the poshest place in the UK.

    Which is apparently factually wrong. I got the place mixed up probably…

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        Looking at their post history, I suspect they’re American. And not recently emigrated to the UK American like me.

        I’m thinking one of the poshest places in the UK wouldn’t be 30% Muslim. With a large proportion of that 30% being immigrants. Something tells me most non-white immigrants aren’t that lucky.