>>1996330>Just say USA and ghetto cities in the EU.accurate, but "ghetto in the EU", I'd say instead ALL countries in Western EU. Theres migrants everywhere in the west (and that incudes romanian/eastern europe gangs), and however much we may not like it, bike theft is shit-rampant
https://medium.com/@Ludovic_Privat/bike-theft-in-europe-a-disturbing-reality-24c7ce39ab0c300,006 bike have been stolen in Germany in 2017
In the United Kingdom, 96,510 bike have been stolen from november 2017 to september 2018.
In Italy this number seems to be even bigger with 320,000 bikes stolen in 2013
In Spain, the study “Barómetro de la Bicicleta en España 2017“ indicates that 10,3% of respondents have declared to have been a victim of one bike theft and 5,7% more than one, in the last 5 years. This makes more than 800,000 bikes stolen per year in Spain.
Its a shitshow. It used to be very safe 20-30 years ago, not anymore.
