UK city the place thugs ‘smack you then express regret’ is ‘greatest place to be homeless’

A sleepy UK city famed for itsmystical connections has been described as “the best place to be homeless” by one of many tough sleepers dwelling on its streets.

Glastonbury is best-known for its music competition, which attracts musicians – and followers – from the world over. But all 12 months spherical, it’s dwelling to a floating inhabitants of hippies, dreamers and misplaced souls drawn to the Somerset city’s mystical status.

Rough sleeper Bugsy says it’s “better than most places” for being homeless, describing how the native police and fireplace brigade helped him out after they discovered he was bedding down in a disused storage.

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“This town is lovely,” he instructed podcaster Wendall. “On Christmas day you got Christmas dinner – a couple of hundred people go to that. It brings all the different parts of the community together… nobody judges you.”

Bugsy says the nice and cozy group spirit extends to the native police drive, including: “They’re more understanding, they’ll give you something to eat.

“I’m sleeping in an abandoned garage… the police turned up and said ‘you’re fine here, we haven’t had any complaints or anything we just heard that someone was staying here’.

“I came back that night and there was loads of brand new duvets in plastic bags. The police asked me the next day ‘did you get all our stuff for you?’ The fire brigade went there as well and they put up a smoke alarm.”

Bugsy isn’t the one tough sleeper with good issues to say about Glastonbury.

Another homeless bloke, who describes the city as an “outdoor asylum”, says that even the hooligans are well mannered. While he would cross the road to keep away from teams of younger males in his native Crewe, right here, he stated “they smack you within the face after which go sorry about that mate.’

“I like it here,” he provides, “it suits my weird sense of responsibility.”

Glastonbury earned its title as a “spiritual” vacation spot due to legends that Jesus Christ visited the realm within the undocumented years between the Christmas and Easter tales within the Bible.

It’s credited with being the origin of the “New Age” motion, and definitely the wealth of outlets promoting crystals and holistic cures helps that concept.

Tradition has it that King Arthur’s Camelot was close by, and there’s even a gravestone bearing Arthur’s title within the native churchyard.

But not everybody shares the sensation that Glastonbury is a spot of “love and light.”

“There’s a lot of lost souls here,” one native avenue musician instructed Wendall. “You just have to walk around by the White Spring and the Tor, you’ll see so many disillusioned people that have been harmed by society and just take it out on people.

“There’s a darkness here. Everybody says there’s so much light but really it’s just very dark …there’s a lot of bad things have happened here in the past.”

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