Remember the 80s? What about Gary Numan? Actually electronic music pioneer is still making music, but he does not like England anymore, and he wants to emigrate to the US! The recent British riots have been ‘the nail in the coffin’ as he declared to Britain’s Daily Record:
‘We are trying to emigrate to America. We will know within the next month if we are successful.’
‘The other day my wife was walking down the High Street and a bunch of kids between 12 and 14 were telling her what they would like to do to her. She had my children with her. You've got to be kidding.’
‘Every village and town in England has a bunch of thugs running around in it. The riots were the nail in the coffin. I have been sitting on the application for the last two months, asking Gemma if she is absolutely sure because once it is done, it's done forever. The day after the riots, I got onto the lawyer and said, 'let's do it – get on with it'. I do love being English and I am not anti the country but I have got to think of the children.’
‘America clearly has its own problems, but Santa Monica is great. It has beautiful beaches and the Pacific ocean. There is not one bit of trouble and not one surly or aggressive person there. Everyone is friendly. You ask the teenagers there for directions and they are polite and helpful. Do that here and you are as likely to get stabbed as you are to get directions. The fact is the English are pretty miserable.’
Ok, he wants to come to America but he did not pick the worst place!….Hhhhaaaaa Santa Monica and its ocean breeze, its upscale malls and its nice people (very true),… Comedian and writer Harry Shearer always signs up his show with the funny sentence ‘Santa Monica, the city known around the world as the home… of the homeless!’ And this is also true!
I hope you don’t have a too rosy vision of America, Mr. Numan, but anyway welcome!