Burning effigies of migrants might be, though.

Thanks for that - even though it was utterly depressing!

I live in the North of England, near Manchester, so I know our house prices are more reasonable than some other places, but I wasn’t expecting that I’d need to earn the value of our house annually to get a mortgage in San Jose. That’s crazy!

It says “Access to this page has been denied” for me, so I’m just going to assume it’s a list of every US city.

I love these kinds of stories, but I think that specific example is just a misunderstanding of idioms, rather than an example of pretending something isn’t happening, though.