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A comment on San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge. Parent comment

Re:San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge by Animats on Saturday May 22, 2021 @01:15AM (#27243720)
Not Australia. That was a penal colony.
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Re:San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge by hakfoo on Saturday May 22, 2021 @01:25AM (#27243756)
I suspect there was a point where the immigrant mix turned by-choice though.
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Re:San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge by AussieWog93 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:37AM (#27254287)
Not a historian, but I believe this wouldn't have been until either the good rush of post-war migration boom. Either way, several generations after the convicts first arrived.
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