'actually in San Francisco, we met a shop keeper from Bradford who was desperate to re-immigrate to ... Bradford. His comment was: I was held up at gun point three time last month ..'
As opposed to just the two times in Bradford I presume
'Things must be bad there if a chap wanted to swap the West Coast lifestyle for the grimy cobbled streets of Bradford'
They truly must - on the other hand no shortage of empty shops in Bradford waiting to be filled