Rough towns

[Rightey]

Most of the people around where I live are dead.


Living next to 3 grave yards FTW.

[Argonaut]

My area of North Wales is gooseberry fool. I live near, Rhyl and Deeside. They suck.

I was in Rhyl last week on my hols. Bit rough but nice beaches.

[Andrew Mills]

Several times a week, in the streets I can see from my window, an argument escalates into a scrap. It always involves the same teenagers/twentysomethings who live round here and never venture further than the local pub.

It sounds like a stereotype but I'd put a tenner on these morons all having dropped out of school at 16 and got their girlfriends pregnant.

Some key quotes from tonight:

"I'll have ya, ya f***ing c**t"
"Ya lanky f***ing prick"
And the classic "Come on then!"

One day I'm sure I'll get bopped round the face just for walking down the road

It could be worse, you could be in Hull.

That's what town I thought he was referring to when I saw the thread title!

*remembers he works in Hull every day...*

[Carlos]

Several times a week, in the streets I can see from my window, an argument escalates into a scrap. It always involves the same teenagers/twentysomethings who live round here and never venture further than the local pub.

It sounds like a stereotype but I'd put a tenner on these morons all having dropped out of school at 16 and got their girlfriends pregnant.

Some key quotes from tonight:

"I'll have ya, ya f***ing c**t"
"Ya lanky f***ing prick"
And the classic "Come on then!"

One day I'm sure I'll get bopped round the face just for walking down the road

It could be worse, you could be in Hull.

All things considered we have it quite lucky in Sheffield. Hillsborough can get a bit rowdy on a Friday night but the police are always very quick to clamp down. The worst we've had it recently was the Wednesday vs Palace game at the end of last season when they got relegated. Most of it kicked off at the ground but there was a wall of riot cops in the middle of Hillsborough. Luckily their opponent was a very drunk and sweary old man!

The rough areas of Sheffield (Pittsmoor, Manor Top, Parson Cross) tend to be outside of the typical 'city centre' areas you find in other cities and quite self contained. I did some supply work at the school in Parson Cross once and the pupils really were dire.

[bigcheez2k3]

Most of the people around where I live are dead.


Living next to 3 grave yards FTW.

strawberry floated if there was ever a zombie apocalypse though.

[Fatal Exception]

You're still in Sheffield

Nah, seriously, I miss the place. The shithole areas are easily avoided like you said.

[John Matrix]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/image_galleries/greenwich_kidbrooke_gallery.shtml?1

That's right next to where I live, walking through there to school and back was fun.

[Xeno]

Kidbrooke, used to go to school there, never passed through Ferrier though thank god.

Oh and Gario look on the bright side, You don't live in little London or Gipton.

[Carlos]

You're still in Sheffield

Nah, seriously, I miss the place. The shithole areas are easily avoided like you said.

Did you move to Leeds?

[Fatal Exception]

You're still in Sheffield

Nah, seriously, I miss the place. The shithole areas are easily avoided like you said.

Did you move to Leeds?

No, Banbury I'm down on Oxfordshire. Working in the games industry means I have to go where the work is.

[OnlyShallow]

Pfft

I used to live here before I moved "daaahhhhn Saafffff"

August 2002: Agnes "Nessa" Mechen, 64, was strangled and buried under floorboards by Robert Kelly, 31. Kelly at his Jamieson Street flat. She she was found by police in 2007. Kelly, who killed for the loan collector's £300, was jailed for 15 years but the Crown Office want a tougher sentence

March 2003: Inder Dass, 80, was murdered in his flat in Langside Road by Duncan McTaggart, 27.

McTaggart choked him to death by stuffing a sock down his throat. He then attacked four elderly women in a week-long crime spree. Inder was found by his son and nine-year-old granddaughter. McTaggart was jailed for 11 years.

March 2004: Arthur Rawlinson, 30, and Myra Donachie, 52, were killed by Samuel Petto, 28, above. Petto stabbed Arthur in a row over drug money in an Allison Street flat. He torched the flat and caused an explosion which killed Myra and injured 10 people. Petto got 18 years for the double killing

October 2004: Friends David Gillespie, 42, Ian Mitchell, 67, and Tony Coyle, 71, were slaughtered by Edith McAlinden, 40, her son John, 20, and pal Jamie Gray, 19, after a booze party in a flat later dubbed the House of Blood. They were jailed for life in June 2005.

October 2007: Dad-of-two Henry Smart, 56, was murdered in a flat in Govanhill Street. Stephen Donnelly, 48, and John McFadden, 39, kicked and punched him and McFadden stabbed him repeatedly with a fork after a drinking session. The killers then went to a shop to get a sandwich and cigarettes as Henry lay dying. They were jailed for nine years in July.

January 2008: Brian McWilliams, 29, was stabbed to death in Riccarton Street. His mum and policeman's widow Maureen McGonigle, 48, had campaigned against knife crime for 25 years. A 20-year-old man has been charged in connection with his death.

August 2008: Scott McAusland, 38, was knifed to death outside a police station in Craigie Street on Thursday. A 55-year-old man has been arrested in connection with his death

[bigcheez2k3]

Not too bad round here but the reason the roads were closed off yesterday was because someone was stabbed outside the local pub.

[Igor]

Not too bad round here but the reason the roads were closed off yesterday was because someone was stabbed outside the local pub.

I was wondering about that.

[Yoshimi]

It's depressing that it seems half the human race are uneducated, trouble making, chav scum.

I use a Park & Ride, which was recently built at the cost of £4.5 million. Gypos have moved in and turned it into a makeshift caravan site/landfill site. Pisses me off no end. Scum.

[Qikz]

Most of the people around where I live are dead.


Living next to 3 grave yards FTW.

strawberry floated if there was ever a zombie apocalypse though.

They wouldn't be able to spread, not enough people around, plus he's high up in an apartment block, he's fine.

[Curls]

My area of North Wales is gooseberry fool. I live near, Rhyl and Deeside. They suck.

I was in Rhyl last week on my hols. Bit rough but nice beaches.

Seriously? Last time I went to Rhyl beach I got 3 inches of glass in my foot

Did you go to talacre? That's Ok when there isn't any gooseberry fool poured onto it.

[Peter Crisp]

I must admit I was stunned when I first found a pub in my town had hired a bouncer. It started a while ago now but I don't remember seeing much trouble when I used to drink a lot in town when I was younger but that was another age and things have turned nastier since then I suppose.

[emilythestrange]

When I was packing my stuff up from my last house, there was a guy on his bike cycling up and down the street while on his phone, loudly talking to a girl he'd slept with, who has a child, sharing all this "what if I'm the father?"/"in 20 years time you'll regret this"/etc, his mates were on their bikes too watching and listening as he shared this heated row with the entire street.

The street was of that calibre that sat in deckchairs on the pavement drinking stella, playing Cascada obnoxiously loud, yelling "ENGUURLAND!!" every morning while the football was on, and firing fireworks down the street when an England match was going to take place that day.

In fact when the fireworks were being set off, some brave soul stepped out and asked if that was really necessary. The response?
"But Engurland are bringin' it home innit?!"

I'm on a much nicer, quieter street now. Ahh, Middlesbrough.

[Alex Harman]

You're still in Sheffield

Nah, seriously, I miss the place. The shithole areas are easily avoided like you said.

Sheffield \o/

[Oh Teh Noes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/image_galleries/greenwich_kidbrooke_gallery.shtml?1

That's right next to where I live, walking through there to school and back was fun.

That's funny, I live right next to here: