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Is London now too dangerous a place to live?
- Thread starter Live by the sea
- Start date
Recently moved from central Brighton to North London.
Honestly, I feel safer walking home in the early hours of the morning here than I ever did on West Street/Queens Road. (Not at all saying that Brighton is "too dangerous a place to live")
This thread is ridiculous.
Honestly, I feel safer walking home in the early hours of the morning here than I ever did on West Street/Queens Road. (Not at all saying that Brighton is "too dangerous a place to live")
This thread is ridiculous.
oneillco
Well-known member
- Feb 13, 2013
- 1,259
Don't be daft and it's impossible to talk about "London" as one generic area; the sanitised streets of Fulham and Mayfair are a different kettle of fish to Peckham or Bermondsey (but even Peckham is gentrifying these days). Of course there are areas of London that are dull and depressing; the swathe between Croydon/Norwood/Selhurst/Fornton Heaf springs to mind, but no one is going to kill and eat you.
Randsta
New member
Too expensive
Looks like the fisherman has landed a few this morning.
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Christ.
Make sure you go to your nearest Sainsbury's, stock up on 23 years worth of tinned food and bottled water, pay up in advance for delivery of the mail or express, ensure your Sky subscription comes with Fox News and barricade your front door and dig out the basement then sit in it quivering like a mess for the rest of your life.
No of course it tossing isn't and I live in an area which has seen five stabbings in the last two weeks (and none for the previous two years before).
pastafarian
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Machiavelli
Well-known member
You are a southern softie, which is another way of saying, yes, you're overreacting.
StonehamPark
#Brighton-Nil
Jesus wept.
Literally one of the safest cities in the world.
Literally one of the safest cities in the world.
DavidRyder
Well-known member
- Jul 23, 2013
- 2,885
It has it's unsavoury side, but most places have. Even if it was as safe as Vatican City I'd have no desire to live in London, give me the green of Kent and Sussex any day.
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
Tee hee!
It's been described on line this morning in some sort of HB&B type rag as "crime ridden" Have they been down St James Street lately?
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
I was looking for my quote, I recently posted on one of the local pages that "its like Boyz n The Hood and they'll be drive by shootings next" needless to say this post was taken seriously
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,416
There's rough areas in every town/city, the op is correct though with gang violence being higher nowadays.
I'd never live in London though as it's too effing busy, stayed in Peckham few weeks ago when I went to see guns n roses/stone roses, walking back to our hotel in the early hours I felt like we were in a ghetto! Prime targets to get mugged but nothing happened..
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I'd never live in London though as it's too effing busy, stayed in Peckham few weeks ago when I went to see guns n roses/stone roses, walking back to our hotel in the early hours I felt like we were in a ghetto! Prime targets to get mugged but nothing happened..
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GreersElbow
New member
Aye, it is.
London has fallen to the criminals. Every single, frickin' day someone is stabbed then thrown acid at them. You simply cannot step out your front door before feral yoof are attacking you.
It's all the EU and the globalists' fault. Forcing multiculturalism down ARE throats. Did we ever have acid attacks before Pakistanis came here?
NO.
Before you cry, don't take this seriously.
London has fallen to the criminals. Every single, frickin' day someone is stabbed then thrown acid at them. You simply cannot step out your front door before feral yoof are attacking you.
It's all the EU and the globalists' fault. Forcing multiculturalism down ARE throats. Did we ever have acid attacks before Pakistanis came here?
NO.
Before you cry, don't take this seriously.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Kabul is SAFER than George St at 8am before the Cliftonville opens
I do agree largely, but even Croydon has nice parts and West Norwood is nice, in fact go behind the high street and from Thornton heath all the way to St rethem (as its called now ) is really quite nice. All I know its bleeding expensive to live in that area ....Now penge !!
OzMike
Well-known member
Nice place to visit etc.
That was because it was Peckham.
Meade's Ball
Well-known member
I've not had any bother here in the 20 something years of roamed it. Apart from the coma, and awakening shoelessly with a bump on my head on a street of south east London, I've not had too much bother. Oh, and of course the time when that gang of 12 year olds surrounded me, calling me Fatty Bighead. But other than those 3 occasions, haven't done badly.