Question from an American - what are considered the roughest areas in Britain?

[JazMerkin]

You'd be surprised. You do get 'shoot-outs' in London & Manchester although your average guy tends to use revolvers because they're more easily accessible & because they & their ammo are cheaper. Guns aren't legal here, so there's a higher price on machine guns, plus they are also not to convenient to stick down the back of your trousers as you walk down the high street.

Oh & don't end up in the wrong part of Paris or Marseille & think France is a joke. They've got areas on the outskirts of their big cities that are basically like Newark. Constant riots, tower blocks on fire.

I went to Paris and Normandy back in 2006, and actually saw a couple of fist fights on the street in the middle of the day (in Paris), they were actually really funny. There didn't seem to be such a concentrated and severe sense of desperation or despondency, so the areas didn't feel as dangerous. In Paris, you have to go to Montmartre and St-Denis to find trouble, but in America, the drug dealers come to white suburban areas to fucking kill each other.

What so no drug dealers in America are white?

In Paris, the way things are situated is that the poorest areas are ghettoized in the suburbs such as Clichy-sous-Bois. French housing policy is also heavily criticized for creating an 'apartheid' atmosphere in many of the poorest areas & effectively isolating communities in a way not even seen in the UK or US.