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

[ryanman]

Most major towns and cities have rough areas.
some of the most famous are moss side in manchester as has been mentioned. Glasgow. St pauls in Bristol. lots of places in london, particually south east - new cross, lewisham etc. Parts of Nottingham. Sheffield did have a bad rep but has got a lot better.
Oh by the way Miles my friend went to uni in Salford. Salford uni not manc uni.

[Andre]

So is it gangs?

Saw a thing on it the other day, they have began here in the outer Sydney suburbs bored kids looking for the adrenaline rush of getting or giving a group beating.

In Melbourne we have weakaassed teens that target mostly Indian students and indian tourists to beat and rob as they are soft targets.
Many vietnamese and some Chinese lads run some of the herion around and they will fuk over anyone who threatens them, except for our bikers who run all the ampetaimines.
We have young gangs here but they stick to there own drains in there own areas the little rats. we get alot of train violence from these types if they move around.

I think the older more set up gangs that run just for illeagal money drugs and power should go and recruit them or rub them out before they get too big themselves;cause the cops havent got a real handle on any of them at all.

[skel1983]

In truth everywhere has bad areas, obviously the major citys have got bigger areas.

Manchester is pretty bad in certain area's Salfords not that bad really, depends on which area of Salford, South Manchester Gorton,Longsight there rough as bears arses.

[Scrap]

London The city is the Roughest

[AdamGB]

haha it's a shit hole!

[BIG H]

Here's your answer

YouTube - Straight Outta Clacton!


Seriously though, I worked here for 7 years and it's funny as fukk

[CFH]

Here's your answer

YouTube - Straight Outta Clacton!


Seriously though, I worked here for 7 years and it's funny as fukk

I only understood every third word or so and I know nothing about Clacton but that was funny as hell.

[Gandalf]

In truth everywhere has bad areas, obviously the major citys have got bigger areas.

Manchester is pretty bad in certain area's Salfords not that bad really, depends on which area of Salford, South Manchester Gorton,Longsight there rough as bears arses.

To be fair I haven't lived up there in a fair few years. I was younger and a little more wide eyed then, so it certainly seemed very rough and you wouldn't want to hang out in the local pubs too much.

A friend of mine working in local government around there said that apparently the local government has spent a fair bit of cash trying to regenerate parts of Salford, but I haven no idea how accurate this is or what level of success it had.

In all my time living in Salford and Manchester I never got into a single confrontation and that was despite me being a typical student and spending a lot of time in bars. I've been punched on the nose more in Korea and had many more confrontations here. Despite that I still percieve Northern England as far more dangerous. I think perhaps my character has changed somewhat.

[Rantcatrat]

In truth everywhere has bad areas, obviously the major citys have got bigger areas.

Manchester is pretty bad in certain area's Salfords not that bad really, depends on which area of Salford, South Manchester Gorton,Longsight there rough as bears arses.

To be fair I haven't lived up there in a fair few years. I was younger and a little more wide eyed then, so it certainly seemed very rough and you wouldn't want to hang out in the local pubs too much.

A friend of mine working in local government around there said that apparently the local government has spent a fair bit of cash trying to regenerate parts of Salford, but I haven no idea how accurate this is or what level of success it had.

In all my time living in Salford and Manchester I never got into a single confrontation and that was despite me being a typical student and spending a lot of time in bars. I've been punched on the nose more in Korea and had many more confrontations here. Despite that I still percieve Northern England as far more dangerous. I think perhaps my character has changed somewhat.

What are you doing in Korea? Seoul? My best friend lives in Seoul. I'm a big fan of the city.

Are the areas described - South London, parts of Manchester, and Glasgow (is that Scotland?) - comparable to US tough? The last time I was in London I was under the impression the more destitute areas were bad in the sense there were crackheads and fistfights, but they weren't horrible. Also, in the states, most of the bad areas in the major west coast and east coast cities although not all (Youngstown, Ohio where KP is from is pretty hard from what I gather), are predominately african american or latino, are the bad areas in the UK predominately one racial group? Mixed? Russian (JOKE - like in Eastern Promises)?

Growing up in LA, I was jumped a dozen or so times, and I lived in a good area, but it was in the middle of the city. It kind of came with the territory that would happen if you know what I mean.

[Gandalf]

In truth everywhere has bad areas, obviously the major citys have got bigger areas.

Manchester is pretty bad in certain area's Salfords not that bad really, depends on which area of Salford, South Manchester Gorton,Longsight there rough as bears arses.

To be fair I haven't lived up there in a fair few years. I was younger and a little more wide eyed then, so it certainly seemed very rough and you wouldn't want to hang out in the local pubs too much.

A friend of mine working in local government around there said that apparently the local government has spent a fair bit of cash trying to regenerate parts of Salford, but I haven no idea how accurate this is or what level of success it had.

In all my time living in Salford and Manchester I never got into a single confrontation and that was despite me being a typical student and spending a lot of time in bars. I've been punched on the nose more in Korea and had many more confrontations here. Despite that I still percieve Northern England as far more dangerous. I think perhaps my character has changed somewhat.

What are you doing in Korea? Seoul? My best friend lives in Seoul. I'm a big fan of the city.

Are the areas described - South London, parts of Manchester, and Glasgow (is that Scotland?) - comparable to US tough? The last time I was in London I was under the impression the more destitute areas were bad in the sense there were crackheads and fistfights, but they weren't horrible. Also, in the states, most of the bad areas in the major west coast and east coast cities although not all (Youngstown, Ohio where KP is from is pretty hard from what I gather), are predominately african american or latino, are the bad areas in the UK predominately one racial group? Mixed? Russian (JOKE - like in Eastern Promises)?

Growing up in LA, I was jumped a dozen or so times, and I lived in a good area, but it was in the middle of the city. It kind of came with the territory that would happen if you know what I mean.

I teach English out here. Seoul is alright, but not my cup of tea. There are too many Koreans there! I like to visit every now and then to get certain shopping fixes, but it's too mental for me to live in. It's the same in the UK really, as I would never consider living in London. But London is far less busy than Seoul and doesn't have everybody crammed into high rise project style apartments. London also has a lot more to see IMO. I much prefer smaller cities and towns though, where you learn to navigate and know where everything is.

I find it strange how places develop with all this attitude and toughness. It's one of the reasons I enjoy living where I do. Nobody is ever going to pull a gun on you and the worst you are ever going to get is a dirty look. Even when I went home to England in Harrogate (which is a relatively decent small town) last time out I remember me and some friends pulling up for some petrol and there were these teenagers none of us knew all shouting over "You twats. Do you want to start? Come over here!". We just looked at them and did wanker hand gestures and drove off....but still...where do these pricks come from? And why do they do it? I've never seen that kind of behaviour from kids living out here and they wouldn't dare. But back home they just don't give a shit. It's fucked up.

Not exactly tough stuff, but still pointless and wrong. It's just that if they were conditioned in a rougher area they might be mopre prone to stab you.

[Memphis]

St pauls in Bristol.

[Munkymagic]

Pompey used to be a nice place then ICB moved down here and its turned to dogshit. Stabbings and random chess tourneys taking place in the middle of town each night.

Coppers don't know what to do

[Memphis]

Hit him where it hurts. Raid his gaf for PS2 Games and bar him from gamestation.