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Seriously though, I worked here for 7 years and it's funny as fukk
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YouTube - Straight Outta Clacton!
Seriously though, I worked here for 7 years and it's funny as fukk
This morning going to the track, there was murder going on. A Big Hole appeared in the road 50ft deep, when I left the Police were looking into it![]()
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In terms of being similar to US levels of crime, I'd say that Glasgow, Manchester & London are the only ones that are really comparable.
Glasgow is apparently stab-happy, haven't been there myself, but I hear they don't play up there. Moss Side & Longsight in Manchester are definitely bad.
As for London, there's bad bits all over, Tottenham & Hackney in the North/East bit of the city, Harlesden/Acton in the West & basically a big part of South London, which I live slap bang in the middle of. Brixton, Peckham & Lewisham (where I live) are the 3 worst areas.
We usually get a couple of shootings or stabbings in a week although fortunately more people wear bullet-proofs & stabproofs nowadays so there's less fatalities, even if occasionally a stray does hit someone like with that Polish nurse. There's a lot less that goes on in the street (as in drive-bys & that) than there used to be, largely because having permanent armed police units on patrol (in the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham) has basically pushed the major gang warfare underground, meaning that the big incinerator nearby is basically becoming a giant crematorium.
I think how I live probably gives you the impression there's more than there is. The travel was for a work placement in Europe, so they covered my travel & living costs. The money that went on Hatton-Pacquiao, (which when taking hotel, flight, fight ticket, spending dough into account was about £2000) was money both me & my girlfriend had saved up together over the previous year for a holiday. I mean, by the standards of where I live, my family is pretty well-off, but I think if you compared us to most people in Britain, we'd be considered 'poor' by some.
I still live here, because it's where I grew up & even with everything wrong with it, it's the place I feel comfortable & all my friends & family are still here. I probably would have been just like most of my friends growing up headed either to jail or an early death, if it hadn't been for 2 teachers I had in my community college, who basically changed my life & because of them I've now got 2 degrees & at least some possibilities at 23. I know that the area isn't going to get better whilst the only role models are drug dealers & sports stars long gone, so I feel like if I just leave than I'd basically be selling out. I might feel different once I have kids as I don't know if I'd want them growing up here as it is now, but until then I want to actually at least try to do something positive for my community & leaving it behind won't do that.
Last edited by JazMerkin; 10-09-2009 at 12:33 AM.
I am from Manchester and have lived about 3 doors down from Ricky Hatton from a kid to my early twenties, it has always made me laugh when I have read stories of Ricky fighting his way up from the mean streets of Manchester its really nice round here
I play rugby and work in Salford there are some rough as f**k places round there but as everywhere some nice places and some good people too
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That name brings back memories! I used to do relief work in the bookies to supplement my meagre student resources and would get shipped out all over Manchester. Longsight was one, Ardwick was another, the Picaddily one was actually alright. I met a lot of very interesting people, but definitely some that you would want to be careful around.
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