Quote Originally Posted by skel1983 View Post
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.