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

[jamiebhoy]

I am from Glasgow and it gets a bad rep some times. Many parts of it deserve the name but it's a good City to visit for museums and parks and the nightlife is good in the centre.

Go to a housing estate at you own peril though, as someone said it's stab happy. I have had friends involved in some real nsty shit and my cousin was killed a few years back in a stabbing incident because he had an argument about someone switching channels on the TV in the pub

I have been chased by people with knives and hammers and axes , was all a bit mental growing up at times. I used to watch running battles with gangs from my Grans 4th floor window at weekends.

I tend to not notice things in other cities at times becasue I got a bit immune to it , can be a bit dangerous as I tend to take things for granted and don't take much shit from local upstarts

Your guys up there are mad. I remember seeing one Glaswegian guy fighting 7 armed Cypriot police in Ayia Napa, with blood pouring down his face, & the lil fucker (he was about 5'7) was actually winning until one clubbed him over the back of the head with a rifle butt. Actually come to think of it, most Glaswegians I've met have either been frightening lunatics or crackheads. Guess we won't be meeting up for a pint anytime mate

Here was me looking forward to a nice game of dominoes down the pub too

I hear what you are saying about shit going down though, it's usually some little toss pot starting shit for nothing at all. It's always been the teaming up against one person that gets me in some places.

The worst Glaswegian is a mix of your experiences , the loony crackhead who also happens to be drunk and in a bad mood.I will say one thing for us though, we do like to stand our corner if we're in the right (or at least our version of right)