What are the roughest areas in England?
Or in Britain?
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There are rough places all over really.
You've got some parts of London that are quite bad. South and East (particularly the South-East, Peckham, Bermondsey, Canning Town, etc) of London could be argued to be the worst.
But then there are places in North and North-West London that can be pretty bad (Tottenham, Hackney, Stonebridge, Kilburn, etc). West London can generally be considered to be the least rough, but there are still certain council estates and other places that you may not want to visit.
Portsmouth, in the south of England, is pretty grim. Then there are a whole load of places up North that are pretty tough. Certain parts of Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Nottingham, can all be rough if you're in the wrong part. Cardiff in Wales can be pretty bad too.
Basically, it's the same as anywhere; you have rough parts and nice parts right next to each other. For example, St. John's Wood (plush) is 2 minutes up the road from Kilburn (rough). Notting Hill (plush) shares the border with Ladbroke Grove (rough in parts, but not as bad as it used to be).
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I apparently live on the 'estate from Hell', as one local councillor put it, but I feel totally unthreatened - I regularly visit a friend who lives in the shadow of the infamous Broadwater Farm estate, and have worked and played in Tottenham for the past 20 years, but had no problems.
Trouble can happen anywhere.
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what about Glasgow?
shareIn England each estate has the private end, which is where you must buy the house and a council estate, which is rented from the government.
The houses from the government are for low socio economic families who can't afford to buy, therefore rent cheap small houses which are usually terraces. Due to the huge amounts of people in close proximity there are going to be gangs of youths with no money and nothing to do. This is the problem!
Although it isn't as bad as the films would lead you to believe there are groups of juveniles who break the law perhaps petty theft, burglaries or assualts on people usually by themselves. Juveniles from the private sector also frequent the council estates as they can get up to mischief without it usually getting backto their parents.
I've lived in council estates in the North East of England for the 1st 30 years of my life and found it's relatively safe apart from the odd lunatics who are usually well known anyway so you simply keep your distance.
What is Nottingham like? I live in Belfast but am going over there to do the Legal Practice Course next year. Whats it like to live in? Yea I know theres rough places everywhere but whats it like in general?
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My Brother & Sister in law live in Nottingham, it's very rough in parts, it's known as the gun crime capital of Britain.
There are some very dodgy towns like Hull, Middlesboro, Bradford, Luton & Bristol, I once had a girlfriend from Castlemilk in Glasgow and it was a case of watch what you say and to who, made even harder by my English accent.
I live outside Belfast but spent 5 years in Nottingham as a student. As usual, student housing tends to be in the cheaper/rougher parts of town. I lived in Forest Fields for 3 years and never had any problems. I regularly visited friends in Hyson Green and St Anns which are also pretty rough. Like anywhere, if you stay alert you will be OK. Aside from that, Nottingham is a brilliant city. I guess you will be doing your LPC through Nottingham Trent and the law school is part of the city campus. Bars, shops and clubs are all great. The city is a managable size and is light years better than Belfast. Hope you have a great time.
shareSome mates at Nottigham Uni have dubbed it Shottingham...but im sure its not that bad!
shareI live in Nottingham city centre and its fine, no worries here.
shareI have been told the nightlife in Nottingham is excellent!!!
shareNothing wrong with Nottingham.
If you look for trouble it'll find you.
if youve ever walked around anywhere in liverpool on your own at night believe me you will never want to do it again
shareI walked round there in the day and didn't want to do it again.
What a cess pit of pitiful humanity.
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im from ireland and was recently away on a weekend to liverpool. i got sozzled one night and was stranded on my own around the centre of liverpool .. got back to the hotel handy enough.. no trouble
shareNottingham - without a doubt! or Bracknell ... not the places you want to be alone at night...
shareWhy what happeneed to you? I've been a taxi driver in Liverpool for 10 years on nights and ive never encountered any real trouble. The only trouble I have is with the students who come to the city and think they can mouth off - lack of being streetwise
shareIn britain it has to be the east end of Glasgow it has the highest rates of murder in the whole of europe and is home to some of britains most feared gangsters
shareGlasgow has loads of very rough areas in the east end mostly but there are bad areas all around the city, Easterhouse, springburn, possilpark, calton, nitshill, cranhill, govan, pollock, drumchapel, black hill, castle milk to name just a few.
sharei am from a small village near staines. i have lost count of how many times me and my friends have been started on on friday nights. Feltham is very high up in my list. the combination of the young offenders institution and the sheer volume of chavs makes it almost unbearable. just passing through the train station on my way to london makes me shiver. vast fleets of mopeds await the level crossing to open, revving their engines. seeing girls aged between 13 and 19 with up to as many as four babies in a stroller (yes i did see that) countless assaults happen on a weekly basis, stabbings also occur regularly, due to the big gang culture. the chavs of feltham filter down into other local communities, among the worse is stanwell, and close behind is staines. addmitedly the chavs in staines are of a much lower caliber than those found in feltham, still they intimidate passers bye and attack them for no apparent reason. also in 2004 my next door neighbour whom i talked to on occasions was convicted of brutally murdering a man at ascot racecourse. Google the name Nigel Ogier. all of this S**t makes me want to crackdown on the *beep* scum of england.
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Portsmouth, in the south of England, is pretty grim.
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its just rucky, portsmouth is rougher for the innocent but look for trouble and london/manchester/glasgow/brum/liverpool/newcastle- actually most UK cities- will be much worse..... you are just more likely to get a smack for no reason up this way
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I am from Birmingham but i have lived in most areas of england and the most roughest i have lived in would be Hull and a place in north wales Pwllheli where i was chased by a gang of youths with shotguns . No word of a lie !!! pwllheli! You have been warned.
shareto be honest Birmingham can be very bad . I know through experience. My family had a pub in Lozels and they had a fire extinguisher full of cs gas for the big fights they had on a friday night.. i have had guns pulled on me ... i have seen people pushed in front of buses in fights in town . Also there are areas in brum which could be compared with areas of L.a. with the gang problems. this aint no bull. i have seen a lot to much to mention on here .
I live in hull now and the problems here are the chavs with attitude.
I hate chavs..
Glasgo is very rough. As is London, Nottingham and Manchester, areas such as Moss Side and Wythenshawe.
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Simply put, there is no worst area!
Every town or city throughout not only the UK, but the world has their good parts & their worse parts. You can go to 1 part & get welcomed or at least ignored & left to your own vices, or you can go somewhere & get the *beep* kicked out of you for no reason other than some tossers deicde it makes their lives a little more bearable!
Sadly, it's becoming more & more common these days because the UK govt & authorities turn a blind eye to all the neds. All you hear is crime rates are dropping & all the rest of it via official channels. Most likely because people are fed up reporting things because they know it's a waste of their time as nothing will be done. Even if they are caught, they'll probably dodge jail anyhow, then come back & make things worse for you!
So every part of the UK is as bad as each other. You want a safe place to live, visit or whaever, then make it a remote part where nobody stays or goes. Then you can go about your business in a safe manner without worrying about neds or chavs!
Glasgow was rated the toughest place in Britain in Loaded magazine this month
I have lived in some of the roughest places in UK. Aldershot in Hampshire used to be a nightmare. But I must say, the roughest place that I have ever come across is where I currently reside.........Luton!
sharethat will be all the squaddies fighting the chavs and the paras....
we have a bit of trouble with skates (matlows) down here but they are not half as bad as squaddies....
i used to have to go to the enterprise ecnter at least once and month and the centre is so chavvy its horrible!!
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Was Glasgow really voted the toughest city in Loaded? If if was good call, I think Glasgow is worse than any other city/area mentioned here. I'm from Glasgow there is good parts also but there is places where you just know to stay away from.
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true there is no one city that is a real crap hole, it depends where you go in the cities. All major cities in the UK have their rough areas, it just so happens that some cities have more than others. take london for example and manchester and glasgow. These are very large cities and have some very beautiful areas within the city but other parts are *beep* I live in Southampton and that has some very very rough areas. i certainly wudnt walk on my own when the sun goes down. crime has risen in this city, and your more likely to get mugged now than ever. other than that its a good city with some decent areas. the city is divided into two really, the east side and west side. a river cuts between them. 70% of the east side is poison. not very good areas. recently an 18 year old was stabbed to death. the west is a little better but even that has its rough areas.
it just depends where you go really. im thankfull that i live in a decent area where iv got the filth as my next door neighbours. lol
isnt the whole st mary's area on the west side? thats pretty rough!!
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lol. Never trust any statistic published in Loaded.
sharei agree with 'lebigmac1-1' that there are rough places all over England,
but when you live in those places you dont really see it as much as if you were to visit.
i live in nottingham, and i would have no problem walking through radford/the meadows/ or saint anns(possibly the 3 worse areas)
and its not cause i think im a 'hardass' but its cause i know the area, so depending where you are from depends on what you class are rough.
but yeah i wouldnt go to Manchester or Liverpool lol
Chorley in the north west is a nice place, but a fighting town.
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Chorley in the north west is a nice place, but a fighting town
Heh - I remember going there with Enfield back in 89 or 90 and after the match we had to walk through the streets to our coach - we never caused any trouble but people were literally pulling their kids in off the street and slamming the door nehind them
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Bristol is a strange one, so amazing , nice, and cool in some areas, whereas there are places I wouldn't go night or day
shareI am a tertiary educated professional from Australia currently living on a council estate in Hackney. We own the property, and it is one of the nicest places I have lived. People say a lot of bad stuff about Hackney but I would guarantee the majority of them have never been there. Totenham is pretty rough, friends I knew living there saw multiple robberies, muggings and assults but in the 4 years I have lived in Hackney I have not seen a thing.
I lived in Lewisham for 2 weeks and saw 3 assults. My top rough places for London are:
Lewisham
Brixton / Streatham
Peckham
Walthamstow
Totenham
But the worst?
The West End on a Friday night... all the drunks / stoners out and ready for a fight. The worst assult I have seen was in broad daylight in South Kensington.
I live in bermondsey and it ain't rough at all only when it comes to the football!!!!!!!!!!
Middlesbrough's chav city.
shareBollocks. I've lived in Canning Town since 1998 and the biggest crime I've ever witnessed is people littering by not putting their Perfect Fried Chicken boxes in the bin.
I have never been hassled, robbed, mugged or even sworn at in my entire time here. Nor my wife. We both walk around the area at all times of the day or night.
I would say Harlesden is the baddest part of London. But I'm sure there'll be someone here who lives there and has never had a problem.
There are some parts of Brixton, particularly behind Electric Avenue after say 2 a.m., where it can be a bit dodgy, especially if you have a mobile phone in your hand or are carrying a bag of any sort, but even then, if you keep your wits about you and don't make unnecessary eye contact, and have a bit of attitude, you'll be fine.
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I have lived in Portsmouth for 2 years and it is a great place to live it has a few bad areas but so does everywhere but nowhere near as many as manchester to say it is one of the roughest places to live is very unfair.
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