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Am i the only one..
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who doesnt seem to realise how close things are to home sometimes?
My neighbourhood is considered one of the worst in one of the worst citys in the uk for crime (nottingham) but yet i still feel safe walking the streets at any time of day or night and still feel safe when visiting places known to have had violent crimes commited there recently.
For example, a 15 year old girl was dragged off the streets and beaten up by a total stranger for no aparent reason yesterday acording the local newspaper - this happened at a place i walk past every single day about 5 minutes from my house but yet i still have no problem walking past there or anywhere else.
There have been countless shootings in nottingham and someone was stabbed to death about 30 seconds from my old work place not long back but these things just dont seem to affect me.
Is it because ive had no first hand experience of any ofthese crimes and neither have my friends? or is it because ive just become 'immune' to the violence and crime that happens today due to being part of the 'mtv generation'
My neighbourhood is considered one of the worst in one of the worst citys in the uk for crime (nottingham) but yet i still feel safe walking the streets at any time of day or night and still feel safe when visiting places known to have had violent crimes commited there recently.
For example, a 15 year old girl was dragged off the streets and beaten up by a total stranger for no aparent reason yesterday acording the local newspaper - this happened at a place i walk past every single day about 5 minutes from my house but yet i still have no problem walking past there or anywhere else.
There have been countless shootings in nottingham and someone was stabbed to death about 30 seconds from my old work place not long back but these things just dont seem to affect me.
Is it because ive had no first hand experience of any ofthese crimes and neither have my friends? or is it because ive just become 'immune' to the violence and crime that happens today due to being part of the 'mtv generation'
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Though I've not heard of anything really bad happening here actually (in the last few years), but I doubt it would make much of a difference if I had.
I was mugged once when I was about 14, but it still dosent seem to affect me. I think its because alot of the time if you dont start trouble you wont get it, I know thats not always the case, but generally its true.
And remember alot of the times the papers make things out to be alot worse than they are.
... and the award for the worst city in the UK for everyting else went to stoke-on-trent?
no offense intended
I don't like living here at all and can't wait to start a new life somewhere else!
Did elsewhere in town though, got threatened to by a couple of skinheads with a knife (fortunately one of the guys I was with carried a gun), never got into a fight though, people tend to know me and stay away from me. (because of my connections and because of my build)
I don't like it.
I tend to be over cautious and aware of everything, kinda spoils the fun.
I wouldn't say no one. I constantly think these kind of things might happen to me :nervous:
Round my way 99% of crimes are likely to be gypsies lifting your strimmer and chainsaw out your shed.
You're not wrong! Someone was murdered down the road from here a few months back :eek:
Oddly, I feel loads safer here than I did in my parents house in a much, much nicer area. Maybe it's the shouting woman scaring would-be criminals away. Who needs neighbourhood watch when you have loud scals a couple of doors down?
It's home after all.
There are some real tramps about though who would start on ya if you looked at them funny but these days it's all about the drugs, everyone's on them and if their not their looking for them.
The greens not that dear...wouldn't want soapbar again anyway, hasn't been around here for aages.
Probably take me twice as long now to get this essay typed out.
but belfast is fairly dodgy, espically at certain times of the year - you really do have to watch yourself.. you're taking your life into your hands just walking down the street sometimes
and there are a lot of places in belfast i wouldnt go anywhere near, complete no go areas :no: