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"Late night violence and poor education levels."

Yep, that about sums up Teesside.

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The part I live in used to be fairly quiet. Now there's a group of baboons roaming the streets calling themselves "Whiston Road Boys" tagging "WRB" wherever they go.

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Nottingham as 2nd worst? Bollocks. Yes there is a high amount of violent crime in certain areas but it seriously isn't that bad.
Mansfield at 6? yeh, ok it's a shithole!

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it's a survey done by a "property porn" programme, those tedious people who think of nothing but house-prices...

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Obviously, when T+F moved out, the only restraint on crime was gone, and the gangs moved in.

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well hell, they didn't need to do a survey to work out hull is the worst city in the country, you just had to ask me :(

(shower me with pity folks - mental health, in Hull, yeah i'm owed 50 million christmas cards at least.... that or just being carted off to the nearest loony bin... oh that's right we closed it....)

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hull is dead correct.

theres a massive demand for IT workers in hull - because no-one wants to live there, it's a complete shithole. Go there by train. exit station. look around. see problem.

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It might not seem bad if your used to it but it isn't the norm. Most places in this country you don't have to worry about gang's blowing your brains out, although i'm sure eventually evreywhere will be as bad

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Birmingham? Manchester? Liverpool? London? I'm sure there are parts of them which are much more dangerous. The gun crime is only really in St. Annes and the Meadows areas.

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Worst place ever has got to be CROYDON!

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Salford (manchester) was up there.

I remember me and a couple of uni mates got lost there on something like the 2nd night out of freshers week in the first year. We hailed a taxi when we realised we had no idea where we were and he stopped, looked around, and said "GET IN QUICK!! what you doing alone in salford this time of night? stupid ****ing students" or words to that effect.

great days.

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heh.
He was just trying to scare you into giving him a bigger tip.

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actually, iirc, then the one of us who paid actually didnt give him enough. Although this guy is generally known for being a huge cheapskate. I thought it was a bit thick personally, and gave the cabbie a nice tip.

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so it worked then.

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oh you cynic you :)

be less negative, be more happy

\o/

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i'll be happy. once i get home from work in 2hrs time.

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no no

you will just be less sad...

see?

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Enby is only truly happy when he's bangin' his bitch yo.

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heh.

:(

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oh cheer up bucko!

and drive to john 'o' groats or wherever that girl is this weekend

seize the day! Even if it all goes completely wrong at least you tried, which is much more important than any "outcomes".

GO!

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Why drive to the ends of the earth looking to woo a woman, when you can simply drive to the pub with your rohypnol in hand instead?

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yeah, or yknow, do what MM says

theyre both good plans.

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You see, this is exactly the kind of misinformed stereotype this type of shitty program reinforces. Nottingham simply isn't like that.
As with all large cities, there are "areas you don't go". However, if you come to Nottingham to do some shopping you are not going to get shot. I can't recall a single incident of a shooting in the centre of Nottingham at night, never mind in broad daylight. Of course there are the areas away from the centre (St Annes and The Meadows) which have drug related rivalries with each other, but unless you live there you've got no reason to go there. It's not as if they're right next to the town centre, you have to walk a fair way to get there.

Now of course there will be some violence in the city centre on a friday/saturday night. This is unfortunately something common to all major urban areas, and more than likely to your local village pub on one occasion or another. People get drunk. Shit happens. To my knowledge, none of it is gun related.

I resent the fact that because two small areas of the city district have a drug rivalry going on, Nottingham somehow gets painted as some sort of lawless gun-slinging slum.

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i'm scared to go to Nottingham it sounds like a lawless gun-slinging slum :(

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'Best' Towns/Cities

1 - Epsom and Ewell SOUTH
2 - City of Westminster SOUTH
3 - Harrogate NORTH
4 - Ashford, Kent SOUTH
5 - Stratford Upon Avon SOUTH/MIDLANDS
6 - East Hertfordshire SOUTH
7 - South Cambridgeshire SOUTH
8 - Mole Valley SOUTH
9 - Guildford SOUTH
10 - West Oxfordshire SOUTH

'Worst' Towns/Cities

1 - Hull NORTH
2 - Nottingham MIDLANDS
3 - Strabane N IRELAND
4 - Hackney, London LONDON
5 - Middlesbrough NORTH
6 - Mansfield NORTH
7 - Blaenau Gwent, S Wales WALES
8 - Merthyr Tydfil, S Wales WALES
9 - Salford, Gtr Manchester NORTH
10 - Easington, County Durham NORTH

Slightly biased anyway methinks.

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Maybe I should have elaborated a bit here, I don't think that Nottingham is like the wild west or something, but it does obviously have a gun crime problem worse than other cities. Of course all cities have there ghettos, I live in Newcastle which has its rough spots, and it also has trouble of a night time with the boozers getting rowdy.
If you look at it unbiasedly you would see when there are gun amnestys being announced, police operations to seize guns and your own chief constable admiting he has lost control on violent crime it doesn't look good.

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It annoyed me rather a lot, as they analysed (often extremely arbitrary) local authority areas rather than sensible regions. So South Cambridgeshire, for instance, gets a high mark because the place that would drag it down (the City of Cambridge) is a separate local authority cut out of the middle of it, whilst the rural areas in Guildford borough get lumped together with the dump that is Guildford in the centre. No one in Surrey would rather live in Mole Valley or Epsom and Ewell than Guildford borough (as the property prices in the villages around Guildford can testify).

Their formula also seemed a little suspicious, as having a fantastic score in one area (open spaces in Ashford and lifestyle in Westminster, for instance) massively overbalanced rubbish scores in other areas (crime in Westminster and everything else in Ashford), whereas the true "best" place would surely be decent in all areas rather than rubbish in some and brilliant in others.

Likewise, some of the "worst" areas seemed to be dragged down really far by one particularly bad statistic (like crime in Nottingham and unemployment in several places), despite being okay or even really good (lifestyle in Nottingham) in other areas.

One might almost believe that they deliberately went after extremes to make the programme more entertaining, but that couldn't be the case. :rolleyes:

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Was Stoek so bad that they couldn't mention it at all ?

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What about Kingston? I hear they have bonified terrorists snapping pictures of everything at Kingston Town Center already and, except for the brave janitors with their trusty mops, there would soon be bombs going off all over the Center.

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Get back to the mill you smelly northerner

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Not really. The North is generally poorer, more violent, and generally shitter than the South.

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bugger :( i may end up spending 3 or 4 years of my life in Hull :(

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Damn sorry to hear that. Make sure you pack that cyanide capsule incase you can't stand the pain anymore

still you could be going here.........
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2815105.stm

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It's not so glamorous since you moved out.

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There is nothing great about Ashford - its official.

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yes, even the residents try to forget the place exists.

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I laughed that Harrogate made number three. Harrogate is the sort of place that manages to make Micheal Aspel look interesting. I think 85% of the population are aged over seventy.

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number 10 on the list - easington - is a small villagwe about 15 miles from me where they keep trying to set the library on fire

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As I said, they analysed local government areas, so the Easington they mean is the district rather than the place.

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Where's the full list?

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Maybe they wanted to know the top 10 worst areas only...

*shrug*

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From somethings that were said in other threads, wouldn't this make it a prime spot for you to go cruising for babes?

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alexandria?

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Made me chuckle :)

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I don't shag geriatrics. Notice that I have been previously attracted to Stew and skiddy, not DM and Kura.

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ah yes, but in this case the entire district of easington is a giant shithole, with the village of easington colliery at the certre, the village name should give you some hints as to why its such a shit area to live.

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I've never been to Easington. I never want to go to Easington. I will never go to Easington of my own volition.

Sometimes we have to be thankful for small mercies.

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neither have i, i just look at our service point statistics for attacks on staff and property and draw my conclusions from there :)