Had a friend in Wheatley hill, the council had condemmed his front room. It was propped up with jacks, had been for two years.
It wasn't Ger B was it Fozzyuk? He 'converted' the loft of his council house but forgot to tell the council!
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Where's the roughest place you've ever lived?
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near me twohats
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south norwood 96-00
I missed a train connection once from Croydon to Forest Hill once and had to get a bus from Norwood Junction the rest of the way. The 8 year old with a bleeding head wound who offered me a joint and then started smoking crack from a coke can was an 'interesting' character.
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Alexxx - Shelton ain't that bad!!!! I guess it's what you "accustomed" too. Far far worse places in Stoke as in rough/shit/crime spots than that but I've lived in S-O-T for 47 years and it don't bother me. Some very nice riding areas too so I'll stick with where I am.
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Jo'burg for me too. We had to avoid fully stopping at certain traffic lights cos there was a good chance you'd be car-jacked. My cousin was mugged at gunpoint; we had 2 dobermans guarding the house; glass cemented along the tops of the walls; 12ft high iron gates; house wired to a private security firm.
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Either the wrong end of Oldham in the early 1990's or Newton Heath in Manchester (around the same time).
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mi©k - Member
near me twohats
Not anymore, unless you live in Sweden!
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Green lane's Haringey where the Turks and Kurd's fought running battle's over drug turf's,2 shot in one day!
I lived there for a few years. Crack den downstairs, working girls operating in an abandoned car in the car park.
Still a great area though. I miss the Yasir Halim and the Salisbury. Heard more gunshots when I lived in Streatham.
These places pale in comparison to some of the places mentioned though, IMO.
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I lived on the Bentley Estate in Hulme for 18 months which was probably the 'roughest' (two shooting's within a stones throw of the flat for a start).......but it was also one of may favourite places I have ever lived. The estate had a real community spirit and it always felt like home.
Unlike Weoley Castle in Birmingham which was full of pig-ignorant dole scum. I lasted 3 months before cutting my losses and selling up. Weoley was definitely the worst place I have lived.
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no mate in whinmoor swarcliffe now was in norway for a while not too far away lol not rough tho
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Squatted for years round Stratford and Forest Gate. Never any real bother. Moved down to Peckham and that was a bit rougher but, again, no bad experiences (that weren't of my own doing).
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Kensington, Liverpool. Graffiti on moving in: "kill all studies [students] and pros [prostitutes]". It was nice to know upfront where we fitted on the social strata
At the time it was one of two postcodes that endsleigh insurance wouldn't cover (the other being mosside, manc).
Lots of stories but it was what we needed though. Real life.
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Bruce Grove in Tottenham, Tooting, Luton and West Croydon were probably the three worst for me.
West Croydon was appalling though - lived there for 3 years, I stopped someone trying to rape my ex in the street, a guy was stabbed to death on our front doorstep and a 15 year old girl was stabbed in the street for her mobile phone.
I woke up in Tooting to find the whole street shut off as someone had been shot outside our flat, and the house I lived in as a student was in the middle of the Luton riots in 1994. Luckily for me I had just moved back home.
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Johannesburg and Gorton (Manchester) - **** me they are both 'orrible
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Alexxx I grew up in shelton,shithole I grant you,but would'nt call it rough having lived in hackney for 6 year's!
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Spent my childhood and early adult life in Southmead Bristol, remember during the early 90's being constantly kept awake every night by stolen cars being chased by the police and low hovering police helicopter, along with the armed drugs raids, murders and nasty little gits rioting, it wasn't a very nice place to be and still isn't
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Kensington..........Liverpool. Pretty rough like. Could buy a house there a few years ago for under £10k
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Staight outta Gipton! Actually, wasn't that bad in the 70's. My commute ( from the fringes of Roundhay park, dontcha know!) takes me along Harehills Road, amongst other places,where I've had 3 serious bike-mugging attempts in the last few years - all of which failed. I twatted the last joker with a D-lock which I was taking into work and 'just happened' to have it dangling on the handlebars.
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ton - remember Paul Sykes?
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barnsleymitch - Member
ton - remember Paul Sykes?i do mate.
i grew up 2 streets away from his mum and dad's house, and he coached us at rugby when i was 14.
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He once tried nicking my pint in the three houses at Sandal - my arse was going five pence fifty pence!
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he was a very intimidating man, but became a very sad man.
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Yeah, complete wreck at the end, poor shambling f***ing alckie...
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Theres a film called Red Road about those flats, its very good.
My brother reckons Kashicstan its the roughest place he's been and he's lived in some real holes.
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BOrn in Southmead, Bristol..................
Left the next day
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I lived in Moscow for about a year when Boris Yeltsin was in power. Lots of vodka fuelled violence, lots of guns and many people willing to mix vodka and guns to get what they wanted. I managed to avoid most trouble and rather enjoyed my time there but it could be very brutal and very unforgiving.
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Harehills in Leeds - part of the unholy triumvirate of Harehills, Chapeltown and Gipton. Some charming people. Fond memories of lunchtime pints in The Gaiety in Chapeltown (before it was burned down!)
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Bogota.Made growing up in Kensington and Wavertree seem really aspirational and middle class.
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Probably Wilmslow, nice town but proximity to Manchester put it in the "roughest" category. Every house with a burglar alarm, Manc scallies visiting in the evening for robbing duties.
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NG3.............niiiiiiiiiiiiice..!
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Fond memories of lunchtime pints in The Gaiety in Chapeltown
From memory, The Gaiety was like a real life Cantina bar from Star Wars!
If I remember rightly it was actually shut down before it later got burned out.Posted 2 years ago # -
A Kennel next door to a sandpaper factory.
It was dog rough.
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grew up on border of bootle/kirkdale in liverpool........FUN TIMES
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Makes me laugh all the Liverpool posts, our home counties snobs (you know who you are) are having their prejudices confirmed!
Tbh, from what I have read, jo'burg and Moscow must have been eye openers, life seems pretty cheap there.
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loddrik , i know plenty of anglo scousers on this thread
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