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 Smee
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I spent a year here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8432856.stm Red Road Flats - 26th floor. It was a very drunken tear.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:04 pm
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i was born in wood green london, ,moved to bermondsey and then to enfield 🙂


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:07 pm
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Lived in Dalston Hackney on the murder mile for 6 year's,shootings every other wk!Got mugged at a cash point at 3am at knife point!


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:11 pm
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quite a few shooting when i lived in bosnia for two years. There was a war going on to be fair to the place 🙂


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:12 pm
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I have been realy lucky and never lived in a bad place, just places I did not like


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:14 pm
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I live in Belfast


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:18 pm
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I was born in Stoke,not exactly tinsel town ,but not in the same league as Hackney and worked on Green lane's Haringey where the Turks and Kurd's fought running battle's over drug turf's,2 shot in one day!


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:21 pm
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lived on a nice little estate in wakefield for the 1st 26 years of my life.
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had a 12 month holiday at 16 at a place called kirk levington, that was a pretty rough place.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:22 pm
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Did most of my growing up in Leigh Park. Pretty rough.
Scene of [url= http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:_7ud5GyBhb4J:news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/dorset/3818045.stm+leigh+park+site:news.bbc.co.uk&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=25&gl=uk&client=firefox-a ]this[/url] attractive little story.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:25 pm
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[i]had a 12 month holiday at 16 at a place called kirk levington, that was a pretty rough place[/i]
Only a Cat D then Ton? You can't have been that bad then!


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:30 pm
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had a 12 month holiday at 16 at a place called kirk levington, that was a pretty rough place
Only a Cat D then Ton? You can't have been that bad then!

****ing scary place at 16 mate.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:34 pm
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Your'e probly right mate. I work in a nick as you probably already know. i could NOT do time though, enjoy my freedom too much!
Imagine what HMP Wakey or Frankland are like!


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:38 pm
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i have a cousin who works at wakefield, and his brother at hull.
i get told some terrible stuff about the residents.
just glad that i wised up.
short sharp shock certainly worked for me. 8)


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:40 pm
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Never lived anywhere that I would call rough (but loads of folk have never lived on a council estate and think they are all rough by definition). Its all about what you are used to I suppose. I dont like where I live ie the Midlands as ther are so many other nicer places in the Country and with easier access to great riding.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:41 pm
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i also lived in two very rough areas in brussels too and they were holes lol. Where i live now is meant to be bad but i think its alright


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:47 pm
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Middlesbrough. I win.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:47 pm
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9 months in Bosnia...

Once found a young woman in the street, naked, badly beaten and had both her feet cut off, you could see where she had crawled into the street from the house and bled out.

To cut a very long story short, found a beautiful little girl 8-10yo half buried in a collasped building, one hand holding onto a young boy (her older brother) other hand trying to put her stomach back in, she died shortly after in total agony. One of 23 who died that day.

Dozens of other events that I think about daily...It was as close to hell as I ever want to get.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:50 pm
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Johannesburg was a bit interesting........


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:51 pm
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Lived in the Dam for 6 month's too! "interesting"


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:51 pm
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Say no more sparky that's enough to give me nightmare's!


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:54 pm
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Lived with my wife for two years!

Lived with her and her father for the last 6 months whilst the divorce finalised.

That beats a lot!


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:55 pm
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Huyton, Liverpool.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:57 pm
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DrRS****...thanks for that, never had 12yo single malt come out of my nose before 😆


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 10:59 pm
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I'm from Kirkby in Liverpool. Don't live there now. Think it beats FoxyChicks' Huyton! 😉


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:00 pm
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2 years in Kensington whilst at uni. Unfortunately that's Kensington Liverpool not Kensington London!


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:06 pm
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I grew up in Brixton in the 70's and early 80's it was a thriving multicultural melting pot with a vibrant diverse culture.

A shithole in other words.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:11 pm
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brought up in fallowfield, manchester also lived in Wavertree in Liverpool for a while whilst my girlfriend, now wife was at uni.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:13 pm
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Outskirts of London town. Glad to get away.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:33 pm
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Chappletown in Leeds was an interesting place to live for a year in the early 90's 🙂


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:37 pm
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Bosnia in the early 90's was a bit of a kip
Rawanda was pretty crap in 1994..
Angola was Shite in 1995..

To be fair, we only moved to the UK, beacuse Pretoria was going downhill. Fast.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:43 pm
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Chelsea SW3, still get me down.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:44 pm
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Arlesey.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:46 pm
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Rawtenstall!


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:48 pm
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what makes me laugh is how, when you tell someone where you are from, the say'oh, thats a bit rough'
and when you come from the place, it isn't rough at all.
i like going back to my mum's and my root's.
going in the old pub's i used to go in and seeing old familiar face.
some good old memories.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:49 pm
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Lived in Harehills for a few years, got used to the police helicopter after a while!


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:50 pm
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Like a good rough pub.

Lived in Wythemshawe, interesting rough and Wheately Hill in Peaterlee, depribed rough. Sorry if this upsets anyone.

Had a friend in Wheatley hill, the council had condemmed his front room. It was propped up with jacks, had been for two years.


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:52 pm
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Stockton-on-tees

Nuff said


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:53 pm
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I lived on the lower end of Ashley Hill, edge of St Pauls in Bristol in the 80's, well within earshot of the st Pauls riots. Ugly noise!

Also lived in a house in Redlunn which had heroin dealers on the first floor, and came back from a week away to find someone had been stabbed 49 times in the attic room!


 
Posted : 29/12/2009 11:56 pm
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I lived in a small Hampshire town for three years. Three murders in that time - one a contract killing! Who'd have thought it.


 
Posted : 30/12/2009 12:00 am
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I lived in a small Hampshire town for three years. Three murders in that time - one a contract killing! Who'd have thought it.

midsomer??


 
Posted : 30/12/2009 12:02 am
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huyton and kirkby are not as bad as they were 20 years ago ...lot worse places on merseyside


 
Posted : 30/12/2009 12:02 am
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I lived in Salford for about 4/5 yrs, when the next door neighbours in a secure block of council flats broke the door down and stole stuff and the security guards let them take all the stuff away out of the front doors in front of the guard, that was the point I decided to move.... (this was after a car being stolen out of a secure car park and also a knifepoint mugging)


 
Posted : 30/12/2009 12:15 am
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forgot salford, went to uni there.

Had a very student looking friend, a 4 year old spat at him while his dad laughed his head off..

A goog local passtime was dumping in properties that had been reepo'd


 
Posted : 30/12/2009 12:26 am
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No to be fair Kirkby is not a bad place, it's where I grew up and will always be home. As always, there's crap places everywhere, suppose it's the people who make it what it is...


 
Posted : 30/12/2009 12:30 am
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Interesting. Carry on.


 
Posted : 30/12/2009 12:57 am
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