Being brought up on estates, suberbs etc

I live in a pretty crappy area :)

You just get on with it and keep your nose out the scummy folks business and that seems to keep you out of trouble.

I was always outside as a kid be it down the park with a ball,golf clubs or going long cycles until what felt like really late back then.
 
I grew up in the country was mostly filled with building dens in the forest, bike rides in mud and GERR OFF MOI LAND!

lived in london for last 5 years which mostyl consisted of GIVE ME YER FONE OR I SHANK YA
 
I lived in Pilton (one of the worst areas in Edinburgh) for a while, gave some great life experince. Like when your getting shot at to duck, it hurts :p
 
eddiemcgarrigle said:
Ahleckz, there is no area anywhere that I would fear to tread. I used to walk through Sighthill quite often when visiting an old flame who lived in Royston and never once did I experience any trouble. The perceived threat is what scares people and not the reality.
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yea where i live in the west end of newcastle is suposed to be really rough but i didnt grow up in newcastle so didnt get the fear thing as i grew up.

all my wifes friends think im crazy because i will walk around while its dark etc or go for midnight walks.

ive never had trouble or even seen anyone who would cause trouble.

where i grew up in nottingham had a pretty bad reputation but the majority of people wouldnt have any trouble there either
 
Lived on a couple of estates growing up and for the most part they werent too bad. We eventually got a move to an estate called which was supposed to be much better, the thieving scum that lived there a real pain in the arse.
The people living in the flats at the bottom of the road had a habbit of heaving their old furniture/appliances over the balcony rather than taking them down, had a sofa miss by about five feet :eek:.
Not much in the way of stabbings but do remember a couple of shootings and also had the pleasure of finding a kid dead in our front garden who had apparently choked on his own vomit.
 
dmpoole said:
I talk tripe but basically people in the country don't live in the real world.
How the hell he could get in an argument with a next door neighbour who lives half a mile away over a shared road is madness.
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extreme but why madness? it doesn't matter how long your drive is if the end of it is being blocked by someone.
 
GreatAuk said:
Villages are rubbish for children, but great for retired people.
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You describe your fairly uncommon circumstances of living in a village but having to go to school elsewhere because the school was full, and then summise villages are rubbish for children. Might be rubbish for you because you don't know anyone, but everyone else in the village will have gone to school together and know each other. Right upto the end of secondary school (which was in a different village) all the boys from my year used to play out together, we even included a few interlopers like you who lived near one of the group.
Villages (without good public transport to a big town/city) are rubbish for teenagers, but they are brilliant for kids.
 
Ahleckz said:
Though, if I was doing a bird from Royston - that would give me the fear ;)
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Diamonds in the rough everywhere matey and that was 20 years ago when shell suits weren't the normal garb. I've had girls from Royston, Garthamlock, Parkhead, Maryhill, Milton and the missus grew up in Ruchazie. No problem waiting on buses in those areas in the dead of night.

Anyhoo, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Possilpark
 
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