Southern Blood

KautoStar said:
OP you sure this wasn't the first time you left the house ?
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I think that's a lot of the forum, frankly.

Lived in Toxteth for all of my 40 years and it is fine, very little trouble.

Sometimes students have some issues but, if I am honest, they don't help themselves throwing stuff around the street at night, waking neighbours, shouting they want some 'gear' (kids, that's smack around here...) and just being nobbers.
 
Croxteth, toxteth, longsight, west gorton, Salford, gipton, east end park and cross green.

All to be avoided if your face doesn't fit.
 
Chris-.- said:
Edinburgh isn't even bad, just guard your ears if you get in a fight, idiots like to bite nowadays it seems..
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Have to agree there - I've never had any problems in Edinburgh though like everywhere else it does have its bad places.

simulatorman said:
You only drove through it, that's nothing. Just wait until you see parts of it on foot. An armed guard at night would be of no use. :D
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Yeah we kind of got that impression. Our plan was to drop off for a bite to eat on route, needless to say we arrived in Sorrento hungry.
 
worst place ive been and ive been to most the areas mentioned as rough places on here was romford. Its the only time in my life where i thought a riot could kick off at any second I saw more fights in the evening i spent out around 12 fights first bar we went in a guy was being thrown down the stairs. I've been to toxteth the area was pretty horrible looking (boarded up windows. Shops completely encased behind perspex) but at no time did i feel threatened also been to Belfast in some bars where we were warned to avoid (like a rag to a bull that one we wanted to go even more so did) and never felt like anything was going to happen.
 
Nitefly said:
So I went to Manchester this weekend to a concert with my brother and we were booked into a travelodge in the centre. Now, I've been to Manchester a handful of times but dear lord, this time it was terrifying!

As soon as we pulled into a rather dubious car park I raised my concerns that I didn't think it was very safe, only to turn my head and find a car full of gang members staring at me. The second car park we pulled into had a group of men start to approach the car before we got out, argh!

Finally we found a relatively safe place to park and began the short 5 minute walk to the travelodge - I have never seen so many people harder than a coffin nail. I saw a couple of knives, what I'm sure was a concealed gun, very young girls clearly selling themselves and hordes of drugs deals. I began to feel like a siting duck in my posh brown shoes, blazer and wheelie suitcase. We quietly agreed not to speak too loudly, appreciating that if they couldn't smell our southern blood that our nature would otherwise be revealed. I felt like a golden retriever puppy walking through an abattoir - I've felt more at ease in a Brazilian favela! Made Bristol's St Pauls feel like Clifton.

Fortunately we survived to live another day. The question I pose to you is... Where is the roughest place you have been in the UK?
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St pauls is one of the safest places in bristol I used to live in Montpelier still rather be in st pauls than knowle west lol.

I've never had any trouble in Manchester either but then I don't wear posh shoes or a blazer xD.
 
Gilly said:
Salford,

All to be avoided if your face doesn't fit.
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I had a physio appointment at a clinic in Salford a while back and the GF's face when we drove through there was priceless. I know my way around there and pointing out stuff to her like the Connexions centre that has a barbed wire electrified fence had me in stitches.

I keep suggesting we move into one of the tower blocks in the centre.
 
Funny one from when I was working up in Worksop/Nottingham area a few weeks back. We decided to pop into the local pub, one of the guys I work with is black, 6'9" and has an afro so he's hardly inconspicuous.

As we walk in the place goes completely silent, everyone stops and turns to look at him (I think someone dropped their drink too, although I could be imagining that). About 100 people in there looked like they wanted to kill my mate, turns out it was a BNP meeting :D

Got out of there pretty quickly, laughing all the way back to the hotel.
 
Raikiri said:
Funny one from when I was working up in Worksop/Nottingham area a few weeks back. We decided to pop into the local pub, one of the guys I work with is black, 6'9" and has an afro so he's hardly inconspicuous.

As we walk in the place goes completely silent, everyone stops and turns to look at him (I think someone dropped their drink too, although I could be imagining that). About 100 people in there looked like they wanted to kill my mate, turns out it was a BNP meeting :D

Got out of there pretty quickly, laughing all the way back to the hotel.
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Having been brought up in Nottingham, I know this to be the truth. Place is full of racist nutters and seems to be getting worse.
 
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