[Closed] Where's the roughest place you've ever lived?

i was born in wood green london, ,moved to bermondsey and then to enfield 🙂

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!

quite a few shooting when i lived in bosnia for two years. There was a war going on to be fair to the place 🙂

I have been realy lucky and never lived in a bad place, just places I did not like

I live in Belfast

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!

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.

Did most of my growing up in Leigh Park. Pretty rough.
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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!

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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.

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!

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)

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.

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

Middlesbrough. I win.

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.

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Johannesburg was a bit interesting........

Lived in the Dam for 6 month's too! "interesting"

Say no more sparky that's enough to give me nightmare's!

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!

Huyton, Liverpool.

DrRS****...thanks for that, never had 12yo single malt come out of my nose before 😆

I'm from Kirkby in Liverpool. Don't live there now. Think it beats FoxyChicks' Huyton! 😉

2 years in Kensington whilst at uni. Unfortunately that's Kensington Liverpool not Kensington London!

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.

brought up in fallowfield, manchester also lived in Wavertree in Liverpool for a while whilst my girlfriend, now wife was at uni.

Outskirts of London town. Glad to get away.

Chappletown in Leeds was an interesting place to live for a year in the early 90's 🙂

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.

Chelsea SW3, still get me down.

Arlesey.

Rawtenstall!

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.

Lived in Harehills for a few years, got used to the police helicopter after a while!

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.

Stockton-on-tees

Nuff said

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!

I lived in a small Hampshire town for three years. Three murders in that time - one a contract killing! Who'd have thought it.

Nico - Member
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??

huyton and kirkby are not as bad as they were 20 years ago ...lot worse places on merseyside

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)

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

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...

Interesting. Carry on.

did a stint as a weapon holder in somalia...ok made that one up.

Grew up just off Princess Road in Toxteth, it was pretty bad in the 70's and 80's!!

Umm I lived in Gloucester, that in itself was bad enough as its the city that evolution forgot.
But I was living on Cromwell Street.. while this little lot was going on 😯
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[i]Grew up just off Princess Road in Toxteth, it was pretty bad in the 70's and 80's!! [/i]

We lived in a flat for a year on Princess road. We would see at least one crime a night I reckon, 365 days a year. Ones that were visited on us were as follows:-

My car got stolen, twice.

Group of lads kicked the front door in and ransacked the ground floor flats. I heard the noise and ran downstairs with a big knife which made them run off. I found the only resident who was in cowering in the hall cupboard holding a knife.

Young woman smarmed her way in by lying to one of the ground floor tenants and then went completely ape, started smashing the place up, again I heard the noise, ran downstairs and she took one look at me and ran full tilt into the front door (which was closed), smashed the glass and nearly knocked herself out.

A bloke asked me for a light when I was walking down the street, when I put my hand in my pocket for the lighter he pushed me over and tried to go through my pockets, I fought him off but he didn't give up easy.

I was stood at a public phone (one of the open ones) making a call and a car pulls up behind me with the music blaring out. I turned round and asked them to turn it down so they turned it up even louder and one chap got out and pulled his jacket open to show he had a gun on a holster.

And all this less than 200 yards from Ringo Starr's birthplace.

Great wasn't it...

Born and brought up between shepherds bush and Notting hill. May not sound nasty, but this was the 70's and 80's before it really went downhill and the wealthy moved in.

I lived in Walthamstow in the early 90's for 6 months - it was an absolute toilet

Lived in Hyde Park in Leeds for a while when I was a student. Wasn't really that bad although there was quite a few nasty incidents - none that I was personally involved in though.

Also used to regularly DJ at the club in Manchester where Damian Noonan got shot working the door - and various other fairly dodgy dnb club nights.

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)

I commute to work in Salford (through the really sh1te areas - Langworthy, Weaste and Ordsall. Interesting at times.

Best tale I heard was from a mate who is a cop in Salford - During the Commonwealth Games in Manchester a lad in his late teens who was mad about athletics, left his home in some remote area of the highlands with a few quid and a ticket for the games. He hitched all the way from the arse end of nowhere without incident and was eventually dropped off by a lorry driver on the East Lancs Rd early on a week day morning. Within 5 minutes, a car load of scrotes jumped the poor sod, and took everything -bag, cash, phone, tickets for the games - even his shoes and coat!!!

To be fair though, if he'd have managed to actually get to Manchester he'd only have got shot or raped.

Lived in Moss side for a year with the missus, admittedly not in the worst bits but I actually liked it round there as there weren't many teenagers hanging around on the streets and the location is great

got more hassle living in Bolton tbh

High Wycombe. Until you've actually been there it sounds a nice town full of professional people, nestling in the hills.
It's actually full of scrotes and the corner shop next to us featured both a decapitation (with axe) and a shooting.

Spent a many years in the 'mean streets' of NW6/NW10 - plenty of trouble if you wanted it but great sense of community.
Also lived in Canning Town, and that was proper 'old school' random violence nasty.......

hmmmmm, some of the above makde me think twice about posting, for fear of being mocked as a big girls blouse......

worst place i lived was Bedford Road, Aberdeen. The place is bad enough that an author uses my road (almost certain the description of the flat where the burnt/mutilated body of a drug dealer is found is the one i lived in) as the setting for the start of one of his novels.(Stewart Macbride if anyone is interested - kinda like a gorier Ian Rankin)

i grew up in angel town in brixton from 87 till 92 then i moved walworth east street estate 92-96 then south norwood 96-00 then new addington 00-present

all quite rough in my opinion but it "home" to me!!

Samuri - you sound like a bit of a trouble magnet.

Worked in Kirkby for 10 years. We were starting a business in a disused building and were talking to bankers etc on site. Suddenly a big black SAAB pulls up and four BIG black guys got out, leaving one in the driving seat. Main man asked what we were doing and if we'd got insurance. We told him that we were fixing it up. He said no need to bother. £200 per week in readies would see us covered. We paid.

Three months later there was a fire and attempted break in at the back of the building. We told the "insurance" collector. Two nights later a couple of lads were found with broken legs, and we were told that the matter had been "sorted".

Don't work there any more.

voodoo-chile...I lived in Huyton in 1983-4, when I was a student. The campus of my college was there.
Then moved to Old Swan, and then Kensington.
Believe me, Huyton was rough.
We had a fresher's ball, and the local scallies decided to "attack" the college. We ended up locked inside, with riot police complete with dogs etc.
Oh, what happy days!
The 5 and 6 yr old scallies regularly broke into our halls of residents and stole stuff.
Several of my friends were attacked and beaten up on campus at night.
Having said that, I had friends who lived in Toxteth at the same time!

A bit of a culture shock, having been brought up in Windermere! 8)

Used to live in Dalston on Parkholme Road a little oasis in a grim place. Used to regularly hear gun shots. Used to cycle to Canary Wharf and going through Hackney was the only place I have ever been racialy abused. Always lots to see though great place to live.

City centre of Glasgow was pretty shitty with dozens of folks killed or cut up badly outside my flat. Got quite used to stepping over police tape and I'm sure the body count was over was in double figures the last year I lived there.

My next door neighbour from year 1 is still on the run after being caught with guns and a few kilos.

Goan, lived not far from there myself (Just off Hawthorn Street next to the Police station) Was a bit of a sh1t hole.
Also lived between London Bridge and Bermondsey in London for a bit. Stayed in a nice flat just behind City Hall (on corner of Great Tower St and Tanner St) but about 10-15 mins walk took you into some really rough areas.
Live now in a place called Airdrie (Buckfast Capital of the World). In a nice bit now, but again some really scary places not more than 10 mins walk

Had a year in Wealdstone. I used to see rats running down the town high street in a morning - they were darting out from the bins left out on the street by the 15-odd takeaways. Why is it your typical urban town centre high street only seems to have takeaways, estate agents, mini-grocers and taxi ranks?

[i]Samuri - you sound like a bit of a trouble magnet. [/i]

If only I had the same magnetic qualities with fannys.

Shelton in Stoke on Trent a true british shitter! 4 years was more than enough! back to the lake district for me!

I grew up In Seacroft, Leeds then moved to Armley! Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire!

[i]Had a friend in Wheatley hill, the council had condemmed his front room. It was propped up with jacks, had been for two years.[/i]
It wasn't Ger B was it Fozzyuk? He 'converted' the loft of his council house but forgot to tell the council!

near me twohats

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. 😉

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.

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.

Either the wrong end of Oldham in the early 1990's or Newton Heath in Manchester (around the same time).

mi©k - Member

near me twohats

Not anymore, unless you live in Sweden!

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.

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.

no mate in whinmoor swarcliffe now was in norway for a while not too far away lol not rough tho 🙂