Rush said:
By Flops
South East London conjures up graphic gangster terrain and more !! it is not where you live, but which places to avoid and these no go areas become bigger and bigger up to the point where tentacles of hate , greed and profit spread to neighbourhoods..
Oh dear dear dear, methinks some peeps read too much Daily Mail
As far as I know, there are no no-go areas where I live. Also none in SW London, which takes in Brixton, Clapham & Wandsworth.
In fact, if you look at crime figures relating to population per square mile, London is actually very low on the crime scale. London has a big population, we're crammed in like sardines here. But it's lively, it's cosmopolitan, it's buzzing.
We all manage to get on with each other for the most part, we bloody well have to really.
There is more violent crime in the outlying towns, Aldershot, Basingstoke, Worthing, Winchester, Dorking, wherever.
It's probably because they're bored, them towns are dead
I would rather walk the back streets of Woolwich or Brixton than many other major UK towns, it really ain't so bad.
If anything, I feel safer now than I did in the seventies, I do have a couple of stories from back then when I was actually threatened, and both of those threatenings constituted racism.
That just don't seem to happen so much anymore, it really doesn't. The West Indian immigrants from the 50's & 60's are now third and fourth generation and very very British. They have integrated. Same goes for all the Indian and Pakistani origin people here.
Whatever, I'm wandering off subject and making this a race thing, which it shouldn't be, really, sorry, just thinking out loud.
Now, where was I?
