Reply With QuoteThere are luxury apartment buildings on Avenue D now. I lived on Avenue C about 10 years ago. It was fine. Wouldn't have ventured past Avenue A in the 90s though.Originally Posted by Whisperer
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Hull, Toxteth, Peckham, Harringay, Plaistow, North Philly, Chicago Southside, Detroit, East New York, the Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. But the worst and most scary place I have ever been to by far, is Juarez just over the Mexican border from El Paso.
There are luxury apartment buildings on Avenue D now. I lived on Avenue C about 10 years ago. It was fine. Wouldn't have ventured past Avenue A in the 90s though.
South Philly is not so bad. It's mostly Italian. North Philly is like a war zone.
I lived in Lyon. "Rough"? You're having a laugh. Undoubtedly one of the prettiest and friendliest places I've ever lived.
I'd go for Mexico City. When I was there a colleague, who posts on here occasionally, and I played guess the maximum distance between private security guards while driving through it. This was all set off by watching "Man on Fire". That one film put me off Mexico for life.
I wasn’t expecting thatThought it was going to be some Evil Kaneevl style stuntman trick.
Im surprised Sludge and his ilk haven’t got that video removed off YouTube.
I used to teach geography (of crime). Juarez was a case study of drug cartels' route in for the class A and firearms out to pay for them.....and how the cartels have divided up Mexico. Best avoid Juarez. All good geography mind and kept Yr 9 interested. Just needed to be careful with the teaching material. Beats "wheat from the prairies" any day for keeping interest up.
Businessmen from Libya.....Year 9/10 girls. You get the picture. Tunis reminded me of the film Casablanca. Right dodgy characters about.
I read that as "Thornhill"! Llanishen best avoided when I was a lad.I wasn’t expecting that
Im surprised Sludge and his ilk haven’t got that video removed off YouTube.
Livingston and tredegar
It's a sh*thole
I live in Tooting, unless nurses and doctors are now considered intimidating folk, I think it's moved on considerably.
From 89 - 97 A-B were okay you had to keep your wits about you but C & D were really heavy with the Hispanic and Caribbean drug gangs. I nearly got killed outside CBGB'S when a Puerto Rican pulled a gun on me in broad day light, I managed to run across the Bowery and got away from him to this day i thank my lucky stars.
Tooting is alright, spent a few months in that area working, some people are soft
I can still remember learning about the Chinook winds that blow across the Canadian prairies.
That's a fair point, lots of social problems in concentrated areas. I have a friend who married a psychologist who was from and previously practised in Philadelphia, working with all types. He got a job with Aneurin Bevan health trust, which serves the Rhymney Valleys and Gwent valleys. I was talking to him about the differences he has encountered while working in south wales, his reply was this ' You have these small communities where there are alot of social issues and drug and alcohol addiction, maybe 1500 people of which 600 are suffering with mental health' ' In Philly we have guns, thank **** you don't have them over here as half of the south wales valleys would be ****ing dead'!
It would reduce our obesity rates by a bit mind.That's a fair point, lots of social problems in concentrated areas. I have a friend who married a psychologist who was from and previously practised in Philadelphia, working with all types. He got a job with Aneurin Bevan health trust, which serves the Rhymney Valleys and Gwent valleys. I was talking to him about the differences he has encountered while working in south wales, his reply was this ' You have these small communities where there are alot of social issues and drug and alcohol addiction, maybe 1500 people of which 600 are suffering with mental health' ' In Philly we have guns, thank **** you don't have them over here as half of the south wales valleys would be ****ing dead'!
Their looking for new ideas and folk who think out of the box in the new government , I can see a spot for you in the new PHE managment think tank 😉
Easier to aim at-Bigger target? Imagine if fire arms were made legal in the UK? ****ing carnage on a summers evening in Tremorfa, No doubt.
Went out in Pontypridd in my youth. It was like being in a Wild West movie.
In my head I had more gun deaths, less fat people. Now thinking about I’m so wrong as the USA have loads of gun deaths but they’re still a nation of fat, lard arsed, wobbly ****ers.
To any citizens of the USA on here, please put your donuts down accept my apologies.
Tampa has some right hell-holes, we decided to go and eat at this Vegan place in Tampa, it was a fair old drive from Orlando, put the sat nav on, it took us to a right dodgy area, i stopped and asked at a gas station and was told " this is no place for tourists " , we never did find the place
Death squads for the homeless is another of my thoughts.
Not US or UK, but Bogata ( its south america, so maybe i can get away with that ) didnt look good, i met the guy i was doing business with, he drove me to his factory, beck to the hotel, he picked me up that evening to have a meal with his family and show me his cars, i then stayed in the hotel at the airport till my flight ( apart from a taxi ride to a mall ) i do regret not going to the nearby theme park which the hotel said was fairly safe
I know it's outside of the parameters of the thread, but on safari in the Masai Mara several years ago, we needed an armed guard on our 4x4 to protect us from rival warring tribes as we traveled across some disputed land.
Thankfully his services weren't needed.
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