Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
I have walked/drank all over this fair city and many other and I was more in fear of getting mugged/assualted here in the 80's than I ever have been since.
In the late 70's I recall walking up the Old Kent Road to the river and no taxi would pick me up until I was on the embankment the other side but I never felt afraid or threatened even though it was 3 AM (I was a tad drunk lol)
I. like others, have been to some nasty places and in my personal list this is way down the bottom.

If it wasn't I'd never had considered bringing my foreign wife here. And she loves the place.
You make some very interesting points there, 'Snaggs, was the 70s and 80's more violent for young men? without looking at any evidence, in my experience, i'd agree. Violence back then seemed more acceptable, even in institutions and the education system, add domestically as well.