To ask how ‘rough’ is this rough area?

Sounds like an absolute nightmare.

I would not want to spend a day of my life in that environment.

Do you have the means to leave?

That's my idea of really rough. No way would I live there.

Crikey - I added my last comment before seeing you'd posted this and have inadvertently confirmed your thoughts!

A friend of mine has a holiday home in Westgate on Sea and it's lovely there. I'd heard that Margate was "up and coming" so went for a weekend.

Let's just say I'll stay in Westgate next time! It might have a few nice restaurants in Margate but the overall feel of the place is still really run down. It needs a lot more money spending on it.

We also went to Great Yarmouth a few years back. In season I think it's OK, but out of season, when we went, there were a load of high/drunk people kicking off on the seafront.

As lovely as the seaside is, it can have the worst deprivation in the country I think, due to them only being part time economies.

Ha! I was thinking Cliftonville.

Sounds very like my area, with the exception of the dead heroin addict (so far as I know!). Just in my block and the immediate vicinity we have/have had:

• a known (convicted of a very serious offence) paedophile
• multiple drug dealers/users in our block
• keyed cars (suspected revenge for a drug debt)
• several prostitutes regularly in the square directly behind our block
• loud music/screaming rows/police visits are all regular occurrences
• a LOT of homeless people, beggars and drug dealers/users in the streets around the block and the park directly next to it - the park has half a dozen tents where homeless people live and you can't walk five mins to the local shop without getting hassled for money
• vomit in the stairwell
• homeless people setting up camp in the doorway - I have tripped over them before
• most of the neighbours I know well enough to talk to seem to be on UC and PIP

BUT it's cheap and very very central in a brilliant city with lots going on in terms of gigs, shows, events etc so I'm pretty happy overall! I'd be looking to escape if it was a 'faded seaside town' 😬

(No judgement intended of most of the people mentioned above btw, I lay the blame for much of it squarely at the previous government's door - just giving a flavour of my area!)

I had a feeling it would be somewhere in Thanet. It was my dream to retire to the seaside, but soon turned into a nightmare. Largely due to Lovetts, tbh. I'm sorry, OP.

@Gaz98 No. Not quite that bad

Unfortunately most places now have those kind of things going on. Drugs are everywhere and if you don't think they are in your area you are very much mistaken. Same goes for sex workers, dogs, people on benefits. I live in what people would class a nice village but there are several known drug dealers that don't bother hiding what they do.

Hmm. There are two threads running about crap towns. The other is about Wigan. Both started by new or newly name changed posters. Very odd.

I’m getting my badge of ‘street smarts’ and thick skin organised as we speak. I’ll meet you outside the local whetherspoons and we’ll have it out there.

You wanna fight down the precinct?

And remember, I live in a council owned block of flats! What makes you shiver and clutch your pearls doesn’t make me shiver or clutch my pearls! Peace to you old lady!

Like mine? Careful now lady, you’re starting to come across as desperate for a badge of honour of some sort. We get it, you’re a lovely and accepting person of all things online. I’m not. Understand that.

I thought Margate was meant to be up and coming, a cheaper version of Brighton for Bohemian types etc? Maybe not?

It doesn't sound pleasant to me. Do you feel safe, OP?

I used to give in a large block of flats, which were owned. It was in a rougher area and there were a few I wouldn't choose to engage with or give a wide birth, but so glad I didn't have to deal with what you do. From what I can gather, the main problem with Council flats around here is people letting their pets out in the corridor to toilet.

Oh no.

Not brilliant is clearly code for fucking dive, op.

Maybe that counts as washing clothes for them?

Very good.
I was wondering what was leading OP to specifically ask this.

stop judging

The irony, seriously. She’s on a discussion form discussing her living arrangements, it’s a totally normal thing to want to discuss. One of the reasons I think people must make posts like yours is for attention.

It sounds scary. I wouldn't care about the prostitute but the other people could be really nasty and violent. I hope not of course.

Why did you move there? Perhaps I shouldn't ask that, op.

A couple I know, 30s with a 5 year old, bought a flat in a 'rough' area a few years ago because it was all they could afford. They are on the edge of a really nice area but the prices put them off. However where they live is nowhere near as bad as you describe and they will move in time. I would be scared to live somewhere like that, I have to feel safe.

Op,if you are still young, it's not forever. Just be careful.