To ask how ‘rough’ is this rough area?

On top of this, kids will graffiti. Pick your battles. Phone rspca for the dogs. Phone the police for your wipers. Get a backbone and stop accepting this.

Sounds shitty if I'm honest. I don't think it says anything about area, just the flats you live in. I come from a very deprived town. I'd see all that and more in my town. But the town was poor. So shitty behaviours at school. Shitty patenting. Shitty people. I feel perfectly safe there when I go home as to me, its very normal ( or was, I can slip back into that mode).

But honestly it's grim to think to that could ever be OK or good or aspirational or normal. I live in one the most desirable areas in England now. It's like two different countries 80 miles apart. There's no hard man dog breeds here, no open drug use and dealing on streets, no parents pushing prams swigging from cans of Stella before midday. I'm so glad my kids don't have to grow up where I did. It's done me no harm but my parents weren't the druggies drinking during the day due to abject poverty with a pit bull.

Location, location, location.

Margate seafront and town centre has gentrified, lots of Londoners who’ve brought London money in; but there’s still quite a lot of deprivation once you walk a few minutes further back. It’s not surprising: there’s not a lot in the way of decent employment opportunity in the area, and trains to London are extortionate even by South East standards. I like it to visit, but I think there’s a certain kind of hopelessness and lostness among many people there which you don’t get even in deprived parts of London.

where Is it?

I'm from a traditionally rough area and this sounds pretty bad to me.

My closest Waitrose is 28 miles away, but we have 2 Aldi's 😂

Years ago, when I worked in social housing, we were given health and safety training on how to walk down stairs without using the handrails, as used needles were often taped underneath them on certain properties.

No they don't. It hasn't been called this for many years which is why I think the OP is talking a load of made up rubbish

Morrisons?? How posh are you? It's Co-op all the way in Margate, surely. And not the smart grey co-ops, either, the smelly blue ones.

Haven’t read the entire thread but I’m assuming you live in a council block of flats? If so, me too. Although I’m not dealing with quite the level of what you are, for example the asking for money is out of order. Anything outside of that, noise, drug use, parties etc you need thick skin and jump down their throats quickly. My downstairs neighbour now knows not to have 3 day long benders with his twatty mates as I cause an absolute scene. Don’t be embarrassed to cause a scene, promise they scuttle back and respect boundaries after that. Failing that, police and council with everything recorded.

It sounds rough. When you walk to the local shop though, is there so much broken class underfoot that it crunches as you walk? And is there razor wire all around the top of the shops and boarded windows, and are there banned dog breeds on chains all over the place? If not, then it could be rougher! (If that is any good to you)

You mean there is no Waitrose???? (faints).

Not a new problem. In 2008 ish I lived in a flat on a council estate, the properties were being rewired the tools kept getting nicked. Car got massive scratch on roof as I parked in the wrong place. Next door upstairs used to play music full blast with all the windows open at 3am. Drivers used to do doughnut turns on the junction, frequent drug raids directly opposite, fireworks in dustbins. People hiding from the police outside the kitchen window. Neighbour upstairs had laminate floor and animals. He'd go out and leave them with balls to play with. I lasted 18 months before I escaped not sure how I lasted that long really.

Obviously the local Morrisons is shut so she's only left with Greggs, probably malnourished

People still call it "the dole"?

Margate is supposed to have been on the up for several years though?!

Sounds like the Jasmine Allen from The Bill!! Very rough.

OP is a lack of proper food making you feel strange? Your threads are...odd.

I think you know the answer, OP. Not sure what you’re really hoping to get here other than encouraging PPs to join you in mocking the poor and then get attacked for doing so?

For the OP's privacy and data protection, they should not reveal the exact area they are discussing here in a public forum as no one in the right mind should divulge sensitive info.

Wether you want them to or not, so your request for them to do so is more than unreasonable, its down right irresponsible.

I thought Margate was posh now and artistic but too expensive for the artists so they live close by!!! Is the TV lying to me?????

just the tip of the iceberg