Feeling less safe alone in daylight: is anyone else noticing this?

That's what I was thinking.

I grew up in a rural village there were a few ethic minorities I grew up with decades ago and they were just part of who we grew up with but hitting secondary in town about half the school was second and third generation asian - and quite few mix race and other ethnicties.

There are fewer ethic minorties in rural britain - partly as there's little work to move to but rural britain have access to cars, trains, planes and TV and internet - we are not completely cut off from the world outside of London.

Here there was an issue with a romanian gang and beggers pre covid - but since then it's mostly native born groups at leasts going by accents - that seem to cause most issues and often drug and alcohol related and petty crimes and assults are up in shopping area and police are reponding with more visible police.

I've no idea what OP area is like and if it's a perception or actual issue in her case or case of more people being more aggressive - which we saw post covid here but has died down pretty much completely now.

I haven’t but that’s not me trying to minimise how you’re feeling because how you feel is how you feel.
I live in an area, like many, where wealth rubs up against poverty. I’ve always just walked about living my life, happy walking about in the dark with big headphones on listening to a podcast. The majority of crimes reported on around here are drugs related and involve people in that world. It’s not my world, I keep myself to myself when out and about. I don’t look over my shoulder when I’m walking in the dark, I stride with confidence and crack on with my life.
As a mixed race woman in her 40’s I’ve come to learn I have a place in the world and I’m not letting any dickhead make me live in fear or cower in shadows or change my route without good bloody reason. I’m not scared.
But that’s because I’ve grown up needing a thick skin and maybe I’m now just a fully fledged thick skinned person who naively believes nothing will happen to them. And that’s okay with me.

You actually exposed it yourself, but there we go.😂

BEHOLD I AM UNMASKED(!)
You really cut deep there, man. I am shaking at the horrors of my clearly lacking moral fibre that you and you alone are exposing to the world.
NOW I AM SCARED TO GO OUT IN THE STREET!
Your work here is clearly done.
A real gotcha there.
HTH.

I haven't noticed any change but I don't live in a particularly affluent area. I always avoid men when alone, cross the street, go a different way etc. I would be more wary of older ones though, teenagers may look more dodgy but most are nice.
I also go the long way round if I think the creepy neighbour mighy be twatting about outside too.

You also seem unable to grasp the point I was making that people feel vulnerable as their bodies weaken and slow when they get old.

You are clearly utterly captured by your ideology if you jump to a conclusion that people's sense of vulnerability due the frailty of ageing is the fault of Reform's PR machine 😂😂

Ok then, you do you boo.

I was replying to a post about a women who was retired and scared to go out alone. FGS 😂

You can click a button to see the whole thread of the post you are reply to, you know.

I am obviously not hanging about where men who like wearing balaclavas and all black go to film their social media posts. If you see them everywhere you go then maybe that is why you see them as more of an issue than the ones that were near me that I see as an issue.

They are all men. That is the long and short of it. Angry men with nothing mind other than violence. That is the issue.

Reform didn't exist then, so I don't see how that would be relevant. I know it must disappoint you to realise that Reform are not behind every fear that everyone in the UK has had in their life. I'll give you a moment to recover yourself.

You might also want to ask someone to explain to you that the Good Law Project are a complete crap organisation of politically motivated incompetents who keep losing court cases.

You might want to explain to them that Reform and other right wing parties deliberately distort figures to push their narrative that crime is getting worse, when in reality it is going down across the board https://goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statistics-and-fringe-beliefs-the-groups-behind-reforms-anti-migrant-agenda/

The OP is only in her 40 FGS 😂

I don't think this is uncommon for older people.

About two decades ago I did focus groups with older people and it was a revelation to me how vulnerable they felt. They know that they are not physically able even to run away from danger let alone fight anyone off. The people I spoke to were predominantly living in poorer areas. They were very conscious of how vulnerable they were and most of them certainly did not go out when it was dark anymore because of this.

I don't think this is uncommon for older people.

About two decades ago I did focus groups with older people and it was a revelation to me how vulnerable they felt. They know that they are not physically able even to run away from danger let alone fight anyone off. The people I spoke to were predominantly living in poorer areas. They were very conscious of how vulnerable they were and most of them certainly did not go out when it was dark anymore because of this.

Oh my goodness. What a reply. The person who is fake news-ing is you. If something does not fit your political narrative, you just have to deny it happened.

I have been the woman being screamed at and intimidated and threatened by these men. I have been there at our meetings with these masked men threatening us. I have many friends who have been at these events throughout the country. Yes it did happen. Look it up. All well documented.

Deny it if you want. But don't have the hypocrisy to accuse others of creating fake news if you do.

I don't think this is uncommon for older people.

About two decades ago I did focus groups with older people and it was a revelation to me how vulnerable they felt. They know that they are not physically able even to run away from danger let alone fight anyone off. The people I spoke to were predominantly living in poorer areas. They were very conscious of how vulnerable they were and most of them certainly did not go out when it was dark anymore because of this.

But where on earth do you live that you feel so unsafe? (I mean, approximately, I don't mean you need to give your address!)

Too dangerous? Can you say some more about that? Where do you live that you can’t go out?

I'm retired so there is no need, I don't have to leave the house for work, if I want to go out DH will come with me, it's not like the old days when you had to go to the bank and shops

I have never seen a large group of men other than the ones who came in their hundreds to my area a few weeks ago. I am not on social media with all of it's fake news, so maybe that's what the issue is.

We have a lot of young thugs, I never go out alone though as it is too dangerous.