Is where you live safe?

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I keep thinking about safety in our local area and it feels pretty dire.

We have muggings, stabbings and burglaries often. It makes me so uncomfortable raising my child here.

We are considering moving but no idea where. We currently live in Essex but I work in London so need to be able to get into London but I have a colleague who commutes in from Birmingham so it shows it's manageable.

Is your area safe and where (roughly) is it please.

I live Notts/Derby border in a working class town, but feel very safe with not much crime. The odd idiot might do something, but you can't go through life without meeting an idiot. It's probably too far to get to London tho - sorry.

I might live in the same town, if it’s where a particular sport was invented.
I‘m not originally from this town, but I feel
perfectly safe here.

North Herts I feel fairly safe but I was harassed in a park near my home a couple years ago, guy was of his head on drugs and wouldn't go away, I had to ask someone for help as I was beginning to panic, he told me he was going to go and get a gun and shoot me for rejecting him. There was also a stabbing last week which apparently was down to someone with MH issues and I also read someone nearby had been threatened with a knife. It is a nice area and not cheap but seems to be having a lot of crime, whenever the police announce they've caught criminals they are always from another area

Bournemouth. There are some dodgy areas and a few scummy scammers lurking about asking for petrol money but mostly it’s fine. I don’t worry about getting murdered when out for a run or anything. However the way people in our local FB talk about it you’d think it was New York circa 1980.

However the way people in our local FB talk about it you’d think it was New York circa 1980.

All local FB groups are like this. I live in Rugby, and you’d think it was south central LA not a pleasant market town in Warwickshire.

No Sports as far as I'm aware but a crime rate of between 85-90 per 1000 making it very high on the dangerous places to live list.

Not Rugby then!

VERY safe. Small village in Glos. People here commute to London.

I'm in Devon. Extremely safe.

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I live in Dagenham and it's getting much worse here and in the surrounding areas.

Only last week someone was stabbed in the back in the Liberty shopping centre weren't they? In the bloody afternoon too!

Another 8 years till we retire to the small, quiet seaside village we've got our eye on.

Small city in the South. 1 hour by train to Central London. Very safe and green here but very expensive housing, London prices near enough.

I’ve lived in central London, Paris & Dublin. London was very safe (25 years ago), Paris always had a frisson, more than anything. Dublin city centre, loved it. Wouldn’t live there now! Living in the suburbs, now we have a child. It’s nice.

I live in the Shropshire hills
Used to live in a big city and it feels very safe here

Where I live is not "vibrant" so therefore is relatively safe. Although there's lots of developments on the edge of the village - 150 properties here, 200 properties there - so it's getting more urban, which means more traffic, more graffiti, more London overspill. Give it 5 years and it will be a shithole like everywhere else. Mustn't grumble of course, that's not allowed.

As safe as anywhere can be, I think. Rural Hampshire.

We've lived here 13 years and in that time there have been two recorded violent crimes.
One was two old ladies having a shoving match over a fence, and the other was nastier, a man who threw his girlfriend against a brick gate pier causing a head injury.
Other than that, we have some speeding, aggressive driving & graffiti. But generally we feel very safe.

We're in a seaside town (south coast). There's a drug problem, quite a bit of antisocial behaviour, burglaries, car crime, assaults etc according to local Police on fb. Someone tried to break into my car.

I don't feel unsafe, but it's not the sort of place you'd leave your doors unlocked or windows open if you go out.

@khw666 I reckon we live in the same town or you may live up the road in my towns rival town :) you know what I’m saying.

I live inbetween Salford & Bolton and it's so rough down here. Police zoom past my house every single night with their sirens blaring, not many muggings round here but a lot of stabbings,

Few years ago there was an issue with guns and the street next to mine had a bullet put through their window.

Theres frequent fights on my street too, never the same people either!

I live in a small South West coastal town, not affluent or a posh holiday spot but it feels very safe to me. I live alone & I am very comfortable walking my dog late at night or walking home from a night out without the dog. I am from London originally, where I grew up & worked until my 30s and consider myself to be confident & streetwise though. May feel less confident in London now as it no longer feels like home.
My town would be no good for a commute to London though, no railway station & bus services keep being cut on a regular basis.

This is the same for me bar the young kids. In the 30+ years I've lived here, I've only ever seen one crime on the street which was a bag snatch. But, as said by a pp, you'd think it was a war zone from the local Nextdoor. There is definitely crime but much of it is youth on youth and gang related. I resent "outsiders" labelling all of London as unsafe but, of course, it depends on personal experience

Very safe, live in a small village in the SW, some occasional issues with boy racers on the main street. But I have happily walked around the lanes by myself after dark. 20 mins to the train station and hour and 30mins to London by train.

Very safe. Latest crime statistics are from
December 2023 and within a one mile radius of my home. Only one crime in the whole month.

Very safe but I'm not in the UK.

Medium size town, haven't locked the house or taken my car keys out of the ignition for years. Children as young as 5 walk or ride their bikes to school alone. It's a very attractive tourist town and petty crime picks up over peak tourist season so we tend to be a little more vigilant with our bikes etc that are usually just left unlocked outside our front door. The downside is that it's a town full of multi million dollar homes. Most of the locals are getting priced out as more and more holiday homes keep getting built. We won't be able to be here for much longer due to rent costs which is a shame because it's wonderful feeling so safe.

Yes. Live abroad

It's quiet, calm and safe. Love it.

Yes, it’s very safe. We’re in rural Devon. I do actually commute to London but not daily and likely too far for you. We did have some some rogue sheep in the garden the other day though.