to think Brighton isn't safe?

[Almondmilk]

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Norway still has crime, assaults, murder trial this month from a brief look at a Norwegian news website. unless your going to live on a island on your own you will live somewhere where crime occurrs.

I lived in Peacehaven briefly a few years ago. Liberals and lefties are incredibly thin on the ground there

If you are going to discount any city as a potential home on the basis of a single crime I think you are never going to find anywhere to live (particularly if you are going to include crimes which don't even happen in that city!) You'll be 80 and still handwringing about what to do! (It doesn't take much sleuthing to see that you have been asking where to live for some time on this forum!)

I used to live in Brighton, didn't feel particularly unsafe compared to other places.
When I was a high-school student in another country, 5 pupils were killed in front of the school gate by a mentally unstable man.
When I was in Uni, I witnessed a man being arrested holding a gun to shoot himself in a local mall.
Now I live in a sleepy small town in England, and one of teacher in my dc's school had been assaulted at the pub one weekend.

I think you need to look further into the leafy British countryside. Midsomer Common is lovely, as is St Mary Mead.

It is a one off crime in a usually sedate residential area. Hence why it sticks out. Brighton itself (a good 10-15 drive away) has had its share of issues over the years - often football or motorbike gangs on a bank holiday related.

You won't find any towns or cities in the UK with no crime. Simple as that.

I've read those Jo Nesbo books. I'm never moving to Norway.

There's no denying that overall violent crime (crime in general) is higher in the UK than in Norway.

www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Norway/United-Kingdom/Crime/Violent-crime (beware, this data is quite old)

But it makes no sense to look at specific examples and then try to estimate what radius around that specific example would be safe or unsafe to live in.

What you are posting is ridiculous. It's a different place to Brighton. And so? Even if it was in Brighton, so what? These things happen everywhere.

Best you stay where you are and don't move!!

I think you need to look at Norwegian news websites a bit more closely.

I live near a lovely leafy town, high employment, supersafe - we still have the armed response unit called out a few times a year.

Nowhere has no crime.

YouWouldnt - excellent tips there.

I work in Brighton regularly, it seems safe enough. My only real observation is there are a lot of young people mulling around during the day. Not sure if they are unemployed or tourists.

Used to live in Brighton, and never felt particularly unsafe. There's always quite a lot going on, so there tends to be a lot of people about, which actually makes things safer at night. It's a great place to live - especially in the summer. I rather miss it.

I recently moved from central London to Brighton and must confess that I'm not sure if I do feel safe, something I always felt in London. (I've always lived in London, and grew up in the 80s with IRA bombings and other such happenings.)

Two lads stabbed each other just the other week outside the local shopping centre, and I'm way more worried about being burgled because that's always being mentioned somewhere or another. I'll admit that I'm worried about Pride too as it's the largest of it's kind, and something I can imagine ISIS targeting.

However I think the fact I read the local paper and am a member of several Brighton FB groups that makes me way more aware of this stuff. I should probably stop for a happier and less anxious life! And maybe it's also part of the recourse of living in a much smaller town, I'm just more aware there's nowhere to hide from this stuff, unlike in London where I felt far more cosseted.

If you are going to Google assaults in towns/Cities that you are planning to move to them you are not going to find anywhere.

Even the Shetland Islands have had assaults

So you come across an article about a crime and declare places unsafe? Stop it, it is hysterical and ridiculous.

TrueBlueYorkshire they're usually school parties of tourists

I live in a small town a few miles North of Brighton. No violent crime recently, but someobody did break into the cricket club and steal some stuff. Better cross us off your list too.

Peacehaven isn't Brighton. Heck, even Hove isn't technically Brighton, and it's barely possible to tell where Brighton ends and Hove begins. Hve you looked at Hove? V posh and v lovely. Still Lefty and liberal, though, so it might offend you.

I agree with Youwoulddn'tletitlie. Midsommer is lovely.
Pansy - those Jo Nesbo books are scary.

This again OP?

I mean this kindly, but I really think you need help for your anxiety.

This has been going on a long while and no matter how many times you post about this sort of thing, it seems the replies aren't really helping you are they?

Almondmilk - nowhere is 100 % 'safe'. Some years ago there was a tragic story of a teenaged girl who was abducted and killed. The family had moved from a big city to the countryside assuming it would be safer for their children. I was incredulous to see that it had happened in a tiny Shropshire hamlet I know well, barely on the map. I still feel for the parents who, in trying to protect their family, happened to move near to a disturbed man.

Have you been to Peacehaven? It's VERY different to Brighton!

By the same logic Shoreham is very close to Brighton. Have you scoured the papers for wrongdoings there?

Havoc is Hassoks?
Looting in Lewis?
Shenanigans in Shoreham?