To ask how multicultural is the area you live in?

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I'm seriously considering moving out of london, I'm mixed race and also have to DS's who are due to go onto secondary school in a couple of years.
With all the knife crime and violence going on I'm terrified they will get caught up in it all once they get a little older.

So I would like to get some information on where would be good to move to. I know it sounds awful, but I don't want them to be the only black child in the class as I do want them to have people around them who they cam also relate too, so where do you live and is it multicultural?

I know it sounds awful, but I don't want them to be the only black child in the class

Why do you think this sounds awful? It's perfectly understandable.

Not Norfolk then.

try a certain town near gatwick, very muticultral and diverse.

Most other large cities will be fairly multicultural. Birmingham in particular could be good but you would also have some of the same problems there such as knife crime.
Manchester is great but obviously a huge move north for you.
Brighton?

I live in South Manchester in Sale - it's very white here (95% according to Wikipedia), but there are plenty of parts of Manchester where that's not the case! Leeds is much more multicultural in my experience, if you still want a city.

@romeolovedjulliet

try a certain town near gatwick, very muticultral and diverse.

Why can't you say the name?

Bedford is very multicultural also Hitchin.

Where in London are you OP?

I live in what I believe to be one of the last bastions of multicultural, safe and (by London standards) affordable boroughs, although I feel like this is being threatened by the borough next door, which is incredibly hard hit by gang violence. A university once mapped the territory of the borough by gang - the results astounded me.

Ultimately I don't think just moving somewhere else would fix your issues. We've seen drug abuse move more and more into the suburbs and countryside, and inevitably the crime will follow that.

North Hampshire. Lots of Indian, Polish and Nepalese families in the area.

We're a biracial family living in East Reading (University area). It's relatively diverse in our area.

I used to live in London too and racial diversity is something that I'm very aware of.

I've felt quite safe in Reading even though my kids and I have received more racist shouting this year, overall I don't think it's any worse than anything I've experienced in my life here in the UK. It's not London, but it's ok.

With regards to school, there's quite a lot of choice here - we're on the edge of Reading Borough so we also have access to Wokingham Borough schools, both primary and secondary.

Not county Durham. My locality is probably the most multicultural in the whole county and it's still predominantly white and English.

Without moving to the other ends of the countries, there are lots of very diverse of towns & cities within say about say 5-50 miles of London, i.e. Watford [presumably too 'London'], Croydon [only joking], Luton [ditto], Reading, Milton Keynes, uh, Northampton, Slough, and so on, maybe Brighton too...

Plus of course larger cities further away, e.g. Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Nottingham, most of the West Midlands urban area, Bristol, etc.

Cambridge is extremely multicultural I think. But it hasn't got a particularly big black population, so could be hit and miss on the schools.

I had a friend in a similar situation to yours who looked for towns/cities within commuting distance of London, with a university.
Higher Education attracts a more diverse population of staff and students. I live in a town near a uni town and we have a 95% white population. The uni town is much more of an ethnic mix.

I would guess that most cities and large towns will be fairly multicultural.

I live in a village, it’s almost 100% white.
My DC are in primary school, spread across the key stages. When I went to the Christmas shows last year I could have counted the number of non- white children in the whole school on less than the fingers of one hand.

I'm in a town in the west of scotland and its white than white. There are a couple indian families, couple black families and a couple middle eastern families and then there are a couple thousand white people.

Were South of Bristol but it's almost totally white British, but you would still be welcomed here

Very rural here. The school is 100% white. AFAIK the village is 100% white too. But this is the sort of place if you originally came from the next village you aren’t local.

West Reading is fairly diverse too.

Not Oxfordshire but oxford itself and Cherwell might be a bit more mixed

Waves to @rsababe I agree, West Reading is ace for multiculturalism. Think of a nationality and there is a supermarket, cafe or restaurant. In my road neighbours are Portuguese, Jamaican, Eastern and Central European, Bangladeshi and Somalian. It's a fabulous place to live.

I live in Northumberland, it’s VERY white. Newcastle is a bit better, being a city, but not as diverse as a lot of other cities tbh.

Not Norfolk as someone else said.
My DD only went to senior school here, it was overwhelmingly white British. A few Eastern European people and a handful of BAME pupils.
She was surprised

Thank you for the replies. I've been looking at Cambridge as I do have some family there I definitely don't want to go to far north or to any major cities like Birmingham as I know they can be just as bad.

@ClaudiaWankleman I'm in south london and it just seems to be getting worse by the day. I never really wanted my dc to grow up in London due to all the gangs and violence, so if I'm going to go now had to be the best time before they go into year 6 and then onto secondary.

I grew up in rural Wales and the first time I met anyone not white was when I went to university....
I'm now Cheshire which isn't quite as bad but you dont really see much diversity. More so with students (big student population) but no so much with adults/families