To consider moving because kids found woman passed out on crack?

[DrugsWorry]

In the park earlier this week, my DS and some friends (all 7/8) found a man who was passed out on crack (he had a crack pipe, so it was crack).

We phoned an ambulance, dealt with it, told the kids a fib, but I am deeply freaked out by it and am even willing to consider moving house. Drug dealing is becoming more open and prevalent in our neighbourhood in London and I am increasingly feeling that I don’t want my kids growing up around it.

I’ve lived in London all my life and have never seen anything like this.

YABU = this is part of urban living, suck it up.
YANBU = get out of there.

You seem a little confused about this.

Sorry, typo in heading - man!

You'd be hard pushed to find anywhere with no drugs tbh.

I've lived in city centres and rural towns and there are problems in both. Obviously won't be as bad as in central London or other heavily populated areas but you'll never avoid it completely

So was it a man, or a woman? I know it doesn’t matter to the overall story but your title and your story don’t match.

anyways I think YABU . You’re living in a major city - you are now aware that these places come with unhappiness, crime and deprivation.

Not nice, but I'd not move house unless it was happening regularly in my street.

Are you sure you've lived in London your whole life?

What fib did you tell your kids and why?

It's some one who has had an accident whatever the cause, so no I don't think it's a reason to move

If you feel your neighbourhood is getting worse and you don't want to continue living there, for whatever reason, of course you should leave. There are, of course, drugs everywhere and you can find people passed out in the street wherever you go, but I've never seen what you describe in any of the parks in my small, home counties city.

Drugs are everywhere. Seaside and rural towns are often the worst. Yabu.

Whereabouts do you live?

Wait until you have a cannabis factory next door.

I live in a quiet Seaside Area and County Lines are flooding the place with drugs where there used to be none. Not just happening in London.

I grew up in inner London and witnessed all sorts. But I did view things differently when I had my own kids. A few incidents happening in a short space of time made me leave the area we lived in. A woman openly smoking heroin (well, chasing it on tin foil) outside my child’s nursery in the morning. Hearing a gun going off. Then witnessing a stabbing. I just thought ‘fuck this’ and we moved to a quieter suburb.

Its still London and shit does still happen. But it’s not quite so relentlessly in your face.

Shit happens everywhere, though, to be honest. My BF moved to rural Wales and it turns out there is a big drug problem where she lives and loads of youngsters on heroin and meth.

YABU. Unless this is a regular occurrence and there is a danger to your kids it's dramatic to move. Will you do this every time if it happens again at the new place?

I'd want to move too after something like that. I lived in London for a couple of years when i was younger, it's not somewhere I'd ever have had kids to start with TBH.

How are you going to know where to move to? Where are the data sets held about people passing out under the influence in the local area?

I'm not sure where you think you're going to move to in order to avoid seeing this type of behaviour. I live in a sleepy, low crime village and we've had very unsavoury behaviour by drug addicts opposite our children's play area. My DS has also had to call an ambulance for someone who was virtually comatose on the pavement under the influence of goodness knows what.
Drug addicts/dealers are everywhere - unless you're moving to the moon. Just educate your DC's.

I would want to move. Everywhere just seems to stink off weed round near us, even at parks and play areas, not good 😌

I'm shocked by some of these posts. Am certainly naive to situations like this. I don't live in London, we are way up north and I can honestly say in all my life I have never seen anyone openly taking drugs, passed out on drugs, people with knives or guns or anything like that. I must be really lucky but I am glad I'm not raising my kids in London from hearing these stories. I'd be fleeing very quickly!

Same we are not far south of the Scottish border can head into Newcastle by day and the kids won't see anything like this thread. Yes you might see a few discreet deals on a evening in the clubs/pubs. We live in an old mining town, yes certain area may have a drug problem but it's confined to sink estates not where you would choose to live. It isn't tolerated in the main areas of the town and it will be reported to the police who do act.

I don't see this where I live (Sussex town, not seaside) it certainly isn't every everywhere as pp suggests. I wouldn't want my dc to see this and if I were you, and able to move, I would. Its not perfect, but you don't have to accept crack heads passed out in the street as normal!

@Grumpybutfunny I'm glad it's not just me who is surprised. Im beginning to think I've led too much of a sheltered life! Not complaining mind.