EVERYONE is a drug dealer

[CommonOrNot]

Bear with me…

I have name changed for this for seemingly obvious reasons. Yesterday, I was at the hairdressers getting my usual weekly services chatting as usual to my hairdresser - who every single week I’m there is dating a new drug dealer. She is very much a “glam” type. Neither of these things are uncommon in my city.

She then turns to the woman next to me and starts chatting about said woman’s partner and when he’s going to be on day release from prison and how he’s getting XYZ done cosmetically but it’s ok because the prison thinks he has a business so the money won’t be from dealing. (In other words, he’s still very much running an enterprise from behind bars). Again not uncommon in my area.

it got me thinking, in my city almost everyone has some sort of connection to dealing drugs. at all levels. I’m not exaggerating, I can’t think of a single person that doesn’t either deal themselves or is close friends with someone who does. All the women are dressed head to toe in designer, surgery, etc. the males have big cars, watches, designer clothes. It’s quite rare to see anyone under 30 without this aesthetic.

the 35+ generation maybe not so much but I would say all people I know in this age bracket absolutely have ties to someone who is a dealer.

before anyone comments that people may have the money for this aesthetic through legitimate reasons, I myself have a “flash” car, designer clothes, cosmetic procedures etc. but through running businesses and my partner being a well payed professional. I’m talking specifically about people that I know are dealers, and when I was thinking about it last night I was actually baffled how there seems to be so many.

PS I know there are people that work to have what they have, I’m talking about my city specifically being particularly dense with criminal activity and I’m wondering if it’s a regional thing or not. Where you are, is this the case?

The only drug dealer I know personally isn't flashy at all, and also works a legit job building log cabins.

I was in a school (post-16 kind of school) auditorium yesterday and someone had scratched into my pull out desk a phone number with drug dealer written underneath, so I guess I could know another one if I gave the number a call...

The only drug dealers I’ve heard of are the student ones at my DC’s private school. No adults I know or associate with are drug dealers. My friends have a bling lifestyle but that’s because they (or their spouses) work in financial services in London and earn millions of pounds that way.

You go to the hairdressers every week ?!?!???!

"Everyone I know is a drug dealer" has nothing to do with city you live in and everything to do with the people you mix with.

Thank GOD I'm not vein enough to desire surgery and orange skin to feel confident. I would never, ever, associate with shallow people like that, never mind drug dealers!

Nobody I know or have ever known is anything close to being a drug dealer!

This! Although I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it's somewhere like Skelmersdale or Scumsdale as it's known

Sanatogen maybe?

I would change hairdressers as it's likely being used to launder money if she's dating drug dealers.

I love pampering.

But my idea of pampering simply isn’t the hairdresser.

But I see my massage therapist about twice a month (sometimes every week. Sometimes a little less frequently).

Those 45 minutes are pure bliss in my opinion.

I live in SE London and don’t know any drug dealers. I don’t know where to go IF I suddenly felt the need to purchase recreational drugs. I don’t knowingly mix with any drug users and when I did find out some “friends” that were part of that sort of set I simply distanced myself and quietly dropped them from my friendship group.

@HJ40 as if you would 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Everyone surely can’t be.

that wouldn’t make sense from a supply and demand point of view.

It’s nice how they sound proud of it. Proud of what exactly. Superficial shit, Botox to look like a new potato with trout lips, yeah not glamour. Cars? Who cares if you can get nicked at any point. Money directly from misery as well. Misery money. For what. To inject your ugly faces. You can’t inject your ugly soul. No Botox for that.

I immediately thought north west too. Having watched The Detectives on BBC, seeing how the OCG’s operate, the absolute mayhem
they cause, the harm, the recruitment of young kids… It reminded me again why I have zero tolerance of drugs, users and anyone associated with it. I grew up close to where the Rettendon murders took place, the death of Leah Betts and the rave scene of the 1990’s. I saw things I cannot erase from my memory and it’s really sad that in some areas, like the OP has mentioned, it’s seen as normal and acceptable. I couldn’t live in an area like that, I’d have to move.

@CommonOrNot
This made me laugh. My social circles are doctors, dentists, media agents, lawyers, engineers and architects. Every single one has either knows a dealer or has one in their family

I very much doubt this, as people have already said, if there are that many very wealthy drug dealers who exactly are they selling to, makes no sense.
I live in Dublin and don’t know any ( I’m a professional) I’m sure there are some about in certain parts of Dublin but I don’t associate or have any connection to these people, it sounds like you originally came from an area where this behaviour is common so still have some connection / hear everything that is going on. Is your hairdressers located in one of these areas.
Also if someone I did happen to know knew someone who was dealing, I can assure you they wouldn’t be boasting about it/ mentioning it, they are not that sort of people.
Same goes for knowing people who did time, some people depending on the area that they live in / come from know loads of people who have been in jail, others don’t know any

I didn’t go to school here - maybe that’s the difference? I only know neighbours, colleagues, school parents and church folks - not prime dealer population I suppose!

its not just Liverpool is it. Liverpool is pretty cleaned up now anyway. Still some issues.

So it's not actually Liverpool at all? Yet you have a thread full of people assuming it is.
I live outside of Liverpool and don't know any drug dealers. I know a lot of people, so could get some if I asked around, but don't know any personally. I'm neither old or a pearl clutcher. I just don't know any.

Clearly only a few are dealers otherwise they'd have nobody to sell to!

I went once a week for a blow-dry when I worked in London a couple of years ago - it was a fraction of what people spent on gym memberships, phones etc etc. Now I'm not in London I barely bother to dry it myself - covid has made ma slob. So - no judgement from me!

At various points in my life I've known lots of people who are dealers or have dealers. Now I'm really removed from that it's hard to think of it as real. It still exists, massively, but important to remember your own circle is not the world. There was a point where I could say 'I don't know anyone of my friends who hasn't done coke'. Ten years later I'm at a point where I can say 'I don't know any people who do drugs at all'.

I live in a small north west town and I know drug dealers. We are not friends or related but I know who they are. It's a real issue round here.

OP- do you live in the Liverpool area?

I'm not award of any drug-dealers that I or friends/family know of - North-East coast near Newcastle. I'm sure they exist in the rough bits of North Shields and Wallsend which are a few miles from us but I'm not aware of any personally.

Until drugs are legalised, taxed and regulated to get it out the hands of organised crime then this will always be the case.

Spoken like somebody with massive chip on their shoulder.
I know people from Skelmersdale and I would never call it that. Have a bit of class.

I live in the Midlands, 30 years old and yes I know drug dealers. They are from school or people through association. Me and DH have a broad social circle , he knows people at his workplace who associate with drug dealers. I would say we are middle class, but we know someone who works as a runner in our family. You can choose your friends but not your family!!