To ask how ‘rough’ is this rough area?

[Jumell]

Strangers in your block of flats asking you to lend them money ‘til their dole money comes through then stropping off offended when refused

being bitten by Rottweiler outside flats

heroin addict dead in flats - body lay undiscovered for 2 weeks - admittedly happened, but admittedly NOT during time I lived here

kids graffitiing stairwells with pens

my windscreen wipers snapped off in flat car park

woman I suspect is prostitute due to comings and goings - but not 100% sure and u may have got it wrong

loud arguments between neighbours about noise

a few serious ex offenders housed

• however - it’s otherwise alright ! 👍😀

I think it’s easy to extrapolate behaviour that is ultimately very visible but only perpetrated by a minority of residents into being a larger issue than it is. I lived in an ex council flat on an estate where all of those things happened occasionally, and chose to stay there long after I could have afforded to sell up and move. Most people were decent, most people were trying their best. There are clearly issues on your estate that the council / HA / local police and any residents’ committee really need to engage on regarding block management, but pesky vandalism and nuisance is a different ballpark to serious and violent crime.

Well is there a Greggs nearby?

Yeah, that sounds really, really rough.

You got bitten by a rottweiler and people snapped your windscreen wipers off occasionally? @ComtesseDeSpair

Biting dogs, vandalism and being accosted by strangers is obviously not good.

Noisy neighbours, people dying at home (regardless of cause) and not being discovered immediately can and does happen anywhere, and you'd need to move to another planet to avoid women doing sex work somewhere near you (if you've even got that one right, which you may or may not have).

'Ex offenders' also have to live somewhere.

I'd give it 8/10 given no mention of police raids or stabbings.

There is definitely not a Gail's I'm guessing.

would your neighbours lend you a cup of sugar or a bag of brown if asked?

We have a Greggs and a Gail’s in the same row of shops. You need somewhere for the builders to get lunch, don’t you.

@Jumell what's the area?

Pretty much. There were issues with bull breed dogs behaving aggressively in the communal gardens every so often, and somebody tried to break into my ancient campervan twice.

Equally, somebody also tried to break into my poor campervan in the New Forest and outside my workplace in Crouch End, and there are issues with dogs all over the place. Just urban life.

I grew up in a place like that, someone's ear was chopped off with a machete and thrown into my back garden as a kid. We woke up with who the daddy spray painted on our front door 😂 it was nothing to do with us, the guy went on a rampage over the paternity of his gf's baby and did the whole street. Our house was raided when I was about 6 because my step dad was a drug dealer, one minute I'm sat on the sofa watching get your own back, the next I'm sat on the stairs with a police woman saying "my dad says I hate the police"

thankfully I've managed to make a better like for my children but my mum still lives there and nothing ever changes, there are good people in these places but it's not a good place to live or be brought up.

I have lived in some really rough places, an Estate in Tottenham at the epicentre of the 1980s riots. But I wouldn’t live with the behaviour you describe. I would pay more for less if the less was peaceful.

I'd say it's unlikely to feature on Location Location Location

It’s a very faded seaside town

Jay wick?

Or Skegness?

I might start a thread about how posh my posh area is

This is the weirdest question yet from you, OP. Of course it's dog-rough, and you only need a small number of antisocial people to turn an otherwise pleasant area into a rough one, sadly. What's your real question?

Blimey that’s a lot for a young kid to deal with

Ha no Margate

just the tip of the iceberg

I thought Margate was posh now and artistic but too expensive for the artists so they live close by!!! Is the TV lying to me?????

For the OP's privacy and data protection, they should not reveal the exact area they are discussing here in a public forum as no one in the right mind should divulge sensitive info.

Wether you want them to or not, so your request for them to do so is more than unreasonable, its down right irresponsible.

I think you know the answer, OP. Not sure what you’re really hoping to get here other than encouraging PPs to join you in mocking the poor and then get attacked for doing so?