To ask how ‘rough’ is this rough area?

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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 ! 👍😀

In fact, if you look at the info in the stats you posted, you can see that the middle income areas still have almost 40% of people reporting that ASB is either a big, or fairly big, problem in their area.

Not disingenuous at all - she’s not describing an apartment block in Bloomsbury or in the multimillion pound apartment towers in Canary Wharf, is she? She is not describing a demographic where those with addiction and MH issues have access to private services and resources to support them through those issues - hence it is managed and less visible (and rarely leeches into criminal/ASB territory).

And I didn’t state that it was ‘exclusive’ to poverty, but I am afraid extreme ASB, of the type, extent and quantity described by the OP IS particular to poorer areas.

That's what I thought too!

Do the lifts work

No lifts

No lifts its low rise

Clearly its rough as fuck but you knew that already.

Also a man punched a man repeatedly in the face fracturing his eye socket in the communal corridors of the flats. He was jailed for 2 years. This was a sudden and completely unprovoked attack.

A man killed another man’s pet in one of the flats. At least one of these men had drug issues iirc

Admittedly these incidents didn’t happen during my tenure in the flats.

When I walked home from work this one time a rather ‘odd’ young man latched onto me he was visiting someone in the flats. When I say ‘odd’ I mean sort of inappropriately familiar- more so than you’d expect with a stranger - to be fair - he seemed odd but harmless though.

that’s the thing - I find with rough areas they tend to attract weird people visiting the flats even if they’re not resident in the flats

Does it smell bad?

No not particularly

Are you not English OP?

If a Brit says "not brilliant" it means it's a shithole.

I'd move, come and live with me in my naice market town

🤣 no am English - just suppose I was naive really and took the phrase ‘not brilliant’ to mean exactly that - no more no less

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By any standard, yes that’s a rough area. But people, particularly the MCs, get very uncomfortable about the word ‘rough’. They don’t like us saying it. I’d love to know why.

Are there a lot of rats around in the daytime

No

My experience of Broadstairs was a scantily dressed lady clearly on drugs shouting through the main road - whilst men sitting outside of the pub jeered at her.

HOWEVER everyone else I met were so helpful and nice! I thought I was in a twilight zone.
Offering to help with my buggy. A group of teens insisting my children use the beach taps first.

I actually started looking at their house prices when I got home!

@RisingSunn HOWEVER everyone else I met were so helpful and nice! I thought I was in a twilight zone.
Offering to help with my buggy. A group of teens insisting my children use the beach taps first.

Those teens would be summer visitors then, not residents!

Ha! I’m pretty sure they were local. They were clearly in their hangout spot. Knew their way around etc.