Is London a crime infested shithole?

[Netcurtainnelly]

Is London a crime infested shithole? 👀

A woman was gang raped after leaving a nightclub, has come up in the news today. I saw someone describing London as a crime infested shithole and it's not a safe place anymore.😫

Born to the sound of Bow Bells

No. That's not about being a 'true Londoner' (whatever the fuck that is). That's the definition of a true Cockney. Totally different.

I've lived here since 1981. From The North. Oh - how dare I! When will you agree I'm a 'true Londoner'?

I promise you that I'm fully integrated.

I’m not a true Londoner either

You say tomAYto I say tomAH’O.

Because I was born in Zone 1 and, when they were a thing, had an 071 phone number.

A true cockney is born within earshot of St Mary Le Bow on Cheapside. I think they have a wide range. I imagine a true Londoner is born and brought up in a London Borough.

We never go there nowadays

I think it’s changed somewhat.

I grew up in a then fairly sketchy part, normal to see prostitution & druggies in the day etc but you knew where to avoid at certain times. As long as I stuck to the advice I was fine.

London in the 90s was dirtier, poorer & likely more crime ridden than now. However I did feel the area I live in became more dangerous for my children which I disliked, so many muggings of young boys on the way home from school. My neighbours son was mugged by a child with a knife on a busy street in the afternoon. That just didn’t happen when I was young & if it did more people would intervene.

Me too @BIWI but I was born in the Home Counties and brought up there, arriving in London in 1980. I love London but don't think I'm a Londoner. We moved a little way away about ten years ago.

I think i’m a true Londoner, born in z1 & raised in z 2/3.

If I moved to Cornwall would I become Cornish after a certain number of years?

You see, I do see myself as a True Londoner. I moved here when I was 21. I've lived here for 45 years.

@BIWI but it’s different to be born & raised somewhere no?

It's deliberately disruptive tosh driven by Farage.

But I imagine @Netcurtainnelly knows that.

You can’t contribute to preserving the accents though!

How so?

I can do a really good Cockney though!

It's interesting isn't it @BIWI, My DH is from your County and came to London aged 21 too. He very much thinks of himself as a product of that County - through and through.

Of course she does.

God's own county?

Epsom is Surrey FFS.

What utter bollocks.

@ BIWI Yep - we've met and talked about it but I didn't want to be explicit because I didn't think you had.

Absolutely not. I've been here 25 years. I'll need to have been here 25,000 years before I'm seen as Cornish.

I think it is, it’s just a different experience imo. If you met someone now from where you did grow up would you fess up or deny all knowledge? 😆

As I said if I moved to Cornwall or Manchester or anywhere else can I claim to be from there?

That’s what I would imagine! 😆

@SalmonOnFinnCrisp

Sadiq's solve for phone thefts is a yellow line...

You still haven't said what you mean by this. I'm not the only poster who has asked you to explain. And it's a genuine question - I really don't understand what you mean.