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AIBU?

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to be worried there are 3 burly security men parading round my new home?

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LolaTheShowgirl · 24/04/2009 20:13

I have just moved to a new home. To set the scene it's in a tower block. There are 3 tower blocks in this neighbourhood. It's a large village, very pleasant in the village side, and nice too on the council estate side. Lots of families, the villagers very friendly but as in any tower blocks, some weirdo's and some errrm (I hate this word but can't think of a replacement - chavs) but most of the people i've met in the lifts have been lovely, single men, most over the age of 30! I came home this evening from dropping someone in a different town and find these security men patrolling the tower blocks. I'm wondering if this is a Friday/Saturday night thing as I only moved in on Monday, but is this normal for these sort of places?!

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nickytwotimes · 24/04/2009 20:16

No idea if it is normal, but personally I wouldn't mind at all!

Limara · 24/04/2009 20:16

Mmm, doesn't look good but maybe they are looking for one of those single chav blokes over 30?

Northernlurker · 24/04/2009 20:17

Oh that's not a problem - that's an asset!

Disenchanted3 · 24/04/2009 20:19

That would reassure me rather than worry me!

MaryMotherOfCheeses · 24/04/2009 20:19

Hold on, you're in the lift with a stranger and by the time you get out you know he's a single bloke over 30!

Easy, tiger!

benfmsmum · 24/04/2009 20:19

I wouldn't mind either - mind you thats probably got something to do with my fetish for men in uniform!! [GRIN]

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LolaTheShowgirl · 24/04/2009 20:22

Lol, thanks ladies. They're yummy too! I just thought 'oh ohhh' and that maybe the area isn't quite as nice as it seems.

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LolaTheShowgirl · 24/04/2009 20:24

Lol Mary, i'm just judging their age by their looks and I don't think a married couple would live in a little flat in a tower block would they? Or maybe they would...but I hope not coz i've firmly got my eye on the lovely man on floor one!

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Northernlurker · 24/04/2009 20:28

I would have loved a security man walking up and down our old street! Especially when our car was nicked and our friend's car was nicked whilst they were having dinner at OUR house and our car window broken and everybody's tyres slashed and then there was that weird woman who harngued us on the way home and the git who nicked our front door key (we got the locks changed an hour later - foiling his attempts to burgle us when he came back at midnight - the cheeky blighter!)
Oh yes a security man would have been lovely!!

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LolaTheShowgirl · 24/04/2009 20:40

wow northernlurker, were you anywhere near manchester at that time?

feel so that you had to go thru that in your own home.

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Disenchanted3 · 24/04/2009 20:43

Lola are you in Manchester?

Shithole isn't it? You should see the stuff thats gone on in my area lately in the local paper, stabbing, 13 yr old girl getting sexually assaulted in the park, robberies in peoples own homes at gunpoint, old women beaten for purse.

SHIT - HOLE PLACE.

Northernlurker · 24/04/2009 20:52

No that was actually in lovely York! To be fair it was over 9 years and there was only one really bad 18 months or so in the middle

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LolaTheShowgirl · 24/04/2009 21:08

Disenchanted i'm in Tameside. It's terrible isn't it. I was in the bus station the other night at about 9:30pm and one guy was obviously on something and started talking to these other 2 lads about how many times they've been stabbed and what gangs they're in etc and then he went and punched the timetable board really hard. I nearly weed my knickers! It was so scary.

When I win the lottery, i'm moving to Dorset to live in a cottage (even the tiniest one would be lovely!)

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LolaTheShowgirl · 24/04/2009 21:11

Wow, York! I thought that was supposed to be posh! I guess every town and city has it's not-so-good areas.

p.s. Disenchanted, I think the places on the border of Greater Manchester like Saddleworth etc are really lovely, but areas actually in the city of Manchester, they're scary places and it's a crying shame for the decent people who just want a nice place to live.

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Disenchanted3 · 24/04/2009 21:17

In all honesty we've not really ever had trouble in our 3 years, there are some ROUGH families on our street but we just smile and nod

But the things that go on are awful, guess we have been lucky up to now.

North Manchesters the worst IMO,

went to Moston once, absolutly crapped it, Gorton too :s scary.

BigBellasBeerBelly · 24/04/2009 21:18

I would also be reassured rather than worried by this.

Mind you I would also like it if policemen still wandered around sometimes, fat chance though...

Keep us updated on your over 30 single men

Disenchanted3 · 24/04/2009 21:18

3 years in THIS house I mean, lived on the same street all my life, lol.

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LolaTheShowgirl · 24/04/2009 21:23

Lol big bella. There aren't just 30 of them...there are hundreds! It's a womans paradise ha ha ha!

Dienchanted, I used to go to college in Moston and once got lost walking to the supermarket there and ended up walking thru an estate. Was sooo scary and it was broad daylight.

I really don't like Cheetham Hill around the Strangeways area. That looks so dodgy.

Are you in North Manchester?

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Lulumama · 24/04/2009 21:25

not all of north manchester is rough,altnough some parts are. same as anywhere.there are part of salford i would not want to walk through alone though

BigBellasBeerBelly · 24/04/2009 21:30

This thread has made me reminisce - when I was at university in manchester I knew someone who lived in the cresecents in Hulme - I used to walk there by myself - and although I thought it was a bit rough it didn't worry me.

It wasn't until a few years later when I told someone that and they went that I realised how dodgy hulme was, and especially the crescents.

Never mind eh, no harm done!

BigBellasBeerBelly · 24/04/2009 21:30

It wasn't until a few years later when I told someone that and they went that I realised how dodgy hulme was, and especially the crescents.

Never mind eh, no harm done!

Disenchanted3 · 24/04/2009 21:32

No South,

DH comes from Chorlton, but near Mersetbank, not the posh bit, lol. But not the horrid bit, his old house was lovely.

We live an area thats prodominantly council houses, i think we have been ok so far as its a case of 'the poor don't rob the poor'

heather1980 · 24/04/2009 23:29

not all north manchester is bad. i live in bury and that's quite nice actually.
i used to live in newton heath and that was rough, i still have family there and i must admit we don't visit often.

MaryMotherOfCheeses · 25/04/2009 00:09

This is really sad. There are some very decent families living round those parts. I was on a thread t'other day about muggings in South Manchester. I wonder if I really live such a sheltered existence or if my current city is really that mild in comparison to Manchester. I knew Newton Heath quite well in my younger days, spent many a Saturday at the market there. My mum and brother still live down the road in the next place along towards Oldham.

I know north Manchester isn't great. Is it really so bad though?

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