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Roughest part of Leicester(shire)?

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Roughest part of Leicester(shire)??  

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  1. 1. Where do you think the roughest area of Leicester is?

    • Highfields
      16
    • Braunstone
      12
    • New Parks
      11
    • St Matthews
      45
    • Eyres Monsell
      10
    • Saffron Lane
      4
    • Northfields
      4
    • Beaumont Leys
      13
    • ANY OTHER
      4

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Intriguing, that it seems NO-ONE on this forum currently lives in any of the areas mentioned?

I do. Wont say which one though as im paranoid  :ph34r:

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:surrender:  hehe, Interesting we dont have a "scared" emoticon, guess we is all well to tuff for one of dem!!

I wouldnt worry too much. Im borderline agoraphobic so wouldn't matter where I live

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Thracian

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There's a lot of poverty and low expectation but perceptions are misleading.

 

I'm familiar with most places on the list and have visited people in most of them and never felt concern. There's lots of crime though. Much of it could be described as "petty" but there's worse under the surface including murder, abuse of various kinds, intimidation and more.

 

The thing is that Leicester's an enormous place with a melting pot of people all trying to survive in sometimes challenging surroundings and often, for various reasons, without sufficient funds to manage legally and without sufficient will/knowhow/education/encouragement to change for the better. Others take advantage of those problems. 

 

For me there's more sadness, depression and real poverty than threat. And lots of well-meaning people doing all they can to help and support one another, even in the smallest ways. But there's "bad" as well. Really bad.  The worst area? There isn't one. There's perpetrators and victims in all of them - but far more fundamentally decent folk too just trying to get by. 

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ozleicester

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Had many a good time in Glenfield growing up, being chased by an ice cream van for an hour springs to mind.

 

Fvckin ell, they are serious about kidnapping there, normally if the ice creams dont make you just climb in the van, they dont bother.

 

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Manini

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Beacon Fish Bar. Haven't been there in years!

Yeah the pub was a shithole to be honest. I went to Holmfield, Winstanley and Bosworth mate.

Was a brilliant chippy, the beaches always reminded me of the Jockey from Shameless.

You'd definitely know some of the same people I know then. I left Bosworth about 2/3 years ago  

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Carl the Llama

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There's a rumour in my family that my engineer Grandfather helped design weapon parts for Iranian government contractors from his house in Coalville way back in the 60's/70's, which if true surely gives them the win for their involvement in death and oppression on a global scale.

 

Gonna nip this in the bud and say I think it's pretty unlikely to be true however, given he liked to show off his 'secret' schematics once the Alzheimer's had set in and nothing that I saw looked particularly weapon-y.  (I'm guessing the rumour grew from his need to keep certain designs under lock and key for contractual purposes and the fact that he was at one point involved in an engineering project over there.  Pretty sure it was just more industrial machinery for a manufacturing plant.)

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Col city fan

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There's a lot of poverty and low expectation but perceptions are misleading.

I'm familiar with most places on the list and have visited people in most of them and never felt concern. There's lots of crime though. Much of it could be described as "petty" but there's worse under the surface including murder, abuse of various kinds, intimidation and more.

The thing is that Leicester's an enormous place with a melting pot of people all trying to survive in sometimes challenging surroundings and often, for various reasons, without sufficient funds to manage legally and without sufficient will/knowhow/education/encouragement to change for the better. Others take advantage of those problems.

For me there's more sadness, depression and real poverty than threat. And lots of well-meaning people doing all they can to help and support one another, even in the smallest ways. But there's "bad" as well. Really bad. The worst area? There isn't one. There's perpetrators and victims in all of them - but far more fundamentally decent folk too just trying to get by.

I fear your wise words are somehow lost Thrac...

Back to the 'Brauny is worse than the Saff, and the Monsell is shite' type comment.

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Finnegan

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There's a lot of poverty and low expectation but perceptions are misleading.

I'm familiar with most places on the list and have visited people in most of them and never felt concern. There's lots of crime though. Much of it could be described as "petty" but there's worse under the surface including murder, abuse of various kinds, intimidation and more.

The thing is that Leicester's an enormous place with a melting pot of people all trying to survive in sometimes challenging surroundings and often, for various reasons, without sufficient funds to manage legally and without sufficient will/knowhow/education/encouragement to change for the better. Others take advantage of those problems.

For me there's more sadness, depression and real poverty than threat. And lots of well-meaning people doing all they can to help and support one another, even in the smallest ways. But there's "bad" as well. Really bad. The worst area? There isn't one. There's perpetrators and victims in all of them - but far more fundamentally decent folk too just trying to get by.

This.

Like I said, it's predominantly just perception and prejudice. The majority of people are either going to vote for their own area because they're about thirteen and they think it's badass and cool or the area where people who look different to them live.

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Manwell Pablo

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Yeh fair one. Nights out are different to living there daily. There have been some utterly despicable people from Coalville- google jai barnett as an example.

My lodger made a point of saying she's never felt uncomfortable walking home after dark through Coalville and I have to agree with that

 

I know Jai mate I went to school with him and actually had a conversation with him about 2 weeks before he was arrested for that.

 

I know the bloke was a numpty but I didn't think he was capable of that.

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I and probably you went to school with plenty of kids from St Matthews and I think even they'd agree it was a pretty rough place.

 

I did and I went round many of their houses. Not at ll rough. I went to Northfields House Junior school - a good junior school but the area and kids were a hell of a lot rougher than the Taylor junior lot of St.Matthews.

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They do the best kebabs in fresh naan bread. The Beeches was a bit grim to be fair

 

I really miss Kebab in fresh Naan bread. There used to be a seller at the Narb Rd/Hinkley rd corner that I'd always visit on returns to Leicester but sadly closed down a few years ago.

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Voll Blau

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What does 'rough' mean?

Poverty? Number of 'problem families'? Fights? Drugs? Standard of the housing stock? Numbers of teenage pregnancies? The list goes on.

It's impossible to tell without defining it.

For instance, I was under the impression that the number of young people taking drugs is highest in Market Harborough, which would not be defined as 'rough'. Reason being the direct rail link to London and the relative affluence of the kids there (ie they can afford them).

 

Not sure about your Harborough theory. The kids who tend to go for drugs there tend to be ones taking them precisely because it's cheaper than getting pissed. That said you do get the Nu-Harboro inmigrants from down south who seem to enjoy a few white lines along with their bottle of chardonnay.

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Filberts Treat

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No trolling intended. I love Ashby as a night out. It's definitely got worse though and you're more likely to find trouble now than you were 10years ago.

Don't get this... Ashby has always been synonymous with trouble. I've been drinking there for 21 years and it's always been bad

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Filberts Treat

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Yeh fair one. Nights out are different to living there daily. There have been some utterly despicable people from Coalville- google jai barnett as an example.

My lodger made a point of saying she's never felt uncomfortable walking home after dark through Coalville and I have to agree with that

Righto. I'd feel a lot safer in Coalville than Ashby. Ashby has always been known as a fight town
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Thracian

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I live in Braunstone

 

 

I was brought up in Braunstone. My father was once the insurance collector there and a staffer at the New Parks Boys Club.

I've still got friends in both areas and "across the road" in Beaumont Leys.

There's been changes of course but I could still write a short book on the many neighbourly and self-sacrificing things people have done in those estates even over just the last 12 months.

People giving their last fiver to provide bread or milk for a family or to keep the money-lender at bay, walking kids to school while their mother was in hospital, providing materials so someone could decorate a house and help save their kids from being taken into care, giving people a bike so they could get to the shops and so on.

These examples aren't made up, they're for real and many more besides.

I could speak of at least four families whose unheralded members deserve an accolade for the help they've given but they're not the only ones. Publicity centres on the criminals and wackos but so much more goes on that is entirely praiseworthy. Mostly, the people need help and opportunity rather than vitriolic categorising and being judged by people who really don't know the circumstances of those they condemn.        

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