MPH Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 Ive lived on narborough road most of my life, it used to be a wonderful place 15 years ago, now its just a dump!!! I don't think there is a single place in the city that is different to how it was 15 years ago... but if you think Narborough rd is a dump you should try living in some other places!
Strokes Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 It's a shithole, I avoid it like the plague. I don't believe anyone loves it really, they just think that they should.
Buce Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 Personally i am quite proud of the diversity Narborough road offers. Its fantastic. I love how that's displayed in the shops/ food that's on offer. The inner hippy in me things thats how life should be everywhere. in every area. Now if some people truly think its a dive, either they are trolling or have lived an upper class life or clearly havnt been in some certain areas of Leiceser or a mix of all three. I'm not trolling, certainly haven't lived an 'upper-class life', and lived in Highfields when it was still the haunt of drug dealers and whores. Narborough Rd is a dive.
Dr The Singh Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 I don't think there is a single place in the city that is different to how it was 15 years ago... but if you think Narborough rd is a dump you should try living in some other places!I have, I've moved 3 times since, and narborough is the worst area. My mum lives in a area that has improved in the last 15 years, with the right investment and people it has become a nice place
Webbo Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 We're too quick to call places shit holes on here. There are worse places to live.
digitalalba Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 "Narborough Road, south west Leicester, LE3. A mile-long stretch of shops and bars, cafes and restaurants, writes Lee Marlow. For the 11,644 people who live in this busy suburb of Leicester, this is the commercial heart of their community, the fulcrum around which everything else turns." It's actually quite a dirty place to walk along, except for the nearest part near Fosse Park. "It is the world in microcosm; all these people, from all these different places, different cultures, living cheek by jowl, working with each other and living in harmony." Eh, how does she know, has she lived there? "These are hard times, but streets like this – diverse streets in areas of economic deprivation, streets where people gather round and help each other – are forging their own way forward." First, 2 + 2 equals 4 spectacularrly well. 'economic deprevation' oh dear, 2 + 2 now equals, 9? How can it be SO wonderful, thus prosperous, and yet be economically deprived?? People gather and help each other, really? Why isn't it econically BOOMING then? "On a practical level, this means store owners trade their skills with each other as a kind of parallel currency." Yes, one bar offers the other some beer, and a kabab shop offer another, sheeps blood... "There is a Canadian couple who run a book shop on Narborough Road. They're what's known as 'anchor immigrants', they've been there a long time. "Because their English is good and they know about forms and bureaucracy, they help the other traders." In return, they get a free haircut, or lunch at a restaurant, on the house. "They trade their services with each other as favours," says Dr Hall. It's true, says Ian Smalley. Ian, who came to Leicester from Canada and set up the Narborough Road book shop, Tin Drum, in 1986. "That's how it works," says Ian, who is fiercely proud of not just his shop, but his street." Bless. It feels like a dream. Is Narbour road yellow? ""You know, we were given a pair of nice chairs by the local music shop, which we used for a long time – and then we gave them to the local charity shop, who sold them for a decent amount of money." Did he inquire how much they were sold for? How many times did he ask? ""It works," says Dr Hall. "It works for them. The story of streets like this is the story of our times. It is a story of austerity and the growing entrepreneurship of the people who it affects most of all." This is too much. 'Austerity' and 'growing entrepreneurship', 9 anyone? Have these people run out of things to brainwash people with?
Dr The Singh Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 We're too quick to call places shit holes on here. There are worse places to live.Obviously Sherlock, but to publicise narborough road other then a shithile hole is just silly
Webbo Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 Obviously Sherlock, but to publicise narborough road other then a shithile hole is just silly I've never lived there but I have worked there before and it didn't seem that bad to me.
Dr The Singh Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 I've never lived there but I have worked there before and it didn't seem that bad to me.I've lived there and go there every Thursdays and some weekends to see my elderly aunt who has no kids hence we look after her.. I can tell you stories mate, the stuff I've seen would represent the ghettos of eastern Europe or Africa
Dr The Singh Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 Go and have a drink in the oasis and ask some of the regulars what they think of narborough road
foxoffderby Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 Lived there for a year back in 1990. Great place there are many worse areas to live. Some very good food and drink places and good value.
Strokes Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 We're too quick to call places shit holes on here. There are worse places to live. Just because there are worse places to live doesn't make it nice! it's an eyesore, I see nothing to celebrate and would be happy if I never seen the place again.
Thracian Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 There's two sides to today's Narborough Road area. The hustling/bustling side you see in daylight and early evening and the undercurrent that no-one wants to talk about. I can't and won't elaborate, it would serve no purpose. People get by - or they don't. They smile, or shed their tears. And yes, as the story suggests. They mind their own business.And help where they can.
oakman Posted 3 February 2016 Posted 3 February 2016 Lived there in in the late 90's and quite liked it (other than being burgled twice in 2 years).
AyewJoking Posted 4 February 2016 Posted 4 February 2016 We're too quick to call places shit holes on here. There are worse places to live. doesnt mean it isnt a shíthole though. i havent been down narb rd in years. why have i waded into this debate?
Trav Le Bleu Posted 4 February 2016 Posted 4 February 2016 Shithole Like being in a foreign country Xenophobia in a nutshell.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 4 February 2016 Posted 4 February 2016 I went to a foreign country once and it was good
Samilktray Posted 4 February 2016 Posted 4 February 2016 The food in foreign countries tends to be good.
Finnegan Posted 4 February 2016 Posted 4 February 2016 I've lived in Rothley and I've lived on Narborough Road. Can't say my quality of life was much worse in the latter. I've also lived in Wood Green, North London. Now THAT was a shithole.
Guest Posted 4 February 2016 Posted 4 February 2016 When I first left home (18) I lived in the west End and I bought my first house in Ridley street soon after. Narborough road wasn't as diverse then but it was still a microcosm of diversity and "New England" Mario's open till 3 or 4am, Irish pubs, English pubs, Indian shops open till 11pm, the best kebabs in naan bread I've ever had etc... Was a great place for a young man discovering the world near home before branching out. It was also a hot bed of entrepreneurship and as the article says all that in spite of the state. Glad it and Leicester has got some recognition for the successful multicutural melting pot it is. We shouldn't be trying to make foreigner's English we should be trying to make terrans co-exist harmoniously.
ramboacdc Posted 4 February 2016 Posted 4 February 2016 ive worked in bookies all over leicester, and some in rougher areas of birmingham. Narborough road is the only place i have had a man offer me a tempur mattress for £50, he will deliver it today (he needs to get rid of them now) and will even install it for me and get rid of my old one! all he needed were my house keys whilst i was at work till 10pm.....i hasten to add he was selling them out the back of his ford transit. it was also the first place i was racially abused and the first place i had a gang war in a shop.
ramboacdc Posted 4 February 2016 Posted 4 February 2016 I've lived in Rothley and I've lived on Narborough Road. Can't say my quality of life was much worse in the latter. I've also lived in Wood Green, North London. Now THAT was a shithole. i always thought rothley was alright when driving through it.
Finnegan Posted 4 February 2016 Posted 4 February 2016 i always thought rothley was alright when driving through it. It is, it's lovely, that's my point. I've lived in an alleged shithole and a village most people would accept is one of the nicer in the county and I can't say my quality of life was drastically worse on Narborough Road. Never felt particularly unsafe or inconvenienced. Did see someone climbing through the window of the Oasis bar once to join in a fight but then I've seen a ruck outside the Bluebell in Rothley n'all. There's an Indian, Chinese and Kebab shop in Rothley and a bunch of them down Narborough Road. Pretty much the same all over now. You wander round some of the estates in the city and you'll see some pretty rank areas in need of some TLC but Narborough Road is just a typical street in a city. You drive in to most major cities and you'll see similar roads on the outskirts.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 4 February 2016 Posted 4 February 2016 It is, it's lovely, that's my point. I've lived in an alleged shithole and a village most people would accept is one of the nicer in the county and I can't say my quality of life was drastically worse on Narborough Road. Never felt particularly unsafe or inconvenienced. Did see someone climbing through the window of the Oasis bar once to join in a fight but then I've seen a ruck outside the Bluebell in Rothley n'all. There's an Indian, Chinese and Kebab shop in Rothley and a bunch of them down Narborough Road. Pretty much the same all over now. You wander round some of the estates in the city and you'll see some pretty rank areas in need of some TLC but Narborough Road is just a typical street in a city. You drive in to most major cities and you'll see similar roads on the outskirts. This is completely true. The only times you don't see it is if there's a motorway that goes pretty much into the centre, like in Birmingham. Narborough Road is probably nicer than the approach roads into a lot of comparable British cities
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