knowle west is it the wild west?

[djbombscare]

Thats why it rough and thats why they've got a reputation. Someone pisses you off, ya have it out in the pub, in the street, on the doorstep whatever. But it gets sorted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/5032510.stm

Yeh, nice attitude, I am sure he appreciated it 'getting sorted' on his doorstep


I just think its the level of the fight that people put up hence why people feel that these places are like the wild west. They're not, they have the best community spirit ever, everyone looks after each other and its only people looking in from the outside who find it scarey if ya know what I mean.

Just like the Krays eh, only hurt their own kind and loved their mums.......

Wow an argument formed by misreading misquoting and missing the point entirely. How re-freshing




*yawns*


What do you think Tony Blair loves more ? his mum. . .or killing innocent civilians?

Where does he live again ?

 

[JTG]

By "wear their heart on their sleeve", you mean that if you dare to annoy the local bad boys, they kick your head in in the street and then everyone refuses to talk to the cops about who did it because of this great sense of "community"? Nice.

Giles..

fuck off you snobby middle class cunt

xx

 

[djbombscare]

I think its great that people that live outside the areas, are telling the people who live inside the areas what its REALLY like to live there


Oh and "The Evening Post" what an informative read of a newspaper with the nothing but unbiased documenation of the facts

 

[H.Dot]

lol I've no idea how I ended up on this thread but...

The worst place in the country to live would be South London, I reckon.

why???

 

[la ressistance]

why has st pauls got such a bad rep? before i started working in bristol i had the impression that st pauls was a huge sprawling estate,where people will kill you as soon as look at you and you'll get shot or carjacked ,but it's tiny and it don't seem so bad.overall from what i've seen of the city ,it's a lovely thriving multicultural city.
bristol to me seems like any other city,good parts and bad parts.if you come from the bad part then it's not that bad.

 

[djbombscare]

That to me kind of backs up what I've been saying. The bad rep is always from when your outside the area. "Oh its really bad you dont wanna go in there" but when you do go in or live there its just like every else.

Yes its a poorer area, yes there's a lot more poverty. But there is a better sense of community as everyone is in it together and as such they work together.

I woud rather live in St Pauls, Knowle or Hartcliffe etc than any snobby suburbia place where everyone ignores you, unless its the army of curtian twitching Neighbourhood watch complaining the second your music goes a bit loud. Keeping up with the jones being the name of the game.

Beside that even if I did want to live there £400k for some 1 bed box is way out of my price range. Its no wonder that places like Portishead are where the dealers live. They're the only ones who can afford it

 

[fizzerbird]

Yeah maaaaaaaaaaaan...I hear that Portishead is really rough and scary!

 

[buffalosid]

anyway back to the book......

just finished it .very harrowing, tough read. had to keep putting it down and walking away very nearly thre the book in the bin actually purely because the content was so shocking.
extremley clever, thought provocking and well written though.

 

[djbombscare]

Yeah maaaaaaaaaaaan...I hear that Portishead is really rough and scary!

Its not rough or scarey babe, but the look of disgust when the people that live out there were telling uis about the gang war in the local between the dealers, was funny as fuck.

The story ending with we dont have that sort of thing round here. You'd expect it to happen where YOU live but not over here.

My answer " You dont think people deal to make money to live where we live do you? Theres not enough 400k houses for them all in South Bristol. And imagine how hard it would be to leave your BMW/AUDI over there. Parking a Ford focus on our road gives some drivers a panic attack about it not being there when they get back" shut them up