I work at a factory in Dudley Hill, at the south end of Bradford.
In the surrounding streets it's not unusual for houses to go on sale for £50,000 or less - usually by auction due to reposession. Also it's sandwiched between two large estates, one of which most taxi drivers won't go into after dark.

As for how it affects work, it's not usually an issue as the the site is completely enclosed and there's security on the gate 24/7. That said, pikeys have been known to get in at night and try to nick machine tools for scrap.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 2 Nov 2012, 17:31, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

I've done photoshoots in a space in Clapton
surrounded on all sides by the very worst of the bad part of Hackney - proper, proper ghetto, and this place is like Fort Knox and costs a grand a day to use. Incongruity at its most glaring.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 2 Nov 2012, 17:40, Reply)

Behind the camera I sincerely hope.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 2 Nov 2012, 17:45, Reply)

Hey Monty
halloweenorwilliamsburg.com/

Makes Shoreditch look tame.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 2 Nov 2012, 17:45, Reply)

Y'right Woodside
I was asked to go to a job in East Bierley a few months ago - empty and not boarded, my instructions said.

As soon as I got there I knew it had been "Bierleyed" - original doors ripped off, new doors and what I euphamistically call "signs of occupancy" - a pile of shite in the front garden.

Leave a gaff empty in East Bierley and within a week it's got about 20 Eastern Europeans in it. There are places up there that'd be worth £200k in North Leeds and - as you say - the owners are walking away to let them be repossessed.

I won't work there any more and the only agents that will market there any more have a Z in their name....
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 2 Nov 2012, 18:19, Reply)