Welcome to Leeds
When I was younger and looking for universities I thought I would have a look at Leeds. It was nearby. That may have been the only reason.

As is usually the case they had 3 or 4 of the existing students show us around so we could get an idea of what Leeds university life is like.

Normally the guides are the sort of zany students that you want to kill after an hour, looking for new victims who they haven't annoyed yet (zany means cuntastic), but on this occasion they weren't so bad.

Which isn't to say they were good at the job. Things started ok, then one of them talked about crime levels, which put us off a bit, another said they lived on the most burgled street in britain, also not a great advert.

The final nail in the coffin was the sentence "last night someone nicked all of the paving slabs from the pavement."

That's a hell of a crime. You have to reeeeeally like crime to get into the mindset where that seems like a good idea, for the following reasons
-it would take ages
-it would require a fair amount of strength
-you would need at least some appropriate tools
-and a vehicle capable of taking the weight
-after putting all of that effort in what you have achieved is getting a bit of free floor

I decided Leeds wasn't for me.
(teebie jeebie, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 14:01, 6 replies)

The "most burgled street in britain"
thing is/was an urban myth associated to Chestnut Avenue. It was all a load of bollocks made up for a documentary in the early 90's and regurgitated by the Daily Fail in 2001/2002.

To be fair Leeds was pretty shitty at the time when I was at uni there.

They had several riots, pubs were burnt down and there was a full on drug war.

It's quite civilized nowadays though.
( shitkicker, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 14:22, closed)

chestnut avenue
I lived on that street for a year and was never robbed. 2 years later I was robbed in Woodhouse but that's a given.

CA is actually an awesome street to live on. The robbing though - it's not so much an urban myth - the problem was that the street is synominous with street parties therefore it's pretty easy to plan a robbing spree. It was cleared up a few years ago by Leeds Met volunteers who now assume credit for the street being less of a crime zone.

The moral of this, obviously, is that cleaning up graffitti scares off robbers.
(ignoramusaurus, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:25, closed)

Oh it got robbed
it just wasn't the "most robbed street in britain".

I had a friend who was shot in woodhouse for being a student. Happy days.
( shitkicker, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:26, closed)

I'm not sure
tried to find out - was never proved or dissproved that I remember. A lot of people get shat up by the occasional murder in Leeds but I came here from Lewisham so I can walk through the park at night without shitting myself.
(ignoramusaurus, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 12:14, closed)

Stealing the paving slabs
was all the rage when I was in Bradford. The thieves were indeed organised, with lorries and fluorescent jackets. If anyone challenged them they'd say they were from the council. Why did they steal paving stones? As a rule they concentrated on the big old sandstone slabs and kerbs, which could be resold for a tidy profit. The council would replace them with tarmac, if I recall correctly.
(richardm, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:40, closed)

Leeds - hah..
You wanna try Bradford mate, that place is a fucking no-go zone at the best of times..

As soon as you get out of the train station, you're eyed up by the local shitheads.

Both me and the missus have worked there on several occasions, we've seen riots, stabbings, pikeys knocking the living shit out of each other and heroin addicts smashing up cars and shops just to finance their next fix.

Stay the fuck away from the Forster Street Station if you wanna see your next Birthday, and for fucks sake, dont go near the old Maestros nightclub.

If you're into Tupac, Bassline and RnB - you might just make it through the night, Bradford is like Birmingham, but without the shootings. So far..

You get the Asians walking round like they own the place, and you get the white kids walking round thinking they're Asian.

Just think, after reading this QOTW, for such a small chunk of land, we've got a lot of shit places in it.
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 18:45, closed)