Nottingham
isn't there an area called St Anne's or something, where every resident has a stab wound?
(Lord Chode, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:46, 5 replies)

Yeah, I grew up there.
It's a bloody shit-hole, and if it was up to me I'd blow it up in the morning and turn it into a fucking car park. St Anns doesn't have a single redeeming feature, except for the roads leading out. It's the arsehole of Nottingham and words cannot express the contempt I have for the place and the neanderthals who breed there. Dirty scummy cunts with shit for brains, the lot of 'em.

My house was broken into regularly, when I say regularly I mean every week. You could almost set your watch by it. As if that wasn't bad enough, our neighbours were absolute morons. "Oh I saw so-and-so burgling your house. You need to hide yer video under the bed, that's what yer should do!". Thanks, you utterly useless cunt. Nobody goes to the police, that would be unheard of.

I decided to move out when one young chap tried (and failed) to mug me on my own doorstep. I now live in Hucknall, a small town on the other side of Nottingham. Like any small town, it's not without it's problems but compared to St Anns it's a bloody paradise.

I am 32, and since I turned 18 I have never been for a drink in a St Anns pub. I've grown quite fond of being alive if you don't mind.
(jimi.vicious regrets criticising the American electoral system!, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 16:05, closed)

hello! i too live in Hucknall...
It is admittedly a million times better than St Anns, but seriously, the moon pub is a death trap full of Hucknalls finest 2 tonne, swamp donkeys in glitter hotpants and some apes who dribble and fight over them. If you don't get in a fight within 5 minutes you're considered some kind of god.
(Kimberelli is addicted to the shiny little magnets..., Sun 1 Nov 2009, 19:42, closed)

Conversely...
I grew up in Hucknall, and the best I can say for it is that it's a shithole full of cunts. I left when I was 18 and have never lived there since. My folks still live there, and I'm in contact with a grand total of 2 people I was at school with. The last time i saw anyone else i was at school with was at the funeral of the only other person i still spoke to. Mind you, it was fun seeing how fat they've all got, and how they're all either unemployed, or doing the same shitty factory jobs they left school to go into.

I'm 37 now, and haven't been for a drink in a Hucknall pub since I used to go regularly when I was 15, which also tells you a lot about the place!
(dieselmonkey, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 12:59, closed)

Nottingham crap areas
Well,
I lived on Woodborough Road for a year, in St Anns, and apart from having a car stolen, missing an armed robbery at the Londis (shots fired, the fucking lot...by 30 seconds) and the next door neighbours crackhouse being broken into it was alright.

Worst place at the minute = Basford/Whitemoor. Fuck me, what a dive! Go out at night, get a firework thrown at you. I carry a mini golf club with me just in case...police stopped and searched me (instead of the massive gang of youths at the top of the street) and found it, I explained, and they went "fair play" and drove off?! Fuck me, I had an offensive weapon with me to go the shop and they did nowt, and the shits that terrorise this area carry on!

Also being visited by the police and the beat officer saying "we don't patrol here at night, it's just too scary, one night we had a firework thrown at us!" We have that every sodding night!!! At our house! It's like Guy Fawke's reincarnation is visiting us!

Also, Mansfield Road/Forest Road cross road...1st year uni student flat, 1st night there, woken by the sound of someone doing her hair in the reflective window singing "prostitute, prostitute, I suck cock for crack but I don't care, prostitute"

I tell ya, Notts police are fucking ridiculous, I have given descriptions, names, fingerprint evidence and NO convictions ever...I suppose it is in their interest to keep crime high as they are massively overstaffed.

And rant over!
(triley, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 19:02, closed)

Couldn't agree more about the Police
They are awful at their job. I was once being attacked in the Old Market Square by a group of yobs. The police came, questioned me then jumped in their car and sped off.
Shocked, me and the group just stood in silence for a second before it continued.
Don't get me wrong either, I'm a massive supporter of the Police Force as a whole. I have the utmost respect for them. They just don't seem to have a clue in Nottingham.

I personally live in Beeston, Notts and it's one of the nicest/safest areas I've lived in other than Catterick Army garrison.
Swansea was a dump, Bournemouth was nice but something was missing, SE London got to the point of not being able to leave the house after dark and when I lived in Basrah I had a fuck-off big gun with a grenade launcher (see profile) so I guess the locals would consider me and my 'gang' to be the menaces of that town.
( Terry_Tibbs Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 11:49, closed)