Middlesbrough
After seeing Middlesbrough mentioned several times this week, and on more that one occasion from people who have lived here for relatively short periods of time, I thought I'd have a little word in it's defence.

Middlesbrough has seen year on year reductions in crime figures since 2005/6 and pioneered the talking CCTV scheme which has been a great success and has inspired other towns and cities to follow suit.

The council estates may be rough, yet we have NO gun crime (well, 1 incident I can remember in my whole life) and very little knife crime.

The majority of chav's are laughable, I have lived here 23 years (minus the 3 months in Newcastle which was much worse, although I lived right in the city centre so cannot really compare it) and I have been punched once, immediately after which the young gentleman fled.

We have a fantastic up and coming University which recently won University of the year in the Times Higher Education Awards, and the town is one of the pillars of the (albeit declining) British steel industry.
The air may be smoggy, but it’s nothing compared to say some other places I’ve visited and I’ve never experienced anything close to the joy of London Underground-induced black bogeys.

Oh, and for the things I missed, I’ll let my mate* Jeff tell you about them:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdBuDSEokz0&feature=related


Sorry if slightly (completely) off topic.


*may not be my mate.
(TheColonel, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 10:46, 1 reply)

Wow, no gun crime...
and you've managed to escape for a whole three months... You're welcome to it and its talking CCTV.

As I wrote after your dismissive response to my experience of the place, your mate can list all the people he wants to that hailed from Misserbrough, but how many choose to live there once they've escaped?
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 18:16, closed)