Worked there years ago , just before the riots started . East bowling , one of the worst places I have worked at in the country.
Really? Do you find Glasgow threatening J? Ive never been to Bradford so couldn't compare. Is it not just a case like everywhere else there are good parts and bad parts. The survey says that Edinburgh is quite safe and yet there are some areas I would not like to walk around. Bit like Hamilton. LOL
I don't find it threatening, but there are certainly parts of Glasgow I wouldn't visit in the day time, never mind after dark. I once saw a man headbutt a train, that will be my lasting memory of Glasgow!
Ha Ha absolutely superb mate and you are right there are some really dodgy areas in Glasgow but as I said every city has them. Except Barnsley of course. LOL
I love Edinburgh and for the most part feel pretty safe wandering around. But having said that, it has a pretty grim underbelly like a lot of cities. We've got friends who work for social services there, and have heard some pretty dire tales. Having said that, it's apparently better than Nottingham where they used to work, something which doesn't surprise me at all - lived there for a couple of years and I have to say it's extremely unsafe in my opinion. The wealth gap there is ridiculous, and some of the most deprived areas back on to mansions. Lawyers and smack dealers living side by side.
Where in Bradford do you live? I lived there from 93 until just before the riots. Little known fact is that was the root cause.
Clayton. I love it. Reminds me of Elsecar where I grew up (debatable). Didn't you used to live in a rough part of the city, or did I imagine that?
It's all rough isn't it? Can't speak for Clayton, that's a bit of a way out, but inner city Bradford is pretty rough whichever area you're in. I lived 5 years in BD7, directly on and just off Horton Grange Road. Then a very short time in Buttershaw (**** this, we're leaving), a short time in Manningham and then moved out to the sticks in Idle. You couldn't have possessions, they just got robbed. Car, telly, video, your clothes off the washing line, tins of beans from the kitchen, our rented washing machine!, everything got nicked. It can't have bothered me that much though, I was in no rush to leave. Only left because I became ill. Wouldn't go back though. I liked the cheap Pakistani food shops and the cheap curry houses, but I'm struggling to think of anything else I liked about the place. It was the friends I'd made that kept me there, but they've all moved on now too. Bradford needed an immigrant population to work the mills. The mills then closed and nothing grew in its place. Massive unemployment. Pakistani families are much more family orientated than traditional British families. The council expected the younger generation to move away, but Pakistani families tend to stick together. The population remained steady but the jobs had gone away. Without significant investment the place will always be a trouble spot, because that's what unemployment and poverty lead to. It's not the Pakistani people that are the problem, it's the fact that both white and Pakistani kids have been left there to rot. Unfortunately, Bradford will never get that investment because of the geography. It sits in a valley in the hills with one road in and one road out (the M606). It's a nightmare for transportation, so no one wants to set up business there. The two roads that go north east and north west don't really go anywhere other than the dales and the lakes. It's only a few miles from the centre of Bradford to the M62 but it can take you an hour to get there. Unfortunately, it's going to be ****** for a long, long time.
