Frightening urban no-go hell zones you've lived in

-Chapeltown, Leeds. I'd deliberately take the bus a halt further to avoid getting out near the local pub (see below). Thanks to the 'baby robbers' 90% of street muggings in West Yorkshire occured within a 500 metre radius http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/talk/images/violent_city_main.jpg -Toxteth, Liverpool 8. 3 locks on the front door, circular hole in the window where someone with a glass cutter tried to break in, being told to avoid Granby Street day or night...warned off falling for flirtatious red-headed beauty because local gangster was sweet on her..

-Govenhill Glasgow, addicts forming cues in the stairwell for the heroin dealers flat downstairs, first the neighbours being burgled by having the front door kicked in...then ours.

cues = queues (ffs!)

Whalley Range

So what did you get for your trouble and pain?

This year there are police in stab-proof jackets patrolling the route between my university and the Halls. On the local news last night they explained how they've opened up 4 safe corridors for moving between the different campuses, and they're meant to have a Police helichopter monitoring the situation from the air, though I haven't seen that yet. It's like Kosovo or something.

another case against bloody Manchester, then.

I moved just out of college into DC's Petworth neighborhood just off Georgia Ave.. before the metro station opened.. One month after the move I went to drive to work and found that overnight, some junkie took a power drill to my car door & didn't succeed in stealing either the stereo or the car, but did cut him/herself in the process and bleed all over the place. Got mugged at gunpoint once at 9:30am, and the cop taking the report asked if we knew about the crackhouse across the street..
Last night before moving out heard a shooting nearby, some poor Columbia Heights woman getting her laundry was killed in the crossfire.