Dirty old town!! My town made the NEW YORK TIMES

[Nomad Toad]

How the Young Poor Measure Poverty in Britain: Drink, Drugs and Their Time in Jail - New York Times

an article about the estates in Britain...

dont get it twisted you'd get murked out here if you aint well known kids swarm on you like rats screamin, " you know who i am.. your dead!!"

Lol

Not so long ago i was one of the rampant youth now it seems they see me as an old man....

[Fero Blaque]

They don't look dangerous to me, they look like doofy kids. And I'm quite sure there's hardly any weaponed gang activity around there, right ?

I just cannot picture It.

[Chris The Man]

The runts in London are horrible.

I have a friend that lives there, n tells me of their exploits.

[Simagine]

The most dangerous youngens are the ones you least expect it from that's all I'm saying.

[Eski Boy]

that article isnt really sayin anything about weapons, just how a lot of kids vandalise and get done for minor criminal things like theft/anti social behaivour etc because of the problems they have. most of it relates back to no dads or drink/drugs. there are much worse places i know than here

[Nomad Toad]

im not goin on sayin its sick round here..

it was just interestin to me that it was in the ny times..

Cause the us got a messed up view of life in britain..

Wythenshawe is the biggest council estate in europe.. possibly been overtaken by tthe dutch who had one full of high rizes..
I grew up here and we didnt even thing of it as bangin just standin up for ourselves..

Were taught dont let anyone hit you so now every kid in manchester thinks hes the hard man.. its weird now im on the outside lookin at the youth who i used to be ...

but fero i can walk in any pub/club or bar in this city and buy cocaine ..weed ..pills..heroin

its really out of control now. Seriously everybody sells coke and the police dont do shit..
Its like its legal!

Shit it used to be everyone smoked a joint now and again.. its coke now..
its an epidemic..

And as for the other issues touched on its ruthlessly violent and you gotta stay ruthless to survive it cause the kids now dont care how much rep u got or how much muscle cause its the school kids who got the guns.

Manchester where im from used to be called GUNCHESTER by the media that says it all about the gang situations.. but apart from that theres a drug culture so deep and powerfull since the 60s that it touches everyones lives..

And all these wild kids who would of just sold a little weed and got a job now sell coke and gotta gun..

Its like hundreds of individual cells battlin for a piece of the pie..

A lot of our innere city areas are well known for this but where im from it so different.
In the places like moss side cheetem hill what people think are mainly gang areas theres less random violence and more drug related..


Wythenshawe and lots of other estates are wose for casual violence, stabbings, glassings beatings street roberries...Now the drugs have got a real foothold its out with the rule book

but now the drugs

[Shade UK]

To Be Fair, Gun Crime Is Higher In America Because Guns Are Accessable! But A Report Showed Something Stupid Like 1 In 3 Kids Carry A Knife And 1 In 10 Carry A Gun.

Most Places Round The World Are Going To Have There Crime Problems And Poverty Is Just A Catalyst For This To Happen In Certain Areas.

[Phonix]

I don't like Wythenshawe.

Yet again, there's only a few places in Manchester i do like.

[SayKriDD.]

It getting real bad in my area.. Full of refugee's, Theres a street robbery every other day around here, And i was a victim one night on the way home from the town with my girl, To men dragged me in a lane threatened 2 stab me, While my girl was screamin in tears, Luckily somehow i pushed the one off me and barged the other and just gripped my girl and went to a chip shop to get help and the men (who i know) went outside and they just walked past like nothing happened, Police came asked for our names, address & number and said we'll have a look and get in contact with you... Still havent heard from the police..
A pub on my corner, Very rough, All my boys go there, 99% do coke, They roll blunts and joints on the tables while people are in the pub, Police cars drive past, Nothing done about it, Ive seen people get thrown thru car windows, Thrown thru a window in the pub, One guy had a sledghammer to his ribs.
On my street, Theres always at least 20 people on my corner a few doors down from me, From aged 11 - 25, All smoking all sorts, On motobikes 4am in the morning, Doin coke etc.
One woman was injecting her self one the corner at about 3pm infront of many people. It fucked up

[Fero Blaque]

It does sound kind of bad there now, I didn't know all of this. I've seen 11-year olds rob a deli before and 9-year olds on cocaine.

There's no stopping It, poverty plays a big role In the Inconvenient environments people live In especially kids who have no example to follow.