MrFood wrote:One of my students from last year is going to Nottingham University. She's quite a delicate little thing.
She asked me what Nottingham was like; 'it's alrght' I replied. 'You'll be fine'.
Oh dear.
From what I've been told, the student areas of Nottingham are fine. I live in a student area of Leeds and I feel (relatively) safe here. One good thing about students is their fondness for wandering the streets drunkenly late at night, or sitting in their front rooms drunk late at night. It's almost like a neighbourhood watch in that you're very rarely alone on the streets round there (apart from in summer, when it's coming like a ghost town). I used to have a lot of trouble explaining this to my dad, that I felt safer at night in inner-city Leeds where there were people around than in the small town where I grew up where after eleven the streets would be dark and deserted.
I always suspect these things are cyclical. If a few lads round Sneinton have reached the age (15-18) where they're at a loose end and feel the need to 'assert themselves', it's going to lead to an increase in trouble. Once they've fucked off/got bored/gone to the big house, and there's only their eleven year old sisters left around, it'll quiet down. For a bit. It's telling that Ms. Funny-Honey's neighbour has had a word with "their parents". It basically boils down to tough, stupid kids. I note also that the increase in trouble there seems to have coincided with the school holidays. It's a theory, anyway.
Some sort of beating was handed out at the end of my street last Thursday night; I came home around 10pm to find a police cordon. The victim had been set upon next to his house by a group of lads in a car, which made it sound as if he'd been targetted specifically, for a specific reason.
Sigh.
