britain worst place for children

[Skweeky]

Mon The Dutch!!!!!!!!!!

yet another reason to move to the Netherlands soon

I'm sure Nigel would put me up for a while


It is kinda scary though.
We're kinda trying for a baby just now and I find it disturibing that if I stay and live here my child will never be able to go for an innocent pint and a game of pool when he or she is 13-14, just like I did

There's always kids hanging about here, mangled out of their faces with nowhere else to go.
What do you expect will happen

[Busyman™]

It must be true. It was in the papers.

Well, I don't care - my competitive juices have been stirred - there cannot be anything at all (at all) in the U.K. that is worse than it is here, and everyone knows it.

We'll sue for last place, if we can find a venue willing to entertain our complaint.

Before I got to your post, I was going to post nearly the exact same thing.

I can't believe the UK, in this respect, is worse than the US.

We have Superman Capitalism and a whole lotta NIMBY over here.

[Ava Estelle]

The England I saw on a recent visit was nothing like the place I grew up in. My parents used to kick us out of the house in the morning and expected us back before dark, you wouldn't do that now. There were no guns on the streets then, no muggings, and our parents didn't have to constantly worry where we were.

I had two kids in England, and two in Australia, and there is no comparison, my two youngest had a brilliant childhood, when they saw what England was like they couldn't wait to get back here, and were so glad they didn't grow up there.

[Barbarossa]

It depends where you live. I'd never want to bring a child up in an inner city, but where we are, a small town of population 25000 or thereabouts, it's pretty safe. There's lots of green spaces to play, and plenty of stuff to do.

[j2k4]

The England I saw on a recent visit was nothing like the place I grew up in. My parents used to kick us out of the house in the morning and expected us back before dark, you wouldn't do that now. There were no guns on the streets then, no muggings, and our parents didn't have to constantly worry where we were.

I had two kids in England, and two in Australia, and there is no comparison, my two youngest had a brilliant childhood, when they saw what England was like they couldn't wait to get back here, and were so glad they didn't grow up there.

Guns on the street?

In England?

How can this be?

[bigboab]

The England I saw on a recent visit was nothing like the place I grew up in. My parents used to kick us out of the house in the morning and expected us back before dark, you wouldn't do that now. There were no guns on the streets then, no muggings, and our parents didn't have to constantly worry where we were.

I had two kids in England, and two in Australia, and there is no comparison, my two youngest had a brilliant childhood, when they saw what England was like they couldn't wait to get back here, and were so glad they didn't grow up there.

Guns on the street?

In England?

How can this be?

Not just England. There have been four armed robberies in the last two weeks in the town where I live. The town has a population of about 50,000. Granted it is only about 25 minutes by motorway from Glasgow where gun crime is an everyday occurrence.

[Busyman™]

Guns on the street?

In England?

How can this be?

Not just England. There have been four armed robberies in the last two weeks in the town where I live. The town has a population of about 50,000. Granted it is only about 25 minutes by motorway from Glasgow where gun crime is an everyday occurrence.

Wtf?!!

Really. Wtf?!!!

I am really not trying to be sarcastic.

[Mindfukced]

Guns on the street?

In England?

How can this be?

Not just England. There have been four armed robberies in the last two weeks in the town where I live. The town has a population of about 50,000. Granted it is only about 25 minutes by motorway from Glasgow where gun crime is an everyday occurrence.

I can vouch for that..I was born and raised in Glasgow...back in the early 90's it was mostly knives. Quite a few of my friends were stabbed in our younger days. Since then its guns that has taken over.
England is bad aswell. Most people i know in Birmingham know somebody who carries a gun. I also lived in Mosside, Manchester, and there is a major gun culture there. In East London, most people I know have friends who also carry guns. Quite a few of my friends have bullet wounds which freaks me out.

I feel sorry for the kids today.


Peace,

Mindfukced

[ilw]

Guns on the street?

In England?

How can this be?

Not just England. There have been four armed robberies in the last two weeks in the town where I live. The town has a population of about 50,000. Granted it is only about 25 minutes by motorway from Glasgow where gun crime is an everyday occurrence.

just to be clear are we talking about guns here? Armed robbery could potentially refer to everything from mugging with a knife to raiding a bank with sawn off shotguns.

[bigboab]

Not just England. There have been four armed robberies in the last two weeks in the town where I live. The town has a population of about 50,000. Granted it is only about 25 minutes by motorway from Glasgow where gun crime is an everyday occurrence.

just to be clear are we talking about guns here? Armed robbery could potentially refer to everything from mugging with a knife to raiding a bank with sawn off shotguns.

It was hand guns they used.