"Rough" areas in cardiff?

God, I must be the luckiest person alive. You have all these tales like "Never walk down Queen Street alone" or "I was mugged by Maindy Pool"....****, I really must have a rabbit's foot up my arse or something.

I've walked back from Chippy Alley [and the first person to call it Chippy Lane gets a slap] at 4 in the morning, blindingly drunk, up the Hayes, along Park Place, and up to Taly North, and not a soul has hassled me, or even looked at me twice.
Last night I wandered around, on my own, waiting for a friend, and decided to kill an hour by exploring Cathays. I've never walked so many dark streets alone in my life, and yet nobody even looked at me twice.

I've had the talks from my dad about "Don't drive through Canton/Riverside/Leckwith alone..." and managed to live in all of those situations. And the same for "Don't get a train or walk to Butetown/Grangetown" - Aside from Grangetown, which I've driven through but not walked through, I've done Butetown many a time.

To be honest, rough places are what you make of them. Maybe if you're going to walk around a) scared out of your mind, or b) flashin yr dollah-dollah, then you're going to get someone hassling you. I've never had the lack of common sense to walk through a strange area of a city thinking "****, someone is gonna knife me, best start looking round all edgy like" or "I know, I'll just take out my wallet for no reason..."

THEN AGAIN - people say where I live is "rough" and there are areas you shouldn't go at night, and things you shouldn't do at night and places you should just never go to. And it's all a load of crap, as far as I've seen. Everywhere is different...

Try it I've always known it as Chippy Lane and so has everyone I know!

As for living in Cardiff, it's a great City, and if you just follow normal social rules then you're going to be fine.
Every city has it's areas with a bad reputation, it's an unavoidable fact, but as has already been said, act normally and you'll be fine.

I'm from Splott, which has been mentioned a few times as a 'rough' area of Cardiff, and I now live in Cathays in a student house, and to be honest I'd say Cathays was way rougher than Splott! I never feel scared walking around the streets in Splott even at night, yet in my first week in Cathays some random man came up to me and my friends as we were walking home from town and started asking us if we wanted to do a 'deal' on some computers!

Splott people! woo. Did you go to Willows by any chance?

I have been staying in Butetown. I have been walking home very late into the night from my job. The first few days were fine but then yesterday 6 Somali guys with knives rushed up on me near the Construction Center. Had to give away the money. Thank God they left my mobile and watch. I must say I am scared of this area. All these Somalis are a problem.I am not being racist but the police should tame that community.

Haha woo! And nope sorry, St Illtyds!

To all girls: just be on your guard, and don't be alone; even in the relative 'safety' of Uni halls... two girls have been raped; hopefully there won't be any further incidents, but just be careful.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8294158.stm