Bad things about Southampton?

Samtooth

Go on, let 'em have it.

Reply 1

Talya

Chavs.

Reply 2

Sarah H

^ spesh down Burgess Road...can get quite rough down there, but can also be avoided, so not that bad at all...

Reply 3

Clubber Lang

As a lifelong Southampton resident - crime has certainly taken a sharp increase recently

Murders - they happen fairly often nowadays whereas 5 years ago you might be lucky to hear of 1 a year.

Rapes have also gone up - when walk around town be careful not to walk alone in the parks - also someone even got raped near the car parks at leisure which has a lot of people aroudn that area at night - so be careful!

Reply 4

Talya

I once smelled pot outside LeisureWorld.. at 3pm in the afternoon.

Reply 5

flyingpig

The number of teenage pregnant people i c wondering round whenever i go to town. oh and the people with clipboards tha accost u in the street outside west quay. but then again i gues u get that in any city, but im from a little town!

Reply 6

Gini Keig

whats it like in regard to night life, is it any good?

Reply 7

Talya

Gini Keig

whats it like in regard to night life, is it any good?

Huge amounts of pubs and enough clubs to keep you occupied :smile:

Reply 8

bunthulhu

Night life great, chavs bad. Overall, great :smile:

Reply 9

Clubber Lang

I disagree - its like a month cannot go past without a new murder or somesort of seirous crime - almost unheard of in the past.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/display.var.1300255.0.murder_investigation_after_stabbing_in_city.php

Reply 10

username81904

Reading is a much smaller city (officially a town) and there are easilly one murder a week at least - 1 murder a month in a medium/large sized city is not a terrible record.

Reply 11

Clubber Lang

Maybe, but its bad when it is rising so rapidly.

Reply 12

Kidders

Wish i hadn'y read this thread! lol! Oh well too late now! But i think crime is bad everywhere these days, even in my little home town Norwich - 6 of my close friends have had their drinks spiked there in popular pubs / clubs. 4 close friends have been beaten up in the city and 1 was threatened with a knife, another left concussed for several hours.... I think all places have their down sides and Norwich is a small city. So Southampton is bound to have its share too!!