Is the Middlesbrough area the hardest place in Britain?

Just looked at the worst postcodes for knife crime in the UK. Not one is further north than Leeds. Top 2 were Leicester and Croydon.
 
I partly started the thread because of the constant stream of hard/toughman stories from the Gazette web site. Also observation of the urban areas in and around Middlesbrough and comparing them with say London and how its developed over the last 30 years.
 
I know that Middlesbrough is often all tarred with the same brush but if we break it down to districts are we really saying "all of Middlesbrough"? We have some really high populations living in Marton, Coulby, Acklam, Nunthorpe, Stainton etc...... I imagine crime i these areas is quite low. Is it really a section of Middlesbrough that is creating this view? As driving round the areas mentioend there is no shaortage of apparent wealth etc
 
True Nunthorpe, feels like Nunthorpe as always felt, but crime such as burglary is affecting some of the better areas. Ormesby was a nice village in the 1960s, now large bookies, Bargain Booze, Heron foods, pensioner nearly beaten to death in Henry Taylor Court house, the former NHS clinic is a Tan Centre, Staff at the BP Garage threatened with knives and robbed in broad daylight.
 
Jonny Ingbar said:
I have to say I find the thread title a bit odd.

In terms of deprivation, Teesside has disproportionately more deprived areas than anywhere else in the country.
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I was not quite sure how to phrase it - toughest or hardest or scariest etc

I am sensitive to lack of opportunities and poverty in the Town and area, which no doubt provides a breeding crowd for crime and and anti-social behaviour, but its more than just poverty, possibly a legacy of heavy industry and a male dominant working class culture.
 
Redwurzel said:
I was not quite sure how to phrase it - toughest or hardest or scariest etc

I am sensitive to lack of opportunities and poverty in the Town and area, which no doubt provides a breeding crowd for crime and and anti-social behaviour, but its more than just poverty, possibly a legacy of heavy industry and a male dominant working class culture.
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Realise that from your OP, wasn't a criticism, apologies if it appeared that way and I know from your posts that you're in the category of decent posters on here 👍
 
SCG said:
Of all the places i've lived in Nottingham has some of the roughest estates. and what makes it worse is some of the old pit villages are being filled with "problem" people from the South and South-East. Nottinghamshire people are decent enough,but they won't put up with Cocky so and so's.
I asked my dad a couple of years ago where's the roughest place he's been and he said South Bank. also said though, the pubs used to be good there(he was in the Brewery trade for a bit).
I've never felt unsafe anywhere in the North East - once lived on a Newcastle Estate where we had the odd burnt out car on the Grass nearby.
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Bulwell was a dodgy area...........
 
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