Council estate in Bristol, what makes it worse than most council estates is that it is completely cut off from the rest of the city and there is nothing here at all. Location wise it isn't to far from civilisation, although walking will still take you 25 atleast to get anywhere worth being, and it's such a hideous walk that if you're not in the burberry brigade you're probaly better off arming yourself to the teeth or just staying home. One of the main problems is the lack of transportation, you can get a bus to the city centre once per hour and that's about it. Alot of the people here don't work and so don't have cars making this problem worse.
While that doesn't sound like something to really complain about, it will be hard for you to imagine how a place in a city could be so isolated without actually visiting here, see you have to walk through some kind of forested area, cross a bridge over a train track which cuts the place in half and then walk passed row upon row of red brick houses until you actually reach anything. Meanwhile the back end of the estate is flanked by a motorway.
Infact I'm convinced many of the people here aren't actually aware that there is a world outside of this place and that is why complete strangers will tell you to get a better dress sense if you are wearing jeans, all while wearing full Rebook trackies.
Here are some fun facts about the lovely neighbourhood I live in...
- Almost a third of ********'s children live in households with no employed adults
- More than 40% well over the city average of 29%? are from single-parent families
- Figures show that youth offences for violence, theft, drugs possession, motoring and criminal damage are all above average for Bristol, yet there is no active police station within a mile-and-a-half.
(I'd post the source, but some people on here have alot of spare time)
Don't worry though guys, the council say it's alright, because they're just recieved several million pounds which they intend to spend on several thousand new houses. Joy.
I intend to get out of here as soon as I'm 18, I don't dress like a power ranger and I have long hair at the moment, so it's impossible for me to walk down the street without getting into an altercation. Living here is also a huge blow to your solution life if it doesn't include hanging out with inbreds and huffing petrol, due to the distance from this place and public transport.
With that said, in all honesty I probaly won't be moving out, mostly because I'm heading to music college next year, so it may be that at some point I have to walk home with a guitar, now seeing as here the general consensus is that if you play music you're gay, and everyone here is also homophobic, I'm probaly going to die.
This place also eats lives, all of my childhood friends from round here now have fuck all going for them, even though they all had infinite potential, this is due to the lack of jobs in the area.
As I mentioned earlier the council has come upon large sums of money and is claiming it is going to "save" the place, when infact all they plan to do is make it even worse by building more houses. Now if they actually wanted to save the place, there is a large plot of land which is going to complete waste, it was a high school but it got shut down. What they need to do is build some kind of megaplex there, bowling, cinema, food places, that sort of thing. This would create jobs for the locals because you would not need wheels to get there, it would get the kids off the street, it would encourage more bus services to run and maybe give the neighbourhood some interaction with the rest of the city. Unfortuantly though, you either have to have brain damage or be a money hungry bastard to get be a councilor, so things are only going to get worse.
/rant
If someone actually reads that, they deserve a medal.
chrisdibs said:
where i live so so full of fucking yokels it seems a shame i can't go up to the clocktower and thin them out a bit
nah but seriously I hate the idiots in the southwest of england, some of them look like they should be on their porch with their banjos, all toothless and clueless and shite. god i hate them
This post made me laugh, so true.
