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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Aren't they called scallies in Liverpool?
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That word is kind of dying out in place of Chavs, or the less subtle Knobheads. Plus, it's sort of a broad word. Everyone in Liverpool is a scally whether they like it or not, we all get up to the same things, just in varying degrees.
There is a big problem with it all in Liverpool as Slavo noted, the north end of the city being much worse off in places like Norris Green and Walton where people are regularly being shot up because of a gang war or some sort of other tedious street rep nonsense. The south end of the city, where I am lucky enough to live, is a lot safer, having been a collection of old victorian gated communities and mansions. Still, the neighbourhood of Speke, Halewood and Garston around the airport are very dodgy decrepit council estates. Oh and in the city centre area, don't go into Toxteth (still a riot area) or Dingle (Toxteth 20 years ago). Ah, scenic Toxteth..
I don't want to give the city a bad name or anything, but it is a city in rapid moral decline despite economic upturn. For some reason we have a Liberal-Democrat city council who are all in it for the money- think Mayor Quimby on
The Simpsons. But at the end of the day I'd rather live here than London, it's much smaller and the dodgy areas are much easier to identify, whereas in London you can unwittingly wander from a trendy and sorta-safe area into a crack hood in seconds.