by tombarlow »
03 Dec 2013 11:58
Apologies for waffling on about non Team issues but... too grew up in Reading but now have lived in Nottingham for years now. I would probably choose Nottingham over Reading as a place to live (distance from the Mad Stad an issue of course).
Doesnt every town city of a certain size have crime/gun crime issues in the less desirable areas?
Certainly the national media have an obsession and incorrect view that the city has a big gun crime issue.
I think somewhere along the line up to date gun crime stats were lazily put together with population stats from 30 odd years ago and hey presto we have a high high gun crime rate.
If you did the same lazy maths with Reading the gun crime rate would probably be worse than those quoted for Nottingham. How much has the population of Reading grown in the past 30 years!
bobby1413 Pepe the Horseman Isn't there quite a bit of gun crime in Nottingham?
I've heard that but I imagine that's in the areas of high crime - e.g. on certain estates and areas.
In the city centre it was really nice, even the people seemed nicer for some reason.