Croydon - what's it like?

[Sarah_W]

okgo said:

Sarah_W said:

LovelyTia said:

Anytime after school and especially on the holidays (you get the big gangs) . They mainly hang around west croydon train station because of the KFC there. They also walk around by the car park attached to Centrale.
This happened on 3 occasions last year. Both times they got asked the question
"who you with?" referring to gangs I suppose. They seem to target teens so older people are ok, unless they are drunk then I think anyone is game.

Edited by LovelyTia on Saturday 30th May 20:43

Gangs of kids on school hols don't sound too bad

I've lived near WOking beore which is pretty sh£*e!!!!! When you gys say bad, do you mena it's worse than WOking?

Woking is very very tame in comparison with rough parts of Croydon. In fact Woking really isn't that bad at all.

My partner's 6ft 5 adn 14 stone and he usually attra ts trouble from gangs as he's a trophy guy for them to pick on!

Woking isn't rough - granted, but it is really sh&*£e and run down and god, some of the people in town at the weekends :-O

[okgo]

Sarah_W said:

okgo said:

Sarah_W said:

LovelyTia said:

Anytime after school and especially on the holidays (you get the big gangs) . They mainly hang around west croydon train station because of the KFC there. They also walk around by the car park attached to Centrale.
This happened on 3 occasions last year. Both times they got asked the question
"who you with?" referring to gangs I suppose. They seem to target teens so older people are ok, unless they are drunk then I think anyone is game.

Edited by LovelyTia on Saturday 30th May 20:43

Gangs of kids on school hols don't sound too bad

I've lived near WOking beore which is pretty sh£*e!!!!! When you gys say bad, do you mena it's worse than WOking?

Woking is very very tame in comparison with rough parts of Croydon. In fact Woking really isn't that bad at all.

My partner's 6ft 5 adn 14 stone and he usually attra ts trouble from gangs as he's a trophy guy for them to pick on!

Woking isn't rough - granted, but it is really sh&*£e and run down and god, some of the people in town at the weekends :-O

Everyone's partner is 6.5 and 15 stone on the internet, in all seriousness people die in Croydon, often, the same can not be said for Woking, and unpleasant Surrey town.

And try proof reading your posts before you click submit

[davido140]

its a dump, dump dumpity dump dump.

however, as you point out the transport links are excellent!

[toasty]

Spent 4 very fine peaceful hours playing golf this morning at Addington, only 5 minutes drive from E Croydon station.

Croydon's not all bad.

Just most of it.

[NiceCupOfTea]

New Addington is absolutely horrible. Chances are most of the chavs stay off the golf course though...

[Famous Graham]

LovelyTia said:

Lived there for 2/3 years and no trouble.

Having to actually specify that as a bonus kind of says all you need to know about the place

[LovelyTia]

toasty said:

Spent 4 very fine peaceful hours playing golf this morning at Addington, only 5 minutes drive from E Croydon station.

Croydon's not all bad.

Just most of it.

You mean the golf course they found the severed head in a few years back right?
May not have been head although I'm pretty sure it was, might have been some other body part. (I must have only been 10 or 11 then )

Edited by LovelyTia on Sunday 31st May 01:05

[pits]

Croydon, the Hull of the south, I hate the place, been there a few times, agreed the surrounding area is nice to look at, but I would rather put an electric whisk with stanley blades attached to it up my ass and stick it on high speed, than spend time in Croydon

[XJSJohn]

pits said:

Croydon, the Hull of the south ......

I would rather put an electric whisk with stanley blades attached to it up my ass and stick it on high speed, than spend time in Croydon

Now thats selling the place

Don't sugar coat your feelings there pits

Edited by XJSJohn on Sunday 31st May 02:18

[Ayahuasca]

I would rather count the wrinkles on my dog's balls than live in Croydon.









Actually I have never been there, just wanted to use that phrase.

[igiveup]

Tells you all you need to know http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/

[DavidY]

pits

Interesting says a lot about me then, having been brought up in Selsdon and South Croydon, I then went to University in Hull!! But we are talking 1969-1985 here and I'm sure both towns have changed!!

davidy

[Technonotice]

article said said:

A Primark security guard had to be taken to hospital after being attacked by a group of yobs in the shop.

A fracas broke out in the store in North End, Croydon, on Wednesday afternoon.

At around 5.15pm the thugs started arguing with staff and then attacked them.
Click here for more

A member of staff explained: "Some young people started fighting and they hit one of the supervisors with an umbrella.

"One security guard also got hurt and had to go to hospital. They had all been hanging around, I don't know why they did it - we don't normally have things like that happen here."

Croydon's a dump. There's a bloke who runs a corner shop in west Croydon who gets robbed every few months. Last time he got stabbed. Lots of drugs, prostitutes and robberies.

Probably similar to a lot of London now. Also avoid Norwood and Thornton heath
as they are utter steholes

[bga]

LovelyTia said:

Lived in croydon all my life. Avoid timebridge/man on the moon area of Addington, oh and also the parade, actually just avoid Addington as a whole. Norbury is a nice area but 5 minutes either way and it gets rough (Thorton Heath one way Streatham the other)

Streatham isn't rough, just rather manky. I've been here for 5 years now and seen much less trouble than in other apparently more salubrious places.

Croydon is the only place I go where everyone seems to want to start a fight.

[NiceCupOfTea]

bga said:

LovelyTia said:

Lived in croydon all my life. Avoid timebridge/man on the moon area of Addington, oh and also the parade, actually just avoid Addington as a whole. Norbury is a nice area but 5 minutes either way and it gets rough (Thorton Heath one way Streatham the other)

Streatham isn't rough, just rather manky. I've been here for 5 years now and seen much less trouble than in other apparently more salubrious places.

Croydon is the only place I go where everyone seems to want to start a fight.

Isn't Streatham the place where somebody got shot at the ice rink?

[bga]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Isn't Streatham the place where somebody got shot at the ice rink?

Yes, poor bugger got shot a couple of years ago. There have been a couple more since then which have been gang related. The Ice-Rink and a more recent one were about 1/4 a mile from my flat. As a resident of the area, IMO there isn't the same feeling of scrotery that I had when living in Tooting or Clapham. A night out on the High Road is less likely to end up in anyone getting grief than many other places I go out too.

I won't deny it's manky here but not what I would call (maybe we all have different definitions of rough??).
Can't wait to get out of here though, getting out in the car is a nightmare!

[NiceCupOfTea]

Indeed, have done a bit of work in and around Streatham, even looked at a few flats round there 10 or 11 years ago. Not the greatest area, but there are worse (Croydon for one )

[The Fly Fisher]

Its a typical London suburban sthole. Only good thing about it is that there's an exit.

[hungry_hog]

had a work colleague that lived there and he described it like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_jy6wi9DqA

[Dupont666]

ok.... now i have had a chance to read it all the way through...

Clapham has its bad areas, stay away from clapham park, but generally good, quite expensive and very good links to city.

Streatham, have mates that lived in hill area and had no issues for the 3 years they lived there, one is about to move to streatham common and no issues. Trains are crap from here (hill mostly) avoid.

Croydon, only know south east croydon, south is ok as a friend lives there and hes scared of his own shadow and he likes the area. East cyodon to sandilands is ok, never had issues at or near the station or walking from there to sandilands, but then i usually had a 38" composite hockey stick in hand and that could be the reason why.... but in all seriousness I have loads of friends live there and they dont turn up stabbed or black and blue each week and if they like it, then I cant see why there is all this... its a dump, etc.... sure the main CBD is but then again its a CBD.

At the end of the day it depends on how much money you have and what you are looking for that will decide your choice.... I could throw balham, wandsworth and tooting in the mix, but depends on money.