"Dan Gravell" wrote in message
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Ben Nunn wrote:

But there are little-used mainline stations in London which are worse.
Loughborough junction is utterly derilect, and Streatham is now pretty
menacing.

bites

What's wrong with Streatham? It's pretty unclean, but I never feel
unsafe there (although that may be because I live there and go through
it twice a day ).

Like Brixton it opens onto a busy street, and so with the old safety in
numbers principle, which may or may not be illfounded in this case, I
feel ok.


Safety in numbers would only apply if you either lived or worked there, and
were using the station in during peak times though.

Go there at night - or indeed during the middle of the day - and it's almost
empty apart from the occasional gang hanging around at platform level, and
loitering crack-dealer in the ticket hall.


Been quite interesting reading this thread and see some people
innocently lurching from one generalisation to the other without
seemingly really meaning it or wishing to insult any social group.


It's not a generalisation to talk about how places make you feel
individually. Right now, Streatham makes *me* feel somewhat threatened, so
I'll normally take a bus if I'm going there.

BTN

Ben Nunn wrote:

Go there at night - or indeed during the middle of the day - and it's almost
empty apart from the occasional gang hanging around at platform level, and
loitering crack-dealer in the ticket hall.

Not experienced that myself. I think the same sort of "gangs" you're
discussing hang about on my road, but they're hardly threatening, just kids.

I don't know what distinguishing features all crack dealers have so I
wouldn't know one if I saw one.

Dan

Dan Gravell wrote the following
in:

I don't know what distinguishing features all crack dealers have
so I wouldn't know one if I saw one.

They all sell crack.

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