MightyBlades
Colin, Colin Morris on the wing, on the wing!
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I left Sheffield nearly two years ago and now live in Lincolnshire. It’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made and am kicking myself that I didn’t make the move years ago.
I lived in Ecclesall with all its parks, fancy shops, restaurants, schools and with the city centre and the Peak District both just 10 minutes away by car. Ecclesall has been gradually going down the pan for years and the whole area is looking very tired and neglected. Gangs of Asians and blacks now roam Endcliffe Park at night, making it a no-go area after dark, with numerous stabbings, shootings and rapes occurring every year. With two young kids, I decided that I’d had enough and didn’t want my children to grow up in the city that I was born and bred in.
Sheffield feels like it’s on its knees (more so now than it was even in the 80's), the city centre is an embarrassing shithole that I hated and stopped using 20 years ago. And my biggest bugbear, Sheffield is run by a bunch of incompetent socialist fuckwits, that the populace votes back in election after election, decade after decade. Keep them stupid, poor and dependent, and they will always vote you back in. For me, Sheffield's problems are all self-inflicted and I honestly can’t see anything but a continuing downwards spiral for the place.
The city really was grinding me down, and I wouldn’t go back even if someone gave me a free house in Whirlow to live in. I don’t miss the place one bit.
I lived in Ecclesall with all its parks, fancy shops, restaurants, schools and with the city centre and the Peak District both just 10 minutes away by car. Ecclesall has been gradually going down the pan for years and the whole area is looking very tired and neglected. Gangs of Asians and blacks now roam Endcliffe Park at night, making it a no-go area after dark, with numerous stabbings, shootings and rapes occurring every year. With two young kids, I decided that I’d had enough and didn’t want my children to grow up in the city that I was born and bred in.
Sheffield feels like it’s on its knees (more so now than it was even in the 80's), the city centre is an embarrassing shithole that I hated and stopped using 20 years ago. And my biggest bugbear, Sheffield is run by a bunch of incompetent socialist fuckwits, that the populace votes back in election after election, decade after decade. Keep them stupid, poor and dependent, and they will always vote you back in. For me, Sheffield's problems are all self-inflicted and I honestly can’t see anything but a continuing downwards spiral for the place.
The city really was grinding me down, and I wouldn’t go back even if someone gave me a free house in Whirlow to live in. I don’t miss the place one bit.