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I have spent the afternoon reading about horrible things that have happened in Peckham...but is it better in Dulwich. I have been living in East Dulwich for about 1 month and I love it, but sometimes at night (as in London) I feel a bit nervous and I have seen some relatively scary looking character....


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Funnily enough, I saw a slightly scary-looking character this afternoon. Oddball wearing heavy black leather gloves (in June), marching up and down LL, arms swinging to the extreme, as if he were a para on exercises (twice as fast as anyone else), talking and shouting to himself, hitting a wall with his fists, burying his face in his hands. I just crossed the road.


When in doubt, just cross the road.

No it's not they are both CRACK PITS bubbling with the drying spunk of debauched summer fete's - I suggest you move NOW, grab your things and go , go now i tell you. Leave your Radio times and your prized collection of wooden mushrooms and get the hell out of dodge while you still can.

Hello hanay008


As you may have gathered by now, this forum is a hotbed of wit and hilarity. Welcome to our little community, and take it all with a pinch of salt...


Someone asked a very similar question recently and got lots of slightly more sensible answers than you seem to be getting today, I'm just digging around to see whether I can find it.

Yes.. beware Moos.


One minute she's helpfully digging around for a useful old thread, the next minute she's following you back from the pub, rendering you unconscious with a chloroformed hanky, chopping you up into tiny pieces and selling you as 'bush meat' out of the back of the Sparkes van.

i am actually really worrying for you - does anyone know what you look like ? just keep to public spaces, if those liberals get onto you then you really are in trouble. They will have you flying the orange rosette before you can say "vince cable, aunty mable"


oh and welcome.


AFN

Are you safe in Dulwich? Recently, when I came home from work and opened the front door a strange stillness greeted me. Usually the sound of the key in the door has my three year old hurtling towards me like an over-excited puppy, shouting "Daddy, Daddy" but this time, nothing. Stepping into the hall I could hear her mother moving around upstairs, but saw my youngest through the open door of the front room lying slumped on the sofa, her eyes staring straight ahead as if transfixed. I moved over to her and bent down to greet her when, catching me off balance, a sudden kick to the side of my head knocked my glasses off and left me momentarily stunned; through my confusion I could hear mocking laughter. Slowly, as the throbbing in my temple began to recede, the full realisation began to dawn on me- never, NEVER stand between the TV and a three year old when she's utterly absorbed in 'Dora the Explorer'. And her sister was no better- just thought the whole thing was hilarious.


A grumpy toddler can be a volatile thing, and they don't call East Dulwich 'Nappy Valley' for nothing...

Hanay


I have lived in ED & surrounding areas for years Walworth/Camberwell was how shall we say the "sauciest"(we were burgled 4 times) However ED felt the safest. Now I used to live in the beautiful & peaceful town of Arundel "The jewel of West sussex" except one night 3 guys in a car drove up the pavement running me down, 2 of them then set about me with a broken bottle & a socket wrench trying to f****ng kill me in essence. Yes I am still here to tell the tale & hand on heart I have seen more fights, violence and nasty behavior in small country towns then I have in the 22 odd years living in this fantastic city. I do think the way you carry your self , your personal demeanor & self awareness is what keeps you out of most trouble wherever you plot up.


Oh and stop reading the Daily(hate) Mail/Sth london(who's stabbed who) press......it's enough to scare anybody.




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