Watch out for douchebags trying to clothes line you

Well..it actually just occurred to me when I was writing that reply.

In all the time (especially around the East End) I've noticed what happens when wealthy people/developements come into a neighbourhood with an existing crime problem or even border-line problems with crime, they collide. What I noticed from living in Hackney/Bethnal Green etc is that if you're not ghetto, then you're easy prey.

Surely there's not enough gentrification. If these people all wore tweed and doffed their caps with a cheery "what ho!" instead of wearing grey tracksuits and stabbing you there would be no crime at all.

I've lived in Bethnal Green for 10 years, and Poplar before that. I'm not ghetto. I'm unmistakeably middle class. I have never had any of the sort of shit described in this thread though.