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Originally Posted by joetrac
To be honest I think it swings in roundabouts.
We live in Suburbia brisbane and I have never seen any kids hang about street corners...although it must happen at some point cause there is plenty graffiti. It gets very dark very early and I would be very wary of letting my kids hang outside but im sure it is perfectly safe.
However when kids are in their teens they will want to go to surfers or the valley in Brisbane and in my opinion they are as unsafe as anywhere in the uk I have visited.Drugs ,fighting ,prostitutes,binge drinking...exactly the same problems that parents worry about in the Uk.
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hi im really sorry and i dont mean to come across as a smart aŁ$e and i know that i have lived away from australia for 4 years and things may have changed? but how often do you hear of kids getting gunned down in the streets by another youth, kids being beaten to death because they are goths, 12 yr olds being raped, fire fighters being called out to hoax calls and being set on. i can go on but it makes me sick of what is happening in this country and they are not one offs, i would not say Australia is perfect and crime free! and not all of England is bad but what is going on is wrong. i think England is a great country but there is not that much for kids to do here, and i honestly feel that Australia has more to offer the youth! i hope i have not offended you or anyone else but surely it cant be as bad as England for crime???????