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.
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.
hi im really sorry and i dont mean to come across as a smart a£$e and i know that i have lived away from australia for 4 years and things may have changed? but how often do you hear of kids getting gunned down in the streets by another youth, kids being beaten to death because they are goths, 12 yr olds being raped, fire fighters being called out to hoax calls and being set on. i can go on but it makes me sick of what is happening in this country and they are not one offs, i would not say Australia is perfect and crime free! and not all of England is bad but what is going on is wrong. i think England is a great country but there is not that much for kids to do here, and i honestly feel that Australia has more to offer the youth! i hope i have not offended you or anyone else but surely it cant be as bad as England for crime???????
hmmmm not sure what crime is like in Oz, but I have great deal of insight to it here, i work in Prisons and probation so I am dealing with it on a day to day level, personnally the kids that I see who are in trouble do it for one of three reasons, peer pressure, drugs or lack of money peer pressure being the biggest problem of all if you ask me,
I think wherevene you have groups of kids you are going to get some element of crime, I for one am hoping that Brisbane is a lot quieter than Manchester.
hi im really sorry and i dont mean to come across as a smart a£$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???????
I have heard about all of these things happen in Australia since I have been here...and I have only been here 19 months!! None of it happens on my door step im glad to say...but it didn't happen on my door step in Uk either, that is why I think it swings in roundabouts.
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I work in Prisons and probation so I am dealing with it on a day to day level, personnally the kids that I see who are in trouble do it for one of three reasons, peer pressure, drugs or lack of money peer pressure being the biggest problem of all if you ask me.
I have to agree with you on that one goth, I worked in the juvenile division of corrective services here for over 13 years, the majority of crimes here are committed by juveniles that come from the low income families that usually live on the public housing estates.
I have to agree with you on that one goth, I worked in the juvenile division of corrective services here for over 13 years, the majority of crimes here are committed by juveniles that come from the low income families that usually live on the public housing estates.
It's an international problem isn't it. My parents moved a lot when I was growing up and my mum said you couldn't beat reading the local paper to get the know the local area. With the internet it's so much easier to do this type of research - read the local court pages and pay attention to the areas that are consistantly mentioned. Anywhere can have a 'bad egg' so to speak but when somewhere is mentioned over and over again that's an issue.
Something else my mum always said was 'a run down house in a good area is better than a brand new house in a cheap area'. It's the area that matters, not the house - especially when you're looking at resale value.
As a rule I try not to listen to my mum but occasionally she's right!!
