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Kay · 10-08-2011, 10:39 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 09/08/2011 17:39, in article , "Sacha"
wrote:

I appreciate what you're saying, Kay but Harry's remark was not
inclined towards working for the benefit of the community as a whole,
but more to hoping he could fool the trouble into becoming someone
else's problem. If there's a problem area, all the people in that
street, or on that estate, working *together* may produce a result.
"Pull up the ladder, Jack" won't do it. AIUI, there are areas where
crime has been pretty bad but where determined residents have managed
to clean it up and get their lives back in their own hands again.

But have they got rid of the crime or merely displaced it? Changing the
subject - we have a problem (as most places do) of where do older teenagers
go when they want to get together with their mates? They don't want to be
sitting under the eye of their parents - and, indeed, parents, especially
those without large houses, don't really want half a dozen noisy young males
in the house. So residents complain, and they get displaced from Morrisons
car park - but they haven't decided to stay at home, instead they've moved
to the field opposite the sheltered bungalows.