Solution for Darndale??...or other undesirables?

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

The reason places like Darndale get like that is simple city planning. Look at the area in itself. It's a tiny little corner that's tucked away from everywhere. There are no main roads going through, no business and no reason at all for anyone who doesn't live there to venture through. Just a group of houses looking at each other, shoved away in the corner, hidden from the outside world. As such, the kids in the area seldom have to deal with outsiders from the rest of the world. So they play with other kids from the area all day. When kids play with kids away from the overseeing eyes of the adults, there is no law. When there is other human traffic, parents make sure that their kids are well behaved. But when the only people who see your kids are your neighbours (whom you're probably relatively close with being that it's such a small locale), they become like family and, as such, you don't keep the kids on such a tight leash.

I see what you mean, I've been living not far from Darndale for a number of years now but I don't think it's all down to city planning, it can't be. I was raised in rural Ireland. My house was really tucked away with no main routes going through-in fact we had no real facilaties whatsoever. Tbh I rarely had to deal with people from outside my school/family/small group of friends which were all located in my isolated area. My parents seldom were able to keep a watchful eye over myself and my friends if we wandered off somewhere (which was almost every day afer school), yet I-or any of my friends for that matter-didn't turn out as a scumbag. Equally not everyone in our group had parents who were well educated/employed just to add to the point. But it didn't turn us into scumbags, bar the odd shenanigans we were pretty well behaved.

I think city planning does have a part to play, sure, but it isn't the be all end all attached to this problem.