splash62

What's happening in our cities?

Posted on 08/30/09, 07:20 pm

Visited our grand-daughter who has moved out to Oxford, a little country town an hour's drive from Christchurch.
Walking around the streets, it struck me - no graffiti!

Sunday morning and no smashed bottles! Young people sitting around in the sun drinking coke and laughing, not sloping along in hoodies with their eyes down.
Here in ChCh we see people lying under bushes and trees in parks, out to it in the middle of the day.
Such a difference from when there were jobs to go around, and young people had self-respect and were able to look forward to an interesting life.
Do governments ever give a thought to the emotional cost of their policies?

• Reply #1 09/02/09  3:57pm
  
  TNTX2
  Good point about the government. We live in the country as well and it is great seeing young people up and outside early not like the cities. Also they are home at night not wandering the streets causing havoc.
• Reply #2 10/08/09  3:55am
  
  Alasey
  If you actually notice it that in christchuch most of the time its people over 20 causing a lot of the trouble, not us teenagers. If you go to town at night its a whole load of adults drunk out of their mind throwing up. Most teenagers drink yes and excessively but usualy the truoble they cause is in their own houses not the city.
• Reply #3 10/08/09  4:18am
  
  splash62
  Sorry I got it wrong. What would I know, the nearest I go to a pub is watching Coronation St!
• Reply #4 10/11/09  2:01pm
  
  Alasey
  lol ok its the common miscomnception not just in christchurch but everywhere.
  Its rather unfair to be truthful, as all us teenagers get judged and watched as soon as we go in anywhere, like do you think i can set foot in Ballyntynes without being watched like a hawk and followed. For one its rude but also ridicoulous. I man i havent stolen as much as twenty cents in my wholoe life and never intend to. Also in New World in the mornings before and after school i am made to take my bag off and leave it the front its unfair ya know
• Reply #5 10/12/09  1:48am
  
  splash62
  Pretty humiliating, I do sympathize.
• Reply #6 11/03/09  2:53am
  
  Alasey
  It is humilating, the teen stereotype is extemely unfair.

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