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I know they are in decline because of internet shopping, parking and business rates but crikey I still try to shop with what’s left. I just can’t believe how much it now stinks of weedy stuff. I find it disgusting. Smoking was bad enough and Vaping is slightly better but still don’t like it. It’s everywhere now, even on the beaches so I can’t enjoy that either. No wonder people resort to getting things delivered to their door. Can’t enjoy going out any more. Just venting my frustration. Now a recluse.
When you consider that cigs were banned for health reasons and because they were smelly and yet vaping is exactly the same, to maybe a slightly lesser degree.
I don't see that in my high street but it probably will do at some point. In the whole town centre there may be a couple of homeless people and maybe one busker but its not too bad except for all the empty shops of course. The bottom of the town centre has mostly empty shops the middle and top have a few empty.
BonzoBanana You are lucky then. I don’t think it’s necessarily the homeless. These are just usually foreign looking men or just ordinary people walking around. They stink of it it’s so strong.
Yep..spliff stink everywhere you go.People just can't cope with sobriety or not being stoned these days it seems.
It's very bad it seems so many people do smoke weed out on the streets everywhere now days I've even seen police officers talking to people while they are smoking it and then they' just walk off no wonder there's so many people who are out of work they are all of there heads on drugs and stabbing eachother the way its going be the end of the high street soon
jdible Police don’t care, it’s become acceptable. I just have very sensitive nose and chest and it really makes me feel unwell. I definitely don’t get any ‘high’ from it but it’s so strong. Where they find the money for it and then probably cry they can’t feed themselves. Just cynical.
Ours is empty. Our local council has made a think to get shop landlords to fill them. But no one wants to rent cos of rental prices. I only go into town centre like once or twice a year. I hate it. Even before Internet shopping was like it is I tried to avoid it
Well, more people are starting to realize that their cities are in a decline and under a Starmer/Sunak government things will get even worse than they already are.
There's a high street I live near to, and recently they removed a bench which junkies would spend all day sat... Removing or banning something won't fix it until they get to the core of the problem itself.
Anyway, I'll leave this video here filmed in Manchester which is pretty bizarre towards the end. Some guy walks up to the masked guy, masked guy throws a liquid (coffee) at him, and then the masked guy falls. There is no valid reason he had to do that and it doesn't fall under self-defense whatsoever either.
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