Bad vibes when walking through the city centre

[LeMaquis]

Doesn't have to be drunks, they can be nobody at all in sight but I still get a eerie feeling sometimes

 

It didn't used to bother me until I got older, frankly you feel a bit vulnerable.....

 

You'll understand it when you are older.

The knowledge that you no longer have the fitness and ability to defend yourself should the situation arise is upsetting.

 

These quotes have nothing to do with real threats. It's all about non-existent perceived threats. The posters FEEL more vulnerable because they're getting older.

 

This thread has everything to do with the minds of those feeling threatened and nothing real to do with the city centre.

[RootsBooster]

Its your 'gut instinct' - its what's kept mankind from becoming extinct.

 

Unless your gut instinct tells you to make the wrong decision. That's called Natural Selection, it's what keeps the future generations of mankind alive.

[Allen]

These quotes have nothing to do with real threats. It's all about non-existent perceived threats. The posters FEEL more vulnerable because they're getting older.

 

This thread has everything to do with the minds of those feeling threatened and nothing real to do with the city centre.

 

I beg to differ.

It's everything to do with the environment in which one finds oneself.

Groups of youths hanging around late into the evening does nothing to create confidence in ones own safety.

When living in Sheffield my doors were always locked and venturing out in the evening was an unpleasant experience.

 

Nowadays I don't feel the need to lock the doors until I retire to bed.

I often walk the dog in the early hours. Last night I was walking the dog at 2am and felt perfectly safe.

[Tyranna]

I've always felt Sheffield City Centre is a dump after about 5pm. Supposedly the 5th biggest city in the country and it basically shuts down at 5.

 

You should visit Barnsley then. Even though it is a 'town' when compared alongside Sheffield, there is not even a 7-11 or 24 hour Spar of some sort in the town centre like Rotherham has; there was a newsagent which usually stayed open until 9, but the last time I visited it it had 'shut early' due to 'Staff shortage'.

Re. 'bad vibe/atmosphere'; maybe that is partly due to static from the Tram wires? Some people are sensitive to electrical emissions, even from domestic electricity. There are certainly some groups of dodgy looking people hanging around in places like Fitzalan Square, but most of them are probably homeless and will only 'go away' if they can be helped by more of the charities like the Archer Project and Shelter...