We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.
Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.
Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.
To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home
Chit Chat
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
03 Feb 10
21:16
Joined:
Date Joined:
12 Jan 09
There must be some awful **g places, Angelo City in the Philippines is pretty **g scary and i hear Mexico City is bad.
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 62
|
By:
Bury, Lancashire.
|
|
By:
amanda knox's flat
|
|
By:
i would rather go to Mexico City than somalia
|
|
By:
In my garden when I've got the guns out.
|
|
By:
Midsummer
|
|
By:
Bury - behave full of pussies
|
|
By:
Digmoor, Skelmersdale. Twinned with Beirut
|
|
By:
six mile bottom
|
|
By:
Columbia, 3-4 Kidnappings per Day !!!!!
|
|
By:
Newham (NAP)
|
|
By:
Caracas
500 murders a month |
|
By:
emerdale all sorts of $hit goes on in that place
|
|
By:
45 cromwell street
|
|
By:
The Leeds Goalline tonight
|
|
By:
the kenyan national park in a tent
|
|
By:
STEPTOES YARD 03 Feb 22:49
Caracas 500 murders a month really? youd have to be caracas to live there then |
|
By:
lol, eh eh !!!!!!!!! caracas
|
|
By:
Mogadishu
|
|
By:
St Mary Mead. 5 per cent of the population get killed every week.
|
|
By:
Mexico City is fine - the border towns are the bad places, Juarez for example.
Columbia *sic is on the whole a safe place to live, there are dangerous areas but you simply stay out of them. Foreigners are generally not targeted by the kidnappers who are after money and not bad publicity. Most dangerous place to live would be on the side of an active volcano or on Ilha de Queimada Grande |
|
By:
At last someone with a bit of insight
|
|
By:
uganda if your in a pink safari suit
|
|
By:
JBHA, why the sic after Columbia? I seem to remember that Colombia and Romania were both spelt with a 'u' when I was a kid.
|
|
By:
Mikael - I remember that too, I think people get confused with Columbia from the US, assuming that both have the same spelling.
Another possible reason is that Colombia is named after Christopher Columbus, but in Spanish he was known as Cristobal Colon...hence the two 'Os' in the name of the country. |
|
By:
Fascinating facts there
|
|
By:
I don't think that Mexico City is any more dangerous than most other big cities outside of Europe and the US. There are parts of Bogota, Rio and Sao Paulo that can be dangerous if you stray into the wrong areas.. Generally I think that the most dangerous places (in terms of violence) would be in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and some places in Africa, such as Sudan, Somalia the Congo e.t.c.
|
|
By:
Graham Norton's @rsehole.
|
|
By:
Eldoret in Kenya gets lively after dark.
|
|
By:
Walford
|
|
By:
Midsommer. Rapidly decreasing population there.
|
|
By:
Medellin is very dangerous
|
|
By:
jamaica nice to visit,not so nice to live there though.
|
|
By:
London absolute sh1t hole people killing each other every day
|
|
By:
Top 5 cities....
5. Cape Town. South Africa. 62 killings per 100 000 residents 4. New Orleans. The USA. 95 killings per 100 000 residents 3. Caracas. Venezuela. 130 killings per 100 000 residents |
|
By:
2. Ciudad Juárez. Mexico
130 killings per 100 000 residents 1. Mogadishu. Somalia. No data..The governments' warnings about traveling to Somalia are unanimous: this African country remains extremely dangerous and there is an enormous risk to anyone's security due to the threat of terrorism, clan-based and ethnic fighting as well as high level of kidnapping and piracy off the coast...........The epicenter of this brutal crimes and cruelty is Mogadishu, Somalia's capital. The city has been devastated by the ongoing civil war. As of 2008, around half of the city's population (0.5 million) have left the war-torn capital, according to the United Nations. Dozens of people are wounded every day in Mogadishu, and frequent bombings kill many of civilians. No one really knows how many people have been killed in the city, but without dispute Mogadishu remains the most lawless and dangerous city in the world. This is how BBC describes the everyday scenes in Mogadishu: "The crump of mortars; the crackle of gunfire; eerily empty streets; prowling guerrillas and looters; sprawling refugee camps; hospitals overflowing with casualties, their bodies smashed open by bullets, shells and shrapnel...". Since the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991 one million people have lost lives in Somalia due to the civil war and famine. And I thought Stockwell was bad11 |
|
By:
Since the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991 one million people have lost lives in Somalia due to the civil war and famine
Not trying hard enough imo. |
|
By:
lagos?
|
|
By:
sidthekid you are so wrong about Colombia.
Yes there are a few still kidnappings but not three a day as you state but around 0.6 per day, a fall of over 90% since 2000, inclduing hardly any foreigners. The country is very friendly and amazingly hospitable and the vast majority is very safe, and incredibly beautiful. I organise tours there for hundreds of people to our bird reserves every year and we have had hardly any problems. One pickpocketing, one camera stolen, one unsuccessful attempt to steal a bag, that's all. |
|
By:
getting better - have you ever organised anything up to Minca in the Sierra Nevada?
|