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Parts of Folkestone Road are a pretty scary ghetto. It's a long road, with each section having a different character and demographic. I only head in the away-from-town direction to catch a train, and escape.
Whether the ghetto is the scariest thing about the area however is a moot point. The locals have made a pretty good job of dragging it down without any imported help - cf my earlier post.
So how do we solve the area's problems? Moving somewhere better seems the only solution. But sometimes, amid all the noise, violence, aggression, tension, rubbish, pollution, segregation and alienation, you see a ray of hope that points the way forward:
An old guy who makes it his mission to go around picking up litter, apparently for the laudable and altruistic motive of smartening up his manor.
We need to enfranchise others to take action for their community.