Nafter

i live in a comuter / old miner village bout 6,000 population in the uk. 19 now, a lot of my old friends are "into" gang type violence, they do a lot of coke and seem every week to have big fights with weapons and fist fights with the "rivals" in the village a group of people who do a lot of herion. Theres cars being blown up, someone got kneecapped with a shotgun and a couple of stabbings over the past few years maybe something like a stabbing happenin every year or so. It seems wierd to me, as the village is small and a high middleclass/retired population it doesnt seem the sort of place stuff like this happens.

So im curious is there much violence / drug abuse where you live? as i said im in the uk but id like some insight, does this happen everywhere, does everywhere have a darkside or is it jus abnormal here? There does seem to be a anti outsiders vibe and people coming from other areas have been known to have cars jumped and smashed, anyways, whats it like where you live?