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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Yes the 70s in East Kilbride all kids knew all the gangs and their leaders and where the next bit scrap would be and of course we all grew up fighting the local catholic schools every week whilst that was mostly bottles and the like quite a few would get chibbed with a screwdriver or machete. The Big gang fights always involved razors, knives and machetes.

The Tongs, Baltic Fleet, Cumbie, Fleeto. Its just as bad now in Glasgow

Main difference in Glasgow these days is gentrification. The center is very different and safe now (as much as any city is safe) and a lot of the previously rough council areas are gentrified and verging on middle class now, but the issues aren't "gone" they've just been shifted out of certain areas.

Ayrshire is the same of course - houses going for £200k on streets that you wouldn't have walked down alone at night when I was a teenager 20 years ago, but the problems are still there, they're just shifted out of those old council estates that have been all bought up, and into the bigger towns.