I wish this was a Daily Mail scare story but it really is not.
Hotels are either used for housing the boat people or closed because Bournemouth is no longer a tourist hotspot. The Roundhouse and The Piccadilly Hotel for example.
There is one very dodgy hotel called The Trouville, it was closed because it over a million pounds to various people, staff would rob from customers when they went away and the police there are useless.
There was also another police investigation before it closed it doors at the beginning of the year.
The hotel reopened out of the blue recently and it look just seedy now as it did then. The local rag has written nothing but negative things also.
The Durley Dean is overpriced for you get IMHO and I was giving a voucher for it last year. However I couldn't use it for weekeends. The hotels that are open for the public are expensive even for a 2 nights or so. I used to stay in Bournemouth after a gig and I had one too many.
Drugs is another major factor not the immigrants because students are from all over the UK. They are probably bored or lonely being away from their childhood friends and families. Dealers are not stupid when it comes to students and bored youths.
Bournemouth can be quite cheerful during the day but you can feel the negative energy at times, at night time you can feel the tension and hear the fights a mile off. The beggars become more aggresive and the decent homeless guys get asked for punch ups. A lot of the bum fights have between rival homeless persons.
There is also no decent shops left, so there is plans to convert old shops in to more student flats. However more and more will finish uni with a useless degree and debts. Uni's are a business.
A lot of the female students do work at the strip clubs, which I have no problem with but I can just watch my partner get undressed for free.
Learning a trade is best thing anyone can do.
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