Anyone grow up in a British tower block?

Did tower blocks turn people into knife wielding junkies and booze hounds or did those sort of people just get put there ?

@fmf said
One doesn't have the slightest idea what tower blocks are?

I believe we would call them apartment buildings or high rises here in Canada.

How many floors would a tower block have?

Always willing to learn something new.

-VR

@very-rusty said
How many floors would a tower block have?

Always willing to learn something new.

-VR

That's like asking how long is a cows tail.
Depends upon the bloody cow !

@the-gravedigger said
That's like asking how long is a cows tail.
Depends upon the bloody cow !

LOL....hmmmmmm interesting comparing a building to a cow! 😉

-VR

@very-rusty said
I believe we would call them apartment buildings or high rises here in Canada.

How many floors would a tower block have?

Always willing to learn something new.

-VR

In Sweden, five stories or more. We call them 'höghus' (high-house) or 'flervåningshus' (multi-storey house).

@the-gravedigger said
That's like asking how long is a cows tail.

Are you saying you do not know how long a cow's tail is?

@the-gravedigger said
Did tower blocks turn people into knife wielding junkies and booze hounds or did those sort of people just get put there ?

Individuals and families that may have been susceptible to such problems often ended up in tower blocks [when high density/poor quality inner-city housing was demolished and its residents relocated], and then those kinds of personal and social problems were often exacerbated by that 'high rise' environment.

One of the things I keep coming across when I look at this is that a sense of community is hardly able to survive or prosper when a community is moved into a tower block, or worse still, when a few thousand strangers are moved into one.

@fmf said
It might be a nice diversion to psychoanalyze you in public and then move on to a broader discussion of Britain's social ills.

I read it wrong. I thought it said 'throw up'. Boy is my face red.

@fmf said
Individuals and families that may have been susceptible to such problems often ended up in tower blocks [when high density/poor quality inner-city housing was demolished and its residents relocated], and then those kinds of personal and social problems were often exacerbated by that 'high rise' environment.

One of the things I keep coming across when I look at this is that a ...[text shortened]... unity is moved into a tower block, or worse still, when a few thousand strangers are moved into one.

I think your right.