missmay Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- in the winter it's > dark by 5pm, so most of us have to walk home in > the dark at some point. > > I am streetwise I just don't want to feel nervous > about the area that I live in. > >xxxxxxxxx There have been loads of threads on the forum about stuff like this. You can get mugged anywhere. Most people won't be. As someone said above, we hear about incidents more in ED because of the forum. They're actually no more than anywhere else in London, and probably less (I think). Please don't let them put you off going whatever you want, in the dark or not - being streetwise as you say, obviously.