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Worst town in Britain
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Where d'you work FC?
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A school.
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west kipper - I agree, most crap towns have some nicer bits. I also agree that if you can't leave you learn to make the most of it, and some people even love them. But as you concede, the problem with most really crap towns is that many people who can leave do so, generally looking for decent work, or a nicer place to live.
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There's a few comments on here that are a bit "Brian Sewell". I saw youths fightin' and fornicatin' in the street......
I've lived in Stoke all my life,never been mugged,burgled,had my car nicked etc.. .It is proper grim in places,just like everywhere else.Posted 2 years ago # -
Brian Sewell is my hero
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Used to go out with a girl who lived in Kendal (nice town),& worked in Barrow (Sh1te town).She must have loved her job to do that commute every day!!
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It is proper grim in places,just like everywhere else.
Name 3 bits of stoke (five towns) that aren't f**kin awful?
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With only 17yrs experience of the UK,there are lots of nice places to live,fair bit of history,nice countryside.
Just spoiled by to many f-wits!Posted 2 years ago # -
Harlow innit.
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Slough and Luton. Grantham is pretty shite too.
Lived in Peterborough and quite liked it actually
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I grew up near to Bodmin in Cornwall, was convinced how terrible it was, and now realise it wasn't too bad actually.
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anywhere in Cambridgeshire - especially March, Wisbech, and Peterborough
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Dare I say that after a weekend in the Dales, Mrs. C and myself swung by Lancaster thinking that, as a historical and reportedly thriving town, there would a welcoming centre. FAIL! Apart from a couple of select boutiques I have seldom been in a more run down place.
As for "worst towns", St. Helens and Wigan are pretty up there. Wigan town centre has had a lot of cash spunked on it but still don't quite make "it". Nice ideas badly executed. There's also the southern Wiganers, i.e. Ince, Scholes, Platt Bridge etc. to contend with. All areas to avoid at all costs.
St. Helens is just a bad idea gone wrong. I'd like to say something positive about it but I can't.
It is worth nothing however that a slum never built itself. People turn a perfectly adequate place into a shitehole.
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Shitterton isn't a town, but a hamlet attached to bere regis, most locals see it as part of bere regis, apart from those that have paid the over inflated prices to live in sitterton or shatterton as they prefer to call it, but no it's shit erton.
Bournemouth isn't too bad, nor is yeovil compared to bridgwater where even the take aways have upped sticks and moved out, we so so nearly bought a house there, glad we didn't upon further inspection.
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Salford. Beat that.
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I'd take the pleasant, leafy spacious, middle-class commuter ghetto EVERY TIME.
While this is clearly the more sensible option, it would be in reality like living in hell. I'd rather fight off a gang of youths intent on plundering my consumer goods every night than be surrounded by Britains lost middle class. At least you know where you stand with a gang of bored and drunk teenagers in tracksuits. I have absolutely no intention of getting myself into a situation where I'm trapped between two middle management morons who actually aspire to be Alan Sugar.
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I'd rather fight off a gang of youths intent on plundering my consumer goods every night than be surrounded by Britains lost middle class
Although you live in Leigh, I don't believe you.
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Frome is dreadful as well
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liverpool has got to be the biggest sh*****e
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Wellingborough, I worked there and it was the most awful place I have ever been. Ever. No redeeming features. Whatsoever!
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All you northerners, Coming from the posh end of Harrogate (cold bath road), all the above and everything else is an utter shithole, even Skipton is grim.
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WTF - where the hell is Cov in this list, it's sgly, concrete and living in Hillfields is as grim as it gets.
That said. I've also lived in Watford, a rapidly expanding borough of London and I've dropped in to Glenncorwyg (sp), Maesteg (ok it was a dump) and Cymmer nothing stands up to Llanbyder though, along with Soton and Liverpool, all places that are ok for a visit
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I was living in Guildford for 18 months until September, getting back to liverpool was absolute bliss. I hated nearly every minute of it. Ok it is supposedly one of the best places in the uk to live with no crime etc etc but my god you are unlikly to encouter a more stuck up soulless bunch of people anywhere.
Hmmm...I live nearby and can think of far more 'stuck up' places than Guildford. An estate agent managed to put me off buying in nearby East Horsely by describing the locals for me in what he thought was a positive way - 'it's all 4x4s and bridge evenings'.
I've lived/worked in/near a few dumps:
Crawley,
Hull,
Warrington,also Farnborough, Hants maybe?!
A few mentioned above I think are OKish really:
Holyhead - a poor area but not that unattractive really
Chester - a lot of council estate types invade the centre in the evening and cause trouble but otherwise a pleasant enough place
Sheffield - not that bad at allPosted 2 years ago # -
I've worked all over the country, both in towns and cities, for years, but none of the places I've been would come close to Cumnock in Scotland. It has all the signs of small town deprivation:
*adult men wandering aimlessly around town at 11 am rather than working
*drunks wandering at 11 am in the morning
*kids skivving school and shouting abuse at random passers by
*main supermarket in town is Farm Foods
*a 1960's style 'shopping centre' as the hub of the town
*a general air of misery and pointlessness, despite being surrounded by beautiful scenery
*the most offensive (and entertaining) public toilet graffiti I have ever read ANYWHEREPosted 2 years ago # -
Cold Bath Rd isn't that posh
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A lot of the whole crap towns phenomena can be put down to the 1960s. Whenever I drove off to University in oxford from hertfordshire, I would go through the following towns, all ruined by ugly 60s architecture:
-hemel hempstead (actually has a nice old town though)
-chesham (also takeaway alley)
-aylesbury (probably the worst of them all)
Saying that the countryside between them is great and there are some nice villages. The country has never really recovered from de-instrialisation and the loss of its empire - we are living as ghost people in ghost towns, wandering aimlessly looking for a wider purpose.Posted 2 years ago # -
There was a dive shop on cold bath road took me for 2k this year when he never paid for his goods. w@nker
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CBA reading 6 pages, but Chelmsley Wood nr Brum Airport is a bloody grim hole.
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Wow no one has said Hackney yet.
I guess it's going up in the world.
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Tazzy,you appear to have a fair knowledge of S-o-T..the five towns are well past their best. Architecturally,Burslem is my favourite of the 5,although it is a bit "Farm Foods". Hanley is a disaster and can be very iffy,if you're not careful.
We don't suffer with gun and knife crime like cities just north ,south and east of us.
My favourite place to live within Stoke would have to be The Villas just off London Road. Minton built them for the Italian artists that he brought over to work for him. Truly beautiful houses at prices that would have southerners sobbing into their skinny lattes.
...and most importantly great riding on our door step. Hanchurch Woods is a ten minute ride from my house.Posted 2 years ago # -
Leicester - dear gods what a hole.
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In the south Hoddesdon (lived there for 4 years) and particularly the Rye House area. Also nearby Harlow has no redeeming features. Also Clacton in Essex could do with being swamped by the sea.
Midlands - Wolverhampton - had to walk through it in a suit once and was conscious I was being closely watched by the locals. Really didn't like Leicester on the occasions I have been there.
North - Bradford (used to go to school there), Blackpool (where chavs from every sh*thole go and see if they can out do each other in wearing fake gold jewellry, shell suits and trainers), and Sunderland (even the pound shops have shutters).
Wales - Port Talbot surely takes some beating.
Scotland - Shotts - possibly the most dismal place I have ever had the misfortune to visit.
South West - Bridgwater, Weston-super-Mud and Plymouth are all depressing places IMO.
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adun1408 - Member
liverpool has got to be the biggest sh*****eAnother insightful comment from someone who has absolutely no idea....
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Cumnock is pretty bad right enough, there are a lot of grim places in ayrshire but the worst has to be a place called Glespin, a few miles east of Muirkirk. Middle of nowhere. No pub, no shops, public payphone vandailsed. It's a grim council estate on top of a moor next to a massive opencast coal mine, so grim I really struggle to see why anyone would want to live there.
Farsley in Leeds was the worst place I've lived, the most unfriendly people I've ever came across, if you weren't local they didn't want to know. Armley was far nicer!
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