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Middleton Arndale is like something from a horror movie and 1 in 3 of the "walkers" have a pot on their arm or leg or a neck brace.
Around 8 years ago, I worked in Middleton (for the now defunct British Vita) for 4 moths. Sometimes I'd go to the Arndale to get a sandwich at lunchtime. I was the only person there (1) in a suit and (2) without a limp and a cough.
I swear they all thought I was from the DSS come to check up on them....
Warrington......toilet, that bomb that went off there was actually part of an urban improvement project
Black Swan district of Liverpool.....fence it off and napalm the whole area
Wolverhampton.....I told and old boss of mine that it was the biggest sh!thole I'd ever been to and he got the arse because he came from there. I then pointed out that if it was so nice why did he live in Oxford. His reply was "fair point"
Shotts in Lanarkshire - dull, dirty grey social housing with layers of grafitti about various issues like the 1690 Battle of the Boyne which seemed highly irrelevant to the general plight of the place, and probably the only bit of history the residents were aware of. Huge high security prison doesn't help, and when we went it was raining.
In England it has to be a toss up between Sunderland (even the pound shops have shutters at night), Bradford (where I went to a school which was strategically positioned between a railway, river and a canal with a sewerage works on the other side of the railway) or the north London areas around Tottenham and Edmonton.
Whitley Bay has to be one of the worst places I've been to in the UK. Admittedly I was there on a stag do so I was effectively part of the problem, but the grimness of the town centre on a Saturday afternoon was horrendous. Hordes of skinhead, hackett wearing mentalists ensured the threat of random violence hung permanently in the air.
Manor Park in East London, between Ilford and Forest Gate has to be worst place i have lived.
If you weren't depressed when you moved there you were guaranteed to be by the time you left.
I'll be honest, London has it's less than desirable spots, but with a little imagination, it's a fantastic city to live in, overall. I'd rather live in a grim part of London, than a grim part of Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow etc.
But nothing here compares to some other places in Britain. My mate Scottish Kev used to terrify me with tales of some Scottish towns, and said that nowhere in London, or even Darn Sarf, is anywhere near as bad. And there are places in the North, and Wales and that, which are truly depressing. As proven by this thread in fact.
My least favourite place has to be the area of Cornwall around Bude. Yeah there's countryside and that, but you can't actually access most of it, certainly not by bike, there's absolutely **** all to do, speshly if you're young, and some folk can be incredibly insular and unwelcoming. In my experience the weather was usually shite too. In winter it's utterly, utterly miserable.
I will be happy to never go there again.
Penge.
The arsehole of the UK and no mistake.
Skelmersdale
The 'town centre': [img] 
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I believe the architect committed suicide after it was built.
Limp and a cough?
Salford Sainsburys at lunchtime mid week. EVERYONE smokes and looks yellowed as though they are pre-swabbed for an operation.
Penge
Ah, come on Bully; it might have a crap name, but it's not [i]that[/i] bad! 😀
[i]I'll be honest, London has it's less than desirable spots, but with a little imagination, it's a fantastic city to live in, overall. I'd rather live in a grim part of London, than a grim part of Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow etc.[/i]
Each to their own i suppose although have you ever lived in a grim place in any of those places you mention ?
As you can see from the thread a few places in Manchester/Salford have come up but i'd choose those over Manor Park any time.
you can't actually access most of it, [s]certainly not by bike[/s], there's absolutely **** all to do, speshly if you're young, and some folk can be incredibly insular and unwelcoming. [s]In my experience the weather was usually shite too.[/s] In winter it's utterly, utterly miserable.
Sounds like STW!!!
Where I now live is easily as 'grim' as Manor Park, if not worse, Mancjohn, trust me. But I'm ok with it (never known any better! 😀 ). Manor Park's ok, what you moaning about? You wanna try the aforementioned Tottenham, bits of Peckham, Thamesmead, places like that. I know people in the Manor Park area and they're quite happy there tbh. Maybe you just din't fit in.
[i]I know people in the Manor Park area and they're quite happy there tbh. Maybe you just din't fit in. [/i]
Come to think of it, i probably was a bit too friendly to fit in there ie. i actually smiled at people once in a while which as we all know marks you out as a complete nutter down there 🙂
Greymouth South Island NZ
As I described it "a one horse town where the horse died to escape"
Blackpool is terrible in season and out of season.
[s]choke on stench[/s] Stoke is pretty hideous
Hull is grim
wallasey is hell on earth
I'm quite surprised Morecambe hasn't had a mention yet. To be fair it's improved a lot but it's one of those seaside towns trading on it's past glories. The council, bless them, kept trying to do things to the seafront and promenade area ignoring the fact that if you turned away from the views across the bay you were faced with a grim shithole of a town mostly populated by DSS, a closed and derelict hotel (now rebuilt/reopened), a closed and derelict Mr Blobby theme park, several dozen "amusement arcades" and an ALDI which was about the height of shopping sophistication for the residents.
Port Hedland, Western Australia.
Being the highest tonnage Iron Ore port in Oz, everything in town is red 😐 the dust clings to everything.
You sweat so much because the climate of Port Hedland is warm to hot, with mean maximum temperatures of 36.4 °C (97.5 °F) in January and 27.1 °C (80.8 °F) in July.
Drab drab drab, only mile long trains to amuse you..
Only plus side is it's the best base for trips to Wittenoom and Karijini 😉
...an ALDI which was about the height of shopping sophistication for the residents.
Hey! ALDI's pretty cosmopolitan. Besides LIDL, it's the only place one can get bockwurst and bratwurst.
Greymouth South Island NZ
+1
Have you been to Haast? The sandflies nearly ate me dead.
Ellesmere Port. Specifically, a certain lead salts sludge pit...
I was just looking for that "Skegness is ****ing Shit! - (issued by the Mablethorpe tourist association) poster that viz did a while ago. I hadn't realised it's almost an exact copy of an actual Skegness tourist poster - So Bracing!
Sad to see that Stevenage (aka the 'Nadge) hasn't got a few more mentions. Basically its Slough with all the character and charm erased.
Ken shields, what is the black swan district?
I assume you must mean Old Swan?
FYI anything north of Old Swan is pretty horrendous. About two thirds of the city. I love it all the same though.
Guildford, full of rich Tory voting snobs.
North Shields the high street is like the land of the living dead
At the end of Get Carter, the coal(?) buckets dropping slag in the sea. It's just really really bleak.
Speaking of which, Dashogus in Turkmenistan is pretty bad. Soviet-era buildings, pretty much deprived of investment or infrastructure during the Turkmenbashi years, and divided from the rest of the country by an effing great desert. Lovely friendly people, but a miserable city.
Snobs the lot of you. 🙄
Loddrik
Yes Old Swan 🙄 sorry I'd obviously tried to wipe it from my memory
Plenty of contenders in central Scotland but I'll plump for Larkhall.
I'd agree with central Scotland... It's hard for me to comment as was born in hull and now live in Dundee...
Hemel Hempstead. When they cleared the shite out of London guess where they located it? I have never seen so many disabled parking permits in one place. Ugly 60's estates and backward insular people. Only thing it has going for it is that it is close to London.
Harpurhey was the birthplace of Anthony Burgess - that was it's purpose, once it achieved that it just gave up.
Nice park though, good library and used to go for a pint in The Shiredale, Milan or Derby now and then. 😀
I was brought up on the Blackley, Moston, Harpurhey border and I loved the place and I loved the people.
Some very nice, friendly pubs in Middleton too 🙂 , been in the Ring o' Bells?
Wouln't get married there but it's a nice pub.
Where I live in Calderdale seems to have just the same problems, but with banjos.
London
Horrible miserable place, the people are unfriendly, the air is awful, the water is awful, it take forecver to get out of
ghastly place - and it sucks money out of the rest of the country
The worst place I have ever been in the UK was Lennoxtown in Scotland. I was only a boy but it left a lasting impression.
Lennoxtown isn't too bad. Nearly bought a house there and I'm fairly picky. I've lived near Wigan too, which also isn't too bad. There's seriously a lot worse, if you think not I can only assume you've not travelled much!
Worst place I can think of, though it's hard to judge without living there, is somewhere such as Easterhouse or London. Hated every minute I was in London. Grim, horrible grimy place full of noise and, just outside the centre, poverty and crime. no thanks.
Bridgwater. The refuge of the brainless.
Can't understand why Bradford has only one mention, it's hard to believe that knocking it down could actually make it worse.....but it has. Then there is Dewsbury.....or how about Galashiels? Went there last year whilst staying at Innerleithen and found it to be a depressing hole full of unemployed drunks, couldn't get away fast enough.
Spike Milligan. "I've been going through a bad patch ....................(long pause).............. LEWISHAM"
or variations on a theme
Milton Jones
When I was young I baked an apple pie and cut it into three. I took one piece to Lewisham, one to Brixton and one to Catford. I'm not sure what the point was, but I dutifully did it because my maths teacher told me to take pie to three dismal places.
Newtown (Powys) as a friend commented 'any town with 'New' in the title is usually s**t!'
has anyone mentioned Scumthorpe yet?
No?
Must be so bad then that no one here has even bothered to go!
Bloody hell - not only is Uranium City really horrible, it's -32 deg C today!
S****horpe?
A polite person would call it Shorpe.
derek_starship - Member
Bloody hell - not only is Uranium City really horrible, it's -32 deg C today!
-32 makes you feel ALIVE!
LondonHorrible miserable place, the people are unfriendly, the air is awful, the water is awful, it take forecver to get out of
ghastly place - and it sucks money out of the rest of the country
😆
Bless....