[Closed] Worst, most hated, most vile UK city?

I can't even think of a city I could call 'worst most hated most vile uk city'.

I obviously need to get out a bit more.

And to name London is IMO crazy....

People have mentioned Peterborough quite a few times. I live near Peterborough and while it's not a great place, it's not too bad. When I first moved near the area I wasn't convinced & I always used to think of it as just a name on the A1.

But, there's a very fancy cathedral, a half decent shopping centre, the river Nene, Nene Valley Railway, Ferry Meadows country park, Peterborough Lido, an ice skating rink with a decent ice hockey team.....etc.
It's not a very picturesque place (apart from the cathedral!), but it isn't bad*.

*as with most places, there are some right crappy areas, granted.

Well I made my trip to Newport yesterday to try to win some work. Didn't seem that bad though was taken straight from the rail station to a rather bland building to the east of the town where A449 meets the M4. If we do win the project I'm hoping I can stay in a hotel near the office and never go into the town - should be some nice country lanes to ride on nearby.

So Newport is better than London then as I can ride in the countryside easier right?

Konabunny.. you're being silly now 🙂

For a very long time Preston was the absolute dunghole for me, until I went to Peterborough, dear jesus! I nominate both.

hilldodger - Member

Dear beloved leader, could you please find time to enlighten us poor bright-light bedazzled citizens what is missing from our City ?

A mountain with a chairlift up it.

Think you guys are jumping on TJ for no reason- everywhere has its own highlights, I love London but all he's saying is that you can't say "Town X has everything I want" unless you've tried everything there is to try- and no one place in the world has everything. I love the underground, frinstance, don't know why that is but I'd never have known til I used it, and I miss it when I'm not there. Glasgow clockwork orange isn't the same and the closest Edinburgh has is the Subway nightclub (smells the same, just as crowded)

missingfrontallobe - Member

This list could go on forever!

Cities, Liverpoool, Manchester & Hull.

Towns:
Swansea (it isn't a city is it?)

Excellent!

Someone slags off Liverpool, so Mr Overshoot very successfully nullifies their onion by providing examples of it's greatness. Nice one. I like that, good work Mr O! 😀

There is a threat Binners and I will be visiting Liverpool sometime in the not too distant future....

I would rather go to Newport than Cwmbran

Northwind - Member
Think you guys are jumping on TJ for no reason

Not jumping, just asking him to elaborate on his statement that London was missing something (vagaries of geology notwithstanding) 😉

He bowls into a thread, drops his little 'hate bombs' then doesn't come back to answer perfectly reasonable questions.

No doubt he'll reappear quoting 'piffle and bullshine', making snidey comments about fellow posters intelligence and being generally provocative.

Anyway, back to reality 🙂 ignoring the insults it's been a good thread, interesting to hear what other people think constitute a 'great city' with some fine photos of places that I for one haven't seen in person.

Let's face it, some people enjoy the hustle bustle of city life, others prefer rural tranquility - we're lucky to live in a country that can offer so much variety and allows people to experience many different lifestyles......

Wow I saw the thread title and thought I wonder if Newport gets a mention, looks like it's championship contender mmaterial. It is a dump but it's not really a bad place to live, there are more pubs per square mile than anywhere else in the UK and it's also home of the shell-suit, but there's shed loads of good riding nearby.

I would rather go to Newport than Cwmbran

You mean Cwmbranistan?

hilldodger - Member

Not jumping, just asking him to elaborate on his statement that London was missing something (vagaries of geology notwithstanding)

Pff. You call it a "hate bomb" when he says your city doesn't have everything a city can possibly have? I call it common sense.

CaptainFlashheart - Member

Oh, and Peterborough smells. FACT.

Peterborough used to smell of Sugar Beet and dog food, it now just smells of dog food as they knocked the beet factory down.

There are some good points to Pbog... It's on the A1, it's on the A14, it's on the East Coast main line, it's 50 mins from Kings Cross and 1 hour from Luton, East Mids and Stansted airports.

You see, the best thing about Pbog is you can escape really, really easily 🙂

London - find it really unfriendly

Stoke and Swindon - on a parr

but BLACKPOOL - ugh! Went to take the kids to see the lights once - had to bribe them with sweets etc so we could go home early before it got dark 😯

there are more pubs per square mile than anywhere else in the UK

There are fewer pubs per square mile that I would actually be prepared to step foot inside than anywhere else in the UK tho 🙂

Yes it has decent riding, but it's just as accessible from Cardiff near enough, which is a much nicer place 🙂

Yep Liverpool is shite

I notice that when illustrating the delights of Liverpool you didn't include any people! 😆

There is a threat Binners and I will be visiting Liverpool sometime in the not too distant future....

Any dates in mind Fred ?

Nice pics Mr O

Liverpool - capital of culture 😆 😆 😆

Oh man, yeah, forgot about Swansea and Liverpool, that's the two worst places right there. Had a few nights out in Swansea, each time there seemed to be some kind of charity fight-athon, with hordes of bleach-blond, spiked-hair yoots laying into each other.
Still nicer than Liverpool, mind.

I find it strange some of the suggestions people are coming up with. I enjoy visiting Liverpool, the architecture is interesting, the galleries are really good, there is a great concert hall, some nice cafes and restaurants. The new shopping centre is ok if you like that sort of thing. I couldn't live there and there are areas which are beyond horrible but that's true of most cities, Liverpool more than some perhaps.
Preston is another one mentioned and I find this very strange. The river ribble is lovely as is the whole ribble valley. The forest of Bowland is one of the most beautiful places in the country. I guess it all depends on what you want, as I wouldn't go for a night out drinking there.

The worst thing about London is, and people are forgetting this, is that it is full of cockney w***ers.

Just saying like.

..and the best thing about London is that most of them can't see beyond the M25 so they stay there

Liverpool has some fantastic buildings and architecture - could just do with a bit of restoration money

GlitterGary - Member
The worst thing about London is, and people are forgetting this, is that it is full of cockney w***ers.

Just saying like.

BigButSlimmerBloke - Member
..and the best thing about London is that most of them can't see beyond the M25 so they stay there

Nice too see our country cousins 'sharing the love' 😀

Liverpool 😆 full of wag lookalikes!

I saw a rat with an overall on once! 😆

Cities in England
Bath Birmingham Bradford
Brighton and Hove Bristol Cambridge
Canterbury Carlisle Chester
Chichester Coventry Derby
Durham Ely Exeter
Gloucester Hereford Kingston upon Hull
Lancaster Leeds Leicester
Lichfield Lincoln Liverpool
City of London Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne
Norwich Nottingham Oxford
Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth
Preston Ripon Salford
Salisbury Sheffield Southampton
St Albans Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland
Truro Wakefield Wells
Westminster Winchester Wolverhampton
Worcester York

Cities in Wales
Bangor Cardiff Newport
St Davids Swansea

Cities in Scotland *
Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh
Glasgow Inverness Stirling

Cities in Northern Ireland
Armagh Belfast Londonderry
Lisburn Newry

I've been to about 70% of the cities above...

Bradford & Newport are the most grim for me, Both in desperate need of massive investment, The Like of Liverpool& Manchester have benefited from!

Saying London, Edinburgh, Liverpool are the worst, you guys need to do some travelling, clowns!

And so, the worst, most hated, most vile city in the UK is: [u][b]NEWPORT[/b][/u].

To my mind, this is a bit of a shame as

a) Newport is not Stirling, which I nominated;

b) there's some interesting architecture going up, esp at Old Town Dock and,

c) it's the subject of possibly the only genuinely funny Youtube parody in recorded history:

As the more attentive of you might remember, there were only three rules in the contest: "the place you're slagging off has to be in the UK (UK of GB and NI); it has to be a city as defined [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom#List_of_officially_designated_cities ]here[/url]; and, err, it has to be shit".

A surprising number of STWers were too stupid to follow even these simple rules. Consequently some attempted to vote for places which were not cities. (This was particularly true of people who nominated "London" and didn't mean the City of London, who showed they neither know what the City of London is - and therefore what they were criticising - nor what "shit" means). Their votes were not counted and they were deemed to be honorary Newportonians.

Others couldn't keep it succinct and rambled on about a whole lot of places without ever expressing a view as to which city they thought was worst, thus showing they don't know the difference between singular and plural. Their votes were not counted.

Valid votes are as below.

Birmingham
Birmingham
Bradford
Bradford
Bradford
Coventry
Derry/Londonderry
Hull
Liverpool
Manchester
Newport
Newport
Newport
Newport
Newport
Newport
Newport
Newport
Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough
Preston
Portsmouth
Portsmouth
Portsmouth
Preston
Salford
Salford
Salford
Southampton
Stirling
Stirling
Sunderland
Sunderland
St Albans
Stoke
Stoke

Not cities:

Bedford
Blackpool
Bromley
Chippenham
Crewe
Holyhead
London
Luton
Middlesbrough
Milton Keynes
Reading
Swindon
Torquay

Ah, right, so London isn't a 'city', then. Ok.

Metropolis then?

conurbation perhaps?

just a suggestion...

Nah, London has expanded and swallowed up small towns and villages, rather than two or more towns joining up, like Greater Manchester, Leeds/Bradford, Birmingham/Wolverhampton etc.

Funny that London has a City Hall, yet apparently isn't a 'city'. 🙂

Yeees, get in there! Peterborough second. So not just a sh1thole but a second class sh1thole at that 🙂

There is only one reason that Lisburn didn't top your poll:

Its so crap that no one believes its actually a city.

It does this by not having a hotel, for example, therefore making it difficult for visitors to spend any time there. It does however have the estates of Twinbrook and Poleglass. It makes Belfast look good, which takes some doing.

There is only one reason that Lisburn didn't top your poll:

Because it's actually in Portugal? 😐

(It is, isn't it? Tell me it is. Well it bloody ought to be, name like that. Come over here, take our jobs, get all the best housing next minute you'll have all their foreign muck on the shelves in shops well I don't know country's gone to the dogs if you ask me.)

Elfin, if it was, then it would have a decent climate as a redeeming feature. As it is, its in good 'ol drizzly Norn Irn. However, a quick google has revealed a Premier Inn has recently been built just inside the "city" limits, so my first point is null and void. Still wouldn't want to go there though!

Can I put in another vote for Bradford - went to school there and now its even worse as the city centre seems to have developed a big hole where some major investment development failed to materialise.