Forum menu
If there's one thing I do miss about 'home' then it's being called 'me duck' by everyone!
me duck
I lived in Lincoln for a couple of years and this was the typical friendly greeting.
Quite liked it really.
Coatbridge, Sefton, Preston, Hamilton, Coventry, Birmingham, Leeds.
Ahh, a bit of north Notts slang for you - All genuine.
Try the oath of allegiance in Doric:
"I, Maureen Elizabeth Watt, depone aat I wull be leal and bear ae full alleadgance tae Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her airs an ony fa come aifter her, anent the law. Sae help me God."
(as spoken by some quine in Holyrood)
"fit like quineeeeeeeeee"
I've been born, lived and worked in many of those northern towns mentioned and none compare to the time I spent around the east end of london , the areas of Poplar and then Barking. (god I hope I never have to go back to Poplar - do they know what a tree or blade of grass is)
Have to agree with Fubar somewhat. Admittedly I've only live in Lichfield (although went to school in Walsall) Reading and London. Was a student in Reading and lived in several areas new town, earley and whitley.
Whitley is supposed to be the worst area of reading and pretty ruff which is partly true, but to be honest I'd much rather live there than Battersea. Obviously it depends where you live I lived north of clapham junction (york road/falcon road junction) but parts of battersea are serious pants. My girlfriend got broken into a guy came in her room while she was sleeping and stole her handbag !
But then you get plenty of people saying its a good area lots of culture, plenty going on and best of all its up and coming.
Which translates as loads of rubbish, watch your self and the area is not going to get any better for at least 50 years.
I cant help but feel theres alot of people living in london in denial. Oh I've moved here got a job have to keep up apperances oh yes its a nice area up and coming !
I'll second Nickc's vote for Maesteg. Stayed there one night when riding at Afan Argoed. Didn't get a wink of sleep what with all the banjos playing all night.
West Bromwich.
Sandwell General is the only hospital I've ever worked at where I spent an entire day without one single patient actually bothering to turn up.
Aldershot, dreary concrete pustule full of pissed up squaddies on their day out.
Bridlington, as that was good about the british seaside, only faded, closed and boarded up
Easterhouse / Castlemilk / Drumchapel - 50's(?) council estate hellholes. Felt scared just driving through there before. Took the other half through the Drum once, jesus, kids dragging freshly uprooted trees right across the road in front of us in the car!
Avonmouth sticks in my memory as being about as dire as anywhere I've been.
'Best town in Britain' thread = 50 posts, 'Worst town in Britain' thread = 150 posts.
So, either Britain is rubbish, or Brits are just really negative people.
'Best town in Britain' thread = 50 posts, 'Worst town in Britain' thread = 150 posts.So, either Britain is rubbish, or Brits are just really negative people.
Or those of us who live in decent towns are keeping very very quiet so the bumpkinbreds don't notice and move here with their silly accents and uncouth behaviour (not that they'd be able to afford to mind you!!)
I love Notts slang.
It's more local than that. You hear stuff round Ashfield that you don't hear in Nottingham. I lived in Nottingham 5 years before I started work in Kirkby and got to learn words like like fuddle and tab hanging
[i]I love Notts slang[/i]
I'm still trying to work out if it makes you seem more stupid written or spoken......
'Best town in Britain' thread = 50 posts, 'Worst town in Britain' thread = 150 posts.So, either Britain is rubbish, or Brits are just really negative people.
Nah, peple just like moaning
Dear lord I seem to have either lived or worked in most of the northern towns or welsh ones,
in no order places where I have been concerned for my well being,
ashfield flats rochdale....in general rochdale really
stoops estate Burnley
several of the welsh pit towns and places like Llandovery, Lampeter, St Dogmals in some very anti English establishments
Keighley.......oh lord
Lancashire Hill Stockport.... more so than Brinnington
Hebden Bridge when I suggested that it was not as good as people thought!
Ferguslie in Paisley. The place doesn't look too bad now, but the attitude of some of the people and thieving plebs that are and were in there are unbelievable. The money that has been spent on the place is ridiculous and the opportunity's that they have had with FREE driving and HGV lessons/tests, new housing, great sport facilities etc and they wreck it. A complete waste.
Good to see Barra and Millom on the list, worst towns - not so sure. Definitely not great but there pretty isolated places, one road in, one road out sort of thing. Millom is bang on the edge of the Lakes too.
FWIW, all the people I know from Barrow and Millom are sound.
As someone else said, better to live there than a middle class commuter ghetto.
Ashfield Valley flats don't exist anymore Vondally - Now large modern set of offices and a leisure complex consisting of a cinema, large gym, bowling alley and several restaraunts.
Not often you see a whole housing estate built and demolished well inside of your own lifetime i have to say.
Rochdale's problem is one of direction. All the traditional industries have gone yet the local council seem to dither endlessly about how to re-generate the town. The shopping is appalling, everyone who can either travels to nearby Bury or uses the supermarkets.
The difference between Bury with it's famous market and huge new developments and Rochdale with it's shops either boarded up or leased by low-price cheap-end tat floggers is startling.
Combine a higher than average unemployment rate (i'm currently one of them) with a political leadership only noticable by its absence and this is what you end up with.
People are people, there is no fundamental difference just a difference of opportunity.
I've lived in
Middlesbrough, craphole
Darlington - nice in parts but too provincial, I was seriously assaulted for no reason on the highstreet FFS, so craphole
Leeds, nice in parts but burgled to high heaven and threatned on the highstreet by drugged up Big Issue sellers, so craphole
Colne, lancs, deprived craphole full of heroin junkies
Pudsey, possibly OK in parts, but the landlord of the local was a leeds fan murdered in football violence, so craphole
Staines, surrey, craphole (any where this close to London gets the life sucked out of it and the highstreets are full of tatooed yoof and single mums
Reading, craphole see Staines
Ealing, great, the only thing I can fault is its not near the trails 🙂
150 odd posts, and no Yeovil?
How the hell has Croydon escaped so far? That's been a dump since the day the first high rise was built.
Stayed in Port Talbot this year on an Afan trip. I've lived all over the place (Possilpark anyone?) and I'm not proud but I honestly could not believe my eyes on the drive into PT. Nothing there but boarded up shops exept for a fancy dress shop!!!!
....close second would be the now nameless pit village outside Wakefield where I used to go to get cuddly with a local lass.
Darlington - nice in parts but too provincial, I was seriously assaulted for no reason on the highstreet FFS, so craphole
I've only been assaulted twice in 32 years, and that was just one punch and one thrown stone 🙂
As someone else said, better to live there than a middle class commuter ghetto.
I don't know about anyone else, but in preference to an unpleasant, violent, crime-ridden, parochial unpleasant area, I'd take the pleasant, leafy spacious, middle-class commuter ghetto EVERY TIME.
you calling middlesbrough a craphole. good job you ~#~#ed off down south y' fanny;-)
Kramer,I've lived in some fairly rough parts of Scotland, I stand by my comments
I've lived in some fairly crap places in England, and a shitty part of Nottingham for ten years through choice. However after my car got broken into, all our neighbours got burgled, my flatmate's car got broken into and burnt out, the attraction of living somewhere 'urban and edgy' faded somewhat, and I moved to somewhere boring and middle class.
Skelmanthorpe, even the locals call it Shat. Did have a pit.
Has a travel agents called Shat Travel.
I've only been assaulted twice in 32 years, and that was just one punch and one thrown stone
I don't think he meant in the classroom Mike
anyway - 50 years for me without being assaulted, unless you count the teachers 🙂
[it were 'ard in the 70s]
😀
1. Blackpool
2. Barrow
3. Millom
4. Cleator Moor
I don't think he meant in the classroom Mike
First was a single punch after I and a couple of friends decided to go for a walk at 2am, aged 12 or 13. Second was a thrown stone that hit me in the head and needed half a dozen stitches, aged 15.
it were 'ard in the 70s
Apparently, I shit myself a lot on the late 70s 😉
Swindon
Slough
Reading
Bedford
Milton Keynes
Luton
Bournemouth
Peterborough
Gloucester
Huddersfield
Falkirk
Cumbernauld
Mmm there are a lot more crap towns than good towns aren't there.
Kramer, using the words 'urban and edgy' kind of shows the way you view these towns. If youve grown up somewhere and dont have the financial means to escape you learn to make the best of it.( where I grew up a 'soft play area' was the bit of the park that had used condoms instead of used needles!)
What I was trying to get across( badly) was that most of the towns mentioned that I know - Grangemouth, Falkirk, Cumbernauld etc are not urban hellholes, but decent, if a bit run down, places where you can have a good life.
Compare that with having to commute miles across the country, work a 14 hour day to pay the mortgage on a house I only see to sleep in, surrounded by fools doing just the same.I know which one I'd choose.
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.
And for the record, I have lived in liverpool for nearly all of my 36 years and I have never been burgled, attacked or my car damaged or stolen.
Funny that.......
And for the record, I have lived in liverpool for nearly all of my 36 years and I have never been burgled, attacked or my car damaged or stolen.
are you a gang leader 😉
5 pages, and still no mention of Tiverton or Cullumpton??
@foxychick Having been born and bred in Barrow , I would agree it's not the best. But now living in St. Helens. I appreciate that Barrow is at least close to some nice coastal scenery and handy for the lakes.
Just realised how grim that makes my life sound!
tops 5...I live in Ulverston...fantastic town! Love it!
BUT I work in Barrow. Hate it!
Grew up in Windermere, so I'm sure you can appreciate my lack of appreciation for your home town!! 8)
Yep worked in Windermere for a while were we known as "Barrovian scum"
don't believe the media ..only comment when you have been a patron of that area
Where d'you work FC?
A school.
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.
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.