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Blackpool isn't a city so doesn't come anywhere near to counting.
If Newport has city status then I think you have to count it as a city. Slough and Woking while pretty grim I don't think have city status so cannot count.
I like Newport, ive been there a few times for gigs etc. The reason i like it is that is isnt pretending to be anything it not and doesnt have ideas above its station. I go to Newport knowing what it is like and therefore i dont come away disappointed. Newport also has a very similar feel to Wolverhampton (where i grew up), which is another city metioned in this thread. If i had to live in South East Wales, i would live in Newport - house prices are cheap, a stones throw from the beacons, Cardiff and Bristol on the doorstep, but also prenty of its own shops/bars etc. So is it the worst City in the UK - judge it on your own merits.
Wales - Swansea really horriv=ble
Scotland - Everything in the central belt hinterland
England Preston - just crap
Although you could name all the cities in the England and then just remove manchester, birmingham, london, bristol and just say the rest are shite.
A lot the suggestions above aren't cities. "The central belt hinterland of Scotland" is not a city. Reading, Basingstoke and Woking are not cities.
For me the worst city I have any decent experience of is Stoke. Although it's hard to be absolute about these things, I think people's opinion in these matters is affected by what they were doing in the place and their general state of mind at the time. Binners must have been abused something rotten in Reading and Basingstoke.
just say the rest are shite.
Norwich, Bath and Canterbury are nice cities, there are probably a few others but most are grim.
Kettering! An absolute shithole of a place with no redeeming features whatsoever. I hate it
Binners must have been abused something rotten in Reading and Basingstoke.
Just being in Basingstoke or Reading constitutes abuse.
I remember arriving in Basingstoke, and asking in the office where theres a decent pub, as there was a Champions League game on that night, and I fancied having a pint and watching it. Like you would do if you were in somewhere inhabitable. They all laughed, and pointed out that I'd never find a decent pub in Basingstoke.
They were right.
How on earth can you live in place that doesn't even have a decent boozer in a 10 mile radius?
We have a winner. Ketamine in Northamptonshite.
Kettering! An absolute shithole of a place with no redeeming features whatsoever. I hate it
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How on earth can you live in place that doesn't even have a decent boozer in a 10 mile radius?
Next time you're there, if you can find time between being angry and incredulous at your predicament, take your bike and ride to the Northbrook Arms in East Stratton. Cracking country pub and good biking around there.
In terms of the city as a place then Aberdeen is top of the list ladies and gents. Full of moaning whiny ***** and a totally inept council who turned down a £50m cheque from a successful local businessman to help regenerate the craphole city centre as they said they didn't need his money and have since done sweet fa about regenerating the city centre themselves as they're skint!
However it's plus points are it's good for work and you can be out of it and in the countryside within 10 minutes.
Cracking country pub and good biking around there.
Seriously? Define good riding? Its flatter than a witches tit round there!!!
An altogether better option...
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No binners. The North's rubbish. Right? 😉
binners - Member
Have you ever been to Rhyl? Its makes Blackpool look like St Tropez
Actually St Tropez isn't all that good either. Antibes is much nicer 😉
Fareham. I know it's not a city, but it's horrendous.
Binners, I live in Edinburgh so the whole "up north" thing doesn't really make sense, as it's all down south for me. Anyway, yes there is good mtb and road riding around Basingrad.
[quote=MrSmith ]Norwich, Bath and Canterbury are nice cities, there are probably a few others but most are grim.
Cambridge. Oxford? (have only visited the latter a couple of times, but seemed nice enough) Bristol is also OK I reckon, as is Edinburgh.
Bradford.A trip to Stoke though shows it has a bit of competition.
Stoke, god bless the A50
Find central Stockport pretty bad, as far as towns go. The sort of place that was rough as f_k 10 years ago, but still alive. It has now passed on, risen from the dead, and shambles around like a bored zombie with no shops to go to.
It's sad because it should be a fantastic place - surrounded by affluent suburbs and with a superb local geography, it should be the focal point of all of S Manchester. The situation is irretrievable, though. It would take such a colossal amount of money to put right the planning mistakes made there over the years (starting with the covering of the Mersey 80 years ago), that it will never happen in our lifetimes.
They're all identical. And dull, dull, DULL!!! Same identical high street, with the same chain bars and shops
That bl**dy Greggs gets everywhere eh! At least 3 of 'em in central Reading alone
If you venture out of the 1960s/70s 'development' zone there are some decent pubs.
Went to university in Stoke - horrible place but full of nice people
good riding near by too
we did self anaesthetise for 3 years though so that probably helped
Another vote for Stoke. Its awful.
Has anyone mentioned Wolverhampton. Equally as awful
Basingstoke and Woking are not cities
The former is called both Basinghole and Boringstoke for a reason.
Woking is "a Town called Malice". The only thing it had going for it is McLaren, and even they moved out of town.
My vote is for Birmingham. Went for a job interview there once. Glad I got the job in Bristol.
But really, London has no competition. It's foul.
I've no desire to live there, but London is a world city, full of interest and history. If you can't find anything to like about it, you're not trying very hard.
Agree with Newport and Stoke though, if they have redeeming features, I've yet to find them.
Stoke did give rise to some influential bands so it does have some redeaming features. It is sodding horrific to live in though, more inward looking, ignorant, parochial bunch of racist ****s, ive yet to meet *Came as a student, lived there for years with an ex who refused to move as it was the centre of the universe, now escaped and only have to work in the vicinity. Bradford is also horrible and I really didn't enjoy my time there, just not a happy place.
*based on the locals I work with, rather than a total generalisation
Most cities on my list of crapholes have been mentioned but I don't think Peterborough has been nominated yet. Only been there once but I think it sucked a year off my lifespan.
Most cities in the uk are grim....somehow the planners have wrecked the lot!
Swansea is grim.....but it does have Gower and the sea!
Most cities on my list of crapholes have been mentioned but I don't think Peterborough has been nominated yet. Only been there once but I think it sucked a year off my lifespan.
You're right, I think it's only been mentioned maybe 10 or 12 times so far...
Ah well I did only look at the last couple of pages of the thread. Its fame has obviously spread further than I thought.
Everyone who's mentioned Birmingham in a negative context is automatically wrong. Fact.
I did enjoy reading about Martians blowing the snot out of Woking in War of the Worlds.
maxlite - MemberSwansea is grim.....but it does have Gower and the sea!
ssshh its a secret. only the really brave or extra curious are allowed to find Gower. why do you think we have hidden it behind port talbot?
maxlite - MemberMost cities in the uk are grim....somehow the planners have wrecked the lot!
2 words : traffic flow
Birmingham gets my vote.
The worst bit of the UK BY FAR...starts at Rainham, and tracks east all the way to...Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you... Southend on Sea.
It was twinned with Beirut, only Beirut pulled its self by the boot straps and go on with life, leaving Saafvend all by it's lonesome. So bad that even the offys have cages to keep the staff away from the punters, women so rough that even Romanian gangsters give them a wide berth, a satellite town for the East End of London, a group of dwellings so violently repulsive even the Nazis tried to raze it to the ground. a huge monstrous waste of space, when the council tried to liven up the promenade the tropical plams they planted (each 30 feet high) lasted 1 night, ONE night, before they were nicked and flogged by the local chavs.
A terrible cess pit of a town.
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There's been a load of TV adverts for the Aberavon Best Western hotel this week. For some reason all the panoramic shots of the beach look west towards the Gower, rather then east, towards Port Talbot.only the really brave or extra curious are allowed to find Gower. why do you think we have hidden it behind port talbot?
Deedaa land and Mankchester - they glow orange/red on the horizon like Mordor and Isengard
Deedaa land?
Sheffield?!
Swindon no doubt +2 and don't they say Nottingham is rough too.
All cities are a mix of good and bad.
Well, except Middlesbrough.