Miserable, miserable places

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.

So nobody’s been to Airdrie, then?

http://idler.co.uk/crap-towns/airdrie/

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!

Scunthorpe?

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!

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

😆

Bless….

I concur with TJ.
I’ve been about 6 times & couldn’t wait to get away each time. IMO It’s so bad….my eldest son has lived in Camden for 3 years & I haven’t been to see him yet, but he comes to North Yorkshire & says, ‘what are they Dad’ & I say, ‘fields & trees son’.

Grim, horrible grimy place full of noise and, just outside the centre, poverty and crime. no thanks

Lol!

Funny that the haterz have bin here though, eh? 😆

You love it really. You’re just jealous.

I’d quite like you to stay away though. The only moaning miserable people here are people like you. Because you’re miserable anyway.You don’t have to come here you know.

Where’s Onion?

Miserable, me? Hardly. I don’t know how you dare say such a thing seeing as, A) you don’t know me &, B) you never will (hopefully)

You don’t have to come here you know

There IS a GOD!

how you dare say such a thing

Ooh! Get her! 😆

Here you go love, I think you dropped this:

😉

BTW; where do you live?

Anyone been to Yellowknife in Canada? I have a strange urge to go and check it out.

Doncaster. I’ve left pubs there because I’ve been shit scared of the women.

You can not get much grimmer than some of the places I have been to in Belarus. The towns near Chernobly were very, very grim.

Ffestiniog in North Wales on a wet wednesday aftrnoon. That place is awful.

Oradour sur Glane – that is one miserable place. Dudes google “Oradour sur Glane” for proof.

Apparently, Wolverhampton was voted the fifth worst city in the World. 😯

I din’t think it was quite that bad really.

I once read an article about Magnitogorsk. I don’t think I’d like to live there, but I’d like to visit the place actually, just to experience it’s grimness.

One of my least favourite places in Britain has to be Warrington. A mate of mine from there, who now lives in London, says he ‘will never live there again’. His sister is equally condemning of the place. I must say, my experience of it wasn’t pleasant; staggering around the town centre on a Sunday morning, really, really hungover, trying to find somewhere to get something to eat. All we found was the cafe in TJ Hughes. It wasn’t too bad really, considering.

The best thing to come out of Warrington, in my friends’ onions:

It may have changed recently but Corby used to be an eye opener for the wrong reasons.

stratobiker – Member
Oradour sur Glane – that is one miserable place.

D!ckhead…..there’s a reason they left it like that

Maidstone
Port Talbot
Sydney, Nova Scotia

Ha ha…Central Scotland…anybody been to Shotts?

Shotts – lol

My ex girlfriend came from there. Went to the ‘catholic’ pub one night. **** me all sorts of life there. And the co-op just sold red cola and other terrible stuff.

I seem to have lived in lots of these places

North shields – I quite like it, quite well to do now too in places

Did cot – used to live on the lady grove estate when it was first built

Nottingham – lived there as a student

Are there any nice places in the uk?!

Dover… awful

… one redeeming feature: the continent’s close.

Oradour sur Glane’s a fascinating place, but disturbing, to say the least. Fort Breendonk’s pretty unpleasant: I stopped taking photos when we got to the torture chamber, because it didn’t seem right any more…

how you dare say such a thing

Ooh! Get her!

Here you go love, I think you dropped this

I live in Boroughbridge BTW, (& that could be my eldest sons handbag, but I’ve got a Camelbak & a Dakine, neither in pink!)

stratobiker – Member
Oradour sur Glane – that is one miserable place.

ken_shields –
D!ckhead…..there’s a reason they left it like that

…

Really ken???? Is there? When you have finished wiping the egg off your face perhaps you’d like to apologise.

Apologies for the d!ckhead comment, I didn’t give you any credit for knowing why it was like that 😳 ……not miserable….sombre, moving and very sad and certainly not comparable to any of the sh!tholes mentioned in this thread

http://www.oradour.info/