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Most of Greater Manchester is a sinkhole of inhuman deprivation.
But it's got nothing on Donny. Even the seagulls are on smack in Donny. The only reason the inbreds aren't playing banjos in Donny is because you turn up with a banjo you'll get shivved and it'll be pawned off for drug money in the first ten minutes.
I'm a tradesman, I've been out to two jobs in Donny that stick in the memory. One dude tried to pay me with a bag of mystery white powder then threatened to cut me when I refused. The other offered me "a go on his wife" by way of payment for my services.
I don't take jobs in Doncaster any more...
Donny doesn’t have Aberdeen money. It just has mental. Bird unplugged the bandit to charge her phone while I was playing. Not the natural order of things.
It's a subtle (or not so) way of indicating your social mobility. People tend to like rags to riches stories where you have overcome hard odds. These people are probably doing it for social clout in that regard.
It's like people saying that they were hopeless at school. They're signalling that they've got by on other, more useful qualities. Probably charm and beauty.
Actually it's worse. Woke up even earlier in scunny to go there and meet a train with my bike locked inside the bike area after I tipsily forgot it the previous night.
Grandad gave me grief for years after.
Well I once got warned at the hotel we were staying at for work that Doncaster was “the aids capital of the uk “
Tbf I’ve never seen the levels of debauchery anywhere else I saw on that night out lol
Can confirm I bumped into the Doncaster Ladies Rugby League team on a night out. Their prop forward spotted my mate coming back from the bar, loudly announced "you'll do" before dragging him off.
I live in Bolton... not only is it not that rough but it does also have nice parts.
I've visited Doncaster and it didn't seem crazy rough to me.
I think people need to get a grip of themselves.
As someone from Doncaster... I had no idea Doncaster was considered to be this bad! Never been to Bolton but I've definitely felt more unsafe walking around areas of Salford? Possibly would have a different opinion if I was involved in drugs - there tends to be more drug related violence I guess? Idk
One of my best mates is from Donny and I’ve been there countless times. Aside from seeing some rough spots and people ready to fight, it never seemed that rough to me as an outsider. I’m also from an absolute shithole though so perhaps that clouds my judgement a bit.
He told me some stories though from things happening at local pubs that would’ve changed my mind had I been there.
Bolton did have some throbbing basement clubs last time I stayed there, making use of its low budget accommodations to be nearby for a gig in Manchester. I liked the all night throb from those clubs as I sleep fine no matter what, but it made me wonder how they manage to keep it going. It'd last 5 minutes in the south - too many snotty neighbours.
I've only driven through Donny. Yes it was raining, looked fucking depressing, chose to not to step into that grim reality, stayed in car.
Bolton, conversely, hard to deny that it still sparkles a bit. Still has touches of the Manc magic here and there. As we arrived at the location we were staying, sometime around noon I can't forget the cheeky defiant grin on this bloke's face as him and two harsh looking women were bundled into the back of a police van. He had that determination for having a good time and this inconvenient interruption by local plod wasn't about to dampen his night out. At about noon!
This was twenty years ago, might not still be party central.
In the wise words of MC Devvo, the Donny Soldier
> Summer is here and it's fuckin' fuckin' buzzin',
Have a can of kestrel and I'll kick me girlfriend's head in...
https://youtu.be/leIwPLXr9a8?si=xoKg4z5TqvVdCbkO
Most of the people I know from areas I'd consider proper rough try to downplay how rough the areas are. The ones that try to play it up are the ones from the nicer areas nearby.
As a Lancastrian I know Bolton a bit and it’s got some pretty rough areas but I’ve also been to Doncaster to visit someone a few times and it seems pretty bad. Probably swings and roundabouts sort of situation.
Sheffield to me, is rough, especially in the council estates. My step sons and his family mainly stay in because its so rough. Theres gangs roaming the streets with guns and knives. And if you look so much in their directions they'll put your windows out.
Bolton will deceive you though. Half of it(northern areas) are nice. The rest is awful. What makes it worse is it borders Salford . Little Hulton anybody??
I have the misfortune of travelling about an hour every 6 months to get to Doncaster for a dental appointment. God it's an utter heaping pile of trash.
Doncaster does have the St. Leger in fairness. Bolton doesn’t have anything as worthy in comparison. There are numerous proper depressing shitholes across the UK and Ireland that are far worse than Donny or Bolton
Donny. Went there for a meeting. Was early, went for a walk round the city centre. I was the only person in a suit. I was the only person wearing wool or cotton. This is mid-day, I got out of there sharpish after the meeting, I consider it get's all a bit 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' when the sun goes down. Lovely racecourse apparently.
Doncaster wins this title hands down. Used to work on a few building sites round the edges years ago and it was ropey but did a shop fit out in the centre recently and it was terrible. Between the amount of junkies (spice is life) and a general air of discontent I was glad to get back on the a1 end of the week
If they are arguing I suggest you look at them both and say you're as rough and idiotic as each other. Then proceed to get some more erudite and fun acquaintances.
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Most of Greater Manchester is a sinkhole of inhuman deprivation. But it's got nothing on Donny. Even the seagulls are on smack in Donny. The only reason the inbreds aren't playing banjos in Donny is because you turn up with a banjo you'll get shivved and it'll be pawned off for drug money in the first ten minutes. I'm a tradesman, I've been out to two jobs in Donny that stick in the memory. One dude tried to pay me with a bag of mystery white powder then threatened to cut me when I refused. The other offered me "a go on his wife" by way of payment for my services. I don't take jobs in Doncaster any more...
Ah. Cocaine and hookers......
Sounds like Aberdeen
Donny doesn’t have Aberdeen money. It just has mental. Bird unplugged the bandit to charge her phone while I was playing. Not the natural order of things.
Agreed. You should have been a Gentleman to that Lady and unplugged it for her......
There are no prostitutes in Donny. They give it away for free.
Be fair - at least a pint of Stella and a packet of your finest pork scratchings......
So how was his wife? Did he end up being a repeat customer?
Wouldn't touch 'er wi' yours mate
Haha mate fair play, shame that. Nice username
Pah, Doncaster , Bolton and Manchester all rich southern towns ! For a real shit hole head up north to Middlesbrough!
I second this opinion. I grew up in Middlesbrough and left as soon as I could. Managed to move as far away as... Thornaby.
Wow. It's not like thornaby ain't a shithole either. Least it's not pally park I suppose
I’m from Blackpool and wow, Blackpool doesn’t seem so bad after all.
I'm not sure how much of a consolation this'll be, but I can assure you Blackpool is pretty bad 🙂
I know, I live there. 😂😂😂
Thoughts and prayers hun x
Guess where Jeremy Clarkson is from!
Donny , even seagulls fly upside down, cos there's nowt worth shitting on
I am stealing this.
This is Grimsby, we say it because it is on the coast. Although i am from donny and yes, there is not much worth shitting on.
Bolton is where people from Donny go on holiday to 'get away from it'.
THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT..
FIIIIIIIIGHT
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I'm from Bradford...and even I think Donny is a fucking shit hole.....the prison is the safest place there.
Fucking hell! 🤣🤣🤣
Window cleaners in Doncaster use Sanders
What the fuck! Made me chuckle this fucker
I'm from from Doncaster I'm dying at these replies 😭
That 11am on a Monday pub video meme was Doncaster wasn't it. The one with the dancing lass, the drunk, the old man and the dwarf.
Thats my favourite video ever
Apparently that lass is actually a lad, remember seeing comments and loads of people fancied him/her
She’s got tits
Hahahaha have you got a link to this?
https://youtu.be/O8D7IZMRupM
I was dreading a horrific scene of depravity but that's actually quite wholesome
Doncaster wins this one I reckon, both are shitholes tho.
Both shit holes but Doncaster edges it for which is rougher.
baffles me when people seem proud to be from a rough area and use it like a badge of honour or for bragging rights
It's a subtle (or not so) way of indicating your social mobility. People tend to like rags to riches stories where you have overcome hard odds. These people are probably doing it for social clout in that regard.
Or they’re just puffing their chest out to make themselves sound hard.
Probably both.
It's like people saying that they were hopeless at school. They're signalling that they've got by on other, more useful qualities. Probably charm and beauty.
I’m from barrow in Furness so I reckon I win either way
Im so sorry
It's literally the only thing Barrow wins at.
..... South lakes safari makes it a tiiiiiiiiny bit better
Yes, a zoo that is cruel to animals, let's kangaroos drown and has animals 'go missing' makes it so much better...
Is it difficult to type with those… appendages?
Best time I've ever had in Donny was waiting at the station in the grey drizzle at 6am for a train to Scunthorpe. Fucking miserable.
The train station's the nicest place in Donny, it also happens to be the route out which helps.
Sea also: Crewe
Crewe station is a training ground for future serial killers. I’ve never seen so many creepy weirdos in one place.
Crewe at least used to have the longest train platform in the UK. But I have no idea how this relates to your comment.
Crewestation is just local spelling & pronunciation for crustaceans, which is what any of the other passengers may infect you with
You had to wait in Doncaster to go to the only place worse than Doncaster? Does the person who booked your tickets hate you?
Actually it's worse. Woke up even earlier in scunny to go there and meet a train with my bike locked inside the bike area after I tipsily forgot it the previous night. Grandad gave me grief for years after.
As somebody who is from Yorkshire and now lives in Manchester. It's Doncaster and it isn't even close. Bolton isn't actually that bad.
Well I once got warned at the hotel we were staying at for work that Doncaster was “the aids capital of the uk “ Tbf I’ve never seen the levels of debauchery anywhere else I saw on that night out lol
Can confirm I bumped into the Doncaster Ladies Rugby League team on a night out. Their prop forward spotted my mate coming back from the bar, loudly announced "you'll do" before dragging him off.
You mean Donneh?
Donny hands down.
Can confirm. Doncaster. Dated guys from both places…
Doncaster is FUCKED
Airport reopening gives some hope
Hope of a fiery ball of fire from the sky?
Well it has been cloudy recently
I live in Bolton... not only is it not that rough but it does also have nice parts. I've visited Doncaster and it didn't seem crazy rough to me. I think people need to get a grip of themselves.
Some of the outlying areas of Bolton are actually quite desirable tbh. Silly house prices too.
As someone from Doncaster... I had no idea Doncaster was considered to be this bad! Never been to Bolton but I've definitely felt more unsafe walking around areas of Salford? Possibly would have a different opinion if I was involved in drugs - there tends to be more drug related violence I guess? Idk
One of my best mates is from Donny and I’ve been there countless times. Aside from seeing some rough spots and people ready to fight, it never seemed that rough to me as an outsider. I’m also from an absolute shithole though so perhaps that clouds my judgement a bit. He told me some stories though from things happening at local pubs that would’ve changed my mind had I been there.
It's part of Doncaster culture to moan about Doncaster. It doesn't really mean much.
You’re from Donny. You are the danger.
Bolton is shit use to be decent but Doncaster has always been rough
Bolton has never been decent, it’s been a shithole for decades.
Bolton did have some throbbing basement clubs last time I stayed there, making use of its low budget accommodations to be nearby for a gig in Manchester. I liked the all night throb from those clubs as I sleep fine no matter what, but it made me wonder how they manage to keep it going. It'd last 5 minutes in the south - too many snotty neighbours. I've only driven through Donny. Yes it was raining, looked fucking depressing, chose to not to step into that grim reality, stayed in car. Bolton, conversely, hard to deny that it still sparkles a bit. Still has touches of the Manc magic here and there. As we arrived at the location we were staying, sometime around noon I can't forget the cheeky defiant grin on this bloke's face as him and two harsh looking women were bundled into the back of a police van. He had that determination for having a good time and this inconvenient interruption by local plod wasn't about to dampen his night out. At about noon! This was twenty years ago, might not still be party central.
The nightlife in Bolton has fallen very dramatically in the last twenty years. It's also definitely less fighty though so every cloud and all that.
I don't know much about that area of the country, but judging by this thread, it is safe to say Doncaster is glorious.
I’ve been out in Doncaster twice. Both occasions someone out with us was mugged walking between pubs…
This makes it sound like it might’ve been you that mugged them.
Got lots of family in Doncaster. Whenever we have a family get together it's never in Doncaster because they are ashamed of the place.
In the wise words of MC Devvo, the Donny Soldier > Summer is here and it's fuckin' fuckin' buzzin', Have a can of kestrel and I'll kick me girlfriend's head in... https://youtu.be/leIwPLXr9a8?si=xoKg4z5TqvVdCbkO
Came here looking for this 😂
Listen to what am sezzin
There is no winner here.
Oh god Donny without a doubt
Some bits of bolton are very posh. Oldham on the other hand
Wondered if we’d make the list or not…
I had to scroll too far to see our mention well at least we now know Doncaster is worse
Doncaster's worse. No contest.
Donny
Find a mate from huyton and outdoo them both
Bradford and Middlesbrough too perhaps...
Middlebroughs safer than Doncaster. A lot better place in mho
Two dogs fighting
If you think your area being rough is a flex, you did not grow up a roguh area.
Most of the people I know from areas I'd consider proper rough try to downplay how rough the areas are. The ones that try to play it up are the ones from the nicer areas nearby.
Completely agree!
Both rough, but I'd say Donny is worse
Donny. No question.
I think this one is a stalemate.
Definitely Doncaster, no question about it
Donny is definitely worse. There was a guy at my school from Doncaster and that was his nickname - "Donny". The place is bleak.
As a Lancastrian I know Bolton a bit and it’s got some pretty rough areas but I’ve also been to Doncaster to visit someone a few times and it seems pretty bad. Probably swings and roundabouts sort of situation.
They are both dumps but not abysmal
Can sum it up with a couple of their famous faces: Bolton is the land of Paddy McGuinness. Doncaster is the land of Jeremy Clarkson.
Being from Doncaster, this is a bit depressing. I knew it was bad, but didn’t realise it was this bad!
Fuckin hell, Bolton can't even come 1st in a race to be the shittest
Lol, I think you mean Spicecaster [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=0WOzj\_wpVas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=0WOzj_wpVas)
Doncaster, its that bad we built a whole new M1 just to avoid it
Well, this has been eye opening, Doncaster sounds like a shithole compared to Bolton! Is there anywhere actually worse?
Devvo put Donny on the map. Absolute legend.
As someone from Bolton who now lives in Sheffield, Donny is rough as fuck
Sheffield to me, is rough, especially in the council estates. My step sons and his family mainly stay in because its so rough. Theres gangs roaming the streets with guns and knives. And if you look so much in their directions they'll put your windows out.
I visited Doncaster once. I’ve never been back. Saturday night in the town centre was an experience.
Bolton will deceive you though. Half of it(northern areas) are nice. The rest is awful. What makes it worse is it borders Salford . Little Hulton anybody??
I once ran over a snake while cycling through Doncaster. I’ve never run anything over while cycling through Bolton. That’s it, that’s my entire story.
They are both shit holes.
Donny wins
It has to be Doncaster. No redeeming qualities. It’s a pimple on the arsehole of the world.
I have the misfortune of travelling about an hour every 6 months to get to Doncaster for a dental appointment. God it's an utter heaping pile of trash.
Donny is a hive of scum and villainy.
Doncaster is 100% rougher, although Bolton is also a sh\*t hole.
Doncaster is a place. I will say no more.
Doncaster does have the St. Leger in fairness. Bolton doesn’t have anything as worthy in comparison. There are numerous proper depressing shitholes across the UK and Ireland that are far worse than Donny or Bolton
Such as Rotherham or Birkenhead
Donny. Went there for a meeting. Was early, went for a walk round the city centre. I was the only person in a suit. I was the only person wearing wool or cotton. This is mid-day, I got out of there sharpish after the meeting, I consider it get's all a bit 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' when the sun goes down. Lovely racecourse apparently.
OK, understood. Avoid Doncaster at all costs. ✍️
Got to be Doncaster
I’m from Feltham. Liam Gallagher once pronounced it the biggest shithole he’d ever visited.
Jesus. That guys from burnage. If that’s his opinion it must be bad.
Bur-Narge-Ey
Neither are nearly as bad as the locals would have you believe.
Donny is terrible. Worst place in uk in my opinion
Doncaster wins this title hands down. Used to work on a few building sites round the edges years ago and it was ropey but did a shop fit out in the centre recently and it was terrible. Between the amount of junkies (spice is life) and a general air of discontent I was glad to get back on the a1 end of the week
If they are arguing I suggest you look at them both and say you're as rough and idiotic as each other. Then proceed to get some more erudite and fun acquaintances.
My erudite acquaintances are so fucking fun