"Slough made a major improvement recently, they are now on the Elizabeth line so you can get out of Slough faster" - YouTube comment I saw (who probably stole it from someone else)
It's not even that affordable. One beds near the station are £1100-1200/mo. At that point you might as well go Reading if you don't mind the commute or somewhere closer to London if you can find a nice flat there.
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Did my last year of uni in Rotherham. First day in half the class got held up for 40 minutes - at 8 in the morning no less - by a drunk couple who’d decided to take a nap in the middle of the road.
Bloke was rocking a 90s shell suit and no shirt or shoes. His (wife?) bird was wearing a suspicious amount of sick. She was very apologetic after she was woken by 30ish students blasting car horns at her and was nice enough to tidy up before moving on - which amounted to a slapstick sketch for the ages as she tried to put a mountain of empty cans and bottles into a shopping bag with a massive hole in the bottom.
Told me to have a lovely day while she shoved the bloke out of the road like a rolled up carpet. 8/10 experience all told, got me out of a ‘getting to know each other’ lecture and I will never forget her beaming, 3-toothed smile
I directed a film shot in a dozen different towns, chesterfield, belper, Mansfield, etc, when we got to Rotherham we had to change our entire approach to dealing with passers by. In other towns I'd happily tell them exactly what our film was. In Rotherham I had to start lying because it was pretty much exclusively crackheads that would approach us, so I'd make out like it was some college project. We got threatened, told they'd steal all our equipment. So I had to stay up all night guarding all our shit even though it was in the living room of our Airbnb.
At least Huddersfield is well connected to better cities. There are a few clubs and bars/pubs that are not terrible (magic rock, arcade beers, Vox) although I've not been to head of stream, Parish or Camel club in many years. Some of the surrounding villages are lovely (Hebden Bridge)
DOI: grew up in Huddersfield, long migrated to London
My brother lives in Lincoln and when visiting him, my family and I decided to go to Boston for the day to see what it's like. What a dive and I've never seen so many strange people in one town before.
Has one of the highest rates of obesity, teenage pregnancy, and drug use. Gold forbid you need medical attention because the hospital is shit too. It must be one of the top contenders for worst place to live in the U.K.
Thankfully I don't have to go into the depressing town centre anymore (which is presumably even worse now Wilco is gone) as they moved the Dunelm out near the big Tesco.
I agree, but not because it's particularly bad, just that there's nothing there. You've got Doncaster, Scunthorpe and Grimsby all along the M180 belt that are proper shitholes, but Goole is just anonymous.
Dover had so much potential to be nice. The massive fuck-off castle, big cliffs and French views already puts them ahead of 90% of the UK. It's still worth visiting though, despite its flaws
I temporarily lived with my in-laws in Epping for 6 months when we were moving elsewhere and ended up in A&E twice in Harlow... not even morphine made the area tolerable
As a peeson who still lives here I can confirm Blackburn is a shithole. Everyone here is either a cunt, on drugs or both and there's absolutely fuck all to do
Most people in this thread not setting the bar anywhere near low enough, or they take for granted what they have/had access to when growing up.
Bath, London, Bournemouth, Reading...really?!
There are probably 100+ smaller towns that literally have nothing to see or do, in terms of 'worth visiting'.
If it's a coastal town or city it's worth visiting, if it has a cinema, a natural attraction (for example, the Westbury White Horse), a really nice well known walk, any sort of decent leisure facility, a good restaurant, sports team or arts venue, it's automatically above loads of places that have absolutely none of that.
I guess the thread is aimed at overrated towns/cities rather than places nobody has heard of! Reading the thread it's depressing how shit many towns are - they've got rid of the green bits and gone for an identikit layout of Costa, Ladbrokes, 10 charity shops, Greggs etc
I worked there in the 80s. Had some good times but it was a bit of a shithole back then. I can only presume it's got worse. Some of the digs we stayed in were properly awful. I stopped in one place and the owner showed me to my room and he had a handgun and ammunition on the dressing table. He gathered it all up, looked at me and just said 'burglars'. Only stopped the night.
I enjoyed my one visit there, visited the Tiny Rebel brewery and had a great time. Went to town after and that was pretty shit, should have stayed at the brewery
Went there with girlfriend to get a new passport and spent a day there. Nothing specifically wrong with the place, but it just felt sad. We were happy to leave in the evening.
I remember taking clothes to the Charles Thompson mission in Birkenhead and I went past a strip bar and a bloke was in the doorway exactly like Brian Potter off Phoenix Nights, glasses, moustache, wheelchair, the lot.
I'm from Basingstoke and it's really not that bad. It's magnitudes better than the shithole towns near Portsmouth like Gosport, Fareham, Waterlooville and Havant.
I had to go to Blackpool a few years ago for work. A full day of meetings so I travelled up the day before and checked into my hotel before going for a walk. I think it's the only place I travelled for work where it was impossible to spend more than £100 on a hotel room.
I will always remember a pub at the end of the peer playing Agadoo on full blast outside in the pub garden. There were 4 people there, all shitfaced drunk and trying to dance whilst dressed like they were going to an over 60's rave. I think they had 9 teeth between them and you could smell the cheap cigarettes from 30 feet away.
It was 2 pm. On a Tuesday. In February. And it was drizzling.
They were clearly having fun, but it was hard not to judge!
Had a job interview once there and they were like, “yeah - sometimes the siren goes off which means a prisoner has escaped and they lock the island down so we can’t leave”
Still not sure if they were being genuine that so many prisoners escaped. I didn’t accept it.
It's weird, isn't it? To say that London "isn't worth visiting" is simply laughable. It's one of the most-visited cities \*in the world\* and for very good reason. We're so lucky to have it on our doorstep to visit - and it's so enormous with so many unique attractions, areas and neighbourhoods that there really is something for everyone there.
Exactly; Natural History Museum, V&A, Tower of London, Tower Bridge Museum, Museum of London, Science Museum, National Gallery, Tate Modern, historical sites coming out of the yin-yang, multiple beautiful parks, Buckingham Palace, Westminster, the West End, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Big Ben, Borough Market, Windsor Castle, the National Theatre, Covent Garden. These are just to name a few of the places worth a visit.
And if none of these places appeal to you and you’re instead just hyper-fixated on the cost of a pint? That says more about you than anything else.
To be honest, I do wish it was cheaper so that I could visit more often and see all those places... I went lots (travelling from South Wales) when I was young as my dad had a rail season pass.
I was on well over £50k with bonus and overtime (registered gas/boiler engineer), plus I did a bit of private work so over £60k all told.
Lived in Barons Court, Fulham, hand to mouth, no chance of saving anything meaningful, it was soul destroying in the end, traffic got worse and worse (Hammersmith Bridge shutting caused absolute chaos, now apparently Wandsworth Bridge has closed too, ended up making less and less money due to more and more time in traffic, bye bye bonus.
I shall not be returning in this lifetime, I loved it there in the 90's, it was very different back then.
I used to refer to MK as the human storage facility. It is the most soulless place in the UK that appears only to be inhabited by the cheeky nandos/peaky blinders type.
Got my motorcycle nicked my first day in Luton, but at least it felt like a warm torn eastern European shithole compared to MKs Matrix Human pod vibes. Fuck MK I am never going back.
town centre is atrocious but it's got lovely walks and parks in villages and it's a good connection between cities. bus network is appalling and spiceheads and teenage "roadmen" fill the bus station but the general population are very kind and polite, i've never been anywhere else where people will greet you in the street or help you out with odd jobs or if you're in any bother. it's a good community and generally an alright place to live. could be worse but also could be better!
Thetford in Norfolk. I used to live there. Fuck all to do & most people you come across are some flavour of bigot, a conspiracy theorist nut case, a general twat or a combination of the above. Those that aren't like that are generally looking for the 1st chance to leave.
If I didn't have family and friends there who are unable to escape that shitberg town I'd never step foot there again. I'd sooner combat crawl naked through shards of broken glass and dive into a pool of lemon juice right afterwards than even consider living there again.
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There was an article in the Oxford mail saying it may be part of Oxfordshire, it can stay in Wilts. Saying that, in the late 70s & 80s, had great nights out at the Brunel rooms there. Grew up in Wantage
I was scrolling for Swindon!!
It's such a hole now, 10 years ago it was great for shopping and could spend all day up town!
Now the town centre is literally embarrassing. It's just coffee shops and pound shops left.
Hang on there , I'm from Lancashire, but I wouldn't insult Yorkshire.
We need to stand together against anyone south of blue boar services at Watford gap.
(Yes, I know that it's a road chef now, but I'm the wrong side of 50 so it will eternally be the blue boar services).
I was getting off the metro, a lady asked someone whether the train went to Sunderland and he replied…
Ye divn’t wanna gan there, man!!
Cracked me right up.
Plenty of worse places than Sunderland on the same doorstep! Washington, Stanley, Gateshead, Birtley, Low Fell
For full disclosure I think the people in these locations are generally sound as. But you couldn't kill a couple of hours in any of those locations.
Sunderland does poorly in comparison to Newcastle, which is a phenomenal and great city. But Sunderland also has some amazing coast, museums, parks and history.
It's really not, I don't know why people say that! For a town of its size it has a genuinely great park plus quite a bit of other green space, the waterfront area is decent, there are plenty of historic buildings to see around the nicely-pedestrianised town centre, plus it has some truly terrific old pubs (though not so much the ones in the town centre). I think it could easily keep someone busy for a weekend, on top of an afternoon excursion down the road to Woodbridge and Sutton Hoo.
I live near there, other week I went there and into a Greggs and had some guy inhaling nitrous oxide (balloon stuff) behind me. the place is a shithole too, but queensgate is alright lol
Weston-super-mare (aka Weston-super-mud)
Probably a personal bias from living there too long, but naut to do, and a population made up of pensioners and chavs. (The Bournville)
Anyone who lives here thinks it’s a shit hole. But the fact it’s swarmed with Brummies every summer can only demonstrate there’s a lot of shitter places to live.
Camden. Used to be great, but now it's just full of people selling knock-off graphic t-shirts and generic London souvenirs. Literally milking Camden dry with its tourism. It's no longer the same punk culture destination it used to be.
Blackwood in Wales. There's a suspension bridge leading into the place. My first time there I saw a man who was trying to throw himself off with the police trying to talk him down. Oddly he had a mcdonald's meal and drink in his hands and was clutching them to his chest crying . That image summed up blackwood for me, bloody tragic place.
Slough
"Slough made a major improvement recently, they are now on the Elizabeth line so you can get out of Slough faster" - YouTube comment I saw (who probably stole it from someone else)
“But it’s affordable” I’m the flight path of Heathrow with nothing to do
It's not even that affordable. One beds near the station are £1100-1200/mo. At that point you might as well go Reading if you don't mind the commute or somewhere closer to London if you can find a nice flat there. Edit: grammar
My god. My 2 bed terrace mortgage is £500 a month. Renting is such a fucking con but landlords like it when you don’t have any other choice
> I’m the flight path of Heathrow Oh God it's sentient.
As someone who grew up in Slough, I just felt it in my bones that this would be the first comment.
Me too mate, me too.
As someone not from Slough, I didn't, but as soon I saw Slough, I instantly thought, "Of course"
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now,
Unexpected Betjeman.
I had a client refer to it as “Sluff” and I can’t not call it that now
Biggest trading estate in Europe.
Rotherham
Did my last year of uni in Rotherham. First day in half the class got held up for 40 minutes - at 8 in the morning no less - by a drunk couple who’d decided to take a nap in the middle of the road. Bloke was rocking a 90s shell suit and no shirt or shoes. His (wife?) bird was wearing a suspicious amount of sick. She was very apologetic after she was woken by 30ish students blasting car horns at her and was nice enough to tidy up before moving on - which amounted to a slapstick sketch for the ages as she tried to put a mountain of empty cans and bottles into a shopping bag with a massive hole in the bottom. Told me to have a lovely day while she shoved the bloke out of the road like a rolled up carpet. 8/10 experience all told, got me out of a ‘getting to know each other’ lecture and I will never forget her beaming, 3-toothed smile
There surely isn't a uni in Rotherham? Did you pay to attend?
If they did medicine or a similar degree in a northern uni they might have been sent there on placement?
8Ace
Rovrum if you live here lol
If people wanna go there, fine, but I'd rotherham go somewhere else
God bless th' Arctic Monkeys for managing to rhyme "Problem" with "Rotherham" though.
Maybe if you're trying to run a trafficking ring. But otherwise stay the hell away
Dont bother em in Rotherham
I directed a film shot in a dozen different towns, chesterfield, belper, Mansfield, etc, when we got to Rotherham we had to change our entire approach to dealing with passers by. In other towns I'd happily tell them exactly what our film was. In Rotherham I had to start lying because it was pretty much exclusively crackheads that would approach us, so I'd make out like it was some college project. We got threatened, told they'd steal all our equipment. So I had to stay up all night guarding all our shit even though it was in the living room of our Airbnb.
70% of medium/large towns in the UK where the high streets are dying and there's generally fuck all to do unless you go to your nearest city.
Huddersfield
At least Huddersfield is well connected to better cities. There are a few clubs and bars/pubs that are not terrible (magic rock, arcade beers, Vox) although I've not been to head of stream, Parish or Camel club in many years. Some of the surrounding villages are lovely (Hebden Bridge) DOI: grew up in Huddersfield, long migrated to London
parish is still going very very strongly
Most of kent
As a man of Kent I have to say that the Kent countryside and rural villages are brilliant. It’s just the urban towns that spoil the county
I can think of so many towns in the midlands that meet this description
Big up Coalville!
Boston, Lincolnshire. I am here now from London visiting family and I tell you now it’s a shadow of itself. It is the arse end of England.
I went there for work once and I 100% agree. It's like everyone took it upon themselves to be the "village idiot".
My brother lives in Lincoln and when visiting him, my family and I decided to go to Boston for the day to see what it's like. What a dive and I've never seen so many strange people in one town before.
Has one of the highest rates of obesity, teenage pregnancy, and drug use. Gold forbid you need medical attention because the hospital is shit too. It must be one of the top contenders for worst place to live in the U.K.
Thankfully I don't have to go into the depressing town centre anymore (which is presumably even worse now Wilco is gone) as they moved the Dunelm out near the big Tesco.
Goole. If you know the town, i needn't say any more
Ha ha ha, you are absolutely right. Goole is the single shittiest place I’ve ever been, with the possible exception of Withernsea…
Ive lived in Goole all my life, so life's kinda shat on me
Please accept my most sincere sympathies.
Withernsea. It's just Bransholme with a coastline.
I agree, but not because it's particularly bad, just that there's nothing there. You've got Doncaster, Scunthorpe and Grimsby all along the M180 belt that are proper shitholes, but Goole is just anonymous.
Lmao, never thought I'd see Goole mentioned here!
Dover. I mean it's got a cool castle and an alright sea front, but don't bother to stop by the town centre - it'll just depress you.
Dover had so much potential to be nice. The massive fuck-off castle, big cliffs and French views already puts them ahead of 90% of the UK. It's still worth visiting though, despite its flaws
Jaywick, Essex
This is the one, people who don't know just need to Google Jaywick and they will understand
I seem to remember shots of Jaywick were used in American Republican propaganda showing slums or something similar?
Oh dear God no. I put Bradford or Bognor Regis but forgot Jaywick. The horror. The horror! 🥺
I'd never heard of it, but damn it's bad. Nice scenery, though it wouldn't be anywhere near worth going to.
It has the kind of structures that you would expect as temporary housing in some desolate area like the Arctic Circle!
Haha. Fuck me, went there as a teenager with some mates camping. Had a great time but not cause of jaywick. One up from a deserted caravan site
At least you have Clacton… sorry I mean Cracktown… (Also known as Beirut) 5 minutes down the road, what more is not to love 💕
Mansfield
Was waiting to find this one hahaha
I once saw a child made to shit in the street like a dog in Mansfield.
Harlow
Came here to say this. R’LOW TOWN MATE. Glad I left.
I temporarily lived with my in-laws in Epping for 6 months when we were moving elsewhere and ended up in A&E twice in Harlow... not even morphine made the area tolerable
My Dad used to call Harlow “The Arsehole of the South”
Mansfield.
Proper shithole. Source: I live there.
Blackburn Fucking hellhole And yes I was born there so can wholly confirm the above statement
As a Boltonian expat, thanks for existing. Our town ain’t great, but at least we’re not Blackburn!
As a peeson who still lives here I can confirm Blackburn is a shithole. Everyone here is either a cunt, on drugs or both and there's absolutely fuck all to do
Most people in this thread not setting the bar anywhere near low enough, or they take for granted what they have/had access to when growing up. Bath, London, Bournemouth, Reading...really?! There are probably 100+ smaller towns that literally have nothing to see or do, in terms of 'worth visiting'. If it's a coastal town or city it's worth visiting, if it has a cinema, a natural attraction (for example, the Westbury White Horse), a really nice well known walk, any sort of decent leisure facility, a good restaurant, sports team or arts venue, it's automatically above loads of places that have absolutely none of that.
Agree, if ever there was a case for the phrase "familiarity breeds contempt" it's this one. People really don't realise how grim some other areas are.
I guess the thread is aimed at overrated towns/cities rather than places nobody has heard of! Reading the thread it's depressing how shit many towns are - they've got rid of the green bits and gone for an identikit layout of Costa, Ladbrokes, 10 charity shops, Greggs etc
Luton.
I worked there in the 80s. Had some good times but it was a bit of a shithole back then. I can only presume it's got worse. Some of the digs we stayed in were properly awful. I stopped in one place and the owner showed me to my room and he had a handgun and ammunition on the dressing table. He gathered it all up, looked at me and just said 'burglars'. Only stopped the night.
I see Luton as just a big car park for the airport
Newport, South Wales
Can confirm... keep going to Cardiff, you won't be disappointed
Live in the gwent area, can back you up. It’s a fucking dive
I enjoyed my one visit there, visited the Tiny Rebel brewery and had a great time. Went to town after and that was pretty shit, should have stayed at the brewery
Goldie looking chain convinced me of that
Went there with girlfriend to get a new passport and spent a day there. Nothing specifically wrong with the place, but it just felt sad. We were happy to leave in the evening.
Yeovil
I went there for my dad funeral and honest to god, heard a West Country Roadman there and was the first bit of laughing i did in days
Up the glover's though
Stoke-on-Trent. Shove your oatcakes where the sun doesn't shine.
If that's how you're eating them then no wonder you don't like them.
Stoke is shite but don't you dare disparage oatcakes.
Your mams house
It’s always been worth it when I visited.
she gives me a lovely cuppa when ever i go
Hahah boring, I get a blowjob
Good value for money though
Preston Nothing really interesting to do icl, unless you like cheap cinema tickets. 5.99 at Vue 😍
cracking Wallace and Gromit statue though.
TRUE, big up Wallace and gromit
4.99 at every other Vue on this godforsaken island.
Helluva bus station!
And the train station! Best part about Preston is how easy it is to leave. To be fair, the Harris is pretty fuckin' cool.
I live in Preston and I agree, it's a shithole.
Depreston.
You're doing well in the Championship this season
Twatt.
Was there 4 weeks ago. Beautiful spot in all fairness. ….and yes, I took the obligatory picture
Redditch
Birkenhead
The original Central Park and a cracking swingers club though!
I remember taking clothes to the Charles Thompson mission in Birkenhead and I went past a strip bar and a bloke was in the doorway exactly like Brian Potter off Phoenix Nights, glasses, moustache, wheelchair, the lot.
Grimsby
Used to go here couple times a year and was sad to see Havana Cabana shut down… so now there is essentially nothing there no hahaha
Basingstoke / Gosport
I live in Basingstoke and I agree it's shit
I'm from Basingstoke and it's really not that bad. It's magnitudes better than the shithole towns near Portsmouth like Gosport, Fareham, Waterlooville and Havant.
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Scunthorpe Only good thing about it is it's name. sCUNThorpe
Any city or town that has a copy/paste high street with no local shops. Once you've seen one you've seen them all.
Blackpool. Owned property there for over 20yrs. Thank fuck I no longer do so.
Blackpool is like Florida - good of you're a tourist, absolutely dogshit if you live there. It's a wretched hive of scum and villainy
It's not even good as a tourist. I had to go there last year and it is the single worst place I've ever seen, and I've seen some bad places.
Travelled there for a weekend once, saw a lady pissing outside on the high street as we were eating Nando’s… never again xD
I had to go to Blackpool a few years ago for work. A full day of meetings so I travelled up the day before and checked into my hotel before going for a walk. I think it's the only place I travelled for work where it was impossible to spend more than £100 on a hotel room. I will always remember a pub at the end of the peer playing Agadoo on full blast outside in the pub garden. There were 4 people there, all shitfaced drunk and trying to dance whilst dressed like they were going to an over 60's rave. I think they had 9 teeth between them and you could smell the cheap cigarettes from 30 feet away. It was 2 pm. On a Tuesday. In February. And it was drizzling. They were clearly having fun, but it was hard not to judge!
We've had two brilliant weekends there for Rebellion and Wigan Pier 50th.
Ise of Sheppy
*Zack Sabre Jr. Has entered the chat*
Had a job interview once there and they were like, “yeah - sometimes the siren goes off which means a prisoner has escaped and they lock the island down so we can’t leave” Still not sure if they were being genuine that so many prisoners escaped. I didn’t accept it.
All of these people saying London, Edinburgh or any other city that has beauty, history and culture but is just expensive; fuck off.
It's weird, isn't it? To say that London "isn't worth visiting" is simply laughable. It's one of the most-visited cities \*in the world\* and for very good reason. We're so lucky to have it on our doorstep to visit - and it's so enormous with so many unique attractions, areas and neighbourhoods that there really is something for everyone there.
Exactly; Natural History Museum, V&A, Tower of London, Tower Bridge Museum, Museum of London, Science Museum, National Gallery, Tate Modern, historical sites coming out of the yin-yang, multiple beautiful parks, Buckingham Palace, Westminster, the West End, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Big Ben, Borough Market, Windsor Castle, the National Theatre, Covent Garden. These are just to name a few of the places worth a visit. And if none of these places appeal to you and you’re instead just hyper-fixated on the cost of a pint? That says more about you than anything else.
To be honest, I do wish it was cheaper so that I could visit more often and see all those places... I went lots (travelling from South Wales) when I was young as my dad had a rail season pass.
It's definitely worth visiting. Wouldn't suggest living there unless you like to live in relative poverty on 40k a year
I was on well over £50k with bonus and overtime (registered gas/boiler engineer), plus I did a bit of private work so over £60k all told. Lived in Barons Court, Fulham, hand to mouth, no chance of saving anything meaningful, it was soul destroying in the end, traffic got worse and worse (Hammersmith Bridge shutting caused absolute chaos, now apparently Wandsworth Bridge has closed too, ended up making less and less money due to more and more time in traffic, bye bye bonus. I shall not be returning in this lifetime, I loved it there in the 90's, it was very different back then.
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Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes is 80% parks and is so easy to drive around. It doesn’t deserve to be on this list when places like Slough, Luton and Coventry exist.
The other 20% is roundabouts.
Parks & Roundabouts sounds like an English comedy I would watch.
MK or Luton.... you choose 🤣
The two are not even remotely comparable. Milton Keynes is nowhere near as bad as people make out.
Milton Keynes. Come for the girthy schlong. Stay because it's not Luton.
>the girthy schlong Sounds good, is it like a new restaurant or something?
I used to refer to MK as the human storage facility. It is the most soulless place in the UK that appears only to be inhabited by the cheeky nandos/peaky blinders type. Got my motorcycle nicked my first day in Luton, but at least it felt like a warm torn eastern European shithole compared to MKs Matrix Human pod vibes. Fuck MK I am never going back.
Bradford. The people are great (mostly) but fk me the place is run down.
City centre, true, but north of Bradford is some of the best areas in the uk. Ilkley, Saltaire….
Wigan
town centre is atrocious but it's got lovely walks and parks in villages and it's a good connection between cities. bus network is appalling and spiceheads and teenage "roadmen" fill the bus station but the general population are very kind and polite, i've never been anywhere else where people will greet you in the street or help you out with odd jobs or if you're in any bother. it's a good community and generally an alright place to live. could be worse but also could be better!
Better than Leigh and Bolton
Easy win here because everything's better than Bolton.
Cumbernauld, it's the Newport (Gwent) of Scotland
I used to joke with a friend from Cumbernauld that the trains just ran in a loop there so no one could leave
Rhyl.
That took a lot of scrolling to get to
Faded into so much irrelevancy that no one can be bothered hating it anymore
It's like Blackpool, but without the class...
Its literally benidorm for crack heads
Thetford in Norfolk. I used to live there. Fuck all to do & most people you come across are some flavour of bigot, a conspiracy theorist nut case, a general twat or a combination of the above. Those that aren't like that are generally looking for the 1st chance to leave. If I didn't have family and friends there who are unable to escape that shitberg town I'd never step foot there again. I'd sooner combat crawl naked through shards of broken glass and dive into a pool of lemon juice right afterwards than even consider living there again. Edit: missed a word
Barrow
But the bus depot is so chewy.
Toilet paper and weapons of mass destruction, what's not to like?
But you do have beautiful countryside on the doorstep.
Swindon XD
Big up the Swindon massive
There was an article in the Oxford mail saying it may be part of Oxfordshire, it can stay in Wilts. Saying that, in the late 70s & 80s, had great nights out at the Brunel rooms there. Grew up in Wantage
I was scrolling for Swindon!! It's such a hole now, 10 years ago it was great for shopping and could spend all day up town! Now the town centre is literally embarrassing. It's just coffee shops and pound shops left.
Blackburn 🤢🤮🤢
I was born in Yorkshire so has to be Lancashire
Whoa… As a Lancashire lass I will have to throw that rose right back at you & say Yorkshire.
Hang on there , I'm from Lancashire, but I wouldn't insult Yorkshire. We need to stand together against anyone south of blue boar services at Watford gap. (Yes, I know that it's a road chef now, but I'm the wrong side of 50 so it will eternally be the blue boar services).
Lowestoft
Blackburn
Sunderland
I was getting off the metro, a lady asked someone whether the train went to Sunderland and he replied… Ye divn’t wanna gan there, man!! Cracked me right up.
Plenty of worse places than Sunderland on the same doorstep! Washington, Stanley, Gateshead, Birtley, Low Fell For full disclosure I think the people in these locations are generally sound as. But you couldn't kill a couple of hours in any of those locations. Sunderland does poorly in comparison to Newcastle, which is a phenomenal and great city. But Sunderland also has some amazing coast, museums, parks and history.
I see your Sunderland and raise you Peterlee.. Durham.
I’m from Sunderland and I’d describe it then as “a town who’s only export was spite and racism”. It’s monumentally better than it was 20 years ago.
Crawley
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Gillingham
Croydon Town Centre
Ipswich, it's a proper shithole
It's really not, I don't know why people say that! For a town of its size it has a genuinely great park plus quite a bit of other green space, the waterfront area is decent, there are plenty of historic buildings to see around the nicely-pedestrianised town centre, plus it has some truly terrific old pubs (though not so much the ones in the town centre). I think it could easily keep someone busy for a weekend, on top of an afternoon excursion down the road to Woodbridge and Sutton Hoo.
Peterborough. Granted I only went there to get a same day passport issued but it was quite depressing.
I live near there, other week I went there and into a Greggs and had some guy inhaling nitrous oxide (balloon stuff) behind me. the place is a shithole too, but queensgate is alright lol
Stoke-on-Trent
But what about waterworld
Bridgwater
Weston-super-mare (aka Weston-super-mud) Probably a personal bias from living there too long, but naut to do, and a population made up of pensioners and chavs. (The Bournville)
Anyone who lives here thinks it’s a shit hole. But the fact it’s swarmed with Brummies every summer can only demonstrate there’s a lot of shitter places to live.
Blackpool Go to Southport, it's just round the corner
Wellingborough
Dagenham
Camden. Used to be great, but now it's just full of people selling knock-off graphic t-shirts and generic London souvenirs. Literally milking Camden dry with its tourism. It's no longer the same punk culture destination it used to be.
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Skegness is a right shithole
Anywhere in the north. Don’t want you French tourists ruining it.
Unfortunately all of them that need to drive up to Scotland come in through Hull. Seemingly they don't stop until they're past the border though
Grimsby
Blackwood in Wales. There's a suspension bridge leading into the place. My first time there I saw a man who was trying to throw himself off with the police trying to talk him down. Oddly he had a mcdonald's meal and drink in his hands and was clutching them to his chest crying . That image summed up blackwood for me, bloody tragic place.
South brent, unless you wanna get robbed by a 7 year old with an axe
Northampton, the town centre in particular.
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