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What’s the worst town/place in the UK you’ve visited (or God forbid, lived in!)
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"What’s the worst town/place in the UK you’ve visited (or God forbid, lived in!)
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Wolverhampton.
Nuking it from orbit is too good for that place. |
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Bridgwater... dear to my heart but it's a shithole |
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over a year ago
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Tonbridge |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Luton |
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Boston
Telford
King’s Lynn
Fareham
Dundee (though I was told the other week it had vastly improved since my last visit)
There are others… |
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over a year ago
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Aldershot |
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Harlesdon, London. lived there for a few years - shudders in the memory |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jaywick
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I once visited Moss Side (as I was living in Manchester at the time and out of curiosity, purely to see how bad it really was).
The rumours are entirely true as it turns out….
An absolute shit hole.
I won’t be returning |
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over a year ago
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Rhyl |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
I don't believe that I've ever lived in a town and my surroundings were a shit hole in my opinion and never travelled to one either that would be weird for me to want to explore |
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From my last experiences visiting Manchester, London & Crewe all have a negative vibe
Liverpool, Bala, Stirling all have a positive memory |
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Hands down, Britannia Hotel, Stockport (a few years ago now - might be under different management). Worst hotel in the worst place, ever. |
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"Tonbridge "
I take that and raise you Medway! lol |
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Boston and Stoke, neither are pleasant in the slightest |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Stockton-on-Tees |
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By *dalisqueWoman
over a year ago
land of make believe |
"I once visited Moss Side (as I was living in Manchester at the time and out of curiosity, purely to see how bad it really was).
The rumours are entirely true as it turns out….
An absolute shit hole.
I won’t be returning "
I went in the late 80s and there was bulletproof glass in the shops so you couldn't touch anything!
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over a year ago
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"From my last experiences visiting Manchester, London & Crewe all have a negative vibe
Liverpool, Bala, Stirling all have a positive memory "
Bala is my favourite place in the whole world, I’m waiting for the first hot day so I can go back. |
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"Bridgwater... dear to my heart but it's a shithole "
It literally stinks of shit as well!! |
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"I once visited Moss Side (as I was living in Manchester at the time and out of curiosity, purely to see how bad it really was).
The rumours are entirely true as it turns out….
An absolute shit hole.
I won’t be returning
I went in the late 80s and there was bulletproof glass in the shops so you couldn't touch anything!
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It’s a truly ghastly shit pit; I remember that there was a specially designated parking cage (yes, an actual cage!) in one bit |
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Jaywick. Genuinely shocked how deprived it is. |
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By *opman121Man
over a year ago
stoke on trent |
Sorry to say Stoke becoming a right s hole |
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"False fucking advertising!"
Sorry |
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Ah Jaywick; Yes indeed. Beautiful sea views
….and then you turn and look at the actual town…. Sweet Jesus! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Must agree with _irty-pair Jaywick is c not good..
But unfortunately there is plenty of places around the UK that are shit holes.. |
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"Bridgwater... dear to my heart but it's a shithole
It literally stinks of shit as well!! "
It's not as bad now the cellophane factory has closed.
But it does smell of shit in the summer when the farmers are befouling their fields |
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over a year ago
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Luton still gives me nightmares.
Sarah |
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"Blackpool
Skegness"
I can confirm skegness too, I work there at time and hate the summer, it’s like the land of zombies |
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The Kings Road isn’t what it used to be… |
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over a year ago
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"Feltham.
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Nearly moved there |
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Gravesend: It’s as bad as the name suggests. |
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Edmonton/Enfield north london off the M25 at junction 25 for the A10/North Circular Road.
I grew up there and it was wonderful then.
The "planners" have wrecked it over the years and it's got progressively worse.
Just awful now. |
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over a year ago
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Slough, as previously mentioned: So shit that it even prompted the late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman to compose a highly derogatory poem dedicated to the place.
It is also said that Queen Victoria was so disgusted by the town that she used to close the curtains in the royal car on the train whenever she passed through.
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"Hands down, Britannia Hotel, Stockport (a few years ago now - might be under different management). Worst hotel in the worst place, ever."
I stayed there twice(free parking & airport transfer) It is disgustingly grubby sort of place you wipe your feet on the way out |
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Thank god know one has mentioned just south of the river |
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Most of London
Southend
Liverpool
A fair chunk of Manchester
Luton
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
Liverpool |
The flat I lived in with my ex many years ago apparently. It was a lovely flat, but she was obsessed with tidy and zero clutter.
So even the one thing being out on show when it should be in some storage was "I'm sick of this place looking like a shit hole"
And no! I was not untidy! |
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"Most of London
Southend
Liverpool
A fair chunk of Manchester
Luton
" most in London behave |
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"Feltham.
Nearly moved there "
I’m trying to picture you living there but just can’t! |
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Southend
Basildon
Clacton
Jaywick
Yep, they rank up there alright. |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
Barrow in Furness
Blackpool
Newport
Leicester
I could go on some others have been mentioned. |
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over a year ago
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Middlesbrough. It's an absolute shit hole, and it stinks too cos of all the chemical factories spouting out fumes. There's a reason people from Boro are know locally as "Smoggies" |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
Scunthorpe was a bit grim. That was many many moons ago now though, it may have changed. |
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By *rMs.NeekCouple
over a year ago
Worcestershire |
"Sorry to say Stoke becoming a right s hole "
It was grim when I lived there 30 years ago....
Blackpool is awful
The very worst place I've ever been is Leigh in Lancashire. It was dark when I was there and it was still fucking horrendous
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Blackpool.
But where I live a part of Jaywick is like a 3rd world shanty town
More on purpose by certain house developers,Because they want to build/get permission for mini mansions on the beach |
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I almost don’t want to own up to this, but am I really the only one who came here intrigued about the promise of a different kind of thread entirely?!!!
Or did you all go ‘ahem’, type a grotty place name and quietly back out again? |
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over a year ago
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Luton |
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over a year ago
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Brierley Hill. Poor old town now, it never was much to begin with. |
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"Peterborough
Chatham"
Chatham is indeed Kents rectum. |
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"Barrow in Furness
Blackpool
Newport
Leicester
I could go on some others have been mentioned."
Have to say...Barrow is grim |
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By *rMs.NeekCouple
over a year ago
Worcestershire |
"I almost don’t want to own up to this, but am I really the only one who came here intrigued about the promise of a different kind of thread entirely?!!!
Or did you all go ‘ahem’, type a grotty place name and quietly back out again? "
I must admit that I initially expected a completely different direction to the one this thread went in |
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Tunbridge Wells.
I much prefer Tonbridge. |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
"Barrow in Furness
Blackpool
Newport
Leicester
I could go on some others have been mentioned.
Have to say...Barrow is grim"
That's an understatement. Filthiest city I've ever seen |
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By *isge BeathaWoman
over a year ago
Here, There and Everywhere |
Cumbernauld! The best thing about it, is the road out! |
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Great Yarmouth. If that's Great, I'd fucking hate to go to Shite Yarmouth...
And closer to home, Northampton is an absolute pit of a place. |
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over a year ago
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Well there's five towns and Fenton.
Hanley
Stoke
Longton
Burslem
Tunstall
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
Worked in Plaistow fir a tome when I lived in London, fucking hated that place |
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over a year ago
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Dartford or Crawley, it's a hard choice.
Jaywick obviously, had a lovely holiday in the caravan park right next door but it was an eye opener having to drive through there to get to it. |
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over a year ago
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Newton Stewart in Scotland.
(Run down, damp, miserable..etc.)
Though I like scotland, on the whole. |
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Milton Keynes.
I was travelling back north on the M1 only to discover that it was closed near Milton Keynes and was likely to remain closed for several hours.
I managed to get off the motorway and drove towards Milton Keynes in the direction of the M40 to continue my journey north. I took a wrong turn at one of the dozens of traffic islands and ended up in a ghetto estate, it was grim. It seemed a soulless and unloved place. |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
Boston & Stoke stand out as exceptionally grim |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"Dartford or Crawley, it's a hard choice.
Jaywick obviously, had a lovely holiday in the caravan park right next door but it was an eye opener having to drive through there to get to it."
Jaywick OMFG. I stayed in that Caravan park years ago , the coast there is nice and quiet but wandered into the actual town and pubs and thought o was hallucinating or had been transported into an alternative universe!
It’s actually very very similar to a place just north of Perth in Western Australia , a crayfishing community of squatters on the beach in shacks that are high on crack and violent as fuck
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over a year ago
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"Tunbridge Wells.
I much prefer Tonbridge."
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over a year ago
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"Tonbridge
I take that and raise you Medway! lol"
Very true |
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over a year ago
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Manchester has become a shit hole, Piccadilly gardens are a disgrace |
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Middlesbrough. Dire place. Worked there a few weeks ago. Everything comes with cornbeef. Was asked to go back an refused. Rather have a week off. Swansea & gosport are a close 2nd. |
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Why did I think this was going to be a thread about Anal?
Lost cause |
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By *lueFireCouple
over a year ago
just somewhere around here |
"Peterborough
Chatham"
I was born in pboro and yes it's now a shithole |
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"Tonbridge
I take that and raise you Medway! lol"
I have to agree with you about Medway towns. Chatham an Gillingham the biggest shitholes on earth
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"Jaywick
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Doesn't get any worse in the UK I suppose haha |
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"Why did I think this was going to be a thread about Anal?
Lost cause "
Hahaha, makes 2 of us then |
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"Hands down, Britannia Hotel, Stockport (a few years ago now - might be under different management). Worst hotel in the worst place, ever.
I stayed there twice(free parking & airport transfer) It is disgustingly grubby sort of place you wipe your feet on the way out "
Why did you stay twice? If so bad. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sunderland |
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Blackpool
I went Hull once and there was loads of dog shit everywhere like loads |
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I came here thinking it was a rant about a dirty bum hole |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My head, worse than any suburb, city, town or village, a ghetto in its own rights at times |
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By *egoMan
over a year ago
Preston |
Blackpool, one street in from the prom. And it’s just dire. |
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over a year ago
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Blackpool visited and its worse every time
Lived in these places ..
Loanhead
Aldershot
Cardenden |
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"I came here thinking it was a rant about a dirty bum hole "
And you still came? |
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"Blackpool visited and its worse every time "
I lived in Blackpool for a bit. Let’s just say you’re all correct. It’s not pleasant.
But … Preston’s worse and it’s just next-door. |
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"I came here thinking it was a rant about a dirty bum hole
And you still came?"
Yeah I was just making a brew too drink as I read the comments |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This thread is making me giggle, Preston and Luton is high up there, I've got three boys and 1 of them lives in Preston and 1 in Luton (we won't mention the other one who lives in Maidstone) |
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By *athuilMan
over a year ago
up north |
In no particular order, Swindon, Crewe and Watford |
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"Feltham.
Nearly moved there " some parts of feltham are ok the town isn't great mind |
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I’m surprised nobody has been offended and upset yet. I came to this thread expecting high drama as people slagged off each other’s hometowns. |
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Southend
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aw, used to love southend,
and canvey |
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"Great Yarmouth. If that's Great, I'd fucking hate to go to Shite Yarmouth...
And closer to home, Northampton is an absolute pit of a place. "
Correct about Yarmouthm as soon as I saw this topic that's the first place that came to mind. It's such a shame so many places around our coast are utter dumps, I go to France and pretty much every coastal town is really nice. |
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"Stevenage "
Lived there for about 7 years, I can confirm this to me true. Know locally as Chavenage.
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over a year ago
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Cwmbran has got to be up there too |
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I think the nearest place to me mention on here is feltham and that's like 15 plus miles away anyway. East London been mentioned but everyone knows that's dire, just joking if anyone from there. |
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Funnily enough, I have just seen that the 2019 ‘winner’ for crappest town in the UK (as voted for in polls) was Peterborough.
I’m quite surprised by this as the part I visited was really pretty with some lovely architecture.
One reviewer quoted the following to justify the nomination though: ‘It’s the biggest dump in England with aggressive and inbred residents.’
Nice |
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Looks like Jaywick top so far , I had to have a look on Goo Earth , a load of prefabs squeezed in to as little space as poss , presume it is cheap and I bet it has lovely weather in that location ! Just wait and the artistic community will be in there .. |
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"I’m surprised nobody has been offended and upset yet. I came to this thread expecting high drama as people slagged off each other’s hometowns."
Esp as lots of nominations are hotbeds of Fab activity , M’boro , Scunthorpe , Skegness , P’boro etc etc |
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Southend - was not so bad when I first moved there but slowly it has become a drug and gang riddled hole, how the hell they won City status I do not know.
Scunthorpe - you know you're there as the smell hits you from the steel works (although admittedly this is one of my childhood memory smells) and the town has literally run down over the years
And lastly where I love, any money the council have in grants have been spent on completely the wrong thing and making them look good for all the wrong reasons, the areas that need the help are having budget cuts and struggling
Tinder |
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"I came here thinking it was a rant about a dirty bum hole "
Ha ha do did I |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Blackpool visited and its worse every time
Lived in these places ..
Loanhead
Aldershot
Cardenden "
Lived in Aldershot...Nice Lido though. |
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By *queegeeMan
over a year ago
northampton |
Well I'm originally from Ghana so can't really compare..haha |
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By *eartsmanMan
over a year ago
southeast , midlands, southern France |
"Stevenage
Lived there for about 7 years, I can confirm this to me true. Know locally as Chavenage.
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Basildon beats stevenage hands down. It's a shit hole |
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By *eartsmanMan
over a year ago
southeast , midlands, southern France |
Also Grimsby too. I mean the first 4 letters are GRIM lol |
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Thought it was about experiences with body areas.. |
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Bradford. Words can't describe the place. |
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By *athuilMan
over a year ago
up north |
Blackpool. An absolute shithole |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
Saw the thread title.
Thought this was going to be a photo critique topic.
My bad.
Carry on.
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*Oh. And Bridgwater is definitely in the running. |
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I’m going to put forward my own town to: High Wycombe.
Long gone is the idyllic and quite charming historical imagery of chair makers applying their craft whilst sat on tree stumps in the middle of the leafy woods; the reality is sadly now a hive of scumery, boarded up shops and litter strewn streets.
We were proud to achieve the coveted number nine spot in Crap Town’s a few years back and regularly feature in the top twenty in polls |
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over a year ago
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"I’m going to put forward my own town to: High Wycombe.
Long gone is the idyllic and quite charming historical imagery of chair makers applying their craft whilst sat on tree stumps in the middle of the leafy woods; the reality is sadly now a hive of scumery, boarded up shops and litter strewn streets.
We were proud to achieve the coveted number nine spot in Crap Town’s a few years back and regularly feature in the top twenty in polls "
High Wycombe has been a dump for many years
I'm going to throw Loughborough in to the mix. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Clacton on sea
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I didn’t enjoy living in Southampton very much. It was described to me once as the hole in the donut, which is probably a fair description. |
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"Great Yarmouth. If that's Great, I'd fucking hate to go to Shite Yarmouth...
And closer to home, Northampton is an absolute pit of a place. "
Oi |
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By *lueFireCouple
over a year ago
just somewhere around here |
I dont think it's an individual place ....most inner cities are fuck holes |
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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago
yumsville |
Has to be the house next to me, the house in the middle of the street and the house at the end. All now bought and rented out under short lets to homeless, ex convicts, addicts or people who like to fight them. Thanks Burnham, fuckmuncher. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Where I live. Pontygwaith. It's why I don't go out. The people I've encountered are ....I can't write the specific as I'll probably get a ban but they start with
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A
D A
And they love a good fight. Men and women
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"Stevenage
Lived there for about 7 years, I can confirm this to me true. Know locally as Chavenage.
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that place is just pure vile , swear everyone has slept with each other |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Stockton-on-Tees "
Fucking preach sister! Could even just round that up to say 'Teesside' lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Blackpool visited and its worse every time
Lived in these places ..
Loanhead
Aldershot
Cardenden
Lived in Aldershot...Nice Lido though."
Just try not to step on the needles |
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Blackpool has been mentioned a lot.
Such a shithole!
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I get why everyone is calling Blackpool a shit hole....but I've had so many fucking great nights there |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Bridgwater... dear to my heart but it's a shithole
It literally stinks of shit as well!!
It's not as bad now the cellophane factory has closed.
But it does smell of shit in the summer when the farmers are befouling their fields "
Anywhere in the country stinks when farmers are "manure" spreading, |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember the first time I visited Kent I stayed in Gravesend and I didn't like it at all, never did go back to work there.
The Isle of sheppy is another place marked off my list of places not to visit again.
Come across a few places up north which I haven't liked aswell, and also in the valleys.
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
carrbrook stalybridge |
Rochdale simply the armpit of lancashire that shit that even mcdonalds left the town centre
The place where hopes and dreams come to die |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Also Grimsby too. I mean the first 4 letters are GRIM lol"
I wholeheartedly concur |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Liverpool although I was there during the euro final and the place was a shit heep |
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By *oalie66Man
over a year ago
Chesterfield |
Mansfield,if ever a town and its residents were stuck in the 80' s this is it.
The only place in the UK were at a wedding all the guests sit on the same side in the church. |
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Redcar proper shit hole |
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"Torquay is my kinda shithole "
Agree, parts of it. |
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"Peterborough
Chatham"
Peterborough Cathedral is lovely. I went there for a wonderful concert to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Katherine of Aragon's marriage to Henry VIII. I confess I don't know the rest of the town.
My shout would be Croydon. The absolute quintessence of suburbia. Most of the places mentioned in the thread are impoverished, with all the predictable problems that causes. But Croydon isn't poor. It's smug, drab, and irredeemably vulgar. |
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Perm any of these in any particular order.
Chatham
Peterborough
Luton
Harlesden
Dover |
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Chatham is the only place you can buy a
Happy 30th Birthday Grandma card |
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"Chatham is the only place you can buy a
Happy 30th Birthday Grandma card"
. And Stevenage |
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Hull
Scunthorpe "
Another vote for Scunthorpe
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"Peterborough
Chatham
Peterborough Cathedral is lovely. I went there for a wonderful concert to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Katherine of Aragon's marriage to Henry VIII. I confess I don't know the rest of the town.
My shout would be Croydon. The absolute quintessence of suburbia. Most of the places mentioned in the thread are impoverished, with all the predictable problems that causes. But Croydon isn't poor. It's smug, drab, and irredeemably vulgar."
North of the Borough is poor |
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Another one I had tried to forget is Mansfield. Had a few nights at the Premier Inn there, whilst doing an induction course for work. First evening work colleague went outside for a cigarette. Lady in reception asked if was going into the town. Her advice was not to go into the town centre alone after dark
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Leicester. Went there to try out a daytime "club", and it turned out to be a full-on knocking shop.
As I had booked a hotel for the night, I went out around the town for a bite to eat. Stopped into a pub, and before I had chance to even get to the bar, one guy was signalling from a distance that he wanted to take me outside. |
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Years ago I use to chat with a girl from a small town in Essex. She would praised her town and she would always make fun of Wales and run it down to me over the phone. Years later I decided to visit her town to see what I was missing and Harlow was very disappointing to say the least. I don't like to call anywhere a shit hole but it instantly came to my mind. |
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Obviously London’s been mentioned countless times already but I’ll say it again
London = shithole. |
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I'm going to give an upvote for Wolverhampton. I spent 2 nights there about 15 years ago for work, and it was an absolute shit hole.
Also, Rotherham. |
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"What’s the worst town/place in the UK you’ve visited (or God forbid, lived in!)
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"What’s the worst town/place in the UK you’ve visited (or God forbid, lived in!)
Phew… did wonder what this topic would be about "
Don't worry, I expect we all clicked on it with the same level of trepidation. |
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"I'm going to give an upvote for Wolverhampton. I spent 2 nights there about 15 years ago for work, and it was an absolute shit hole.
Also, Rotherham. "
I used to pass through Wolverhampton on the train to Birmingham regularly.
I remember thinking whenever I went through that with all the crumbling, derelict factories and buildings there, it would make for a brilliant filming location for a post apocalyptic themed film.
Probably not the best advertisement to live there though |
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"What’s the worst town/place in the UK you’ve visited (or God forbid, lived in!)
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Don't worry, I expect we all clicked on it with the same level of trepidation. "
I thought it wa going to be another fabguys post |
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No offense but the whole of the West Midlands is grim. Nice people there though xxx |
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Parts of London. |
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"Scunthorpe was a bit grim. That was many many moons ago now though, it may have changed."
The good thing about Scunthorpe though is that it has the word 'cunt' in it |
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Can't help thinking our shit towns are worse than those of France, Italy and Spain |
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"Cwmbran has got to be up there too "
I grew up on Cwmbran it was nice when I was a kid it’s a proper dump now which is really really sad |
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