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Crap towns - your nominations?

By *UNCHBOX OP Man over a year ago

folkestone

I looking through some books in a book shop and came across a book called Crap towns which lists the top 100 crap towns nominated by people in britain. If you had to nominate a crap town what would it be and why?

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By *umpkinMan over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

Not a huge fan of Swindon. I`ve had to frive to the railway station a couple of times and never found my way there without getting lost, including the second time when I had a Sat-Nav! Ended going down a "buses only" street.

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By *umpkinMan over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

"Not a huge fan of Swindon. I`ve had to frive to the railway station a couple of times and never found my way there without getting lost, including the second time when I had a Sat-Nav! Ended going down a "buses only" street."

drive to the railway station ......

Bloody typos!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Luton! Sorry luton but from personal experience its pretty dire. Maybe I have missed the good part is there one?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Croydon, Whenever i go there i get lost and my SatNav is constantly screaming at me..Take the first exit and lets get the fuck out of here

Gimp

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Darlington. It's my nemesis....whenever I'm getting the train back up to Newcastle there's always some bullshit happening at Darlington that buggers up the journey.

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By *LFB.Woman over a year ago

Farnborough.

Farnborough, no good shops and sod all to do

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Luton is a good call sorry but it just is

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Kieghly , just a run down depressing dump in the middle of nice countryside !

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I've recently moved from glasgow(westend) to cumbernauld..as far as I can see its dire.But it is nice and green, so theres some nice wilderness walks for me and my camera.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Luton! Sorry luton but from personal experience its pretty dire. Maybe I have missed the good part is there one?

I grew up there....and agree with you

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Dudley - just looks so run down! Shame as the zoo and museum are lovely

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By *trawberry-popWoman over a year ago

South East Midlands NOT

Hatfield. The town centre itself is bizarre. It all faces inwards so you could drive past it without noticing there are a handful of (mostly crap) shops there.

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By *ibbyhunterCouple over a year ago

keighley

the towns listed above i'm sure are crap, but then there's bradford

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Dursley....been through it a couple of times and it's quite pretty but the name just implies awfulness

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By *iguy39Man over a year ago

manchester

Telford! My ex moved to Telford when she left me. We got together again and I visited her a few times in Telford. What a horrible souless place. It has no centre, just roundabouts with an icelands in the middle. She lived in a place called Donnington, two things to do on a Friday night; bargain booze or suicide. Plenty have chosen the later, it's that much of a shit hole

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bradford for me been once never again.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Bradford for me been once never again. "

agree 110 percent. i will never go back there

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Whitehaven. The land that time forgot...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Slough. Name alone should tell you all you need to know.

But if you have ever been there you will know the name does not do it justice, it's actually really shit.

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By *iguy39Man over a year ago

manchester

My ex moved from Irvine, a lovely town on the west coast of Scotland to Telford! Silly girl! Irvine is nice!

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By *U1966Man over a year ago

Devon

Totnes an embarrassment to Devon

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Went to Northampton town centre once. I left promptly

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bat and Ball. Purely due to the silly name

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By *isscheekychopsWoman over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"Went to Northampton town centre once. I left promptly "

Lol I used to work at the ann summers in Northampton lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Or Feltham

Feltham makes slough seen like a really good place to live.

Feltham is a really really shit place.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Or Feltham

Feltham makes slough seen like a really good place to live.

Feltham is a really really shit place. "

That said would rather live in Feltham than hounslow.

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By *abioMan over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

i always joked about that the best things about romford (where i use to hang oot in my younger days) were the railway station and the A12... but cant do that anymore since my sister is moving back to the "peoples republic"

birmingham was always "it might not be hell.... but you can see it from there!" my best mate from uni was from dudley....

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By *yrdwomanWoman over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Bolton wasn't the best ever place I've visited.

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By *edangel_2013Woman over a year ago

southend

I'm pretty sure Scunthorpe is in the 100 crap town book mentioned. I know it's in the Chaviest town book!

But it is essentially a shit hole, sinking rapidly further into the depths of despair.

I spent 30 years of my life there.

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By *oe_Steve_NWestCouple over a year ago

Bolton

"Bolton wasn't the best ever place I've visited."

Bolton is crap - Blackburn is worse. Z

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Rhyl!!! You have probs never heard of it but take my word!!!

Eeewww

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Slough. Name alone should tell you all you need to know.

But if you have ever been there you will know the name does not do it justice, it's actually really shit. "

Born and raised there (there goes my rep

And I couldn't agree with you more! Its a shithole. Moved out years ago and would never go back.

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By *iguy39Man over a year ago

manchester

"Rhyl!!! You have probs never heard of it but take my word!!!

Eeewww"
have heard of it, have been there and I can confirm it's a shithole

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By *isscheekychopsWoman over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"i always joked about that the best things about romford (where i use to hang oot in my younger days) were the railway station and the A12... but cant do that anymore since my sister is moving back to the "peoples republic"

birmingham was always "it might not be hell.... but you can see it from there!" my best mate from uni was from dudley....

Birmingham has got better and is currently going through regeneration I actually like it as a city

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bootle

scraggead ally lol but then Loughborough is a close second as well. That's why i moved away from here

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Went to Northampton town centre once. I left promptly

Lol I used to work at the ann summers in Northampton lol "

I have done maintenance work for ann summers,

Never went to that one

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Farnborough, no good shops and sod all to do"

I thought that in 1981

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By *isscheekychopsWoman over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

West Bromwich depresses me it's just so deprived and dull but they are trying their best to regenerate it by building a new shopping centre etc

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Daventry. No train station, no cinema, no hospital other than a consultation place with no A and E or maternity unit. Only 1 supermarket. Smallest town centre in the history of town centres with a vast majority of new shops opening being charity shops. Shit schools so bad offsted are threatening to close them. Low wages no matter where you work yet some of the highest petrol prices in the country so high our MP has had to take a petition to shell demanding they get the prices reduced. No LPG pump at any of the petrol stations, there is only 3 in town anyway! None of them are supermarket petrol stations so we dont benefit from any of the special offers/deals.

I think thats enough to give it a high place on the list

Oh and for those who dont know it we aint talking about a village here its a BIG industrial town!!

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By *ureplesureMan over a year ago

watford

"Luton! Sorry luton but from personal experience its pretty dire. Maybe I have missed the good part is there one?

yep, Luton for sure

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By *yrdwomanWoman over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Altrincham is a bit of a dump too. Although my view may have been coloured by the total tosser I was there with.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"West Bromwich depresses me it's just so deprived and dull but they are trying their best to regenerate it by building a new shopping centre etc

I saw something nice there

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By *inaTitzTV/TS over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

"Went to Northampton town centre once. I left promptly

Lol I used to work at the ann summers in Northampton lol "

I went to Uni in Northampton and really liked the place. However, I come from Mansfield and anything is an improvement after that. I know people who look at the news and see places being hit by disasters and wonder if they could get a week half board there, just because it is better than here.

Mansfield was buit on 3 industries, Pits (now shut bar 1 that is shutting), factories (90% shut) and a brewery (demolished). The town has tried to diversify into feral youths and casual violence, but whilst these are certainly big growth industries, the profit margins appear low.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Telford! My ex moved to Telford when she left me. We got together again and I visited her a few times in Telford. What a horrible souless place. It has no centre, just roundabouts with an icelands in the middle. She lived in a place called Donnington, two things to do on a Friday night; bargain booze or suicide. Plenty have chosen the later, it's that much of a shit hole"

I lived in Telford 20 years. Trust me its heaven next to Daventry.

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By *isscheekychopsWoman over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"Went to Northampton town centre once. I left promptly

Lol I used to work at the ann summers in Northampton lol

Northampton has a carlsberg brewery lol

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By *yrdwomanWoman over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"West Bromwich depresses me it's just so deprived and dull but they are trying their best to regenerate it by building a new shopping centre etc

I saw something nice there

Its definitely got one redeeming feature

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Hatfield. The town centre itself is bizarre. It all faces inwards so you could drive past it without noticing there are a handful of (mostly crap) shops there. "

Don't forget that there is also the weirdness of The Gallaria

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By *ichaelangelaCouple over a year ago

notts

Sleaford, Lincolnshire

nuff said

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By *isscheekychopsWoman over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"West Bromwich depresses me it's just so deprived and dull but they are trying their best to regenerate it by building a new shopping centre etc

I saw something nice there

Aww

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By *mmabluTV/TS over a year ago

upton wirral

Birkenhead what a dump

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By *punkyhelmet5Man over a year ago

Weston-super-mare

Shepton Mallet ...the most exciting thing there is a prison lol

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By *inaTitzTV/TS over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

"Went to Northampton town centre once. I left promptly

Lol I used to work at the ann summers in Northampton lol

Northampton has a carlsberg brewery lol "

Please may we have it?

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By *mmabluTV/TS over a year ago

upton wirral

"Went to Northampton town centre once. I left promptly

Lol I used to work at the ann summers in Northampton lol

As allways Tina very funny sounds like Birkenhead

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By *yrdwomanWoman over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"Birkenhead what a dump"

Oh god, seconded.

Its difficult for me as I naturally compare everywhere I go to York. OK, most towns won't need a Peter Rabbit shop, or a Fudge Kitchen, etc. But Birkenhead really doesn't have anything nice there. Apart from the metro station out of it.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Dudley - just looks so run down! Shame as the zoo and museum are lovely"

Actually Dudley is going through loads of renovation as is the zoo it's starting to look quite good now

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By *ureplesureMan over a year ago

watford

"Hatfield. The town centre itself is bizarre. It all faces inwards so you could drive past it without noticing there are a handful of (mostly crap) shops there.

Don't forget that there is also the weirdness of The Gallaria"

the gallaria is a dive!!!

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By *llie RoseWoman over a year ago

By the seaside

Gosport in Hampshire. Town with the highest population without a train station. It's a peninsular so a nightmare to get in and out of. The town centre is a dump and the predominant colour is burberry!

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By *hyllyphyllyMan over a year ago

Bradford

As an over proud Yorkshire man, I agree 100% with Keighley and Bradford. I used to live in both places.

The rest of Yorkshire is great... Well except Barnsley and Hull as well

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By *aceytopWoman over a year ago

from a town near you

has to be Bradford for me,and Hull

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By *xpresMan over a year ago

Elland

"the towns listed above i'm sure are crap, but then there's bradford

I used to work in this Toilet dirty dark unkept unclean unsafe depressing shithole

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Darlington. It's my nemesis....whenever I'm getting the train back up to Newcastle there's always some bullshit happening at Darlington that buggers up the journey."

yes this is true lol. I fix the tracks there :p and Darlington is a crappy place

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By *xpresMan over a year ago

Elland

"has to be Bradford for me,and Hull"

Yes n yes

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"has to be Bradford for me,and Hull

Yes n yes"

Yes to hull.

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By *iguy39Man over a year ago

manchester

"Altrincham is a bit of a dump too. Although my view may have been coloured by the total tosser I was there with."
Altrincham is nice! Depends where you go, I love Dunham Massey. I cycle round there a lot, it's lovely.

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By *iguy39Man over a year ago

manchester

TELFORD!

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By *uby0000Woman over a year ago

hertfordshire

"Luton! Sorry luton but from personal experience its pretty dire. Maybe I have missed the good part is there one?

no there isn't

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Darlington. It's my nemesis....whenever I'm getting the train back up to Newcastle there's always some bullshit happening at Darlington that buggers up the journey.

yes this is true lol. I fix the tracks there :p and Darlington is a crappy place"

So it's your fault! Haha

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Widnes......if the country had piles then that's where they would be.

Kidderminster. There was a mini tornado there yesterday. Swept across the town centre and caused £500 000 of improvements!

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By *uby0000Woman over a year ago

hertfordshire

"Hatfield. The town centre itself is bizarre. It all faces inwards so you could drive past it without noticing there are a handful of (mostly crap) shops there. "

its ok there

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Rotherham!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

And boston na days!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Corby

Well it was when I went there

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Dudley - just looks so run down! Shame as the zoo and museum are lovely

Actually Dudley is going through loads of renovation as is the zoo it's starting to look quite good now"

Ohhh really, can't say I venture down there often to be honest lol!

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By *oe_Steve_NWestCouple over a year ago

Bolton

"Corby

Well it was when I went there"

Good for your trousers though! z

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Boston Lincs

Overrun with parasites

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Gosport in Hampshire. Town with the highest population without a train station. It's a peninsular so a nightmare to get in and out of. The town centre is a dump and the predominant colour is burberry!

Couldn't agree with you anymore there

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By *ENGUYMan over a year ago

Hull

"has to be Bradford for me,and Hull"

Errrm! Have you actually been to Hull?

Or are you just jumping on the bandwagon of those who take the piss out of the city but haven't actually been there?

Are you aware of the regeneration going on in the city right now? Are you aware of the massive injection of private and public sector investment? Are you aware of the 1000's of jobs coming to the city over the few years?

Yes, it has its own shitty areas but it is no worse than parts of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London, Bristol or elsewhere.

I have worked all over the UK; I settled in Hull years ago and though I work down south as that was where the work was 3 years ago, I would really like to move back there as the city is "on the up"!

At least it got City of Culture 2017. Has you area done so??

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"And boston na days!"

Great minds think alike

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By *amslam1000Man over a year ago

willenhall

Doncaster

nuff said

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By *ENGUYMan over a year ago

Hull

"Doncaster

nuff said"

Best thing about Doncaster is the A1.

At least it goes around it!!!

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By *B9 QueenWoman over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Runcorn. Crappy shopping centre surrounded by '_xpressways'. Soulless and depressing.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"And boston na days!

Great minds think alike"

Lol i woudent call mine great but its genuinely worst place ive ever been!!! Even chippy was bad on corner!! Had so chuck chips on river lol they was that bad!

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By *amslam1000Man over a year ago

willenhall

"Doncaster

nuff said

Best thing about Doncaster is the A1.

At least it goes around it!!!

noooo it goes past and you don't slow down!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"And boston na days!

Great minds think alike

Lol i woudent call mine great but its genuinely worst place ive ever been!!! Even chippy was bad on corner!! Had so chuck chips on river lol they was that bad!"

Haha i know i live there

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Coalville. Here's what the Uban Dictionary has to say about it...

"A small town in Leicestershire, England, notable for it's high levels of retardation due to incest.

You don't want to go to Coalville, mate, They're a bunch of nasty, ignorant dipshits there."

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By *ENGUYMan over a year ago

Hull

"Doncaster

nuff said

Best thing about Doncaster is the A1.

At least it goes around it!!!

noooo it goes past and you don't slow down!!"

Around or Past - it is all the same. Pity the trains couldn't do so too. Doncaster Station must be the draughtiest and coldest spot on Earth.

Even in a heatwave in the rest of town, the Station is at -10 !!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"And boston na days!

Great minds think alike

Lol i woudent call mine great but its genuinely worst place ive ever been!!! Even chippy was bad on corner!! Had so chuck chips on river lol they was that bad!

Haha i know i live there"

Lol its one with red writing on! Awful! And rather u than me living there lol. Cant go into too much detail on a public forum ha! Sure u no what i man

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By *ranthamThroatMan over a year ago

Grantham.

St.Andrews. ....went to a restaurant...notice on door said closed for lunch....and I am not joking!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Went to Northampton town centre once. I left promptly

Lol I used to work at the ann summers in Northampton lol

Lol, I used to work in Mansfield and I agree with you all the way.

I actually think they missed a trick though, when they demolished half the town centre to build the Four Seasons shopping centre, they should have just kept going and knocked the whole place down.

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By *eavenNhellCouple over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

Rochdale crap architecture other than the town hall and the library place is full of peados chavs &wannabe gangsters.a football team thats never been higher than the third division a rugby team that are noticably non existant to be frank not even gazza would want to be twinned with this blight on the pennines

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Bolton wasn't the best ever place I've visited."

closely followed by chorley, absolutely dire, its a bit like blackpool, only smaller

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Croyden...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Altrincham is a bit of a dump too. Although my view may have been coloured by the total tosser I was there with. Altrincham is nice! Depends where you go, I love Dunham Massey. I cycle round there a lot, it's lovely."

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By *ranthamThroatMan over a year ago

Grantham.

"Rochdale crap architecture other than the town hall and the library place is full of peados chavs &wannabe gangsters.a football team thats never been higher than the third division a rugby team that are noticably non existant to be frank not even gazza would want to be twinned with this blight on the pennines"

Potentially( key word )covered everyone in the North then!

Anyone else you want to tar with a brush?

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By *entfootloverMan over a year ago

Sevenoaks

As a foreigner living in the UK I'm finding this thread amusing to no end. Keep them coming :D

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Swansea, was a total shit hole, the best thing about it is the road leading out.......

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Ill chip in,Skelmersdale in Lancs.Typical 1970s new town.

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By *umpkinMan over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

"Shepton Mallet ...the most exciting thing there is a prison lol"

Sometimes colloquially known as "shit`n`smellit!"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Wetherby Carlisle Warwick Darlington and Stockton for starters

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By *nnyMan over a year ago

Glasgow

"I've recently moved from glasgow(westend) to cumbernauld..as far as I can see its dire.But it is nice and green, so theres some nice wilderness walks for me and my camera."

Check out Fannyside Loch.

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By * Busty HotwifeCouple over a year ago

Bradford

Heckmondwike. Or Batley.

They're both Uber shitholes.

Glad I'm out!!

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By *ophieslutTV/TS over a year ago

Central

Ive never got on too well with Slough, and struggle to like it alot. It probably has lots going for it, but I have never lived or stayed there, merely spent several part days there.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Wow sleaford home of the electra club what a shit hole... But better than spalding just.

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By *awkeye and HotlipsCouple over a year ago

Takeley

Hull, twinned with Berlin, 30th April 1945...that is all...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Rhyl!!! You have probs never heard of it but take my word!!!

Eeewww have heard of it, have been there and I can confirm it's a shithole"

Rhyl is a shit hole went for a drive there the other week i didn't stay long ...

Cannock is pretty shit too

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By *untime biatchWoman over a year ago

ova by ea wales

"Rhyl!!! You have probs never heard of it but take my word!!!

Eeewww"
have 2 agree there rank

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"West Bromwich depresses me it's just so deprived and dull but they are trying their best to regenerate it by building a new shopping centre etc

west brom town centre is ok, i wouldn't want to live there though, some of the estates are dog rough

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Went to Northampton town centre once. I left promptly

Lol I used to work at the ann summers in Northampton lol

i love Mansfield, i get so home sick when i go visit family, it will always be home to me no matter where i live, it maybe a shit hole but its my shit hole

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Hatfield. The town centre itself is bizarre. It all faces inwards so you could drive past it without noticing there are a handful of (mostly crap) shops there.

Don't forget that there is also the weirdness of The Gallaria

the gallaria is a dive!!!"

The name makes it sound quite nice - ive no idea where it is though

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By *xpresMan over a year ago

Elland

"has to be Bradford for me,and Hull

Errrm! Have you actually been to Hull?

Or are you just jumping on the bandwagon of those who take the piss out of the city but haven't actually been there?

Yes, it has its own shitty areas but it is no worse than parts of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London, Bristol or elsewhere.

I have worked all over the UK; I settled in Hull years ago and though I work down south as that was where the work was 3 years ago, I would really like to move back there as the city is "on the up"!

At least it got City of Culture 2017. Has you area done so??"

Yes I see your point I can see whare you are comming from...

But apart from the marina & the deep the place is a toilet

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Luton! Sorry luton but from personal experience its pretty dire. Maybe I have missed the good part is there one?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Feltham, Middlesex ... Nothing there, no real shops, 1960's concrete, tired housing or high rise flats and an industrial estate, also no way around it (bypass, major A road, etc.)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Feltham, Middlesex ... Nothing there, no real shops, 1960's concrete, tired housing or high rise flats and an industrial estate, also no way around it (bypass, major A road, etc.)

See our last post.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Widnes

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

not sure why but this is making me lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I cannot believe that no one has mentioned Harlow yet. Started out as a good idea in the fifties and then they filled it with the dregs of humanity and gave them knives and crystal meth

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Weston Super Muck. Full of junkies and mud

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By *uke olovingmanMan over a year ago

Gravesend

gravesend and erith

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Burnham on sea

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Why has no obe mentioned Milton Keynes?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Why has no obe mentioned Milton Keynes? "

Because thats the same as Mentioning that Play that should not be named....Your DOOOOOOMED

Gimp

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

It's not a town, but Gloucestershire is dire.. Very grim!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Hartlepool. Billingham and them there is the Boro not nice places at all

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By *dam_TinaCouple over a year ago

Hampshire

Bracknell - arse end of the world

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Shirley, Southampton and Southampton itself. Shirley is all coffee shops, charity shops and polish shops. It has three clothes shops

Southampton is a bit better but other towns have much better shopping centres

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Rhyl!!! You have probs never heard of it but take my word!!!

Eeewww have heard of it, have been there and I can confirm it's a shithole"
me too!! But I met gorgeous fella from there

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Sunderland

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Rhyl!!! You have probs never heard of it but take my word!!!

Eeewww have heard of it, have been there and I can confirm it's a shithole me too!! But I met gorgeous fella from there "

An atomic bomb exploded in Rhyl once. It's caused £3 worth of damage!....

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Or Feltham

Feltham makes slough seen like a really good place to live.

Feltham is a really really shit place. "

it really is quite shocking !!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Rhyl!!! You have probs never heard of it but take my word!!!

Eeewww have heard of it, have been there and I can confirm it's a shithole me too!! But I met gorgeous fella from there

An atomic bomb exploded in Rhyl once. It's caused £3 worth of damage!...."
haha!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Luton is a good call sorry but it just is "

Hey I lived in Luton while I was a kid and I must say its shite

Hence the move 250 miles north

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Not a town but the the whole of the UK is dire now.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

A few of the places it's been our misfortune to visit and we are not in a hurry to repeat the awful experience are Reading ( truly awful) , Pembroke Dock (utterly depressing) and Liverpool (awful place that is neglecting it's past and is shoving architectural monstrosities all over the place hiding what people want to see.

Portsmouth and Basingstoke are as bad, destroying what gave them their identities and replacing them with glass, steel and expensive shops.

Bahhhh!!!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bradford.More like a toilet with an outside town

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By *eforfuncplCouple over a year ago

Morecambe

Stafford

Birmingham

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Emmablu I agree with you about Birkenhead is a dump that is why I do all my shopping in Bromborough.

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By *entfootloverMan over a year ago

Sevenoaks

"Why has no obe mentioned Milton Keynes? "

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Why has no obe mentioned Milton Keynes?

Who is this Obe bloke and why is he avoiding Milton Keynes!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Kidderminster

Didcot

Falkirk

Northampton

Redditch

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I think to answer this question right, you have to define A Town" in this context.. because, some of the places mentioned so far doesn't seem to fall into same category//e.g if I say.. keigly is shit but Luton is alrite.. not in same category is it? or Chelsea and Darlington.

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By *itten-xxxWoman over a year ago

North West

"Why has no obe mentioned Milton Keynes? "

It must be depressing people are always jumping in front of trains there

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By *jgoofyCouple over a year ago

worthing

"I'm pretty sure Scunthorpe is in the 100 crap town book mentioned. I know it's in the Chaviest town book!

But it is essentially a shit hole, sinking rapidly further into the depths of despair.

I spent 30 years of my life there."

I only went there to do southampton and scunthorpe in the same holiday to get one up on tineh tempa lol....how many people actually get this lol

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By *luezuluMan over a year ago

Suffolk

birmingham was always "it might not be hell.... but you can see it from there!" my best mate from uni was from dudley....

Birmingham has got better and is currently going through regeneration I actually like it as a city

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By *jgoofyCouple over a year ago

worthing

"Shirley, Southampton and Southampton itself. Shirley is all coffee shops, charity shops and polish shops. It has three clothes shops

Southampton is a bit better but other towns have much better shopping centres "

Shirley obviously gone upmarket since I left southampton 5 years ago for sunny goring by sea lol

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By *utzzCouple over a year ago

wrexham

There was almost a riot in wrexham in January when the half price sale in the £1 shop got called off...

true story.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Try them bloody roundabouts grouped right together

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Kidderminster

Didcot

Falkirk

Northampton

Redditch"

I think Redditch is in there already

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By *corpio BrowneMan over a year ago

London

In a past life my work took me all over the U.K. Among the most unedifying places it was my misfortune to visit - and I make no comments about the population who had the misfortune to live there - was Middlesborough , Grimsby , and Workington . Does my view of these existential hell-holes need to be revised now ?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Try them bloody roundabouts grouped right together "

I had to negotiate the magic roundabouts in Swindon for my driving test.

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By *yrdwomanWoman over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"In a past life my work took me all over the U.K. Among the most unedifying places it was my misfortune to visit - and I make no comments about the population who had the misfortune to live there - was Middlesborough , Grimsby , and Workington . Does my view of these existential hell-holes need to be revised now ?"

I met a guy from Middlesbrough and he agreed that it is a shithole.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Caernarfon should be in there, definitely

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Kidderminster

Didcot

Falkirk

Northampton

Redditch

I think Redditch is in there already"

Sorry

Redditch is the only one we were fortunate not to live in.

Nice Gum clinic though

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Slough is a contender for sure!

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By *itten-xxxWoman over a year ago

North West

Skelmersdale or Skem for short yuck. Built as an overflow for Liverpool. Full of concrete and people wearing shell suits

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By *itten-xxxWoman over a year ago

North West

Skelmersdale or Skem for short yuck. Built as an overflow for Liverpool. Full of concrete and people wearing shell suits

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By *not69Man over a year ago

Lancashire

Blackburn, Burnley, nelson, Bolton, Bradford, all as bad as one another

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Blackburn, Burnley, nelson, Bolton, Bradford, all as bad as one another"

And all Bs.......? Hmmm, do you think there's a trend?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Work in Oxford during the week.... Birmingham at weekends + Cov

One is very nice, two are shite holes

Have to agree with Rhyl though... And West Brom (excluding the obvious place)

If a place has loads of pound shops, loan-shark places and betting shops yer on a winner re a crap town..... Human Geography study needed

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By *ratty_DamselWoman over a year ago

Greater London

New Brighton. A very depressed old victorian seaside town on the Wirral. Soo dire......

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By *nigmatic1Woman over a year ago

A seaside town near you!

"Blackburn, Burnley, nelson, Bolton, Bradford, all as bad as one another"

You forgot Blackpool !!! Why hasn't any mentioned Blackpool???

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Blackburn, Burnley, nelson, Bolton, Bradford, all as bad as one another

You forgot Blackpool !!! Why hasn't any mentioned Blackpool???"

Its a bit like saying fish swim in water

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bradford (sorry Bradfordians - no reflection on you) is the armpit of the North without a shadow of a doubt

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By *nigmatic1Woman over a year ago

A seaside town near you!

"Blackburn, Burnley, nelson, Bolton, Bradford, all as bad as one another

You forgot Blackpool !!! Why hasn't any mentioned Blackpool???

Its a bit like saying fish swim in water

Lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I read this and told myself I swear there's an actual place called Crapton

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By *not69Man over a year ago

Lancashire

"Blackburn, Burnley, nelson, Bolton, Bradford, all as bad as one another

You forgot Blackpool !!! Why hasn't any mentioned Blackpool???

Its a bit like saying fish swim in water

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Basildon ugh an architects' nightmare

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By *alandNitaCouple over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"I'm pretty sure Scunthorpe is in the 100 crap town book mentioned. I know it's in the Chaviest town book!

But it is essentially a shit hole, sinking rapidly further into the depths of despair.

I spent 30 years of my life there."

Shit hole?! You've either not been back for a while or believed everything in "skint". Scunthorpe isn't bad at all, as long as you don't want good shopping.

In fact have just done some research on Southend - it sounds rather like Scunthorpe, but by the sea.

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By *ebecca stensonCouple over a year ago

Birmingham

Goole, i worked there for 3 weeks and was absolutely terrible nothing there and the takeouts i found eventually shut at 10 wtf!!! Even when im driving and see a sign for it i get shivers down my spine a truly terrible place.

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By *ebecca stensonCouple over a year ago

Birmingham

Oh and Burton just because of the marmite factory it stinks that bad it makes me feel sick

The rest of Burton isn't that bad when you get far from the awful stench.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Yup :D

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I looking through some books in a book shop and came across a book called Crap towns which lists the top 100 crap towns nominated by people in britain. If you had to nominate a crap town what would it be and why?"

MORECAMBE:Its full of d*unks,DSS and vomit.

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By *bwlover19Man over a year ago

Liverpool

Obviously none of you fine people have been to kirkby. That lovely little fishing village by the Alt.

A place so bereft of soul that no birds fly overhead

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Obviously none of you fine people have been to kirkby. That lovely little fishing village by the Alt.

A place so bereft of soul that no birds fly overhead"

I've never been to Kirkby, but I have been to Kirkby in Ashfield. Now that really is a shit hole.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Coventry its dire and lacks hot guys too.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Coventry its dire and lacks hot guys too."

Some hot women though by the looks of it

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

It has to be Bradford its pretty shitty from top to bottom left to right.

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