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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Unfortunately you sometimes find yourself in a place that either time forgot, town planners fucked up big time or simply history was cruel.
For me, Bognor was a place that didn't deserve the title 'Regis' and I couldn't leave fast enough. |
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It’s not right to judge a town by one experience
I could say Middlesbrough or London
Or Shanghai, Basildon
As I have bad experiences from all of them, but they also have their good parts too
So I’ll just settle on..
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By *0FrankMan
over a year ago
The South! |
Well...
In Thetford I was almost beaten up by a gang of 12 year olds in a kebab shop...
In Belfast I was asked to leave a pub because of my accent.
In Bordon was where I met the roughest Woman I've ever met.
In Bristol I had s bottle thrown at me before I even got to the venue I was playing.
Take your pick lol
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Well...
In Thetford I was almost beaten up by a gang of 12 year olds in a kebab shop...
In Belfast I was asked to leave a pub because of my accent.
In Bordon was where I met the roughest Woman I've ever met.
In Bristol I had s bottle thrown at me before I even got to the venue I was playing.
Take your pick lol
Agree with Thetford, it’s not great
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"I stayed in Hartlepool on a Monday night in November.
I'm sure it has its good points, but that wasn't one of them.
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What do you expect of a town that mistakes a monkey for a French spy and hung him on the beach  |
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Chapeltown, the place where i grew up. That's the one between Sheffield and Barnsley, not the rough area in Leeds.
I went back a few years ago to find that it'd come crashing into the 21st century by opening it's first ever coffee shop. Served from a vending machine.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It’s not right to judge a town by one experience
I could say Middlesbrough or London
Or Shanghai, Basildon
As I have bad experiences from all of them, but they also have their good parts too
So I’ll just settle on..
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Obviously never been to Corby. |
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"Unfortunately you sometimes find yourself in a place that either time forgot, town planners fucked up big time or simply history was cruel.
For me, Bognor was a place that didn't deserve the title 'Regis' and I couldn't leave fast enough. "
I don't think many whole towns are god forsaken but there are certainly areas or more specifically "people" in those towns that are god forsaken.
The silly thing is the % of bad people vs good people is ridiculously small but they can cause mayhem.
I liked the old New York mayor who brought in the three strike rule and changed New yorks reputation massively |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Burnham-On-Sea.
I’ve been there on holiday  twice!
The Road between Brean and Weston-super-Mare... The home of a field where I've had many an outside session! "
Actually the beach at Brean Down is a great place to walk the dog in winter. |
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By *0FrankMan
over a year ago
The South! |
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Actually the beach at Brean Down is a great place to walk the dog in winter. "
I like the one a little further south, park in the church, through the grave yard, over the golf course and dunes... That bit id always desserted. |
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Immingham/Scunthorpe/Grimsby, sorry to people who live there but they are rough places. I used to have to go a lot when I worked in Hull.
Normanton/Castleford/Pontefract are similar.
Bridlington is also bad which is a shame as it used to be a decent town. |
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"I stayed in Hartlepool on a Monday night in November.
I'm sure it has its good points, but that wasn't one of them.
What do you expect of a town that mistakes a monkey for a French spy and hung him on the beach "
And elects the soccer clubs monkey mascot as its town mayor.. |
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"It’s not right to judge a town by one experience
I could say Middlesbrough or London
Or Shanghai, Basildon
As I have bad experiences from all of them, but they also have their good parts too
So I’ll just settle on..
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Obviously never been to Corby. "
i walked in a pub in corby with my then ex partner and had a glass ashtray thrown at my head |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Moss Side - Shit hole
Bradford - Shit hole
Jaywick - Shit hole but the sea is at least nice  "
I have a soft spot for Bradford. But you're right about Jaywick, the bonus of looking at the sea there is that you have your back to the town. |
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I forgot to mention Bradford! The museum of film and photography with the IMAX is worth a visit, but the rest of it is rough as hell. Had a night out there a few years back and ended up in a club called "Love Apple" where the bouncer was telling me he was a convicted murderer who had just got out of prison  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Nearly all Northamptonshire towns lol and I live in one
Yes, Kettering is suprisingly grim considering the lovely villages that surround it!"
Its better than Wellingborough which is really not saying much... |
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The town in which I live boasts the somewhat dubious honour of featuring at number nine in the official ‘Crap Town’s’ publication list (well worth a read for its humour by the way).
To be entirely equitable, I’d say the town itself isn’t nearly as bad as it’s made out to be but some of the denizens who lurch around the streets here....well, they’re some fine quality scum  |
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By *inful xWoman
over a year ago
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"Nearly all Northamptonshire towns lol and I live in one
Yes, Kettering is suprisingly grim considering the lovely villages that surround it!
Its better than Wellingborough which is really not saying much... "
Don't forget Daventry or should that be chaventry |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The town in which I live boasts the somewhat dubious honour of featuring at number nine in the official ‘Crap Town’s’ publication list (well worth a read for its humour by the way).
To be entirely equitable, I’d say the town itself isn’t nearly as bad as it’s made out to be but some of the denizens who lurch around the streets here....well, they’re some fine quality scum "
As my ex husband used to say "not one of 'em hanging the right way". I worked in a bank branch in pretty dismal provincial shopping centre, my manager used to say it was like the star wars cantina. She and I would whistle the theme tune while we looked out the branch door at the shuffling populace without. I was expected to sell life insurance policies to people who didn't allow things like working and washing to interfere with their drinking, petty crime and brawling. The branch has now closed. Quad errat demonstrandum, motherfuckers  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I think most highly populated places in the uk are pretty grimm these days, due to austerity especially places that relied so heavilly on tourism or industry, as mentioned above bradford (industry) bridlington (tourism) a lot of market towns are suffering the same fate take dewsbury for example it had the uk's most famous market and you take day coach trips to the market now its just a hovel even mcdonalds closed and dont want to be associated with it  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Rhyl is the most depressing place I've ever been in my life. And I've been to Auschwitz "
That made me spit my mocca chocca skinny tall grande with cream out |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It’s not right to judge a town by one experience
I could say Middlesbrough or London
Or Shanghai, Basildon
As I have bad experiences from all of them, but they also have their good parts too
So I’ll just settle on..
Xxxxxxxxxxx
Obviously never been to Corby. i walked in a pub in corby with my then ex partner and had a glass ashtray thrown at my head "
Back in early 2000s I was a parcel courier, and I always hated Corby. On some estates every other house was boarded up, some burnt out, the off licences kept all the booze and staff behind huge perspex walls, and a colleague of mine had her van robbed twice in one week. I remember one row of shops that were so derelict and run down you'd swear they were 3rd world slums. Truly terrible place.
Perhaps I'm being harsh, as I hear it's not so bad now. But back then it was very bad in parts. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Unfortunately you sometimes find yourself in a place that either time forgot, town planners fucked up big time or simply history was cruel.
For me, Bognor was a place that didn't deserve the title 'Regis' and I couldn't leave fast enough. "
Did some stewarding at Turf Moor. Burnley is indeed the town that time forgot. I have no desire to return. Ever. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It’s not right to judge a town by one experience
I could say Middlesbrough or London
Or Shanghai, Basildon
As I have bad experiences from all of them, but they also have their good parts too
So I’ll just settle on..
Xxxxxxxxxxx
Obviously never been to Corby. i walked in a pub in corby with my then ex partner and had a glass ashtray thrown at my head
Back in early 2000s I was a parcel courier, and I always hated Corby. On some estates every other house was boarded up, some burnt out, the off licences kept all the booze and staff behind huge perspex walls, and a colleague of mine had her van robbed twice in one week. I remember one row of shops that were so derelict and run down you'd swear they were 3rd world slums. Truly terrible place.
Perhaps I'm being harsh, as I hear it's not so bad now. But back then it was very bad in parts. "
It's an armpit of a place. To be avoided whenever possible, ditto Kettering and Wellingborough. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Harlow... "
Agreed. A "Harlow pub quiz" is a short event in which the quiz master asks two questions : What the fuck are you looking at? and Do you fucking want some?
All answers are wrong... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Harlow...
Agreed. A "Harlow pub quiz" is a short event in which the quiz master asks two questions : What the fuck are you looking at? and Do you fucking want some?
All answers are wrong... "
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Obviously never been to Corby.
i walked in a pub in corby with my then ex partner and had a glass ashtray thrown at my head "
Grew up in Corby - Kettering - Wellingborough area
Kettering has gone down hill over the years, over the years Corby was by far the worst.
Once had a team mate shot in the back with an air pistol - to be fair, he was playing wide out on the right wing so an easy target . . .
Sunday morning football was another world entirely with kids stealing the goal nets during the game and yobs driving stolen cars across the pitch with players in the other half . . .
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"Harlow...
Agreed. A "Harlow pub quiz" is a short event in which the quiz master asks two questions : What the fuck are you looking at? and Do you fucking want some?
All answers are wrong... "
and of course i ment "'arlow". |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Harlow...
Agreed. A "Harlow pub quiz" is a short event in which the quiz master asks two questions : What the fuck are you looking at? and Do you fucking want some?
All answers are wrong...
and of course i ment "'arlow"."
Of course you did, I took that as read |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Unfortunately you sometimes find yourself in a place that either time forgot, town planners fucked up big time or simply history was cruel.
For me, Bognor was a place that didn't deserve the title 'Regis' and I couldn't leave fast enough.
Did some stewarding at Turf Moor. Burnley is indeed the town that time forgot. I have no desire to return. Ever."
I have to agree and I am from the bloody place. In Burnley's defence, the nightlife used to be shit hot for the size of the place and people travelled in to Burnley especially... But it's a VERY distant memory... It is a combination of the typical factors of shit planning, employment losses and an insular outlook.. Could say the same for much of East Lancs and plenty of other towns across the country. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Unfortunately you sometimes find yourself in a place that either time forgot, town planners fucked up big time or simply history was cruel.
For me, Bognor was a place that didn't deserve the title 'Regis' and I couldn't leave fast enough. "
Swindon |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Blackpool on a cold winter night  "
totally agree what a cesspool that place is closely followed by chapel at Leonard's ingoldmells need bulldozing and starting again |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Chapeltown, the place where i grew up. That's the one between Sheffield and Barnsley, not the rough area in Leeds.
I went back a few years ago to find that it'd come crashing into the 21st century by opening it's first ever coffee shop. Served from a vending machine. "
at the petrol station across from Domino's |
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
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"Hull used to be a shit hole but they've gone upmarket now and most houses have them new fandagled steel plate windows "
My family left Hull when I was 16 and moved to a country town 25 miles away. When driving over the hills to go into Hull for work dad would always say "from here, you can see the whole of Hull, and when you get there, you realise what a hole it is"
It's a lot better now than it used to be, though, and I socialise quite a bit there. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Hull used to be a shit hole but they've gone upmarket now and most houses have them new fandagled steel plate windows
My family left Hull when I was 16 and moved to a country town 25 miles away. When driving over the hills to go into Hull for work dad would always say "from here, you can see the whole of Hull, and when you get there, you realise what a hole it is"
It's a lot better now than it used to be, though, and I socialise quite a bit there."
like i said above most places have suffered quite badly over recent years |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Does all this area shaming enable people to feel better about themselves?"
I think we all entitled to state if we think an area looks crap and has a bad atmosphere, Rev. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Obviously never been to Corby.
i walked in a pub in corby with my then ex partner and had a glass ashtray thrown at my head
Grew up in Corby - Kettering - Wellingborough area
Kettering has gone down hill over the years, over the years Corby was by far the worst.
Once had a team mate shot in the back with an air pistol - to be fair, he was playing wide out on the right wing so an easy target . . .
Sunday morning football was another world entirely with kids stealing the goal nets during the game and yobs driving stolen cars across the pitch with players in the other half . . .
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I’m struggling to remember Kettering any further up the hill? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cockfosters brings true meaning to end of the line
Huh? You seen the houses on Cockfosters road?!!!"
I have not, just the main Street to be fair. I was tricked into a pint there. |
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I’m struggling to remember Kettering any further up the hill? "
Architecturally you’re probably correct (ref original post). Social behaviour and cultural ‘ambience’ (drift of the thread) Kettering wasn’t too bad compared to the surrounding area . . . |
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By *modDMan
over a year ago
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"My folks live in Cockfosters. Fucking wish I could afford too... "
The obvious truth is that there’s good and bad everywhere. For instance; I’ve seen Walsall mentioned. Now a midweek trip round Walsall town centre is hardly an afternoon to look forward to but within 5 minutes drive, there are fairly idyllic streets and roads to live in.
I wouldn’t mind betting that virtually everywhere listed is the same. I also wouldn’t mind betting that the people complaining about soulless and desolate towns sit at home doing their shopping on the internet, while they’re town dies around their feet.
Some of my best days and best nights out were spent in areas that town snobs wouldn’t dare set foot in.
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"Chapeltown, the place where i grew up. That's the one between Sheffield and Barnsley, not the rough area in Leeds.
I went back a few years ago to find that it'd come crashing into the 21st century by opening it's first ever coffee shop. Served from a vending machine. at the petrol station across from Domino's "
Where the old library used to be at the bottom of the cricket pitch. |
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Bolton. The most heartbreaking thing is the decline was unnecessary. It began in the nineties and has accelerated year on year. The council's answer to the problem of the town centre becoming a ghost town, is to knock down old characteristic buildings where businesses and shops were and replace them with box like buildings for dwellings. Apparently that will bring people into the town centre. Because as we all know housing estates are just chock-a-block with shoppers! What was Bolton's answer to the Trafford Centre opening? Let's not invest in our town centre, let's build a couple of shitty soulless out of town retail parks instead, and the companies can relocate to there instead. Millions wasted in relocation costs.
Bolton councils since the late eighties couldn't be trusted to find their own arses with both hands. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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It is sad to hear of so many grey places.
It's not mockery but a love of culture that make many of us feel anxious in towns run down by economic decline, awful planning and potentially violent uncouth citizens.
Of course, many still find something to cherish even in the least charming of places.
That's good although I rarely see any charm in most indoor shopping centres.
Perhaps the last place to be listed where I can find no logical reason for its awfulness is...Poole.
Truly dire for a south coast town. |
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"Immingham/Scunthorpe/Grimsby, sorry to people who live there but they are rough places. I used to have to go a lot when I worked in Hull.
Normanton/Castleford/Pontefract are similar.
Bridlington is also bad which is a shame as it used to be a decent town."
I think I the problem is, that you are comparing industrial towns and seaside towns with, what is a very pretty well off city.
All the above places have rough areas, but they also have lots of good things to offer as well. |
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"Immingham/Scunthorpe/Grimsby, sorry to people who live there but they are rough places. I used to have to go a lot when I worked in Hull.
Normanton/Castleford/Pontefract are similar.
Bridlington is also bad which is a shame as it used to be a decent town.
I think I the problem is, that you are comparing industrial towns and seaside towns with, what is a very pretty well off city.
All the above places have rough areas, but they also have lots of good things to offer as well."
I used to live in Scunthorpe for a bit as a young man and to be fair it did have some very cheap places to drink and a cracking cafe for a fry up the morning after. My theory was the bars were cheap because like with everything else in Scunthorpe if you don't sell cheap stuff you don't sell stuff at all, people got no money. Simply not enough jobs to go around for everyone. Most jobs my ex applied for would have 50+ applicants and that was just for bar work, cleaning etc. Lots of young people growing up without a hope of a job and just resigning them self to a life on benefits. It felt to me a very sad place devoid of hope. Thank goodness the steel works look to have been bailed out again. If that place closes all hope will be lost in that town. And the saddest thing is a town with young people who have no hopes or vision for what they can achieve. I sorry town indeed but a town I'm fond of non the less. |
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probably not. I think we exhausted the sights!
