Grim towns you've visited lately...
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jamiebae said:
Doncaster is the nastiest place I've ever visited in the UK. I was trying to find the place I was having a meeting there and accidentally took a wrong turn into what appeared to be 'Coronation Street' except all the houses were boarded up and there was broken glass all over the road!
So you found the posh part of town then?
forsure said:
Jonny_ said:
Goole is also deeply miserable, with an even higher concentration of brainless chav losers than Donny; however, as I have all my own teeth and walk on my hind legs, I do feel like some kind of superior species whenever I venture into the town. It always makes "duelling banjos" spring into my mind.
I had the misfortune to visit Goole once, had exactly the same feeling.Normally stayed in York but had the misfortune to join a leaving do one evening which started in the Ferryboat Inn and ended up in Goole.
Never again !
Edited by Vee on Saturday 7th June 11:59
Plotloss said:
Not that recently but after visiting St Ives and having the romantic notion of Cornwall being all jumpers, small art galleries, community and niceness I went to Newquay. Out of season.
Jesus.
Out of season Newquay is at its best. Early summer before the tourist arrive there's no traffic, fewer chavs, the weather is mild and you know everyone in the pub/club/town.Jesus.
Picture below was taken from Pentire headland in February in a post-dinner meander. Not technically speaking in town but definitely on the outskirts. It's a mobile phone pic so apologies for the quality.
On this picture alone I call for Plotloss' testimony be struck from the record!
t strewn all over the place! 
Just made a quick trawl thru' this thread and noticed that the (happily not very close...) to my village grim sh*tstacks of Preston and Chorley are mentioned (a bit) but the horror pit that is
Skelmersdale
has been ignored.
People tell me that Skelmersdale dwellers are usually OK when you see them in daylight.
During daylight, I'm told that a 'visitor' has only to deal with the thought that they might just - die - of no other effect than distress, if they ever had to live there.
but then, as we all should remember, the journey from the penthouse to the pavement can be just a very small step.
Skelmersdale
has been ignored.
People tell me that Skelmersdale dwellers are usually OK when you see them in daylight.
During daylight, I'm told that a 'visitor' has only to deal with the thought that they might just - die - of no other effect than distress, if they ever had to live there.
but then, as we all should remember, the journey from the penthouse to the pavement can be just a very small step.
Various towns in Wales - I can remember driving through to get the ferry from Anglesey to Dun Laoghaire and some of the towns on the way made me feel quite depressed. And Milton Keynes, what's that all about? Where are the people? How do they cope when they have to drive outside of the town?? Can they drive in other places??? Do they understand what a yellow box juction is for??
anonymous said:
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Most places in the UK seem to have had some major business in the past that was shut down or moved/exported. The people living there have nothing to move on to and the place ends up a dump. Although there's been plenty of economic growth since in the UK, these places have just gone forgotten and all the new developments have focussed on the major cities.Visited Liverpool a few weeks ago.
was there early driving to a customer at about the same time kids were going to school.
The first two girls I saw I though there were going to a fancy dress but no all the girls were the same it was like going back to the 60's
They all had their hair back combed into a massive high fringe type thing( sorry for lack of tecnical terms)and some had behives. wierd
was there early driving to a customer at about the same time kids were going to school.
The first two girls I saw I though there were going to a fancy dress but no all the girls were the same it was like going back to the 60's
They all had their hair back combed into a massive high fringe type thing( sorry for lack of tecnical terms)and some had behives. wierd
richyb said:
scotal said:
SoapyShowerBoy said:
Chatham, Kent. The arse of England.
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