Grim towns you've visited lately...

Grim towns you've visited lately...

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Matt Harper

6,621 posts

202 months

Tuesday 20th May 2008
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Baltimore

okgo

38,086 posts

199 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Basingstoke.

Riddled with chavs these days. Horrible place by all accounts I now think.


Pwig

11,956 posts

271 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Grimsby

Apache

39,731 posts

285 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Glasgow, Shettleston to be precise, I had to deliver a course there last Friday and stayed at the Riverside Holiday Inn. I was shocked to see the utter long term devastation of the area, roads that seemed to be in ruins, drunks reeling, and an air of dilapidation. I rejected the first room on the grounds that the dried puke on the sofa, smeared food on the bedside table and furniture rebuilt with nails was affecting my ability to relax.

DinkyToy-boy

176 posts

246 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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I'd like to suggest Bacup in Lancashire if thats alright? Thankfully not my hometown, but it gives me the creeps everytime I drive through it shootbanditargueyuck

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

212 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Basingstoke. Crusty bits left on the cow when the cows laid a plate. Warrington. Can someone explain what it is

Edited by drivin_me_nuts on Wednesday 21st May 00:20

spikeyhead

17,340 posts

198 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Portsmouth
Farnborough

Both ste with no apparent redeeming features.

chris_w666

22,655 posts

200 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Fittster said:
Jack Pearson said:
Corby
Positive thing number 1 about Corby. Conservative Election candidate Louise Bagshawe

Can we please have her as the next PM?

Anyway, my vote goes to Warsaw (aka Boston - Lincs)

Burgmeister

2,206 posts

211 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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surely Morecambe has to be on this list. its like the town time forgot.

moleamol

15,887 posts

264 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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chris_w666 said:
Anyway, my vote goes to Warsaw (aka Boston - Lincs)
Where does the Warsaw come from? Warsaw is lovely.

martinmac

536 posts

198 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Cant believe we are on page three and nobody has mentioned Barrow in Furness, guess the 90 mile cul de sac has its benefits.

Mobile Chicane

20,843 posts

213 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Andover.

If I hadn't seen the townspeople with my own eyes I would have refused to believe that such creatures existed.

chevy-stu

5,392 posts

229 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Redcar..... most dpressing place in the UK I've ever been (and had the pleasure of leaving)

sawman

4,920 posts

231 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Sim89 said:
sawman said:
I came from St Helens!

not likely to be going back anytime soon!
St Helens,Merseyside?
could there be another?

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

196 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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I have to say Aberdeen, I went when it rained hard. The Dark, ohmy God, the dark. Dark buildings, dark roads, even the street lights were dark.

Colonial

13,553 posts

206 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Wyong. 100kms north of Sydney. Cheap housing, violent pub, no decent places to eat of drink, lots of people, no work.

leeb

1,074 posts

244 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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anyone ever been to jaywick near clacton?

that place still leaves me in amazement at how it is even inhabitable, seriously strange bit of the world!

avoid!! smile

dr.sickman

5,006 posts

223 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Crawley. Yuck.
Coventry. Just as yuck.
Henley-on-Thames: just like an inbred posh Royston Vasey.
Oxford outside summertown and centre.
Weston-super-mare.
Yate (South Glos)- a bit like a town for the witness protection programme.
Reading
Bracknell

Puggit

48,476 posts

249 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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spikeyhead said:
Portsmouth
Farnborough

Both ste with no apparent redeeming features.
Portsmouth is an escape route - surely that is a redeeming feature?

eightseventhree

2,196 posts

205 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Rotherham