Grim towns you've visited lately...

[Andy Zarse]

Surrey. Not a "dump" in the traditional sense, but an utterly ghastly and hateful place, I find it beyond parody.

[The_Burg]

London, filthy overpriced unfriendly sh@t hole.
Unbleievable how much dirt you carry home in your hair and clothes every day and as mention the infamous 'black bogies'.

Corby in comparison aint bad.

[XMES RUS]

Basildon

[ITtina]

New Bradwell MK

[disco1]

Newport

Birmingham

Merthyr Tydfill

[GreatGranny]

A lot of the places mentioned are cities which have bad parts and good parts such as Lincoln. The thing about grim towns is that the whole town is grim such as Maltby which is just one large chav playground.

[bga]

moleamol said:

chris_w666 said:

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

Where does the Warsaw come from? Warsaw is lovely.

The old town is lovely, the rest horrible IMO. Much better than Sutton though

[rhinochopig]

Surely any town with a T K Max store?

[john_r]

Merthyr Tydfil (if this thread was a competition, it would now be over...)

Edited by john_r on Wednesday 21st May 09:16

[schmalex]

Another vote for Basingstoke. Full of teenage mum's & chav scum

London (all of it). Filthy place with absolutely no redeeming features

[GTO Scott]

Gloucester.

I moved there from Cheltenham to take advantage of slightly cheaper housing, and within 6 months I moved back to Cheltenham. The cheaper living wasn't worth it. A lot of Gloucesterites have a bit of a chip on their shoulder about people preferring to visit/live in Cheltenham, but the simple fact of the matter is Gloucester is a complete filthy sthole.


St. Austell Awful.

Except for the brewery, which is very nice , another hole full of inbreds.


Birmistan/Wolverhamabad.

No explanation needed.

Edited to remove fkup.

Edited by GTO Scott on Wednesday 21st May 09:14

[10 Pence Short]

Maryport. A Place even West Cumbria wishes to fall into the Irish sea and never be seen again.

[Alex]

Andy Zarse said:

Surrey. Not a "dump" in the traditional sense, but an utterly ghastly and hateful place, I find it beyond parody.

What don't you like about Surrey then?

[GKP]

Oh dear. My birth town is mentioned, the town I grew up in is mentioned, the town my family comes from is mentioned, the town I live near is mentioned.
Is it me?

[Poledriver]

ITtina said:

New Bradwell MK

So move down to Bradwell Village, much nicer!

[MentalSarcasm]

I can't believe no one said Stevenage yet.

[Plotloss]

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.

[jimbo65]

Port Talbot must be up there with the worst

[jesta1865]

bozibo said:

Morningside said:

bozibo said:

Basildon !

Went there last week, seems to be plagued by white van man.

You went to Basildon and they let you out? Seriously have you developed any strange twitches or boils yet?

they seem to let you out if you can show a decent iq. so as long as you can do up your shoelaces and not walk on the cracks in the pavement you can leave.

and i give you Basildons southern hemisphere doppelgänger - Brisbane, once had to kill 10 hours between flights (cancelled mine) and was depressed how like Basildon it was after 40 minutes (taxi took 30 to get there ).

[Andy Zarse]

Alex said:

Andy Zarse said:

Surrey. Not a "dump" in the traditional sense, but an utterly ghastly and hateful place, I find it beyond parody.

What don't you like about Surrey then?

Are you blind???

It's a pleasant enough place from a geographical point of view, but it's rather like France in that respect, it's ruinned by the people and more specifically their awful taste. Twee, provincial and oh-so safe, it really is boring. If Kent and Sussex are the Garden of England, then Surrey is the patio.

Oh, and if you want to know what I mean about the people, then you've only to look at the despicable attitudes shown in the P&P thread last year about Ashtead resisdents against Headley Court Family Accommodation. You should have seen the mean spirited I'm-alright-Jack nasty nimby attitudes, oh-so typical of Surrey-ites. I'd rather live in Hull (or at least just outside Hull).