Grim towns you've visited lately...
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jonnye said:
scarborough
Oh surely not. Parts of the town centre are not especially appealing, but this applies to most places.Scarborough is not as nice as it used to be 40-50 years ago, but overall it still has attractions. We moved away about ten years ago because the place seemed to have become a bit of a magnet for miscellaneous deadbeats and undesirables. Sorry to sound snobbish, but the feel of the place has deteriorated, and I do accept that it seems to have lost its way in terms of being an attractive and thiving seaside resort.
Best wishes all,
Dave.
First off I vote for Hull, any place that has that many Chavs and has a really bad smell of fish all the time needs a mention.
2nd vote goes to Glasgow, or more importantly parkhead, its like beruit over there, I didn't realise what was so significant about the place and a mate was staying there as the rent was cheap (irish, tight fisted git, nuff said). It only dawned on me when the city center taxis refused to take a few of us back there as they feared for their lives and suggested we try and get arrested and spend the night in the cells instead of going back.
2nd vote goes to Glasgow, or more importantly parkhead, its like beruit over there, I didn't realise what was so significant about the place and a mate was staying there as the rent was cheap (irish, tight fisted git, nuff said). It only dawned on me when the city center taxis refused to take a few of us back there as they feared for their lives and suggested we try and get arrested and spend the night in the cells instead of going back.
Dupont666 said:
First off I vote for Hull, any place that has that many Chavs and has a really bad smell of fish all the time needs a mention.
2nd vote goes to Glasgow, or more importantly parkhead, its like beruit over there, I didn't realise what was so significant about the place and a mate was staying there as the rent was cheap (irish, tight fisted git, nuff said). It only dawned on me when the city center taxis refused to take a few of us back there as they feared for their lives and suggested we try and get arrested and spend the night in the cells instead of going back.
Hull doesn;t smell of fish. What it smells of is death. Otherwise known as the cocoa processing plant.2nd vote goes to Glasgow, or more importantly parkhead, its like beruit over there, I didn't realise what was so significant about the place and a mate was staying there as the rent was cheap (irish, tight fisted git, nuff said). It only dawned on me when the city center taxis refused to take a few of us back there as they feared for their lives and suggested we try and get arrested and spend the night in the cells instead of going back.
briSk said:
Stevenage town centre.
Oh. My. God.
By many people's accounts the barratesque housing bit is perfectly fine if you like that sort of thing and it's handy for 'retail warehouse' stuff. but the other week i actually went to the town centre. I felt like I wanted to die.
Yep, after a while you begin to wonder if chopping off your foot or an arm will mean you can leave earlier. 90% of the people driving through Stevenage don't know what indicators are for, and there are so many roundabouts, quite a few of which don't have sign posts around, that after a while you start to feel dizzy.Oh. My. God.
By many people's accounts the barratesque housing bit is perfectly fine if you like that sort of thing and it's handy for 'retail warehouse' stuff. but the other week i actually went to the town centre. I felt like I wanted to die.
The main shopping area is grey. Just grey. It's the epitome of 60's and 70's design, grey concrete blocks stuck together to make big, grey, block-like buildings. Roaring Meg is a little better but that's just a bunch of warehouses converted in to mega shops.
briSk said:
Stevenage town centre.
Oh. My. God.
By many people's accounts the barratesque housing bit is perfectly fine if you like that sort of thing and it's handy for 'retail warehouse' stuff. but the other week i actually went to the town centre. I felt like I wanted to die.
and what going on with all those roundabouts and each one has a name, I got lost quite a few times trying to get out.Oh. My. God.
By many people's accounts the barratesque housing bit is perfectly fine if you like that sort of thing and it's handy for 'retail warehouse' stuff. but the other week i actually went to the town centre. I felt like I wanted to die.
Andy Zarse said:
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? 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).
P.S. I'm a Yorkshireman by birth, and had prejudiced views of Surrey when I first moved here, but I quite like it now.
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.
Newquay is a hole too - but there are some good parts, you either have to be local or know a local to find them though.....Jesus.
GTO Scott said:
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.
Newquay is a hole too - but there are some good parts, you either have to be local or know a local to find them though.....Jesus.
Semi agree with you about Gloucester, there are some nice parts mind you, I've been working there recently.
More vans than anywhere on earth in Glos I reckon. Its the tradesman capital of the Western World.
rhinochopig said:
Dupont666 said:
First off I vote for Hull, any place that has that many Chavs and has a really bad smell of fish all the time needs a mention.
2nd vote goes to Glasgow, or more importantly parkhead, its like beruit over there, I didn't realise what was so significant about the place and a mate was staying there as the rent was cheap (irish, tight fisted git, nuff said). It only dawned on me when the city center taxis refused to take a few of us back there as they feared for their lives and suggested we try and get arrested and spend the night in the cells instead of going back.
Hull doesn;t smell of fish. What it smells of is death. Otherwise known as the cocoa processing plant.2nd vote goes to Glasgow, or more importantly parkhead, its like beruit over there, I didn't realise what was so significant about the place and a mate was staying there as the rent was cheap (irish, tight fisted git, nuff said). It only dawned on me when the city center taxis refused to take a few of us back there as they feared for their lives and suggested we try and get arrested and spend the night in the cells instead of going back.
Dont foget the beef tallow smell from the plastics factory down near PC world and all the other big stores (I forget the road name). The nice smell of beef dripping in the air that is so dense that your clothes smell of it for days.
princeperch said:
There are plenty of places I've visited that are much, much worse than Stevo....
I have been to worse places too.. just not recently!I'd almost rather have angry chavs than pathetic ones. the idea of some of these 'valley' towns fills me with misery.
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And another thing. who's seen those 1950s america style 'start a new life in corby' adverts on the tube? "look how you can get a 4 bedroom house for the price of a studio flat". and it's all green and pleasant not stolen micras being joyridden around a council estate. and grey men with yellow hands drinking cheap flat bitter in a 1960s yokel pub.
rhinochopig said:
Surely any town with a T K Max store?
Right, that will be....Byker Darlington Durham Hartlepool Middlesborough Newcastle Newcastle
Stockton Sunderland Team Valley Birkenhead Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Burnley
Bury Carlisle Cheadle Chester Douglas - Isle of Man Liverpool Manchester
Oldham Preston Rochdale Runcorn Salford Southport St Helens Stockport Warrington Wigan Barnsley Bradford Doncaster Grantham Halifax Harrogate
Huddersfield Hull Leeds Rotherham Scarborough Sheffield Wakefield York Boston
Corby Great Yarmouth Grimsby Ipswich Kettering Kings Lynn Leicester Lincoln
Loughborough Mansfield Newark Newmarket Norwich Nottingham S
horpe Thurmaston Birmingham Burton on Trent Coventry Derby Hanley Kidderminster
Merry Hill Nuneaton Redditch Rugby Shrewsbury Stafford Sutton Coldfield
Tamworth Telford Walsall Wolverhampton Cardiff Carmarthen Cwmbran Llanelli
Llantrisant Merthyr Tydfil Newport, Gwent Swansea Wrexham Ashford
Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bexleyheath Bletchley Brighton
Bromley Cambridge Canterbury Chelmsford Colchester Crawley Croydon Dartford
Eastleigh Enfield Epsom Fareham Farnborough Hatfield Hemel Hempstead
Horsham Ilford Kew Kingston Upon Thames Maidstone Newbury Northampton Oxford
Purley Way Reading Romford Slough Southampton Southend St Albans Stevenage
Swindon Thanet Tunbridge Wells Waterlooville Worthing Beckton Brent Cross
Charlton LondonClapham Ealing Hammersmith Harlow Harrow Hounslow Lewisham
Leyton, London Merton Staines Sutton Uxbridge Watford West Thurrock Woking
Wood Green Aberdeen Ayr Clydebank Cumbernauld Dumfries Dundee East Kilbride Edinburgh Elgin Falkirk Glasgow Inverness Kilmarnock Kirkcaldy Livingston Paisley Perth Ballymena Bangor (NI) Belfast Coleraine Craigavon Lisburn
Lisnagelvin Newry
Which leaves us Wick & Thurso.....
Apache said:
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.
I'll see your Shettleston, (Good nomination BTW!), and raise you Govan! I drove through there yesterday as I was early for a meeting so thought I might kill some time by going for a wee drive. Jeezuz it's depressing! I used to get the bus into Glasgow city centre every day and it'd take me through Govan. Y'know normally you'd see kids hanging out on street corners in the evening well in Govan it's adults with carry outs at 8 int he morning!!!! Shoulder chip city!!Gassing Station | Holidays & Travel | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff