What's the worst place you've been to

[yenrod]

Some part of Liverpool - so bad it had cages over the traffic lights !

Bangor - the locals looked like they where out of purgatory - then they started fighting at 2pm in the afternoon: clad with shell-suits.

I've been thru' Salford: didn't wanna stop.

Wrexham: never mind spot the boarded up shop/house more like spot the not-boarded up 'place'.

Blackburns a bit sprawl'ville: will make no further comments or i'll be thrown off here !

Some of Preston can be similiar.

 

[PaulB]

It's partly about where you're from, I suppose. I always feel right at home pretty much anywhere north of Manchester, but I feel like an alien in the south.

Snap. In fact, my default position is to like the North and all Northerners until and unless they prove themselves unworthy and to dislike the south and southerners unless and until they do something to make me like them. Can't help it, it's the way I yam!

 

[Dayvo]

Snap. In fact, my default position is to like the North and all Northerners until and unless they prove themselves unworthy and to dislike the south and southerners unless and until they do something to make me like them. Can't help it, it's the way I yam!

Nothing like being open-minded, and that's nothing like being open-minded.

Being a southern Jessie, though, your prejudices were clear to see.

And you wonder why some Scousers have a bad name! :?:

 

[Calum]

My two cities, Leeds in term time and Bristol (home) in the holidays are coming out of this quite well! Bradford is a monumental shoot hole, as is Swansea. Umm... Newport is crap aswell.

 

[Mr Pig]

Slammanan.

It's a pity as the roads around Slammanan are really nice, we cycle them often. These villages are full of inbreeds, I'm not joking by the way. Basically the further away from 'civilisation' you get the worse they are.

And no, London does not count as civilisation. London is a cesspit.

 

[Calum]

People are being a bit too harsh on big cities imho. There's a lot of nice places in; London, Manchester, Liverpoool etc.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

It's possible to find somewhere nice nearly everywhere you go. I've had nights away in the lorry in towns and cities all over Britain, and as long as I've been able to get to a local pub and chat to a few of the locals over a beer or two, I've had a pretty good time. And a walk around an old industrial area, even if it is now a semi derelict shitehole, can be really interesting.

 

[Fab Foodie]

For run-down drearyness...

Methyl
Barrow in Furness
The Cumbernauld/East Kilbride Glasgow to Edinburgh corridor towns area.
March in the Fens (And agree with Boston)
Most of Liverpool and Glasgow.

For unmitigated soulness

Harlow
Basingstoke
Bracknell all you need to know is here... http://trousers.co.uk/bracknell/

 

[merlinmagic]

Birmingham, Alabama, USA - could feel my soul being sucked out of me. Used to have to go there on a regular basis thankfully I quit that job.

 

[Paulus]

I had the misfortune to have to travel to Dagenham for work a few weeks back, gees, what a dump.Maybe it has got worse since Ford moved most of it's production away from the area, but it was just depressing, dirty and horrible.

 

[ChrisKH]

I had the misfortune to have to travel to Dagenham for work a few weeks back, gees, what a dump.Maybe it has got worse since Ford moved most of it's production away from the area, but it was just depressing, dirty and horrible.

No, that's about the long and short of it. I used to play rugby with a guy who had a room in a house opposite the old Ford works on the A13. They never used the front door because of the fumes and dirt that built up from traffic. Horrible place to live I would imagine.

 

[papercorn2000]

Aberystwyth, post c.1985

Or Paisley. But that's just because of the scarey B&B owner and the bedroom door that was too small for the doorway.

I was there for a couple of days during the summer about two years ago. I thought it had a decaying, slightly 1950's charm.

I have to however add that my mum came from a village about 7 miles from Aberystwyth and my dad went to the University there.#

But I'm with you on Paisley - I spent a year of University there myself and can't remember any good features apart from a bakers that sold nice cheese scones and a lovely girl from Paisley who saw fit to have sex with me.

 

[surfgurl]

My votes go to Bridgwater, Merthyr and Milton Keynes.
I left submitting my MA dissertatationto the last minute so I drove from Somerset to Milton Keynes on the morning of hand in. It took an hour from getting to MK to find the campus with their visitor friendly roundabout system.
Bridgwater has nothing going for it.
And Merthyr has been well explained.

 

[Fnaar]

There's a place called Marin, in NW Spain, dominated by a really smelly paper factory. It's very near some stunning scenery, but is a massive smelly blot on the landscape.

 

[papercorn2000]

There's a place called Marin, in NW Spain, dominated by a really smelly paper factory. It's very near some stunning scenery, but is a massive smelly blot on the landscape.

You sure it's not in NW California?