What's the worst place you've been to

[Dayvo]

fare point but just because it is a bit posh and pricey does not stop it being a pit

Good point, too! But incorrect in this case.

Billericay high street has some fine old buildings; it's just the modern and built-up area around it that lowers the tone a bit.

Definitely not a dump, though.

 

[ChrisKH]

Good point

How about Billericay

Billericay's ok.

Beats Basildon. Which to be fair has some decent shopping (if you like that sort of thing).

 

[Blue Manc]

I've been to some pretty awful places in the UK, but the worst is definitely Barking.

 

[spandex]

Good point, too! But incorrect in this case.

Billericay high street has some fine old buildings; it's just the modern and built-up area around it that lowers the tone a bit.

Definitely not a dump, though.

Ok I will give you that one I will take it's name out of my 'never to go back to' box

 

[ChrisKH]

What were you doing in Basildon Spandex?

 

[spandex]

What were you doing in Basildon Spandex?

That is where I am from

 

[Tim Bennet.]

Ambleside.

It reflects so much that is bad about contemporary life and tries to hide it under a veneer of being 'in the Lake District'. It's a traffic dominated, scruffy place with no heart, that has been given over to shopping. The housing market is distorted by second homes and the only thing that gave it any vitality (students from the college) will end when they move to another University of Cumbria campus at Penrith, so the attractive buildings in the town can be sold.

Shopping, greed, traffic, second homes, over hyped attractions. I feel sorry for the tourists who wander around trying to find what they are there 'for'.

Oh yes, and you can't get any tea or food after about 4.15 because all the cafes are closing. Never mind that hundreds are retuning from their day's activities about then.

 

[ChrisKH]

That is where I am from

Then you would know!

On the plus side, a 20 year old blonde who got off at Basildon decided last week to play footsie with me on the train.

 

[Kirstie]

Good call Tim. V perceptive and I agree with you. Ambleside is to be avoided.
Just thought of a contribution from Wales - Myrthr Tydfil.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

 

[Andy in Sig]

I seem to remember Stevenage being mind numbing too but I only spent one afternoon there.

 

[spandex]

Then you would know!

On the plus side, a 20 year old blonde who got off at Basildon decided last week to play footsie with me on the train.

Do they not all do that or was it just the blokes sitting next to them doing it to me

 

[spandex]

Chris where are you down there?

 

[Cheddar George]

Kirstie, you've played the Mythr Tydfil trump card. That's it..... Game over.....
Stopped there once for some food after hill walking, it is the most depressing place
i have been in either Wales, England or Scotland.

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Telford

 

[ChrisKH]

Do they not all do that or was it just the blokes sitting next to them doing it to me

Hadn't thought of that! Perhaps she thought my leg was the bloke next doors....oh well.