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Worst city or town in UK

I'll kick things off. I despise Birmingham, a slime ridden post industrial skank of a place, with a shopping centre full of hoodies in a threatening manner. urban blight and full of shite. infuriatingly dumb accent and a vestige of folk who want to get out and live in shropshire.

fuck em

Dossy's back and he had a shit visit to Brum it seems.

cheers mate, had a bad health scare.

name the city or town you hate, irrational or otherwise.

I fucking hate Gosport.

Luton

A most unwelcoming hole

I had a recent holiday on the isle of wight when i went to see David Icke in concert. Gosport looked alright from the ferry. Cute little ferry crossing over to Pompey.

Definitely up there in the running, but mitigated by it's pleasant neighbour Dunstable.

The most southern point (Stokes Bay) is nice. The rest is a dive.

Hi Darlo

I stayed at a camp site in Wooton Bridge on the island and walked down the creek with beautiful views over the Solent. Loved it and will be back soon.  :pint: :pint:

Just stay away from Rowner and The Links.... Ooh, and the Town Centre.

Will do mate, and now it's time for Russia knows best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9k05CbXmqE

A video showing the bravery of the east of ukraine in the face of western powers sponsored aggression.

Fuck me a thread a I cant read as 90% is ignored, must be a twat in the house..

Everyone is a twat.

Walsall, wednesbury,Birmingham, west Bromwich. All most all one and the same place and it's all adjoined. Horrible all of it.
Newport is a vile place too.

Hope you are well dossy, by the way.

+1 for Newport.

Thing about places like Birmingham, being big cities they are very mixed with some really shit areas (Handsworth, Lozells, Aston, Sparkhill etc etc) but also some (not many) decent areas (Edgbaston, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield etc).

Same applies to all big cities.

Burford is a hell hole. Lucky to get out alive!

Bradford the definition of shit hole

Milton Keynes makes me want to chew my own fingers off.  It's like Swindon with all of the character removed.  I nearly lost the will to live the last time I went to Gillingham (and that was even before the 3-0 defeat).  Gloucester depresses me every time I go there.  And if we're going north of the border as well, Paisley and East Kilbride are up there with all of these...but also have to contend with a sheen of grey drizzle for 300 days a year.

I should also have mentioned Port Glasgow.  Post-industrial decay at its worst.  The only good thing about it is the view across the Clyde.

Did he play his hits or was it all off his crap new album

i vote ashford (kent)

I dislike Oxford....nothing particularly to do with football, shithole polluted by too many people and too much traffic....always glad to return to the fresher air of Swindon.

Gillingham (Kent) enough said.

I dislike Oxford too, excluding the average city centre which as you state is very poluted and awful to drive anywhere near any of the outlying satellite areas are horrible, Blackbird Leys say no more. Also in 1988 I had an RS2000 nicked from Swindon and it was found in Poxford, that I cannot forgive ever.

To add to the list...might I add Leith, the place is horrible with such a great city as Edinburgh so close to it, the people there revel in the nickname Leitheopians, also has one of the highest rates of drug deaths in the UK per head of the population. Shudders.

For a shit southern town, look no further than Aldershot. Awful place.

Trowbridge has got to be in the running by virtue of its town centre. Vile place.  >:(

Absolutely. I've no idea how it escapes these lists. The town centre was a derelict shithole in the most affluent of times, god knows what its like now.

If town centre is part of the criteria then Swindon itself must be right up there.
Just spent the day in Uxbridge ( daughters uni there ) and for a place of around 26k population + the students it knocks Swindon into a cocked hat.
2 malls,decent selection of shops and a notable lack of chavs, although the Weatherspoons had its usual share of pissheads.

I'd like to cast a vote for Chatham.  A truly awful place with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

It pains me to say that Swindon would be near the top of a lot of people's lists, too!  :(

Historic Dockyards are quite good, that discounts Chatham.

Not enough to save it.  :)

I was born in Chatham and my parents took the decision a couple of years later to move. Thank fuck they did because I've only been back there once since and it was possibly the most depressing place I've been to. I think Llanelli ran it close

Driving past Port Talbot on the way to an evening ko at Swansea a few years back, it looked like a fiery vision of hell on earth.

port Talbot makes Gotham city look like utopia.

Most odd living in Swansea looking out to sea. look right and you see the mumbles and Gower, and all is well. look left and you see port Talbot and wonder what the point of anything is .

Aberdeen has to take it's place somewhere near the top, looks nice in the photo's but when you get there it really isn't.
The granite makes it a very dark and depressing place until you get to the beach which is ok until you look out to see hundreds of oil industry ships. The traffic is bloody awful too.
Luton beats Aberdeen by miles though (about 500!) absolute shithole , only plus point the cheap Easyjet flights down there. 
Sadly I have to agree that Swindon would be 'in the mix' too :cry:

Aberdeen is a funny city, so much money but it does feel dark and unwelcoming. Was there one mid summers day, back in 2004, and it was flipping freezing, well not freezing but around 9 degrees.

From about 71, I used to go to Swansea regularly....back then the whole of Baglan Bay, especially at night, was a sight.....I likened it to Isengard.  A thing of curious beauty....

(http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/22132/DI008124.jpg)

(http://www.portstudio.co.uk/photos/steelworks_at_night.jpg)

I like working industrial landscapes....working being the operative word....it's the work, which makes these places, the beauty is in the spirit and the communities built.

Much prefer Port Talbot to a shithole like Surrey, with its faux villages and cloying hypocrisy being the taste in the air, rather than SO2.

That bottom pic looks exactly like Widnes ICI factory, coincidentally Widnes and Runcorn must be on this list of horrible towns.

When my dad lived in Runcorn when the levels of pollution were too high from Widnes (over the other side of the Mersey) and the Runcorn plant there was a warning hooter that tells everyone to stay in doors if they have respiratory problems and to shut all windows and doors.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3Q9yojg8p8I/UDfjIC-VgBI/AAAAAAAADIY/hfSzv0oM9F4/s1600/A+031.jpg)

(http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/495994849_1280x720.jpg)

 The problem comes for these places when the jobs go.....

 Britain is littered with industrial archaeology....going back to the neolithic at places like Grimes Graves and Langdale Pike....and often produce fascinating places as a result of the loss of industry. Unfortunately in this day and age, the stock response seems to be stick up a faceless housing estate.

 Avonmouth is another......

(http://www.southwestbusiness.co.uk/southwestbusiness-co-uk/_img/newsimages/Avonmouth_Docks.jpg)

I've a walk planned out.....must get round to  doing it, consists of train to Temple Meads, then train to Severn Beach, walk back to Temple Meads through Avonmouth, and along Avon Gorge back to TM or maybe walk to Severn Beach and train back.

No ideas what a route through Avonmouth might look like, mind.

Merthyr anybody?

Some good mentions and some daft ones. Oxford? Yeah we hate their football club but it's hardly a shit hole. Here in Swindon isn't anything like a shit hole town either despite it not being anything to shout about.

Nuneaton.

check.

The footballing issues must be subconsciously clouding some peoples judgement, it's a pretty nice city in general. You can't knock the historical side of the place.

Such matters are of course subjective....I think Oxford is a shithole, nothing to do with football, which I grew up with thinking as Headington, a different place.

Headington, wasn't a bad place, with the Manor providing a focus for the commuinity, and a very fine Labour Club, but sadly as is the way a lot of these ameneties have disappeared in recent years.

Really... It was always a dead posh when I was at school there.... suppose it was a Murdoch moving in dragging it down!

Just to add from the north west....

Skelmersdale
St Helens
Widnes
Bolton
Bury
Morecambe  (for now! )
Barrow
Millom

Wrexham, an absolute dump.

Coventry.

Horlock - we are School buddies !

When were you there ?

Liver ?

Yeah when I used to get the dribble bus northwards, that always seemed to be really nice.

Just popped in to use the toilet ?

 :no:

 Any place that could allow Tangerine Dream to play in its new cathedral, after the medieval masterpiece had been flattened by the Luftwafffe is OK by me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGHyPgkMMUQ

86-93 (I think!)

Maybe not then, I left in 81

It's still a shithole, the area around the cathedral is quite nice but the rest is just fucking horrible

Before my time, my brother was there c.79 onwards.

Aberdeen wins Scotland's most Dismal City award -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-31095837

Interesting link

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crap_Towns

The 2013 list is interesting. London (bit generic given its size) was top and Gibraltar was 6th!!

Whilst obviously it's subjective there are some bizzare names on those lists.

Winchester, Windsor, even Southampton

Doesn't Ralphy live in Chipping Norton? 

Another horrible city to add to the list is Dundee, my best mate lives there and the city, although it has a bit of character, is a complete dump.

Fucking hell. There's some nice places on there. Ridiculous shouts a fair few of them

I'm surprised no witty folk on here have suggested London yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8345xuBT88

This is a good read, in line with the topic

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hull-Back-Holiday-Unsung-Britain/dp/1849530602/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1422992424&sr=8-3&keywords=to+hull+and+back

 
I knew the bloke who wrote the Bath one. Little twat was from Newport. Man United fan too.

Hes right about no 3 though, i live there and it is indeed, fucking crap.

York?! Fuck off!!