The cost of living up there is ridiculous - you can buy a very sizeable semi for £80,000. The down side is that you have to live there.
In days of Yore when every Englishman was required to practice with his longbow at the weekend, I believe there was a local bye-law in the Wrexham area which stated that any Welshman could be shot on sight. Presumably either Wrexham was on the other side of the border in those days, or I'm remembering it wrong.
Wrexham’s particular problem at the moment is terrible transport links. It means that people who like football in Wrexham can never make it to games.