Ugly towns/Cities

Headingley's the place with the Original Oak right? my sister works there, the area didn't seem too bad.. but I was only getting a bus through it so I could be completely wrong

 

Aye aye aye, watch ya language - thats the part of Colchester I teach in! Trust me, nowhere in Colchester even comapres with most parts of the major cities and places like Plymouth, Bristol, Swindon (one big **** hole), MK, Peteboro - in fact all cities have their **** holes.

 

I said parts, my mate who used to be in Leeds for uni lives on Gray Road (near the Grammar School) if that means anything to you? His ma teaches around that area, not sure if she's a proper teacher or a supply one, but she'd go by the name of Mrs Rodgers (slim to zero chance like of you knowing her ). It's just a bit **** cos there's not a great deal to do there and the centre is a bit crap!

The Original Oak is a great pub, always show the Newcastle match if they're on Sky! Spoke with the owner a couple of times as wor lass' uncle delivers the booze to him and he seems canny - remember hearing they once grossed £1m in a week just after the summer exams so he's clearly rolling in it!
Headingley itself is alright, it's just around the student digs that it gets to be a **** tip. It pissed me off how untidy everyone is, rubbish everywhere and a lot of the kids have no respect for the area or the actual residents who live there all year round. Amazing how much better the three main areas of Burley, Hyde Park & Headingley start to look in the summer, although Hyde Park is a virtual ghost town by then.

 

Good man. I'm from Leeds and it's a cracking place. Very similar to Newcastle, in it being a vibrant, up and coming city in the north. Granted, there are some ****holes but the same can be said for anywhere!

On a side note, the area around ****e Hart Lane is rancid!

 

In my travels as a prospective undergraduate at Manchester or Liverpool, I can vouch for the disgustingness of Stalybridge.

 

Leeds is a top city. I visited Newcastle recently (will be living there next year) and really took to the place. Bit hilly but the old buildings, nightlife and decent people remind me of Leeds. Newcastle has an advantage over Leeds in its nicer architecture, better identity and culture, but then again Leeds is bigger, has more stuff and the centre is still compact and not hilly. I'd say comfortably the two best cities to live in in the North. Biggest ****holes I've visited in the UK have to be Wembley and Hull. Both places look like Chechnya, boarded up windows, unusual people scuttling around and delapidated buildings and litter everywhere. I get to witness how lovely Preston is tomorrow night with Leeds playing there. Should be fun judging by what people have said on this thread.

 

you live in newcastle and you mock sunderland, plenty of **** holes in sunderland and newcastle toondes, but also some nice parts. Chesterfield is the ugliest town i've ever been to visiting my late aunt, a proper dive

 

chesterfield apart from nuneaton

 

I've said it once & I'll say it again, Sunderland just needs its council & Sunderland Arc to stop poncing about and get their arses into gear. It's a disgrace that the Vaux site is still untouched as I can remember it being knocked down when I was a bairn.
The new bit around Park Lane & of course the bit where the casino and cinema are is quite nice and the Bridges is alright, it's just getting towards the other end of the centre that's a bit crap where all the boarded up shops are (near St Marys car park).
If the council actually did something, they probably wouldn't have fell so far behind the likes of Newcastle, Leeds and the other northern cities in terms of redevelopment.

 

Basically, if you walk out of my front door, you're at the gates for headingley cricket ground?

Where I live is most definitely the 'student ghetto part' haha, it's just rows of identical terrace housing. It's perfectly safe- but just very unhygenic- there's the odd permanent residencies which just baffles me, but i suppose why should people feel forced to move when students come and go?

Around becketts park and headingley campus is quite nice- a lot of elderly residents (i find) where it isn't so rowdy and the houses look alot nicer!
Apparently in the past year Headingley or so has just become a hotspot for petty opportunists, and according to the coppers, some burglars come from across Leeds, especially over holiday periods to see what they can get their hands on- we were rather complacent with our incident anyway! Our landlord is an uncooperative moron, when we moved we had about 101 things wrong with the flat but never mind.

Headingley in the summer is awesome, completely different to rest of the year- the cricket brings in floods of people!

 

So you live on the Burley/Headingley border then?
One of my mates lives on Headingley Mount just opposite the cricket ground and I used to have a few who lived on the various different Beechwoods around the back of the co-op.
See I was a Hyde Park man myself, in the summer it's deserted but it just means it's class for shenanigans and the odd party or two. Also Unity Day on Woodhouse Moor (or Hyde Park park itself) is canny, gets full of scallies & hippies though as the day wears on (never a good combination as they all start to get a little worse for wear)!

 

Sunderland or Nuneaton? I know where I'd rather live mate, this place may be boring but it's amazing compared to your place!

 

agree with you regarding the vaux site mind, however the council have recently bought the land from tesco so hopefully it can redeveloped soon, but every town/city has its problems, including leeds and newcastle

 

Ah they've finally done it then? That's good to hear, that legal battle has been raging for ages. Tesco seem to do it a lot, buy land in prime areas of city centres and try and get a supermarket built there. They probably have no intention of building a supermarket, but do it just to make money when they sell the land on.

 

Exactly that mate! I'm only my second year so it's my first year living in headingley, i was at kirkstall (speaking of grim!) brewery accommodation last year, so hopefully this summer will be able to spend a little more time in Headingley!

 

Ballina in Mayo is a ****ing **** hole,theres no other way of putting it.
There is one street literally lined with dog crap,alot of boarded up shops,houses and factories.You don't want to be there after 11 o'clock otherwise the scumbags there will start on you just for looking on them.the amount of people pissed is just ****ing disgusting.On a saturday night the side walks are like a mine field of sick where there are pubs.
Ballina is like the Middlesbrough of Ireland.

 

99% of Barca, Milan,Porto,absolute dumps. Munich (60%because rebuilt after bombed flat) Monaco dump apart from the parts you cannot afford to live. In fact most people cannot afford to live in Monaco. I went to work for an offshore company there and had to knock it back as i would have been skint.
Just because somewhere is sunny does not a paradise make.
I think London is the worst. Not only frightening in a lot of places (not easily worried either). But the people are pigs.
I found Leeds city centre not bad at all mind. The entire area for miles around though was a pit.
Skem is a loverrrly place eh? Well named. It sounds nice when you say Skelmersdale.
Parts of Sunderland are the worst i have ever seen (Red house, Pennywell etc). Before anyone says owt. Worse than anywhere in Newcastle. Most of Gateshead is smashing bye the way. People need to have a good look. Anywhere in the NE that ends with Well is a dump.
Springwell x 2
Pennywell
Benwell
Fulwell
Meadow well
Cradlewell
More???

 

No-one has mentioned Gateshead so far, but I've always found it a remarkably depressing place. Sure, there are the Gateshead quays now, but the town centre has not really improved over the years. When J.B. Priestley called it 'a dirty back lane leading to Newcastle' he wasn't far wrong.

 

I used to have to go through it everyday when I went to 6th form at Emmanuel, not the greatest of places, Harlow Green, Low Fell, Bensham & Saltwell are dumps!
Most of the residential places that look crap are generally the housing though, which can ring true for any town/city - you've got the victorian terraces, council houses/ex council houses from the 30s, concrete estates from the 60s, those flat-roofed houses from the 70s & 80s - they all just look grotty, but so will the houses we've built in the 90s, 00s and 10s as soon as they start ageing.
Unless they're like grandiose old buildings, houses don't tend to age well!

 

I mentioned Gateshead mind. I think a majority of it is in very good nick. Consider how big the place is. From Prudhoe to Pelaw and Tyne bridge to Birtley. There are some lovely areas, bearing in mind most of it is council. If you stick to main roads, you will not see most of it. Granted the high st. and area are a midden. Felling high st. as well. There are some cracking areas of Low Fell eighton banks High Fell. and Felling. For council built estates there are some really good ones. Leam Lane is a mainly very good estate. Areas of Pelaw and Wardley are great. Even the worst areas cannot compete with Manc chester and Liverpool BirMINGham and Londump. Especially when you consider how little has been spent on them (Gateshead) in comparison with the bigger areas.