Ugly towns/Cities

Swindon full of drug taking youths who have little kids, they have fecking tramps living in the multistoreys. Plus apparently the Magic roundabout is hard to navigate is bloody easy if you think. God I hate that place.

 

Not football mind. But Stockton takes a bit of beating for toerags and filth.. Something good there though. Those Palmos. Perfect for the drunken last meal of the day. Great grilled the following morning to heal ones ailing carcass.

 

A town in Brittany called Lanhelin.

Full of mentalists. Everyone of them. It's the local granite that gives off gas emissions has ruined their minds.

One bloke went for a dump in the beer garden, wiped his arse with his hand and came back in the bar and wiped it on a bar stool before sipping his beer.

 

Sounds like Aberdeen. Now there's a joy to behold. The ugliest people in the country. I have not been everywhere and i will still stand by my statement. If you see someone who is not ugly. They are imported. Their demeanor is the same. Bloody grey dank and beggar ridden place where the Whores wear rig boots and thermal jackets. (should wear ski mask as well. Frightening to be confronted in a dark street. Do you want some buisiness hen. UUUURRGGHH. Aye, go and buy me a scots pie.

 

I said Leed's and stick by it I found it grim as I did Barnsley.

No offence intended just an opinion.

 

Not a footballing town, but Merthyr Tydfil is the most God-foresaken place on the face of the Earth. Imagine Milton Keynes, but where virtually everyone is unemployed, there is no colour, no niceness at all and the only way in or out is along the A470, which is always snarled up with people desperate to leave...

Worst place as a fan was at Elland Road, stuck in the 'Cheese Wedge', where the away supporters are kept. One lad stood up and was immediately arrested. To our left was about 5000 Leeds fans on their feet. To the right was another 2-3000 or so. Not a nice welcoming place.

 

Leeds is a fantastic city - with due respect as a student (and I was one there about 4 yrs ago) all you know of Leeds is Headingley, Hyde Park and maybe Horsforth. Headingley is one of the most burgled places in Britian because it's full of student homes where you can guarentee there'll be at least 4 laptops/TVs/Mobiles and some fool will have left the window open.

But if you spread your wings a bit (I know live South West Leeds) and see the rest of the city (Roundhay, Chapel A, Pudsey, Tong, New Farnley to name a few) I think it's up there with the best of them. Fantastic shopping in city centre that will only get better with two new centres being built, massive 12000 seat arena being built and some lovely suburbs, plus it's right near the A1/M1/M62 so it's easy to get everywhere. After Newcastle, Leeds is my favourite city.

In terms of horrendous places - I could have cried pulling into Bolton and Wigan's stations, and Birmingham New Street (though city centre's nice). You can usually tell which places are falling apart because the people walk about like zombies, with sullen tired eyes that have lost all aspiration.

 

I met a mate of mine this weekend who was from Barnsley and he'd entirely agree with you, apparently it's like the wild west on a Saturday night in town.

But I'm going to have to say Coventry, the Germans spent 2 years bombing the crap out of the place and did £50 worth of damage.

I joke of course, they actually improved it.

 

I am in Atyrau at the mo in Kaz. Now there is a city. It is unfair to compare it with anything experienced prior to my coming here. Outside of my luxury hotel window i see a family living in a huge mud puddle (ice is melting). In an 8ft pipe, maybe tank. About 20ft long. A door cut in one end. Windows cut. Obviously a long term abode. There is a main road with a few rosds running off for a while then everything is mud roads in between. There is serious luxury around and serious poverty. Mind the people are very clean. There are loads of those big Soviet apartment blocks dropping to bit and stinking of boiled cabbage and piss. Trucks driving down the middle of the river. Missing the fishermen with little holes drilled in the ice. It's improved a lot since i came here over 5 years ago as well mind.
Oh! wait a minute. I forgot i just flew into Teeside.

 

Redcar theres a horrible place to go

 

Chapel Allerton is ridiculously posh, the restaurants and cocktail bars around there are weird in the fact it's probably as big as Sunderland for nights out, but still only a stones throw away from the centre of Leeds - weird how there's a really posh area with chapel allerton and then chapeltown near it is a nigh on ghetto - walked back once or twice from Subdub at the West Indian centre in Chapeltown and it was an experience to say the least!
Where I live now is pretty up and coming, there's a few high rise flats and council estates on the other side of the train tracks about 1/4 mile away, but most the estates around here are new builds, including my flat so it's canny.

Ghengis Badger
My dad used to work in Aberdeen, spent a lot of my childhood visiting there and it used to be alright, they had an amazing park and winter gardens with a parrot that would repeat certain words you said. Some of the areas are nice round there, although think that was down to the people who'd move there for work rather than the locals. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic.

 

Did the parrot speak English or Scots?

 

I agree with this, Headingly is a sh*t hole, I visited every other weekend for 3 years while my lass was at uni. The city centre is ok like, class night out.

I would have to say Glasgow is the biggest sh*t tip I have ever visited, however.. it's another mint night out!

 

Loving the love for Leeds on here, although not for The Original Oak! They've become unbelievably tight on Fancy Dressed Otley Run's and the bouncers, at least the ones who have been on shift when I've been there are just self-righteous dicks!

As for the area, the city is quality, very Newcastle-esque, but some of the surrounding areas are a bit rough. Walked back from Elland Road after the Arsenal match back in January, I only found out afterwards that it was in Beeston, arguably the worst part of the city outside Chapeltown! I'm living in Hyde Park next year, and whilst it certainly isn't Jesmond it could be a lot worse, although the supposed crime rates are a tad worrying!

 

I stopped going out in Nottingham due to an aversion to knives and guns. Eventually moved away in an effort to retain my possessions.

Used to be a good night out.

 

Beeston - I take it you didn't follow the ring road back to that big roundabout then? Seems to me you went a long detour unless you were heading back to like Mill street/train station end of town!
To be fair to Chapeltown, it's no different to walking through any rough area in Newcastle or Sunderland at night - you get gangs of charvers or in Chapeltown hoodrats, but as long as you're not flash with your clothing or like your phone and keep your wits about you I've never had any trouble!

TBH I hate the fancy dressed otley runners, stupid pissheads who don't know how to handle their drink; the same people who go to the likes of Oceana & Tiger Tiger and the rest of the commercial **** identi-kit clubs. Besides I was on about them showing Newcastle games & the owner being canny, not their bouncers!

 

Nottingham is a cracking night out, just avoid the Garage ones if you like your vital organs where they are!

 

Toonsi

I've been going a lot since around 1979 until now. It has went downhill in this time. There are somecracking places and there is some superb architecture. It is still a horrible dump and miserable with it. I guess incomers have caused some of it. But it's the locals that you notice. Alchoholics everywhere. Down the docks is a wonder in itself. There is a beggar in every shop doorway. The churches are all boozers (1 plus point). Have you ever been to the Metro bar/night club. Bar out of star wats. The Klingons and Norsicans would not go in there mob handed. It's an awful town. Maybe it's worse for me as it is synonimous with work.

 

Honestly this is going back to when I was 6 or 7, so it's a good 15 years ago now! We almost ended up living there with my sister and me being carted off to some posh boarding school since the perks of the job was nigh on free scholarship to the school, can't remember what that was called, but thankfully my dad got a better paid job in Nigeria with a rota of 4 weeks on/off which meant he could see us more as he was constantly working 5/6/7 days a week with little time off when in Aberdeen.
What do you do in Kazakhstan mate? I imagine if you've worked Aberdeen and there that you must have something to do with the oil & gas industry as well!

 

That's right. I've always been based out of NE though even though i've travelled for my job all my life. Love going home to Newcastle. The buzz you get as you come over those bridges on the train or coming into Newcastle airport is beyond words. I'm offshore Kaz along with hundreds of other Brits. Loads onshore here as well. (thousands all told) (See album). Another week till going home.

My wife used to live in Bucksburn Aberdeen. Her dad took them there in the 60s and moved back to Gateshead when the work changed .