Pockets everywhere I love Hereford yet went to a party on a housing estate in Moreton upon Lugg ... I thought that was Beruit Hailsham my old nearest town has a estate called Sin City My late cousin was promoted to a Police Inspector there from Brighton and had a culture shock... At the time you could get a mobile shag in a Ice Cream Van The amount of gypsy families present then meant a beating or worse happened every week I believe Hailsham still holds top three Chav status in the UK The surrounding areas are beautiful however. I was forever grateful for being Tommy Harland's grandson and was always left alone. It's a gypsy thing and one you don't want to get on the wrong side of. I still love the ways things are sorted albeit me being a breakaway Funny in fact how some of the families still keep within that network. They don't work with the mainstream yet everything is governed and balanced. The odd chav uprising is put down quickly. On the surface these places seem dumps but if you have a strong gypsy family presence then it works. The very reason social engineering is focussed on such areas for problem London based families move them out as they are doing and it's not long until they comply and are no longer a problem I still maintain that areas in the UK that are full of wimpy middle class are the zombie lands of the future. These people are pretending to live and are clueless IMO What is happening in London is a disgrace
Slough Slough Slough Have I mentioned Slough? Even the bloody name is depressing....... Apologies if anyone lives there and likes the place.......I mean whats not to like about the trading estate, the sewage works......the A4, the M4...... Yet it so close to some of the nicest places, Marlow, Maidenhead, Windsor, Ascot, The Chilterns......
The waft of caramel rising up over the trading estate.......it was actually quite nice compared to some smells......
Breaking news........... Major hurricane hits Luton. A major hurricane hit Luton in the early hours of Monday with its epicentre in the Town Centre. Victims were seen wandering around aimlessly, muttering ''Faaackinell''. The hurricane decimated the area causing almost 25 pounds worth of damage. Several priceless collections of mementos from Ukraine and Poland were damaged beyond repair. Three areas of historic burned out cars were disturbed. Many locals were woken well before their Giros arrived. Heart FM reported that hundreds of residents were confused and bewildered and were still trying to come to terms with the fact that something interesting had happened - One resident - Tracy Sharon Smith, a 15 year old mother of 5 said, ''It was such a shock, my little Chardonnay-Mercedes came running into my bedroom crying. My youngest two, Tyler-Morgan and Victoria-Storm slept through it all. I was still shaking when I was skinning...up and watching Jeremy Kyle the next morning. Apparently looting, muggings and car crime were unaffected and carried on as normal. The British Red Cross has so far managed to ship 4,000 crates of special brew to help the stricken locals. Rescue workers are still searching through the rubble and have found large quantities of personal belongings, including benefit books, jewellery from Elizabeth Duke and Bone China from the 99p shop. HOW CAN YOU HELP ? This appeal is to raise money for food and clothing parcels for those unfortunate enough to be caught up in this disaster. Clothing is most sought after - items most needed include: Fila or Burberry baseball caps Kappa tracksuit tops (his and hers) Shell suits (female) White stilettos white sport socks Rockport boots Any other items usually sold in Primark. Food parcels may be harder to come by but are needed all the same. Required foodstuffs include: Microwave meals Tins of baked beans KFC Ice Cream Cans of Special Brew Don't forget - 22p buys a biro for filling in the compensation forms 2 pounds buys chips, crisps and blue fizzy drinks for a family of 9. 3 pounds buys enough petrol for Dave to drive his Corsa and park up in the White Lion car park for the evening. 5 pounds buys ***s and a lighter to calm the nerves of those affected. Breaking News...... Rescue workers found a girl in the rubble smothered in raspberry alco-pop and were worried she had been badly cut.... ''Where are you bleeding from?'' they asked, Parkway said the girl, ''Woss that gotta do wiv you?''
I have worked all over the country and Rotherham (the bit just off of the M1 where Millmoor used to stand) gets my vote as the most depressing place in the UK.
I have family there. I don't disagree with you about the town, however. A few minutes outside town you're in some lovely countryside, but the closer you get to the seafront....
OK, my vote: Chesham, Bucks, on a Saturday night when the pubs let out. Despite looking Idyllic in daylight, it's a fricking war-zone. I won't go there any more...
Margate is joyous now...Dreamland has reopened and The Turner Centre adds a touch of class.. The old town is a delight along with the new micro ale pubs...
Born and raised in Andover - London overspill dramatically changed it from a small market town with a population of around 6,000 in the early 1960's. Pre-R's, the place where I spent my formative years watching football. In 1950s the Borough Council was approached by the Greater London Council to become an overspill town, to build houses and take people and industry relocated from the overcrowded capital. Some contend that had the old Borough Council still been in charge this would never have been agreed. But it was, and in 1961 the plan was drawn up to expand to a population of some 47,000 by 1982, with 9,000 new homes to be built. The first new council houses were ready by 1954 and by 1981 the population had risen to 51,000. A bypass, industrial estates and a new shopping centre in the town centre, called the Chantry Centre, were all built and the town’s character changed completely. The new council houses proved to be very badly built. It seemed that the local council would have to foot the enormous bill for reconstruction, but after starting legal action against the Greater London Council a settlement was achieved, in which the GLC paid a large sum of money to the local council, which started a programme of refurbishment that finished in 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover,_Hampshire please log in to view this image
Well I've been to most of the places mentioned on here and none of them are worse than Seaham Harbour c 1980. I don't know what it's like now because I swore never to return. I'm assuming it can't be worse. They must have filmed the desolate scene from the end of Get Carter (good version) there, the sea was black with coal slag. The population appeared lobotomised, even the bingo callers (probably top job in town) simply droned the numbers out in a monotone. If you live in a war zone I hear it's normal practice to say "It's like Seaham Harbour c 1980 out there" It made a lasting impression on me.
This is probably connected to one of the best ways to judge how **** an area is. As well as the people you mentioned, if people are full of it about how much their property is worth and look down on people because their houses are worth less then you can pretty much tell they live somewhere **** and are trying to convince themselves they don't. Obviously people who live in expensive houses and just get on with it aren't included. It's the ones who live in a cupboard under the stairs with a pull down bed and where you can cook your breakfast whilst you're sat on the toilet, but then try to make out they're more successful than the person living in a spacious 4 bed detached house with massive gardens just because the cupboard cost £1M and the house was £600k. When you're measuring yourself as successful compared to people living elsewhere by the financial value rather than the environment you're in you know the area is a complete dump with no redeeming features. Edit: Oh and based on the limited time I was there, Luton is probably the grimmest place I've been, although London is the place I'd least like to live. I can see why people like it with everything that's there, it's just too many people in too small a space for my liking.
