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Worst place to live in Britain

TK

Where's the worst place to live in Britain?

Reply 1

Brown Patrick Bateman

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Tinykates

Where's the worst place to live in Britain?

Middlesbrooough!

No actually just to piss off tagzt, Slough :tongue:

Reply 2

thefish_uk

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Tinykates

Where's the worst place to live in Britain?

There's a book about it called "Crap Towns" or something. It's on the BBC News website somewhere. Definately not where I live.

I heard the place where residents were most happy was Bourneville, the town in suburban Birmingham were the Cadburys chocolate company (mmmmmm) is based.

Reply 3

TK

OP

thefish_uk

There's a book about it called "Crap Towns" or something. It's on the BBC News website somewhere.

yeah i know - saw it in waterstones. i was just wondering what everyone else thought

Reply 4

jediknight007

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Jools

Middlesbrooough!

I'm afraid I will have to agree with you there! I went there this summer. Nice shops and nice girls but it might as well be called Generic Town/City!

Reply 5

Brown Patrick Bateman

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Tinykates

yeah i know - saw it in waterstones. i was just wondering what everyone else thought

It was a bit of a surprise, having Oxford 31st with Essex 33rd and Slough 42nd, and the top 10 were a bit dodgy. It's cos it's all down to voting here http://www.idler.co.uk/html/frontsection/craptown/30_5/england.htm where 1 person's comment can inflluence the rankings.

Reply 6

LPK

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Tinykates

Where's the worst place to live in Britain?

London because of the traffic conditions.

Reply 7

dazmanultra

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I heard it was Stoke-on-Trent.

Reply 8

jediknight007

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Oh well, I guess we could go on and name every single town/city in the UK. It's only fair to say which is the worst place to live in the UK if you have lived in every single town/city. Everyone says that London is expensive to live in but it's probably because it's expensive compared to where they live. I wouldn't live anywhere else in the UK and the only problem I have with London is the traffic but if I'm to live in one of the world's best capitals, I guess I will have to live with that....

Reply 9

Howard

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Luton.

I'd sooner take my own life than live there. It's also home to one of the crappiest universities in the world.

Reply 10

thefish_uk

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dazmanultra

I heard it was Stoke-on-Trent.

I don't know what living there is like but I do know it has a really cool place called Waterworld where there's 6 big water slides including the country's first "water rollercoaster" with uphill water jets that almost pulled my trunks off.

Reply 11

AT82

Out of all the places I have visited I have to say Stoke on Trent seemed to be about the worst. It dosn't surprise me at all that place gets a bad reputation. Bandbury and Melton Keynes also seemed quite bad.

Banor had nice scenery but the town seems to suffer from a lot of anti social problems.

The langworthy area of Salford is also pretty grim.

Reply 12

nikk

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thefish_uk

I don't know what living there is like but I do know it has a really cool place called Waterworld where there's 6 big water slides including the country's first "water rollercoaster" with uphill water jets that almost pulled my trunks off.

What is people's views on Salford? I am considering go to Salford uni but I hear that the city is quite rough. Any comments from people who have lived there would be appreciated!

Reply 13

Mark_KK

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Hull was voted the worst place in Britain to live according to the book "crap towns" although they failed to realise that Hull is, infact a city.

Also much of the information they printed on the place was factually incorrect and I question the value of the book as anything more than a publicity stunt.

Reply 14

jediknight007

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NikNak

What is people's views on Salford? I am considering go to Salford uni but I hear that the city is quite rough. Any comments from people who have lived there would be appreciated!

Why not go and have a look yourself?

Reply 15

TK

OP

dazmanultra

I heard it was Stoke-on-Trent.

well i've gone through it on the train and the man sitting next to me (who lives there and got off at that stop) told me it was 'God's country' - whatever that means :confused:

Reply 16

thefish_uk

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Mark_KK

Hull was voted the worst place in Britain to live according to the book "crap towns" although they failed to realise that Hull is, infact a city.

Also much of the information they printed on the place was factually incorrect and I question the value of the book as anything more than a publicity stunt.

Urm,

Do you live in Hull?

Reply 17

TK

OP

Mark_KK

Hull was voted the worst place in Britain to live according to the book "crap towns" although they failed to realise that Hull is, infact a city.

Also much of the information they printed on the place was factually incorrect and I question the value of the book as anything more than a publicity stunt.