Poor people ruin nice towns.

It's not so much poor people per se, but I know what you mean, the whole image of a town can be spoilt by rows of pound shops/charity shops.

Not forgetting the pay-day loan company and the pawnshop

What are you talking about? That's absolute nonsense. Poor people aren't necessarily bad, just because you're poor it doesn't mean you're bad. I'll tell you who the bad people that ruin towns really are:

- Chavs
- Criminals
- Drug dealers
- Loud people (including screaming babies and super loud obnoxious music)
- People who litter and throw their garbage on the streets
- Prostitutes

What does someone else's financial status have to do with you anyway? pfft

Who agrees that poor people ruin nice towns? and why can't we move them all to birmingham,.

Lets be honest,most of Britain is a complete **** hole full of squalid little towns. They are all the same.

The grotty shopping mall

The groty high street filled with charity shops, filthy takeaways,amusement arcades and nail/tanning parlour

The deluxe housing development usually called something like The Larches,poachers hide, Beavers retreat or similar built of cardboard and full of people thinking themselves better because they have a merc to polish on sunday

The skanky council estate full of baby breeders ,smack heads, dole hoppers and ball fiddling jogging bottom wearing chavs

The immigrant "communities" full of a particular race eg pakistanis or whatever, now feeling marginalised by new immigrants challenging their previously unassailable position.


Of course you do have your rural idylls in the Cotswolds and similar. Thats usually where the very rich or member of Government live.

Many blinkered people who go to Uni think that they belong to the Cotswold group. Some do and some will but most will just get as far as The Larches and spend their lives servicing a mortgage, going on holiday to Spain, and polishing their three series Beemer. Life can be so predictable,,then you die.

OP you're a bit of a ****.
Plus, why the prejudice against Birmingham? My mum's from Brum and she has a Master's from Cambridge

If you have a master's from Cambridge you're automatically a respectable person

The more important issue is that people like you are ruining the country.

Poor people don't make nasty towns, poor towns make people nasty

Can't argue with this actually. I worked for a few years in Dewsbury, historically a large market town well connected by rail (pre-WW2 probably a very up and coming nice place to live). Since WW2 and especially the rise of the service sector, Dewsbury has become infested with white poor people and Indian/Pakistan poor people. In the center i could probably count 20 shops just as hairdressers and pound shops. Plus empty shops.

Today it's run down, it's people have no money and it's generally not a very nice place. Huge council estates surround it. Indeed, it's famous for the kidnapped girl (from one of those estates) and one of the London bombers.

And this is a shame because as i say, it's got a lot of Victorian features and a large market still.

i dont think being poor is an excuse though to be honest, this isn't absolute poverty and they get free education, it's their responsibility to use it (and their parents), they produce a cycle of poverty.

So its their fault they can't get jobs or decent education ?

Blame the poor

Badly run economies, an inadequate minimum wage, and a government run by people out of touch with reality ruin nice towns.