Trivial Things that annoy you about your area

[DionneB]

I will start
The corners of some streets are very icey.

The nonstop fucking whining about anything that changes for any reason at any time.

Some bellend was moaning that it took him longer to drive through town last week than it did when he passed his test in 1969. NO SHIT!

Chronic lack of public transport

Everyone from here (I'm not a local) thinks the area is really desirable and well to do - it very demonstrably isn't

Walk down the precinct and you will see people fresh from their appearance on Jeremy Kyle and there's an obvious prevalent drug and alcohol issue

But it's "posh" apparently

I like it a lot but it’s so residential and because it’s near the city centre there’s a weird void of shops/restaurants

The “big roundabout” in town.
Common sense tells us that the left hand lane is used for turning left or going straight on, unless signage dictates otherwise right?
Not in my town.
Lane discipline is a choice apparently.

Noisy and disrespectful students. Clearly that’s a mass generalisation and it really doesn’t apply to them all but this intake seems to have been particularly bad.

No one ever breaks into synchronised song and dance routines during regular day to day activities. Lazy, that's what it is...

All the local shops are hairdressers or takeaways. I long for a nice greengrocer, butchers or deli.

SW London. I can't think of much: it's an amazing place to live. The only thing that springs to mind is that there are no beaches.

High St full of take aways and charity shops

People sitting outside the local spoons before 9am drinking pints

Bicycle theft ... seems endemic

Dog shit on pavements, bags of dog shit hanging from trees and bushes

The serious lack of places to eat,and also a lack of grocery shops. There used to be numerous places that you could eat (Littlewoods cafe,Woolworths cafe,Burger King,Wendy's Burgers,plus a couple of cafés) but they've all closed down over the last 10 years. All that's left is McDonald's and Greggs. It's the same with the grocery shops. There used to be a Tesco Metro,a Marks and Spencer's,and a Safeway. They've all gone now. All that's left is a tiny branch of Iceland,that doesn't have half the range of stuff in that the larger ones do,and an Asda that's a long walk if you're disabled,like I am. A bus DOES serve a stop outside it,but it would mean that I'd have to get 2 buses into town instead of one,and there's a 6 - 7 minute walk between the two stops,which I can't do if I'm loaded with a bag or two of shopping.

The slow train service. It takes as long as the bus which goes though several villages and seems to pick up hundreds of pensioners.

The fun characters in town keep dying off.

We are left with a slew of identikit middle class dullards moved down from London. They are all very keen on organised groups; they only move in packs. Sunday cycle rides, running clubs, film club, etc etc.

They don’t tie their horses outside the school, dress up or hold interesting after hours parties.

LadyMonica same problem here. It's most distressing

Also I live in a rural village. There's no street lights and no pavement. In the winter, everywhere is muddy and you need a torch. Roll on summer (which more than makes up for it!).

All of the shops and cafes (all, without fail) close at random times all through the week and when they are open they close early (3pm). The cafes stop serving at 2pm its bizarre! The most you can expect is instant coffee, stale lemon loaf and a baguette that has seen better days. Salems Lot has more pulse.

The shite thats left on the beach

We have some serious social issues so it's hard to identify trivial things to get annoyed about tbh.
The enormous stagnent fag butt lake by the bus stop could do with sorting.

Yoofs chucking rubhish out of car windows. Usually macdonalds wrappers. I just don’t get it.

No petrol stations on my side of town but loads on the other side. Why?

Postboxes in stupid places where you can’t nip out of your car to post a letter ( I live very rurally)

The post office in our village has now shut due to the incompetent twat that runs the shop

It’s a 5 minute walk down the hill to some lovely pubs, bars and restaurants. Which means it’s a half hour, lung burning drag back up the hill to get home.

It's very hilly. Not anything crazy steep, I'm not climbing Ben Nevis to go shopping or anything, but everywhere is up a hill or down a hill. Very few flat areas except right in the middle of the shopping centre and that's really only because it was levelled during WW2.

Half the people who live here are dressed head to toe in joules. I am not exaggerating. My eyes hurt sometimes.

The city grinds to a halt whenever there's football on

Tourists stopping dead to take photos in the middle of a busy shopping street full of people

Every fucker on the street mows their pristine lawn every weekend during the summer. They wash their cars every weekend too. They jet wash their already pristine driveways.