Just visited Newport, couldn’t wait to leave, what’s your get me outta here place? #2

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We had come to the end of the last thread but was still very popular so thought I’d carry it on.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4713957-just-visited-newport-couldnt-wait-to-leave-whats-your-get-me-outta-here-place

Original chat.

Swindon.
I live there 😅

Yeovil

Good Designer Outlet though!

I saw the last thread. I noticed that lots of people said Brighton. I grew up there but that’s fine - it isn’t for everybody. It’s never been a genteel seaside resort.

It does irritate me when people slag it off then admit that they’ve never actually been there (they just don’t like the idea of it).

Noticing loads of places mentioned on last thread that I have visited and they are lovely in my opinion. I agree with several others that no town is perfect.

I especially have loved visiting north Wales years ago.

Bournemouth, utter shithole full of druggies and homeless people and all the shops are shutting.

I grew up there in the 70s and 80s and loved the nightlife, now theres just regularly stabbings and sexual assaults.

Tunbridge Wells - Pushy people up their own backside with their own self-importance can't understand why they can't have a Waitrose when Crowborough has one.
Traffic nearly always at a standstill. Town centre increasingly like a ghost town, all the best shops have left.
Sevenoaks - Much like Tunbridge Wells, but even more people who look right down their nose at you.
Brighton - Seedy, dirty, run-down.
Oddly loved it in the seventies/eighties growing up when I visited occasionally.
Had a fading grandeur feel to it.
Lost any charm it once had.
Funny comments about East Sussex/West Sussex. I know both counties well.
East Sussex was always less 'Londony' than West Sussex, partly through poorer train and road links which meant that it kept its own identity longer.
Find more genuine people in the northern part of East Sussex.
The coastal part of East Sussex is a right mix of different things which varies enormously from town to town and not an area I tend to frequent unless I have to, Rye is the exception (which is lovely).

Nicest part of East Sussex are all inland: Lewes (but avoid the bonfire madness - stupidly busy and dangerous), Uckfield (has a lot to offer).
Rotherfield and Mayfield both very nice villages.
Crowborough used to be good but now overdeveloped.

East Grinstead - it's ok but I try to avoid it at night, somehow gives me an eerie feeling and feels a little unwelcoming.
Crawley - Improved a little over the years in some ways, but still not a great place to live.
Paris - Around Gare du Nord, while walking to the Metro, had various people try to scam me and steal from me 3 times in 5 minutes.
Find Paris highly overrated.
France outside of Paris is wonderful though.

Not sure if it's already been mentioned...Lacock...astoundingly beautiful but my god I hated it. Found it eerie as fuck and couldn't wait to get out of there

Stevenage and Luton, on the very outskirts there are some nice places, but the town centres - utter shite-holes.

The Giants Causeway, I know an odd one, and for the first visit it's utterly spectacular. However after the 10th or so visit it gets so boring! (Twice yearly visits to ex in-laws and it was their go to place to take us!)