What's the worst place you've ever been in the UK?

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Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

Blackpool. Dreadful.

I won't hear a word against Cumbernauld. You wash your mouth out with soap.

Liverpool. I really hate it. It has a few redeeming features like a couple of good museums and some nice old buildings but a lot of those have been overshadowed by what I feel is very unsympathetic modern development. I can't exactly put my finger on the reason but I always feel deeply uncomfortable there and can't wait to get away.

In no particular order

Belfast
Blackpool
Slough
Bradford
Leicester
Chatham

Think it sounds amazing, I'd never heard of it but ironically off the back of this thread I'm going to visit 🙃

Liverpools obsession with the beatles is tiresome

Newcastle
Bishops Stortford

Blimey, you must have led a sheltered life if you think they are bad.

@GoldThumb I’m very intrigued about the Essex village, I used to live in one such about 11 miles from Stansted and can't recall anything like this nearby. It was on a route to Stansted if you didn't want to use the M11 airport exit.
We moved from Essex about six years ago though so it could be a more recent thing.
Can you remember the route you took, whereabouts in Essex were you?

Oh I've remembered another.

Bellshill.

Feels like nobody is there because they actually want to be, and it's just the sort of place people pass through without stopping on the way to somewhere else. Another "jesus, imagine what it must be like living here" place.

Croydon, Godalming.

Falmouth? You've never been to Weymouth then, that's much worse.

Oldham...absolute shithole. And has been forever. Even the'posh' parts, saddleworth etc....at least 30 years behind the times and beyond grim in winter (not much better in summer)

Birmingham.

Sleaford
Sewerby
Corringham

Peterlee was pretty bad. Pretty deprived.

I can cope with Glenrothes bus station. It reminds me of home.

Which is Chatham.

How do places go downhill so quickly? Genuine question.

And then how do they get the investment to improve? DH is from a pretty little village with the nearest commuter town being Colchester. Last time we were back I was amazed at the improvement in Colchester. Not saying it’s amazing but it’s just so much better and has some life about it now.

I wonder how that uplift could be replicated?

Seen Portsmouth mentioned quite a bit I don't think it's that bad I live in Gosport and work in Portsmouth yes it has a few bad areas buckland,paulsgrove and parts of fratton but on the whole it's not too bad.i think a lot of people get out off as it's the most densely populated city in the country and sometimes it can feel like your all crammed into one tiny space.

Stroud

What does freak me out, though, is that quite randomly three of my friends in Glenrothes are also from Chatham.

We're clearly drawn to the decaying concrete and sense of hopelessness.

Well that or we're being surreptitiously steered away from the naice parts of the country in case we wipe our noses on the curtains.

Thought of another one - Bexhill. Thoroughly depressing place.

Lots of areas of London are pretty grim though - Stratford being one that's been mentioned already.

I spent a weekend in Liverpool recently and really liked it as a place to visit. Lots of great architecture and seemed to be full of nice little restaurants. Couple of theatres. Very attractive down by the docks (though I gather it used to be better). It's cheap, too. Hugely nicer than grim Birmingham.

Stratford’s weird because Westfield and the new builds round the Olympic Park are absolutely fine, but you go to the other side of the station and it’s grim.