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

[In2mindsss]

Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

Bradford

Glasgow
Gloucester

And Blackpool

Haha- no it does not 😂. Hard to be cheery when it rains all the time 🤷‍♀️

Another vote for Birmingham!

Or as it's call it, my home town 😄. It is indeed an absolute shithole & i promised myself I'd get out so not to raise my daughter there- succeeded!

Came on here to say Bedford! Absolute shit hole

You just know when he sings 'you know where you're heading' he's going to rhyme it with Reading. Bloody genius.

I've been to some run down/rubbish places but went to Derry about 35 years ago and it's the first time I've felt despondent in a place. Really quite sad about humanity. Obviously was just after the GFA was signed so it's completely different now hopefully.We'd gone from Belfast too, and even there I hadn't felt so sad. Id love to go back to NI now just to see it again.

Derby. So much drugs and violence.

Also hate Bournemouth and think tourists who choose to go there are crazy. It’s riddled with drugs and crime.

Jaywick certainly, I've seen a couple of posters mention this. Ended up there by mistake once and it's honestly like you've stepped into another dimension or a TV show. The most deprived community in Britain living in temporary holiday huts from the 1930s. It feels like the twilight zone.

Also Rochdale, but I'd still take it over Jaywick.

Interesting. I've never seen a golliwog anywhere other than in my mum's spare room when I was little, on a jam label, and Blackpool.

Clacton, just grim.

I liked Morecambe more than I in expected. Yes, it's a bit rundown away from the Front, but it's got a fab light festival, the most amazing second-hand bookshop, and when the Eden Project finally gets going, it will probably ge completely regenerated.

I also like Bradford. Waterstones there has to be one of the most beautiful bookshops ever. The fountains in the centre are lovely, and it has some of the friendliest parkruns I have been to.

The towns I worry about are Barrow-in-Furness (couldn't find a cafe open after 3pm, except in Tesco), and pretty run down, yet on the edge of the beautiful Lake District. Walsall has so many empty shops. It has nice parts, like the arboretum and art gallery, but I can't see where regeneration would come from.

Look at Andrew Michael Hurley's books! Exactly this.

What didn’t you like about Falmouth?

I loved Liverpool the city but didn't find Liverpudlians particularly friendly, despite their reputation. A bit hostile. Maybe it was our London accents!

I agree with Bradford and Blackpool and both make me incredibly sad. I worked in Bradford between 85 and 95 and it was a fabulous city in 1985, some beautiful buildings and lots of great shops and bars. I went back a few weeks ago to the Alhambra and did a nostalgia walk round town and I shed a tear for how much it had fallen.

Same for Blackpool, we had lots of holidays as kids to visit family there. It was always tacky, but that was part of its charm. A day trip back a couple of years ago and it was a different kind of horrid. Dark, full of people with MH and substance problems roaming the streets and many of the hotels and B&Bs are HMOs.

Before the sat nav was invented, the Andover roundabout system. I got stuck going round and round and definitely panicked that I would never escape!

I find these threads confusing as they inevitably name places I've been to and found to be all right. Lovely Victorian architecture in Bradford, and the most impressive branch of Waterstones in the country. Incredible cathedral in Gloucester and the quayside area is interesting. And they have recently remedied the lack of a decent hotel.

That said, in spite of its beautiful cathedral, I probably wouldn't be in a hurry to go back to Peterborough. The first thing I saw on arrival there was two drunk young women fighting in the street. This was around lunchtime. A bit off-putting.

For me it was Hull. 😳
I could see the Humber Bridge but the one-way system stopped me getting to it for an hour. I lost count of the number of times I went around a statue of a man on a horse !
Never again !

Blackpool

Blackpool is absolutely grim.
We went to Darwen for ‘Darwen live’ and my goodness. That was eye opening. I’ve never seen so many drunk people in the day, so few teeth between them and an air of ‘might be a punch up any second’. We walked from one pub to another and there was a man fingering a girl against a wall on the high street- it was about 4pm in summer. Never again!!

Aldershot

Following for where not to go!

But it’s all a bit depressing reading about the places people used to go as kids but are now places they wouldn’t return to. Drugs, HMOs, MH all symptomatic of poverty. How is it possible for the British economy to ever be turned around?