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

[In2mindsss]

Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

What? Brighton beach is terrible!

Cornwall. Closely followed by Devon. Unfriendly people, shit food and weather.

Parts of Devon and Cornwall - I don't like how the trees and vegetation seems to 'crowd' some of the roads - it feels really claustrophobic.

There were some villages off the beaten track a bit between Derry and Portstewart where I wouldn't have got out the car. Lots of Belfast is lovely but I couldn't get out of the Shankill fast enough.

Oh lord, save me from talkative Pompey cab drivers.

‘QA, please.’

’No worries love you sit back what you in for my wife’s just ad an isterectomy you ain’t avin one of them are you she ad an immigrant doctor but he was awright as it appens so anyway love looks like bloody traffic on London Road bloody council again messing wiv traffic lights robbin bastards and most of them can’t even drive so you wanna go on the motorway out of Kingston Cresent anyway immigrants …’

Hull. Absolute,awful,utter shit hole.

A down market part of Bristol. I did not feel safe!

Yes, I thought Brighton was like a horrible shingle bank, Bournemouth is the one with the nice beach which is always shown on the telly in heatwaves.

London.

I detest the place.

I remember in my late teens I visited there for the first time. I asked a Policeman for directions and he just shrugged his shoulders and said “I dunno” and then turned away from me. Left a very bitter taste.

And anytime I’ve had to go back for work, my experience just hasn’t got any better. I especially hate the Tube and the way people rush you out of the way, when you’re trying to get your bearings as a visitor.

We went there to be in the audience of ISIHAC. The best place we found to eat was a Subway shop. Says it all.

He was a Gosport taxi, 15 minute journey, bit of small talk. He took me three times in the end. Nice man and wished me luck on the last op. 😀

Mine isn’t a logical one but I’ve had to spend time in Bristol over the years and I really really dislike it. Also Birmingham but that’s based on two visits and horrendous traffic.

I didn’t mind Stoke. I like Bedford. I live now in a town with an awful reputation but I love it!

Blackpool. We went there for a work event sone years ago, and were put up in a hotel that had featured in a TV programme about crap hotels. It was indeed a crap hotel. The town itself was so run down and it felt oddly threatening.

Gosport drivers are the best! Patience of saints.

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I used to work in a school in Cheltenham. There was a costume store in the Forest that the head liked to rent from for her huge theatrical productions. Someone would have to drive there after school in December. We used to draw lots to decide who had to go. Absolutely horrible area. Really creepy. A friend said ' oh isn't that where they all marry their sisters?'. My brothers comment ' they shag them,they don't bother to marry them '.

My sons sport takes us all over the country and we’ve been to some ‘interesting’ places! The area around Whitehaven in Cumbria is probably the worst, very deprived and felt quite sinister as it’s the area a taxi driver went on a shooting rampage a few years ago. It’s sad how it’s the same county as the fancy Lake District towns, the difference feels very stark and like that part of the county has been forgotten about by the local authority.
Sunderland also looked very run down but the people were super friendly. We stayed at an absolute dive in Yeovil where I thought the owner was going to murder us - that’s a strange town!
Someone mentioned Ellesmere Port but actually that was one I was pleasantly surprised about, was expecting the worst but it was full of super chatty scouse lads in tracksuits so we felt very welcome! 🤣

We (DH and I) stopped off in Dover many years ago there was an indoor market with a huge fish in a huge tank with a sign "My Name Is Barry" or something .
Poor fish , I don;t know if he was for dale or to draw the punters in ( didn't work)

We left after 15 minutes

It was quite obvious to me that they walked the route to Scafell Pike for an hour before turning back. Or maybe an hour including the turn back.

Blackpool. I might be being unfair as I've never been back there as an adult, but I spent quite a few childhood holidays there, and my memory of it was that it was incredibly miserable, tatty and dirty.

I've been to quite a few other places people have listed (Slough, Bradford), and they never registered with me as 'bad'. Not good, either - just sort of there.

It’s an awful place to drive in and around as well

I liked the place but when we were looking at those ruined stone houses, I got to the doorway of one and I stopped with a very strong sense of just no. My family thought I was nuts but I couldn't go through that doorway.

I used to occasionally drive through Lye to get to the Merry Hill shopping centre, I think lots of places around there were better before it was built.

Long time ago one of the shops used to have a man sized Dalek in the window, that was nice for the kids to look out for, but that was it’s only saving grace.

Oh yes, Merthyr Tydfil, I took the children into a public loo there, and there were syringes all over the floor. 10 minutes later, we filled up with petrol, and I watched a mother, in the shop, who had schooled her 4 children to distract and steal...v sad, but depressing, all the same.

My SIL and BIL went to Blackpool. Stayed in a hotel. After the first night the manager asked if they'd mind not having a shower as when they did it soaked the bathroom in the room below and the people had complained.