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

[In2mindsss]

Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

I’ve not seen a mention for Grimsby yet . Clearly so shit no one from outside comes anymore.

John Lewis has gone now you’d be buggered
There’s a cake shop opposite the bull ring

And the rats, litter and fly tipping.

Hartlepool , probably better now but as a child I couldn't believe the deprivation around me
People living in half demolished buildings.

Agree with around Northumberland felt very bleak and lonely.
Some Welsh sea side towns as soon as I see slot machines my heat sinks !

Whitstable
Never had a bad holiday until this place it's industrial ,not pretty no nice views from the beach ,cafes opened and closed at odd times and any times we managed to coordinate with an opening the service was beyond the pale
The air b nb was dark and forboding and all just terrible. Couldn't wait to leave

I'm waiting for it. It always comes up on these threads. Then funnily, lots of people who do/have lived here jump on to defend it. TBF it is a very misunderstood place and has an unfair reputation. Although, like a lot of places the town centre is slowly being boarded up one shop at a time and you can't walk anywhere in town without dealing with druggies. Sadly a lot of places are the same.

Gloucester town centre is awful. I thought MN must be exaggerating about it until I loved to Gloucestershire. Even DH commented that it was one of the worst he’d ever seen- and he’s from near Grimsby.

@Melancholyflower not really , someone could definitely mention my town and id half agree more than half agree but my home and our corner are just about ok!

Yes! No excuse. 🤣

The Golden Lion, is it, in little Newport? I got very pissed there. Very.

"no soliciting" doesn't mean prostitution, it means selling stuff, door to door.

Undercurrent? It's overt!

Watford.
Weston super mare

Southampton is awful and I couldn’t see the point of it, except as a place to leave the UK from. Very expensive houses but not much going for it, in my view.

In fact, I regard the whole of the south coast as one long, ghastly conurbation that is haunted by memories of times when there were pleasant, distinct little towns along the way.

I have a soft spot for Hastings, but I know many people regarded as dire.

Chichester is ok, I suppose, but still not really a distinct town anymore.

’pretty much’ not ‘pronounce’

🙂

Kings Lynn - safe enough, but just very depressing. Charity shops, pound shops, unemployment and mobility scooters are my main memories. Best thing about it is the train station to get out of there.

Kent Coast - took a trip there recently - Whitstable was quite nice - but elsewhere there seemed to be many groups of drunk teenage boys with their shirts off getting into fights, shouting and vomiting. Broadstairs had a similar vibe. Not been to Margate but imagine it’s similar. Wouldn’t return.

Kilburn in London - absolutely grim - in particular Kilburn High Rd is and will always be terrible. Lots of nitties, mentally unwell people, homeless people aggressively begging, and people who look like they will rob you. Also ugly, hectic and polluted.

I didn’t get a good vibe from Bristol I must say but that was a gut feeling really as I was only there for a few hours.

Its not fashionable to bash the north it's just true. Most of it is an absolute shit hole. My husband's family live in various towns around Manchester. They're all dumps . They took us to the Lowry in Salford and then into Manchester. So many people taking that spice stuff. Horrible.

Ah, I wasn’t aware there are two in Wales (I know there’s one in England). I’m referring to the city half an hour from Cardiff.

Beachfront, I like the restaurants, cafes etc.

Blackpool for a cheap caravan holiday . Took a while to get over how awful it was ,the place and the caravan .

When we went to Stirling, it was closed. Like all of it. 🤣
Plus a geocache ended up causing a big row and tears.

Personally I agree with the pp who said it's better than Rhyl. Rhyl is just a shell, which is a shame as the stretch of beach is great.

My possibly controversial view on Blackpool is that it can work well IF you do your planning, want a place where there's a concentration of things to do in a small area, and you're interested in doing a critical mass of those things. Or just a day trip to one or two of them if you're not far.

Which is not to deny that some of it is grim. If you're going into the town centre itself, you are going to see visible social problems so I wouldn't recommend it if that's going to outweigh any enjoyment you might get from say the rides. Whereas the zoo/Stanley Park/nature reserve area is more affluent so it's not really visible there.

I've never stayed over in the town, and have no intention of doing. There's some lovely countryside round there an easy enough drive into the town itself if you want to do stuff there, which is my personal preference.

its just an awful thread yes you are correct, other places have been mentioned but on the whole it’s the north west that comes out worse. It’s not nice to be so unkind to others, we all know some places are nicer than others but SOME comments are so brutal and I just find it nasty! Let’s all laugh at the poor people living in poverty!

We went to Butlins at Bognor when the DC were little .
There was a public toilet near a supermarket that looked like the toilet out of Trainspotting was for a horror film .
DD has never gone for a pee as quick "No don't wash your hands I have wipes" and out of there !

Birkenhead - full of crackheads and dicey as fuck, even in the shopping centre in daylight.

Parked the car in Cheetham Hill in Manchester recently and was genuinely surprised that it was still there when we returned. Absolute shithole, so much litter just dumped on the street.

A friend of mine used to be a social worker in the SE but recently moved to the NW, and said she saw more deprivation in her first few months than in her entire previous career in the SE. You can definitely tell that Westminster politicians’ interest wanes at about Watford…

Really? I went to Saltburn on Sea for the first time recently on a lovely sunny day, and it really was a charming seaside town. We walked along the beach and pier, through some woodlands, and back past some posh houses and the edge of town.

Maybe there's another part that we didn't see?