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

[In2mindsss]

Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

Birmingham. Unlike other cities, there's an astonishing amount of litter, which adds to the run-down appearance.

It's sticky and grubby. Lots of tall houses that would have been amazing once but are now crumbling and housing students and HMOs. Lots of aggressive wokeness. Trouble is if you're all trying to be individual in your alternative sexuality you all end up looking exactly the same and it's just massively dull. Was charged £22.00 for 2 hours parking.

I'm tossing up between Swindon (lived there for a couple of years), and Croydon, which seemed to have a miasma of misery. I felt kind of sorry for Birmingham.

I had treatment at Hartlands hospital and had to drive through Bordsley Green to get there. Litter piled up in front of front doors, sofas on the street. Absolutely foul

I feel like this too - ominous like bad things happened there.

Completely agree with Blyth and Ashington. I sometimes visit Family Hubs through my job and they are typically located in the most deprived areas. This week it was Byker in Newcastle and my car got blocked in for 10 minutes and I just waited as there was no way I was risking antagonising any of the locals (or getting close up to the local dogs running wild).

We had a few days in Yorkshire last year and fancied a walk along a beach so went to Scarborough. It’s bleak, run down and couldn’t wait to leave.

Putting a bit of polish on a turd sadly

I used to lose all sense of direction driving round the ring road, it is a strange place

Woking
Middlesborough
Newport
Wigan
Rhyl
Blackpool
Burnham on Sea

There was a well publicised ongoing bin strike there.

If you mean Stroud Gloucestershire, it was recently voted the best place to live in the UK, by The Sunday Times.

I lived near Morecambe for many years. The areas around Morecambe are stunning. Morecambe itself is a couple of squares miles that needs razing to the ground. Sadly. I just go for the dentist now and I honestly worry about leaving my car parked up. Such a shame, because it's got great local history, some beautiful buildings (the Midland, the Winter Gardens) and used to have so many amazing events (light and water festival, the vintage festival, punk festival etc) but it's been left to go to ruin.

Dagenham, Paignton, Merthyr Tydfil.

Poor Morecambe! I visit every so often, they are trying to do things with the place and it’s clearly built for better times. It’s got fantastic scenery looking up to the lakes, amazing beaches that are always packed, interesting architecture and often has some good little festivals. There’s a lovely park not far away down the seafront, billed as an old fashioned English one. I hope the Eden project helps it. I’d much rather go there than Blackpool, like many places it’s let down by transport issues. And the British weather.

Scarborough??! Scarborough’s ok. Ed - or it was when I was last there.

I am astonished that it took 19 pages for Rochdale to get its first mention, but perhaps not many people visit there.

A lot of the centres of Northern ex-mill towns would be on my list (I grew up in the NW), like Oldham, Bolton, Blackburn. Also on my list would be Wigton, Ulverston, Dalton, Barrow, Peterborough and Coventry city centre. I am grateful that I no longer have to go to any of the aforementioned places anymore (bar one, to visit family).

Although I have never been, whenever I hear Rhyl get mentioned, it’s usually with a look of horror and, “Why would ANYONE want to go THERE?!”

People say Birmingham is disappointing and the bin strike certainly doesn’t encourage people to go.

Bristol? Seriously? It’s beautiful. Yes, as all cities there are some less desirable parts, but house prices certainly suggest it’s not grim!!
The waterfront is stunning.

They had a flesh-eating bacteria there, not so long ago 😮

I had the same with the Magic Roundabout in Hemel Hempstead. I've no idea how awful the area is or whether it's one of the worst places but that roundabout was enough to put me off ever going there again.

Yes, it was! She was Hope Springs Nemesis!🤣🤣

Oh bloody hell, I've booked to go to Blackpool this summer. I didn't realise it was so bad 😫

For me, it's Middlesbrough. It's quite nice where I live but it's our closest big town and as part of my job, I end up in bad parts of it occasionally. The depravation is wild. I've been in houses around the town centre where people are living way below the poverty line. I've also been in the rough areas where it's clear there have been generations of social issues. Drug raids, crime, kids in balaclavas on stolen motorbikes and gangs hanging around in the streets are normal.
I've lived in a few places around the UK and never been anywhere where I've thought 'wow this is a shithole' quite as much!

Tottenham/Seven Sisters. Was dirty, felt dangerous as it was so oddly quiet at night and so generally grim. This was many years ago though tbh.

Slough
Stoke on Trent
Mansfield
Bradford
Keighley

Areas around Bradford and Keighley are gorgeous, but the towns themselves are pretty rundown

I think you've just wrote about the majority of all town centres with that description .

Agree with Brighton, went there years ago and it was filthy, screaming hen party central and the (not cheap) hotel I stayed in was DIRE. Never again.

Central Manchester- went there a few years ago for work. Omg it’s filthy, stinks and people are off their tits on weed and booze by 6pm on a Saturday night. All you can smell is weed, weed, urine and weed. Sunday morning walk to the venue was over broken glass and picking my way around police crime tape. oh and every food place we ate at was utterly shit. Poor quality food, bizarre fusions badly executed and appalling service- even in the higher end places. Utterly grim. To the point that when I had to go back a couple of years later, I flew up first flight and got last flight back, no way I’d stay up there again.