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

[In2mindsss]

Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

I was at university in Bradford many years ago and had my first experience of curry. I suppose we were insulated in our little bubble, but it wasn’t awful then. That’s a long time ago though.

I’ve lived in two other places mentioned, or at least, nearby. Woking town centre always had nightmare traffic, but it did have relatively decent shopping at one time. Now it’s awful. I lived a few miles from Bognor as well and know of the public toilets mentioned. That area is absolutely the worst. I was very glad to move.

Unfortunately not, I meant to find it on the map after but then forget, and now don’t know what route we took. When we have driven to stanstead previously we didn’t use this route, can only assume something happened on the motorway and we were diverted.

We just kind of cut through it.

That road which separates Old and New Stratford is like the Berlin Wall. With Stratford station as Checkpoint Charlie.

I just remembered Blackpool. I went once and once only. What a hideous place.

Wraysbury.

I got confused and thought I was going to Weybridge. God, the disappointment 😔

I have to agree on that! We stayed 1 night before getting an early sailing to Ireland and it was grim!

Here I sit in Holyhead with muddy ale and mouldy bread
All Christian victuals stink of fish
I'm where my enemies would wish.
Swift.

Holyhead basically exists because of its ferry link with an EU capital. The area voted for Brexit. Now lots of traffic goes directly from Dublin to ports in France , rather than using Britain as a landbridge. Nice going lads

I'm actually on the wrong thread😂😳

This is interesting. I have to go to the lake district a lot. When I see the mountains along the M6 I just feel creeped out. It's a drive I absolutely hate.

Birmingham. There are nice areas but during the bin strike there was rubbish everywhere and walking back to the car late one night we came across a smackhead shooting up on the stairs. Edinburgh was also not nice during bin strikes but you could just about see a beautiful city underneath.

Warrington is pretty bad also agree Blackpool is awful too

This thread has made me think about where I live. I'm in a rough area and it has been hit hard by austerity. I was out the other day running some errands and counted 4 fly tips, saw a group of drug users fighting at the entrance to the newly renovated rest gardens so nobody was in the garden Thought how depressing it was and went into town and it was even worse! A once thriving street is now lined with rough sleepers' tents, I saw two street drinkers, cans in hand, having a run in with the police. Boarded up shops everywhere, litter, ebikes and escooters powering down all the pedestrian only spaces. If I was just visiting I would think it was a horrible place, dirty and mildly threatening

Luton

But Stevenage, Basildon, Dagenham, etc are all horrible too. My home town Colchester has turned into an utter dump as well. I hate the place.

There's a place along that coast worse than Burnham on the mud? 😱. So glad I've missed that one.

I think anywhere with a big dock can be a bit horrible. I used to hate getting the boat from Larne over to Scotland when I was little. Just a really unpleasant area. I know dockyards aren't the nicest places, but I remember Larne being especially horrible back in the day. It may have improved a lot since then though.

I wouldn't say they are bad areas. They are actually very nice areas, but I have never fallen in love with the lake district or the peak district. Just never had a nice time there. Think it is because they get very busy and something about the hills and mountains just gives me a weird vibe.

London Euston station. Currently there. Horrific.

Middleborough

Widnes,as a former hgv driver I can't think of a more depressing and unfriendly place on Earth .

Enjoying the thread.

Chester is lovely, if a tiny bit shallow and soulless.

I had a strange experience in Shropshire countryside, felt oddly claustrophobic even though I was in fresh air. Felt like that all week of our lodge holiday and was relieved to leave. Very odd.

Birmingham is my home town. Its nothing like It was in the 90s. It was always very working class and rough round the edges, but in a good way. Now though, it's like it's been taken over by zombies. Its scary and disjointed. It makes me really really sad. I used to go shopping on my own at 14 in the city centre and never felt unsafe (and my mum let me!) Most grown women can feel a bit unsafe in the city centre now. There are still some nice enough parts outside of the centre like Sutton Coldfield and Four Oaks, Harbourne and Kings Heath are the trendy parts these days but on the whole its not a great place anymore.

I am hoping not to see too much more of Lincolnshire on here, I've booked some time away in Mablethorpe, Louth and Sutton on sea and hope they aren't mentioned soon 🤣🤣

Bognor Regis.

Not the Blackpool of my childhood but the place it is now. It feels really sad, and despite money spent on it, it feels like a ghost town.

It hasn’t. I grew up in Buckley next door, but moved away years ago, but often go back to visit family and it hasn’t changed at all.

I've never been in Colchester and associate with the 'I Claudius' novels so think of it as a quaint historical place!

Seems I'm wrong?

Middlesborough
Sunderland
Meadowell, North Shields (though they have improved it a bit)
Elswick, Benwell, Scotswood

I adore Chester. It’s a great city.