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

[In2mindsss]

Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

Wisbech. Looks lovely when you arrive and go to the National Trust property but when you walk round town it's so depressing. We couldn't even find a cafe we felt we could sit in and have a sandwich. Deprived and run down.

Have been to other awful place (Blackpool included) but Wisbech sticks in my mind.

I havent read the full thread but surely someone has mentioned Bolton town centre? I went last weekend for the first time in years and its diabolical.

I also wasnt keen on Bournemouth, I've visited Christchurch quite a lot and loved it, but on a trip to Bournemouth I couldnt leave quick enough.

Blackpool is rough but I dont mind it and have never felt unsafe there, I've never left the main streets though!

Blackpool is absolutely horrific. Aldershot, Farnborough, Portsmouth. All dreadful

Do visit! It’s amazing in a nice weird way. Can’t image there is anywhere so different.

Gee thanks! Was actually considering going there to Bath as it sounds amazing. Old Town vibes? One day I will go. I love Edinburgh.

To be fair to Sheppey, would you pour investment into a place with 1400 tonnes of unexploded munitions sitting in a disintegrating ship a couple of miles out at sea? Mind you, if that goes up, it’ll be more than just Sheppey in trouble.

@CoffeeCantata agree, but I don’t think anything will beat the chewing gum in Seattle so disgusting. Ive read it’s been cleaned now though. Must have been a hell of a Job. I Hate padlocks going rusty too,

Blackpool. Can’t move for drug dealers, my mum had her bag snatched and there were two attempts to break into our car. It’s also a miserable hole.

ETA, now I think about it Dover was worse.

@WilfredsPies I had no idea about that

I actually learned to drive in Reading and completely agree about the lanes thing!

My driving instructor always said if you could drive in Reading you could drive anywhere.

Paris - nobody speaks English.

Also agree with Birkenhead on my couple of short visits there!

I think people seem to have largely forgotten about it, especially as older people have died or moved out and people from other areas have moved in. I think they’re about to remove the bits that stick out of the water so they don’t crumble away, land on the bombs and trigger an explosion, but it’s only going to take a nudge big enough to set one of them off, and God help anyone nearby.

Do you speak French?

Newcastle - same reason.

Un peu.

Since when has Paris been part of the UK?

Some of the older parts of the Birkenhead postcode are really nice and Birkenhead park is lovely. I agree with you about the town centre and surrounding areas though - and the traffic system is a nightmare at rush hour.

Since the reign of Henry V

Which Hadleigh? The one in Suffolk is very pretty

The UK didn’t exist in the time of Henry V.

Might want to revise your history and geography.

There’s bad pockets of the north and south. I’m very fond of the north. We’ve spent time in parts of Northumberland and Yorkshire and visited many others and really liked them. I suspect people mention it more because of the deprivation in parts of the north which seems to get hit quite hard which is so sad. We’ve also found people up north tend to be friendlier. We live in a naice south east market town and I wouldn’t say people are especially friendly.

There’s good and bad parts all around the country. Not just specifically the north.

Sorry I was skim reading the thread and my tired brain read this as 'Some imaginary parts of London'

That would be a very different discussion 😃

It’s pretty, yes, but on the day I visited it had a really really sinister vibe and I couldn’t find anywhere to get a cup of tea except a bloody weird cafe that insisted I pay by online bank transfer

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