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

[In2mindsss]

Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

Whitehaven

It’s really heart breaking to see once beautiful towns and city centres being left to ruin. I wonder what the difference is between town centres like Stamford and others, if every council in the country is struggling, why do some areas do better than others?

@Snazzy73 Hull is absolutely a dump. Harrogate? You mean one of the best places?

No... it 100% meant that, and possibly selling drugs.

Soliciting can mean selling door to door, but there were no doors under there.

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Morcambe does have some of the best views in the UK. Can’t say I have ever found it creepy but it is quite sad like most seaside towns in the UK. Now the have a date to break ground on the Eden Project I can imagine things will change pretty quickly.

Sanquhar in Scotland is a huge meat factory and drugs fest. I would not recommend.

Afternoon Tea in the Midland Hotel is fabulous, and apert from my husband and me, the other diners looked very smart, and reasonably wealthy. The Mudland also has a nice staircase, and I imagine that it is a nice place to stay.

However, on a different day, we went to Morecambe for some takeaway fish and chips, and to then eat them in the car overlooking the lovely bay (although I have never been able to forget all those poor Chinese people who perished on the sand/mud area while searching for mussels - I think). We got our takeaway from a chippy a couple of streets back from the seafront, and I waited in the car while my husband went for the fish and chips - I am disabled and it wasn't worth getting my wheelchair out for such a short stay. But I soon wished that I had hone with him, as there was suddenly a group of youths shouting and swearing and coming closer to the car, and then when they saw me they started jeering at me, and calling me names because I am fat! The fish and chip shop was about 100 yards away, and I was very glad when I saw my husband coming back!

I am not trying to say that Morecambe only has residents like those lads, but as it was winter nearly all of the touristy places on the seafront were closed, the day was very grey, and it certainly didn't enamour me to Morecambe. Although I do quite enjoy the detective series that is set there! But, the Midland is worth going into, even if only for a coffee, and ot has great views of the bay, and the lake district on the otherside of the bay 😊

Slough

I suppose its basically money. Places like Edinburgh that are soaked in fantastic wealth may get a little shabby at the edges, but weather recession basically intact. A historic centre and wealthy suburbs.

A city like Glasgow had a brief flowering in the 90s and 2010s but rapidly loses the shine with just a few years of mismanagement and decline. That much deprivation just isn't easy to address.

What’s wrong with Tottenham or Romford? Genuine question

Accrington

I’ve lost the original post about the village in Essex near Stansted but I think it’s a place called Manuden which has a scarecrow trail every year. Pretty rural village.

God that's sad to hear. I know there has been a massive rise in knife crimes and unlicensed drivers. We last went about 10 years ago and even then I barely heard English spoken, sorry it's got so much worse. I suppose it was the influx of agricultural workers that changed the demographic, and overburdened local services.

We always used to go to Shephard's bakery and stock up on teacakes!

Newark

Got lost and drove through Jaywick once. Very depressing place.

Don't know most of the southern towns mentioned, but I've lived in or know most of the northern ones, and I can only think people are only seeing the deprived bits and extrapolating.
Huddersfield, Harrogate, Bradford all seem fine to me.And Saddleworth being 30 years behind the times is one of the features that appeal for me!

Sheffield is a perfectly good place to live or visit, but I have to admit to feeling claustrophobic there due to the surrounding hills, felt oddly oppressive.

I've lived in Gorton, and Longsight, walked home from manchester centre at 2am, never felt worried. But arriving in Blackpool at 7pm last December decided against my plan to walk to the hotel because of strange vibes. Then the taxi driver went off on one about the state of the town and what the council are doing to it, way to make a stranger feel comfortable, not! So unfortunately I have to add to the votes for/against Blackpool.

Crawley by a long way.
I like a lot of the places mentioned by other though

Blackpool
Rotherham
Bradford

It isn't

Crawley.
Rotherham
Croydon.

The pigeons, I used to walk to the railway station from the back of Great Charles Street and the pigeons all seemed to by flying into the city, there was just this weird vibe. This was 50 odd years ago

Hunstanton. I love the Norfolk coast but my goodness, what a dive.

Port Merion (felt I was being watched)
Blaenau Ffestiniog (dark and strange)
Fishguard (just odd)

The Apollo Hotel, Birmingham

Newton Aycliffe

I lived there for five years as a child. If was a dump then .