What do you think is the worst city centre in the UK and why?

[OneLilacHedgehog]

So many cities have gone downhill since COVID. But which is the worst?

St David’s is simply gorgeous. No better city IMO.

Hereford isn’t larger and more complex than Reading. Bolton is massive compared to Winchester. Loads of cities are only cities as in time immemorial they were designated such, in common parlance people clearly use city/large conurbation interchangeably

Yep I had to walk through it every day to work from Moor Street Station. Some girl got stabbed to death there last year. Birmingham is a s*it hole now but most of the areas in Birmingham are getting like it.

Yeah, this is pedantry. Market town with a big church.

Leominster? Maidenhead? Come on...

I don't just shop online. Theres a shop in my home town that sells short dated foods cheap and it's doing a roaring trade. I buy there every week. Similar several cafes. There's more than a few independent food places that do very well where I live. West of Scotland

No, someone (let's start with Cameron and Osborne) believed the austerity myth and slashed local government spending on services like street cleaning, homeless support and drug rehabilitation.

I like Manchester

Peterborough is very run down but at least it has a lovely cathedral and fantastic transport links. Otherwise, it is a very poor place. Ipswich is a large town rather than a city but it is a very depressingplace. I sometimes think Peterborough and Ipswich could be twin towns.

It's not obvious. We don't know you.

😂 PEDANTRY

Why, is it not a city…because you say so?

Don’t be ridiculous. Designated a city since 1865.

Preston, Bradford and some parts of London have never recovered since covid and have really gone downhill

It’s really depressing that so many posts are talking about people with vulnerabilities and/or without homes as eyesores, getting in the way of a nice city break. It’s really dehumanising. I get that it can be unnerving walking past someone off their head on drugs or being asked for money, but can we try and remember that these are human beings that are highly likely to be dealing with post trauma impacts and we are all only a few major traumatic life events from the same or similar risks.

The opposite end of the scale for me is Norwich. It is a beautiful city. Every entrance to Norwich proclaims that it is a fine city and it is.

Oh we have those road signs too, I think most cities do

But other than Luton they aren't cities. They're towns. You aren't going to go there for the sort of things you'd go to a city centre for.

What city did you move to 30 years ago?

Yes, it is officially a city.

It has no place in a thread about "the worst city centre in the UK" because it is, at heart, an affluent market town with a cathedral.

Ripon's nicer than Piccadilly Gardens, is it? What a shock!

It's a city and huge compared to St Davids.

Truro. That's what I'm.trying to say..I moved here 30 years ago and it's unrecognisable now.

@ALittleBitDifferent We all shop on line Not all of us.

Northampton was shockingly bad when i had the misfortune to visit a few years ago.

It doesn't mean they're correct.

Has anyone mentioned Brighton yet? People seem to love it but I found it scary with a weird undercurrent of aggressiveness. Plus it was filthy with litter and discarded food all over the pavements.

Well l have never seen them anywhere else.