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?

Stockport?

Haha..we all have our cross to bear.

I've already said I can't stand it

Was light-hearted comment nothing more

It's only funny if we're both laughing.

Tempted to post about Wigan's shit city centre because saying it's not a city is pointless pedantry. 😃

Why Wigan?

You know why.

Nope,I really dont

Then I'm not tellin' yer. Ask a pie-eater.

I lost contact with the pie eaters in 92 I'm 400miles north.
It wasn't all about Wigan.
Out of interest what's you're music tastes ..genuine question ?

Coventry

Agree with this. DH is from there and we went last year for the first time in several years. We stayed near brindley place which wasnt too bad, but around new street station and the bullring was seriously grim.

Eclectic, I think

Fair enough enjoy your pick and mix of music.😁

Co.Down?

There’s some really blatant racism on this thread. I hope all the racists stay away from ‘shit hole’ London - we don’t want your type anyway!

Birmingham has changed a lot and for the worse. I live in London and in a hotspot for phone thefts, but Birmingham is the only place I wouldn't take my phone out until I was on the train back to London.

Birmingham

Never met anyone that has been there and says anything nice about it

Drove through centre of Birmingham once with my kids after we had to an event there. My kids were in shock about just how terrible it is considering on of England's major cities.

Derby. There is just nothing there really.
Luton-grim.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne awful every couple of steps drunk, druggies laying about the main streets, others begging. It has always been like that but now it's real bad, every few steps your being asked for money or harassed walking around

Yes this is a very current topic in Nottingham atm owing to the recent tragic murders of two university students and a caretaker. It’s not the fault of the psychotic people who are the perpetrators of these crimes, who have been terribly let down by the failure of a string of public services who didn’t do their jobs properly, probably in part due to under-funding, as have the families of the victims.

Nottingham has always had an edge and it went through a very rough patch with the council going bankrupt a while back but it’s dragging itself back up by the bootstraps again. There is a lot going on in the city that is positive too.

Derby! Absolute 💩 hole!

Not true, actually. Cyngor Gwynedd is trying several things to improve Bangor.

Oh yes Cardiff has so much going for it. A beautiful city, and a capital one.

Croydon may not be a city per se, but it's in a city. I suppose its vileness is a comment on London really.