Biggest Shithole in the UK

[DickieDonkey]

Am retiring soon so want to relocate away from the rat race but everywhere I consider away from the Home Counties seems to be regarded as a dump. Money goes further away from the SE, I thought about Norfolk which is within reasonable distance of civilisation but my friends think that it is backwards/racist. Is it true that Lincs/Cambs/Norfolk is best avoided. AIBU to move?

[Zoidbergonthehalfshell]

@Heron yes. Odd how it should suddenly come to mind for so many people otherwise.

[Sweetpea55]

I live in Lincolnshire. Like all areas some parts are nicer than others.

[SaveKevin]

We’ve got one of those office blocks near us, it’s in an industrial area with massive lorries (post Office Depot) going 24/7, car workshops, lorry workshops and other industrial businesses.
I was sat there picking dh up as he has a customer in the trading estate. A small child (7) walked down the road, with the shitty parking found on these estates, lorries squeezing past the cars and each other. She let herself into the office block compound (barbed wired in) and then across the car park and into the main entrance of the mirrored no opening window building.


That’s where our council is homing people.

[ForalltheSaints]

In geographic size, south London.

[MoobaaMoobaa]

SaveKevin it's shocking is it.

can't believe I didn't know about it until seeing the programme.

[SaveKevin]

Up until I saw that little girl and did some googling I didn’t either.
It didn’t help it was last winter so absolutely lashing it down and pitch black, with just this lonely little figure in her little pink duffle coat weaving round the parked cars.

It’s awful.
The knock on affect is also that small businesses are struggling to find places to rent or buy as they are being turned into crap housing as housing is worth so much more.

[amispeakingenglish]

Is this a joke??? If not you are the one who sounds like a total bigot, can't believe your narrow, shallow views. I live in London but come from the Midlands having lived in the west country and stayed in Northumbria a lot, also Suffolk and Cornwall. Everywhere has good and not so good points. How about if I were to say that everyone in the Home Counties were bigoted snobs with very little understanding of their own country?
You wouldn't like that. Stay where you are, don't inflict yourself on those in another part of the country.

[amispeakingenglish]

Also London is dirty and many people do think it is the only place to live. Many do have a 'we are better than the rest of the uk attitude'. These are true facts, not vitriol.
I have found those the north east seem happier and less stressed. The museums etc are great in London, if you can afford the tube fare, but I think there is more opportunity for small business
, artists etc outside London. Don't forget if you live in London, if not really rich, your kids have to live with you after uni too!! Due to the high prices bedsits (lets drop 'studio') flats etc.
Womens Hour on Radio 4 did a whole thing on the best place for women to live in the UK, analysing many things. Check it out if you can, the results may surprise you.

[fuzzyduck1]

And slough isn’t a shit hole

[Shortstuff99]

These are true facts

What other type of facts are there?

Always funny when someone tries to bolster their biased opinion by saying it is a fact, even funnier when they say it is the gold standard, a ‘true’ fact!

[FelicisNox]

I'm going to assume you're after an argument due to the utter ridiculousness of your post.

Next!

[MonkeyToesOfDoom]

I'm going to assume you're after an argument due to the utter ridiculousness of your post

Next!

What do you mean "Next"
You bumped the topic, it would have disappeared.without you bumping it to add nothing at all..

[Fudgenugget]

I come from Daventry in South Northants...no railway line, no cinema, a bit racist, but there is a Waitrose, a Costa and Macdonalds. I ran away to live in London! I go back to visit the parents...still a shithole!

I did consider living in Brighton but the council tax is disgracefully high there, the last time we visited last week there was rubbish piled up on the streets, and more needs to be done to support the City's homeless population. Also, the trains to London are shit. We are now thinking of moving North to the York area.