What do you most dislike about the town where you live?

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Edinburgh. I'm sitting in bed listening to a mouse scurrying around underneath. They'll be wanting to nest inside, now that the weather's turning colder. And I also have the horror of hearing them inside the walls.
All very normal here in the New Town.

What are your bugbears where you live?

I find my town soul destroying. Been begging DH to move for years but he's not interested.
There's no decent shops, town centre is run down, smelly and dirty. No culture, nothing to do for miles. People are unfriendly, been here years now and don't have one friend. I wouldn't care if I never saw the place again.

Difficulty parking
summer visitors
you can't have white window frames because it's a village classé - have to be shitty yellow cream or slate blue

Teenage gangs on bikes at night. Charity shops everywhere.

@100PercentThatBitch sounds like Maidenhead!

Ooo, the thread has grown since I posted.
I'm not in Walsall! There are two places that bad! I'm in Hartlepool on the north east coast.

The air quality (London)

Market town in the North East, famous for one thing which happened 194 years ago and nothing of note has happened here since.

The drive to build ever more shoebox houses just for the Council Tax revenue without giving any thought to the already clogged road infrastructure.

The total lack of ambition for the town.

The constant moaning when anything new is proposed.

I don't know whether I feel worse or better knowing there's more than one place this bad PomBear

The sheer number of ill-educated bigots as evidenced by our local newspaper and Facebook pages.

Some of the locals are a bit rough and glare at you if you venture along the wrong street. They shout at ds and sometimes throw things.

It's a bit feral for ds in the town centre now with drunks and people on drugs.

Cyclists

Small welsh valleys town,
No prospects at all locally. The local factory might hire for temps once a year, they’ll receive over 1000 applications. The odd takeaway driving vacancy. That’s about it. Most local businesses are derelict and new businesses don’t last, some are enticed by the crazily cheap property/land/rentals but for every 5 businesses that pop up 4 will be bankrupt in 6-12 months.
It’s such a miserable place with no hope. No jobs, just a lot of charity shops. The majority of people are unemployed or commuting 30+ miles.
I hate it but unfortunately I’ll need to be here for quite some time

@ItIsWhatItIsInnit

Nope not Maidenhead.

I remember when I first moved here someone fell in the river drunk and died, and everyone acted exactly like your username. Like it was an expected byproduct of life here and nothing major had happened.

Thinking I had made a mistake continued when the town was featured on a BBC documentary series and the "local area shots" they used made it look like a far bigger shithole than it actually does look but they had Sad Face aplenty to back their choice of image

Drug problems and beggars all over the town centre

Uninspiring and absolutely no culture. Cannot wait til we move

Hate it, it's filthy, crime ridden and soul-sappingly depressing. Council are either utterly incompetent or corrupt, no one seems sure which and I honestly think it might be the most hopeless place in England.

Belgravia isn't what it was.

Tories everywhere.

I live in a town on the SE coast of Ireland. Some of my gripes:

• it has become a 'base' of sorts for the Dublin workers. As in they have houses here, but work in Dublin and most don't bother to contribute to the town - bed and a bog mentality
• serious lack of both restaurant and takeaway options
• serious lack of shops
• lack of choice in general
• nimbyism out the wazooo
• lack of facilities unless you are a, monied or b, sporty
• sheeeite public transport system
• coastal town, full of tourists and Spanish students being rude as fuck in the summer and dead in the winter
• rude people
• wait times to see a doctor
• distance to the nearest a&e

I could go on but my blood pressure is going up!

@PotterHead1985 Wexford??

We live in the village that The Vicar of Dibley and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was filmed so at the weekend it can be rammed with tourists. Bit annoying.

I live in a gorgeous, friendly rural village a stone's throw from a vibrant city. We have the best of both worlds, so feel very lucky.

My only annoyance is a bit more frequent bus service would help.

@Youngandfree Wicklow

Add in the diabolical pavements and roads to that.

Shops in town are either pound shops, charity shops or coffee shops.

Nowhere decent at all. If you want to buy anything outside of what these offer, it’s a 40 minute drive to the nearest city.

Depressing.

@waitrosepigeon lovely around the valley there. Some of my favourite pubs are in your village and the surrounding

My town (I live in a very large town approx 150,000 residents) is predominantly white English, which causes a lot of racist behaviour/attitudes.
I love Manchester, it’s so diverse.