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

[Dieu]

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?

@Dieu

I live in a semi rural area and we keep getting mice in our house - the cat loves it and I keep waking up to a dead body on the mat.

Where I live doesn’t sound bad compared to all this!

There is poverty/ drugs/crime but I feel we are insulated from it if you just don’t walk down certain streets.

To be fair it's nice here. Not much crime to speak of, well compared to a big city. As it's a beach town, it's packed in the summer. To be honest, as the weather has been good, there has been a really nice buzz down here this summer holiday.

First time I've said that in over 40 years! Parking is fine, I've got a blue badge, so makes life easier in the summer months.

The village I live in is lovely. Could live without the people speeding like lunatics around the bend near our house though.

The nearest town is also nice, except for, as it's turned out, the high proportion of people that are hugely racist that live there. I can't understand it at all. Being half an hours train ride from London we are also having an issue with county lines stuff and the town has got noticeably rougher and more dangerous in the last few years as a result.

Oh and the vast industrial units being built around it... as we have good transport links we get every warehouse and distribution centre going. Used to be a village surrounded by fields, now surrounded by identikit grey panelled warehouses (and the lorries and smog that come with that). We’re only here because my family are here, we won’t be sticking around.

I live rurally and some of the driving I see on country lanes is shocking. On an all too regular basis I come across dead dear in the middle of the road People drive way too fast around corners, not keeping to their side of the road, no idea how to reverse their car if no passing place available, people doing 50 on a 30 through the village, motorbikes going way too fast and making too much noise spoiling the peace.

Bad driving aside, I am lucky enough to live in one of the most beautiful places in the UK (if not the world!) and I absolutely love where I live.

Deer!

Heavy traffic all the time. Surgeries are massively oversubscribed. Planes going over constantly from early in the morning. Awful weather.

@MuddlingMackem That horrible Lone building on the Vaux site is going to be an Ocado call centre. The CF of a company who refuses to deliver up here

Air pollution.

BossAssBitch I live rurally and some of the driving I see on country lanes is shocking. On an all too regular basis I come across dead dear in the middle of the road People drive way too fast around corners, not keeping to their side of the road, no idea how to reverse their car if no passing place available, people doing 50 on a 30 through the village, motorbikes going way too fast and making too much noise spoiling the peace.

I also live a couple of miles outside the local lovely market town, and there is a straight bit of road nearby where drivers regularly must do over 70 in a 60 limit. Theres also been 4 accidents on the bend following it in the last 2 years, with cars flying off the road and into the field beside it. The footpath at the side of the road isn't maintained and the grass verges aren't cut so if you walk, you have to walk on the road. Its so dangerous. You literally have to dive into the undergrowth if theres an oncoming car.

I am really sick of people on here saying they hate cyclists. Its not cyclists that are crashing and causing accidents - its speeding drivers. So many drivers are so ignorant that they think anything that impedes their progress to MacDonalds or the Tesco donut counter (judging by the amount of litter at the road verges I try to pick up) entitles them to get irritated.

Ditto the sheer carnage of wildlife on the roads too - dead badgers all over the place, dead foxes, dead cats, dead pheasants. I suppose if you speed past, you don't actually notice any of this.

@StoneofDestiny I didn't mention mine as it could be possibly outing. I've genuinely no loyalty to this grubby little town

Limescale. Seriously, it is doing my head in. And our toilets look sooooo gross. I have tried every remedy imaginable (coke, descaler, magnets, every cleaner in creation, a whole bottle of neat vinegar seems to work best).

I have always loved my lovely village until lately.
.2 new huge housing estates

9-12 weeks wait for doctors appointment

Council no longer cut the grass by our lovely brook other than twice a year it's an overgrown mess covered in dog shit

The pavements are a disgrace, the roads have more holes that a dart board

Silver canisters bloody everywhere from kids.

It’s ok - technically a large village on the very outskirts of the Black Country with fields two streets away and in the other direction a huge shopping mall a couple of miles away. Good schools, colleges, public transport, libraries, health services, cinemas etc, and still retains a sense of community.
BUT it’s a long way - three hours or so - from the coast and I would love to live by the sea.
On the other hand, the Mid Wales coast where I’d love to live, while idyllic in many ways, has limited shops, few job prospects, and the nearest major hospitals are several hours drive away.
Family - primarily my elderly DM and teenage DDs - keeps me here for now but in the future there will be decisions to be made, and it will be a case of weighing up the pros and cons.

@Confrontayshunme, me too.

I was brought up in London (Limescale Central) and spent a few years in Brum before moving to Wolvo.

Brum has soft water and it was a true novelty to boil kettles and not see white limescale building up inside.

Thinking Wolvo was the same, I was shocked to see the water was as hard as any in London and limescale remover went back on the shopping list.

Snobby people who judge everyone by their job or the car they drive..everyone in very corporate jobs. Feel like a fraud as I can only afford to live here due to an inheritance. Don't feel like I belong but I stay here as the schools are good for my kids...

The drugs destroying peoples lives.
The crime.
The soft sentencing.
Victims of crime don't matter
The politicians and judges.

@beanaseireann do you live in America?

No.
Ireland

Lack of job opportunities...it's very posh but if you eant to earn lots you have to commute.

The local Facebook page.

Seems to be a lot of traffic and road closures. And quite a few large shops in the centre have closed down so the centre can look a bit depressing. Otherwise it's fine, no complaints!

@Lovingthesunshine88 I think the silver canisters everywhere is very common in every town at the moment.

Just read a teenager has just died because of them. So sad

Bristol. i love it, but... public transportation is a disaster. Also cat abusers. So many cats in the area disappear, or get seriously harmed. I feel murderous towards people who'd do this