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 live in Korea, in a suburb of Seoul.

I quite like where we live now, it's almost countryside (or as countryside as you can get when you're still part of a huge urban metropolis). Easy access to the rest of Korea and no traffic (it has taken me 7 hours to drive 40 miles before in Seoul.)

But I hate being the only white person around. Everyone stares/treats you differently. If there is rubbish lying around our estate, people assume it was me because they have this "all Koreans good, all foreigners bad" mentality, even though I tidy up other people's rubbish every day.

I have to travel quite far to get any foreigner-friendly services, by which I don't mean just that they speak English (I speak enough Korean to get by) but that I will be able to see a doctor who doesn't just dismiss my symptoms or that I will be able to do a yoga class without the instructor asking me to leave because she's not comfortable teaching a foreigner (that kind of thing happens quite regularly here.)

Overall, it's an ok place to live, but it can be quite isolating.

"are you from the village"
"what's your family name"

I've lived here for 10 years but the faces still drop when they ask those questions and work out my family have not lived here for the last 100 years.

Apart from that, I'm bored here. I want somewhere with more life and energy.

Sorry Red, I actually hesitated before hitting post as it did seem harsh, all true though It's Walsall PomBear and I hope you live here too because I'd hate to think there was anywhere else equally as grim!

My town's biggest drawback is i don't live near to *hidingtonothing.

I live on an estate in the arse end of nowhere. No public transport links, except for two school buses a day (one going and one coming). But it is an area of outstanding natural beauty and a beautiful peaceful place to live - the people here don't mix and everyone keeps to themselves.

The nearest village is notorious for being very snobby and expensive - you even have to pay for parking to go to the co-op (only grocery shop for miles), and for parking to use the village hall or swimming pool/gym. But it is quaint and lovely .

Oh, and it being a very wealthy village there are of course many horses and also horse rustlers. They send Maggie on scouting expeditions.

I live in a small village called Lambourn on the downs bordering Berkshire and Oxfordshire. It’s a great place to live and the local horse racing community are fantastic. The only downside is we get a lot of paparazzi trailing through the village, taking pictures for Sporting Life and Racing Post.

Not much, I love where I live, although I do dislike the fact that we don’t have a h&m or Zara 😭

Village/town in the Cotswolds - too many tourists, have lived here 10 years and its getting worse, so many coaches clogging up the roads, plus overdevelopment, too many new houses built so schools, doctors etc are all oversubscribed.

I live beside the beach in Australia, and its bloody gorgeous. I will never get used to people going barefoot in the shopping centre though, put some bloody thongs on you filthy feckers! Oh and we have loads of restaurants and bars, but I'd really like a nearby corner shop. Apart from that, I'm happy!

Bloody seagulls, noisy, aggressive and poo on everything (including DH last week but that was a bit funny)

My village is lovely but the local small town is full of Nicola Sturgeons favourit pals,, neds, druggies and no hopers. Get fed having to wait in the chemist whilst some druggie is rushed to the front of the queue to be given his free fix of Methadone. Only good side to it is there is a high number of drug deaths every year

Seaside town with a massive homeless and drug problem, poor salary vs house prices means most properties are out of reach by most people. A recent survey showed it's the 4th most expensive town in england when compared to local salaries.

As a fellow Edinburger - the festival which has been allowed to get too big, and the shitty royal infirmary where I am currently stuck

staistically I thought the same thing about the festival and wondered when someone would say it! I'm not in Edin but my OH works there and it's been.driving him bloody mental, esp the crazy commute because of it 2 + hours back to Glasgow.

I like our town but it’s too close to a bigger town so the high street seems to be dying rapidly.

Also rise of crime - a gang of 14 year olds running riot which the police haven’t done anything about yet.

Market town in the home counties. Its bloody lovely. Lived here 12 years.
Our local fb page is full of moaners though! They moan if a shop closes down, but moan if the 'wrong' shop takes its place. Moan about being a commuter town. Moan if someone dares to have music on past 9pm. Moan about dog poo. Moan about lack of housing and concurrently moan about the traffic.
It's truly a town of first world problems

Oldham.

I love the city I live in. Loads to do. Good variety of food outlets. Excellent public transport. Plenty of green spaces.

This will sound hypocritical but all the whingey moaners who live in my town (medium sized market town, south of England)

On the town facebook page there is SO much complaining
"Oh yet another coffee shop opening, dont we have enough already?"
"I went to the park and it's full of teenagers, they're such a menace"
"More housed being built what about the infrastructure"
Pictures of dog shit on the canal path
Whinge whinge whinge

I live in a village near St Ives which is very beautiful but has a lot of through traffic, especially in the summer, and it’s a 20 min walk to the nearest bus stop and train station.

I live in near a ex-seaside resort. It's now full of ex-offenders, druggies, and other common dross, very few of whom were brought up here but were bussed in from other areas to fill the vacant B&Bs which were mostly turned into bedsits when the uk seaside died as people flew abroad instead. Vast swathes of the town should be demolished to make way for proper family homes. Instead we have regular muggings, theft is rife and a few random murders every year. What used to be a nice place to live is now infested with undesirables.

Central London - becoming extremely crowded all of the time. Quieter sundays a thing of the past.
Coffee shops and restaurants to the exclusion of much else in many streets.
Inequality - only getting worse
Closed police stations - a tourist in trouble asked me where the closest police station was recently and I realised I had absolutely no idea and still don’t.
Hospital lottery - some great some not. NHS being sold down the swannee.

It's so bloody goody goody. Everyone is lovely and friendly and rich. But while they're all quick to leap to action helping a newly single Mum get set up in her new temporary accommodation, or get that young working family some food to tide them over till pay day, etc. They all continue to allow the local council to neglect their duties and vote for the government that keeps pulling funding from the community. Just saying "Oh I don't do politics" because they're so wealthy it doesn't actually effect them and so long as they get to hand their cast offs to some grateful poor person and feel like they're so kind, they don't think there are any problems.

All the young, working families are being forced to leave and the families in council housing have been dumped in one small area, creating this slum like pocket of poverty that all the wealthier types can easily avoid. So there's no economical diversity. There's endless new houses going up for rich families and no infrastructure for it. So there's that ticking time bomb too.

We're leaving for Scotland next year and I can't wait!! I'll have a whole new list of shit to moan about! I do actually like my town, the people are friendly even if they're often ignorant of life for those less well off. But it's expensive and overcrowded and a bit boring.

Tiny village but linked to several other villages a few miles apart.
It’s lovely and only spoiled by selfish swarms of racing cyclists.