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?

Loads of tourists clogging it and no actual supermarket. The closest is a 7.5 mile drive away and very inconvenient if you don't have a car or loads of time.

The price of rent. London. Such an amazing city, and I love it, but my money just vanishes.

The hard done by, low paid/unemployed who blame all their problems on everyone else rather than take any responsibility themselves.

Funnily enough, they're all Brexit supporters, and they don't shut up about that either.

The litter.

Wondering if all the new buildings will overpower the original architecture. It's a very dynamic place, constantly evolving, but there are losses in that.

So many people homeless on the streets.

Lovely village, nice people, no diversity, good pub and lovely shop, quiet, Tory voting so not suitable for MNetters!

Moved from Jersey small place, now massive population, 50% in low wage employment and can’t afford to live there. Massive drug and alcohol problems. Total idiots driving massive cars at high speeds on narrow roads. Government useless and probably corrupt, unable to organise a new hospital.

I hate that I can’t get parked outside my house.

And the dog s* on the pavement.

We need more of the congested roundabouts converted to seemless intersections.

Build wider roads!

Probably not unique at all, but you can't walk in a straight line down the high street without being disturbed by street preechers, chuggers and street drunks/ druggies. Sitting on a bench is a perilous activity as the chances of being an audience to, or even the target of verbal abuse rises rapidly.

Socially it is quite a split place with little middle ground. There are a lot of well paid industries and people from nearby universities do settle as the wider area is attractive. However education has underperformed long term and aspirations are poor in many neighbourhoods. The balance of parental support is not good in many schools. LA support for SNs has been criticised officially for a long time.

Fortunately the balance of power has shifted in the council after several years of astounding ineptitude. Everyone else has now clubbed together in a coalition and things seem to be moving in a more constructive direction.

The road network is interesting. Poor signage for junctions so you have to know what lane to get in now ready for 4 junctions time as they are in close sucession. A lot of road layouts swing round, so for a novice, establishing a sense of direction is not intutive. Poor safe cycling opportunities.

Narrow minded and insular place. Very few outsiders unlike myself so impossible, virtually, to make friends with the locals who have all had the same friends since childhood.

It’s a shit hole. The (labour) council do fuck all because they know they’ll keep getting voted in no matter what. It’s time people opened their eyes

The fact that our shopping centre seems to be mainly big chain shops, charity and coffee emporium. So boring to walk round.

House prices! Ours (village) doesn’t even have a mainline station to London but it’s still very desirable (South East).

All great that it’s lovely, but my OHs family have been here for generations and we’d love to stay, but will be stuck in a flat if we choose to do so. I’m a teacher at the top of the pay scale and DH earns a decent amount SE, but still not enough to persuade the bank to lend us more.

The men on grey tracksuit with the waistband hanging half way down thier arse crack and the crotch somewhere by thier knees.
Drug user needles/syringes on the few "beauty spots" locally.
Extreme high level of mobike police speed cameras and DVLA vans everywhere but when you call the police they don't attend.
Lack of free parking for our waning town centre.

The dog poo.

We have a massive expanse of beautiful heathland right on our doorstep and it's riddled with dog poo.

You can't enjoy it in summer as it stinks. You can't enjoy sledging when it snows because of all the poo hidden in the snow. The rugby players get covered in it as people let their dogs poo on the pitches and away teams hate coming to play here as a result. When the kids were little, it was a nightmare taking them for a walk up there as you would always have to scrape their shoes clean on returning home.

It's a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest but it's treated so shockingly badly.

Drugs, the associated crime and violence, and the terrible problems that drugs cause among the homeless, especially rough sleepers.

Also the traffic is fucking terrible.

All par for the course for a city I’m sure, but definitely the worst aspects - other things are great!

Sectarianism.

@Lowlandlucky you're not a good person.

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

Also in Edinburgh OP and I couldn't be happier the festival is over.

The fact that Edinburgh feels like a village a lot of the time, everyone seems to know everyone (at least in the circles I'm in).

In my Town any new business will get sabotage attempts aimed at them.

Flytipping, litter and dog shit - I live in a not so nice area and it is disgusting, stuff is dumped in the same spots time and time again. I clean the litter from outside my property but it is pretty pointless, the council rarely clean and when they do the next day it is back to square one.

I think I live in the same place as hiding and pom.

It’s a fucking shithole and I hate it.

Only got to stick it until DS has done his GCSES and then we can escape.

The accents.

The supermarkets! Its a longvway to a lidl, tesco, aldi, morrisons .... we have a independant butchers, fishmonger and vegetable shops still, which make our waitrose look cheap. (To be fair tesco deliver) Then theres all these threads about spending 4p a day on food and eating like a king.
The cost of using the busses. They are eyewatering.

It's just an ugly town in the shadow of a much bigger city, so it has 'shadow town syndrome ' (actually I just made that up, but I've seen this before where all the good things are in the big city because everyone goes there, and the little nearby towns are neglected).

The unbelievable amount of traffic. They need to build large out of town car parks, introduce a congestion charge, and pedestrianise the main shopping streets.

Lack of decent shops. It's quite an aspirational middle class place and people have money to spend because the schools are good so most people aren't spending money on private school fees, but the chains don't invest in the town.

Secondly the said aspirational middle classness and money to spend lead to lots of gas-guzzling, road-hogging SUVs on the roads.

The number of Brexit voters and the simmering xenophobia maybe

Same here. Far too ‘little england’. Also there’s nothing for teens to do so they hang around on street corners.