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?

Lack of shops unless you count charity shops and estate agents
Lack of public transport

Brexit voters
UKIP voters (deliberately not putting those two in the same category although I think there is some degree of cross over!)

But I love much more than I dislike!

Just the fact that I've never made any friends since I've lived here.

The people. It's a terribly naice part of the Home Counties and the locals are all deeply conservative, extremely polite, and ever so repressed. As a garrulous Geordie with no verbal filter, I seem to be constantly putting my foot in it, and I find it hard work.

The seagulls can be insanely LOUD at times.

Lots of great things about where I like but despite there being plenty of buses they are expensive. It's cheaper to drive into the nearest big town and pay for parking if there are two of you. We have trains too but they are so slow, it shouldn't be faster to drive.

My nearest town is Cambridge.
I love it, it’s beautiful but rammed with tourists from the Far East. It’s getting ridiculous.

Even on a quiet Monday morning it’s heaving with groups.
There needs to be a tourist tax.

It's outgrown its infrastucture. The population went up by nearly 50% between 1991 and 2011. With the amount of new building that has gone on, I wouldn't be surprised if the next census (2021) showed a 30% increase. If they pulled down a phone box, some developer would shoehorn a teeny, tiny house on the site.

It's very affluent, historic and pretty, but because it's old, the narrow streets are ramped with traffic. What was once a lovely market town is now full of chic boutiques, expensive coffee shops and "artisan" every-damn-thing, but there's nowhere you can buy a washing line or anything useful.

Boden-clad mummies in Salt Water sandals with Chelsea tractors and massive 4x4 puschairs are everywhere. Their children are called things like Crispian and Ariadne.

We're moving as soon as I get my state pension in 2 years time.

My home city like any other has its fair share of drug issues in certain areas, crime, etc but its also a beautiful place to live. Nice architecture, nice parks and countryside. The city where I live now has more crime, the rate is a fair amount higher than my home city, there are some nice places etc but it just doesn't seem as nice. The roads around the city centre are horrendous! It could be worse though. There are cities where I wouldn't consider living in for various reasons!

Small city in the south. Lovely living here, am very lucky, city centre flat, everything in walking distance so no need car, nice people, 70 per cent remain, lovely countryside, water meadows, history etc. Reading this makes me understand why so many people voted Leave. It's a wealthy area here, no sign of the deprivation and depression that other posters have to live with. I wish that your lives will improve. I don't think Brexit will help in any way though.

longwayoff I think I know where you are, and it is indeed very lovely, one of my favourite places. It always looks so clean to me when I visit friends there.

All of it hence trying to move. Some of the examples:

• serious crime issues, daily stabbings, occasional shooting, burglaries all the time. At least 30 gangs operating in my town alone
• drugs - kids as young as 10 are running them. Country lines.
• London gentrification, serious negative effect to my town
• feral children and equally vile 'parents'
• every green space is being built on, flats popping up everywhere but the town cannot cope with the influx of new people. Hospital always on alert, about 5 to 6 weeks wait for a Dr or dentist appointment. Gridlocked every day as the roads cannot cope etc
• anti social behaviour

It sounds like I live in the ghetto, when in reality it's a very expensive commuter town in the SE. So expensive people born and bred here cannot afford to live here

There's a monkey dust drug problem in our city. Very scary to see and it's stopping people from going into the city centre to shop and specialise, having a knock on effect on local businesses

Localbeach

Virtue Signallers, White Feminists and Londoners.

HS bloody 2.
We live slap bang in the middle of two HS2 building sites, one half a mile thataway, the other half a mile the other way

The amount of ugly new builds and student flats being built in a beautiful, historic city. Nothing for local people in a price range first time buyers can afford and nothing sympathetic to the surroundings. Also, the amount of rough sleepers, it's so sad to see them all - the council clear their tents from by the river with their belongings inside :(

Alness in the east coast Highlands. I generally love it, especially the high street and the river. And it's a short, pretty bus ride into Inverness.

I'm from London so passing teens still make me wary they're about the start being gobby but all I've had are comments that they like my top, or boots!

But the bastard GULLS take some getting used to. And sometimes I'll be livid some cunto has thrown litter into the Averon.

Quite a change 😄

Tourists!

*socialise

My town is ugly with a lot of chain stores and restaurants, not many independents and those that are, are not cool, although it is getting slightly better.

But I have a lovely house which I wouldn't have been able to afford if it was in one of the neighbouring, nicer towns.

Like many other pp have said the council have had a lot of pressure from central govt to build thousands and thousands of flats but the infrastructure has not Increased, in terms of schools, doctors, and roads. But that's happening everywhere.

Alness in the east coast Highlands.

Alness is lovely! Also in Scotland, I've moaned about where we live for so long I've forgotten why I don't like it, apart from the bloody seagulls.

Decent supermarket I can walk to. But that's about it. And lack of well paid work.

The traffic - it's awful. Small, ancient city so just not built for the volume of traffic that uses it, particularly during term-time. During the holidays it's usually absolutely fine. New housing developments being built all the time too, so it's only going to get worse. Everything else, I love, and personally I try to walk as much as possible. It's often quicker and less stressful anyway.

Market Town in Yorkshire. It's beautiful and generally a nice place to live, but my personal bugbears are:

• The playgrounds are always covered in litter and full of teenagers so my kids are too scared to go there.
• The roads are awful, full of potholes. My tyres are always being damaged.
• Any independent shops never last more than 18 months and the only businesses that thrive are charity shops, discount shops and hair dressers.

I live up the road from hiding and pom and where they live is worse than mine.

My local council have botched the refurbishment of a listed Civic Hall and as a result it's been closed for about 3 years.

Traders are going out of business as there is no foot traffic in the surrounding area and we are blighted by road works for a new tram system which has closed pedestrian crossings and pavements as well as screwing up road traffic.

Drugs, beggars, chuggers and closing down shops (I mean, come on, who doesn't have a Starbucks?) mean no one wants to come here.

At least we have a Marks. Walsall's has shut down.

Aspirational village makes for a tiresome school run (and I mean aspirational in the sense of lower mid class trying to sharp elbow themselves upwards: no Sharon just because you drive your Nissan quasqi the five minutes from your house to school, it doesn't mean you're better than everyone else.)

There's a lot of notes: notes left on your windscreen because you've parked in the 'wrong' place, notes put in windows about dog shit etc etc. All a bit busybody sillyness.

The next town over though should be having an upswing with a big project underway. Actually the traffic is horrendous and the county lines thing is getting out of hand, needles all over and can't walk through the Victorian park.

I used to live in/ near Exeter and went back recently - wow, it was absolutely heaving, just unbearable amounts of people, that you couldn't move through the streets.