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?

Small coastal town in East Kent. I used to despair of the never ending Tory grip on local politics, but the Green Party swept into power at the recent local town council elections.

Other than that, it's the lack of properly decent restaurants and pubs. Shallow I know! There was one lovely independent pub with truly awesome beers, but they have now banned all kids due to idiots dropping in from the beach and letting their kids run riot in the extremely small beer garden and smashing pints of aforementioned awesome beers with footballs

It's a generally well off town with a growing DFL population - not sure why it doesn't attract more interesting restaurants etc!

I wish public transport was better.

Hen parties. They take over the city centre on Saturdays in the summer, falling over drunk by 2pm.

The terrible secondary school options.

I've been here six months but was in the N.W up in the hills before this. Even going down to Ullapool the gulls were there, but more chilled out somehow...

I live in a naice market town in the NE. It's a lovely place and 99% of the people are nice. However, there is a lot of snobbery here and an element of hostility towards incomers.

I don't you spend the rest of my life here

Hacked at leylandii everywhere. Planted in the 80s and 90s as the new houses were being built. They have grown into ugly walls of green, turning gardens into dungeons surrounded by high walls of dying off conifer badly trimmed as far as the homeowner can reach. Then the top left to grow like and old man’s nasal hair
I can’t stand them. Just driving around you see them in gardens and they are so ugly.

London. I love almost everything, especially in my neighbourhood, but I hate the overcrowded public transport. Being on maternity leave has been bliss for that reason.

The people. Rude, arrogant and xenophobic. It's horrible actually.

A tiny one as I 99% love it - Brighton.

Both the parking and the buses are expensive, and it's also really hilly so you rarely want to walk back home even if you walk to town/the beach.

Town in the East Midlands. It has all the secondary schools in it for all of the kids from surrounding villages which means come 3:00pm the whole town comes to a standstill as there’s only main road through the centre. There are two GP surgeries for 22,000 people so it’s at least a five week wait for an appointment and yet our town council seems to think what we really need is a cinema. Everybody seems to know each other so it’s hard for outsiders to make friends.

We have just moved out of our town for the reasons we hated...

Litter everywhere because people would go through your bins.
Feral kids causing mayhem, throwing eggs and stones at moving cars. Smashing glass all over the children's parks. Damaging cars. Banging on doors and windows as they run away from police which surprisingly they never could catch them.
Lots of burglaries.
Used drug needles just laying around the streets.

We've only been moved two months and although it's technically still our town as we moved to a village outside I've heard it's getting worse with muggings and such.

North London-price of housing is the obvious one. We're Ok in that we're of an age who bought when it was relatively affordable and have since cleared our mortgage. However I do worry about how London's going to cope in the future, as I think the house prices are going to mean essential workers-and I mean bin men, cleaners, care staff, not just nurses, teachers etc-wont be able to live here any more. 40 years back, there may well have been council houses for them, but not now.

Public transport is good but hell on earth in rush hours!

Otherwise it's ok, plenty to see and do.

I love my town (Welsh coast) but I don't love the number of holiday homes here and in the surrounding villages. It's really sad that the locals can't afford to buy because half the streets are bought up by rich people who use their properties a few times a year. The winter can be really hard, because there's no-one around- they only want to come in the summer. It's immoral really.

I live in the South, there is so much that is great in the town I live in but there seems to be increasing anti-social behaviour and violence, it's getting pretty bad.

@Rosalisa very envious of you! Last November we drove from the NE up to John O'Groats and all the way along the coast down to Ullapool to catch the ferry to Lewis, the scenery is like no other plus we had fantastic sunny weather. On the way back we came via Alness.

We try to do a road trip twice a year (off season) in our own country and our next one is a bit closer(ish) to home in the Kinloch Rannoch area. We're doing the Enchanted Forest in Pitlochry this year, can't wait. husband says he gets just as excited touring our own country as he does going somewhere exotic .

I actually love my town and think I've stumbled upon the perfect place in the UK.

Only downside is there's quite a lot of souped-up boyracer cars driving around late at night with the popcorn exhaust. And expensive house prices.

But that's literally it.

I dislike the people. They have access to some of the best resources in the country (schools, 45 mins to London, jobs, Universities, healthcare, nice place to live) yet they are the most ignorant, self entitled, horrible and uneducated people I have ever come across.

As soon as my DC leave home I am off back up north.

Oh and mine is Hertfordshire. Probably my favourite home county. Perfectly located on the sliding scale of rough -> snooty.

People go through your bins?

York (inside the city walls) - drunk people walking up/down our street every night singing, shouting, screaming, talking loudly and (most annoyingly) stealing our milk

I like my town, I’ve lived in a number of very unpleasant locations and some lovely ones around the country.. Only downside here is that a small semi costs around £300k+, so my children are unable to buy a home.
And I’d like a river.

It's very small minded and not so thinly veiled racist. An old bus station that had been condemned and was once called 'The Mouth of Hell' was demolished and people were in uproar, calling it a 'town treasure' They despise change, they toddle along in their own bubbles. The comments on the local newspaper are always predictably nimby and ignorant.
Agh. I hadn't realised how much I dislike it!

@Moondancer73 sounds like where I'm from, I live just outside the city and it really is perfect no complaints but go two minuets down the road and there's at least 3 new housing developments. Council home waiting's lists are miles long but a new student accommodation block of flats has been put right in the centre outside dps work.

Think it was last year they finished the NDR and it's constant complaints on Facebook and loads of accidents that upset me

The number of snobby school mums at pickup. Identically dressed, identical cars

Beige 3/4 length chinos, breton top and a 4x4? (This is literally every mum in my town lol)