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?

@adrenalinbrush
Are you Northampton too? That's exactly how I feel about it.

Lack of diversity. I just spent a month working in a city on international group and to come back to our Middle England Tory heartland village depresses me. I'd so love to move.

in a city with an international group of people is what I meant. Not sure where brain blipped off to then.

London zone 5, fairly deprived area. I dislike the level of violent crime & open drug use. A man was stabbed outside my flat earlier this year (knife deaths in the borough are one of the highest in London), I’ve witnessed mass fights/youths running battles with police several times from my bedroom windows, regularly see open dealing in the streets, people using drugs in the alley leading to our flats. Last night was woken up by arguments spilling out of the local pub yelling death threats because someone dealing drugs had brought social around. The standard of living for many people around here is quite frankly appalling from what I can see. Fly tipping junk and bin bags on every corner is the norm, the council just sends a truck around a few times a week rather than do anything proactive about it (probably can’t afford to).

When I first moved here I really liked the diversity - that there are so many immigrant communities settled locally so we have a huge variety of for example food shops - Turkish and Caribbean bakeries, Nigerian and Somali mini-markets, huge Turkish and Asian markets as well. I could buy pretty much any ingredient you could think of from anywhere in the world within a few minutes walk. Anglican Church on one side of the road and west African evangelical/gospel on the other. However the longer I’ve lived here the more I see the various communities are not integrated at all, we co-exist in the same space but not really getting on together. Everyone is struggling too much I think. Once we can afford to buy somewhere, we’ll move, we won’t stay here.

On the upside 30-40 mins on public transport and I can be in central London, 10 minutes drive in the other direction and proper forest/country parks etc.

Not necessarily a dislike but my town is weirdly white. Most people are blonde and about 95% of people are white. I’m just really not used to it.

@hittheroadjack1 and @helpmeiamatoad

Worried about how I ranted at a woman yesterday http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/thirtydayss_only/3681401-Worried-about-how-I-ranted-at-a-woman-yesterday

Oh and everyone wears joules. Why can’t they have picked sea salt instead?

@dray9925 there are proposals to build up to 3000 new homes, a school, GP surgery and travellers site at the cost of something like £1.7 million (we have another one close by and they refuse to use it because it's 'too expensive' to stay there ) - on land between two villages, pretty much all the green spaces between the two. The places we grew up in won't be the same much longer and as for the congestion ....

@BlockedAndDeleted

Worried about how I ranted at a woman yesterday http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/thirtydayss_only/3681401-Worried-about-how-I-ranted-at-a-woman-yesterday

I love my village - only thing I hate is property prices which means adult DC either can’t move out or have to live further away

I do like where I live now, small town but it's growing so we have lots of NIMBYs. I'm not keen on them because we desperately need affordable housing.

Complete lack of diversity, I miss mixing with other cultures locally. There does appear to be a lot of inbreeding locally though and that makes for interesting reading on the estate fb group. There's a lot of thinly veiled racism on there that we have to call out.

Medium sized village in Cumbria.

I will never, ever be considered a local because I wasn't born here and don't have three generations of family from here.

It's very Brexity and very very insular and inward looking. We want to move but struggling to afford anywhere else in the area.

Terrible traffic because everyone wants to drive (badly) everywhere.

@longwayoff yes they used to. Rows and rows of terraced houses. We would put our bins out on morning of collection early, although some people left them out all the time. People would come down the ally's rip open the bin bags and throw out in to the ally what they didn't want. You'd then have to wait 2 days plus for council to come clean up the mess left behind.

I'm in Hong Kong.

I hate the sky high rental prices for shoebox size apartments.

It's quite cliquey here also.

But currently we're not loving the police brutality against human rights protestors. Also the protestors turned rioters who are making our city very unsafe ATM. Sad times.

Police are now spot checking school kids. 😔

Man United, annoying screaming students, tourists who stand in the middle of the pavement and take photos when you're trying to get a train, rain, getting a tram when United/City are at home, neo-Nazi stickers popping up on my local bus stops, the hipsterism of Didsbury

@Motheroflittlepeople, bloody hell! Maybe I do live in a southern bubble, I'm amazed, never heard of that before. Desperate.

Too many new houses, everywhere, the last bus is 7.15 pm so if you can't drive you are screwed.

my neighbours who think they own the street, and get aggressive when pulled on their behaviour

Brisbane. The heat in summer.

I'm in Melbourne and the public transport could be better.

Hate hate hate the graffiti you can see from the train, as the taggers vandalise every back fence that faces the tracks. Bloody horrible. Makes the Melb look like a shanty town.

I love my city, but I cannot stand the races. Feels like every bloody weekend from April to October. The whole city is taken over by thousands of horrendously drunk knobheads in ridiculous outfits causing havoc for locals and wasting police and ambulance time, usually cos they're passed out in a pool of their own vomit.

God forbid you should try and drive down a road any time around the last race or the two hours afterwards. Incredible abuse towards drivers as entitled pissheads stream away from the racecourse, blithely unaware that they've stepped onto a busy main road without looking and you've had to slam on to avoid hitting them. And the traffic caused by it all is horrific.

the local facebook pages, militants anti keeping your dog in a car

Racists, people that think everything was better 50 years ago, BNP voters (SE London)

Nothing. I love it. It's a large city in northern England. Best place ever