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?

And people that says "he's" instead of "his"

Too much crap graffiti. Where we live has an internationally famous graffiti festival, so you get incredible designs, BUT, this seems to inspire wanky people with spray cans to go around tagging people's houses and walls, shops. The problem is getting worse and I feel so sorry for people whose houses are endlessly covered in squiggly crap.

Dire transport and traffic always gridlocked. The council seems to relish digging up major roads for years on end and we have some of the worst traffic in Europe.

But, there's loads of amazing independent shops and restaurants, nice sense of community and it's a vibrant place, so not all bad.

I hate my village. Just today I tried to take a picture of someone’s lovely horses and got verbally attacked by a madwoman.

The druggies.

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.

Sounds just like my town, but we don't have the Races - it's just the local dross spending their dole money!

Funny

The people who were born here, grew up here and think it's great that their DC are going on the same school trips they did when they went to the exact same school themselves.

Oops

I meant I hate my village. Just today I tried to take a picture of someone’s lovely horses and got verbally attacked by a madwoman was funny.

Vandalism of anything nice, almost no trees or parks, gangs of young lads in tracksuits, pawn shops, poundland and charity shops are the only shops that last, the pollution is terrible so we all has asthma, people shouting up and down the high street, not being able to go out after dark as it's not safe, worrying about your kids playing outside because of broken glass and needles, no-one stays as soon as they can afford to move out.

City centre is lovely though but I can rarely get out of my suburb.

I live in a an small town on the outskirts of a large city.

Like:
The pedestrian village centre
Lovely coffee shops
Welcoming to outsiders
Great community spirit
Schools
Direct train to city only takes 20mins

Dislike:
The rain
Not being near the sea
House prices (not as ridiculous as SE though)

Beggars drug addicts who actively approach you.

It would be a lot better without the appalling facebook community groups gah, but I can't resist.

The seasonal rain and humidity.

Also the crowds.

The converted VERY VOCAL new age doughnuts, adamant that a crystal up your foof and essential oil douche will cure all ills

The ridiculous housing moans - 'life is so unfair, my child will never be able to buy here, groan, stomp, whinge'- no, they won't, because you moved to one of the most expensive villages in the south east to put them through a ludicrously expensive private school, but get all shirty when any developments are planned as they'll 'spoil the village', so there is a finite amount of housing stock and it's at a premium because it can be, as wallys like you are prepared to pay for it 🤦🏻‍♀️

The dick that walks along the front of all our houses, pulling up weeds from the churchyard and throwing them into my front garden. Just WHY?!?

Thank you. That helped.

It's too congested and only going to get worse when new properties are built as everyone will own a car.
Getting anywhere is a nightmare; the roadworks are relentless.
It's a nice town but being ruined.

SE here , pretty little seaside town
The traffic is so heavy , it gets grid locked , I feel sorry for the emergency responders
The council wanting to build on every available space even historical areas aren't off limit

Historic university town but hated by local councillors as they live in grotty ex mining villages so are determined to bring the city to their level of dilapidation. It's like living in a building site and the uni and church leaders all have elegant houses which go with the job so don't care that houses are bought up as student lets and that they are left empty half the year. Then the okay yah lot arrive and block up the pavements . Grump over.

Very historic northern uni city. Absolutely love it - apart from a) the traffic congestion (medieval infrastructure not suited to today's traffic) and b) the bloody parking! Costs an arm and a leg for even an hour.

So I rarely venture into the city centre and leave it to the tourists. Thank heaven for out of town shopping centres with their free parking!

Crap public transport. Lack of galleries and museums (apart from the big one that cost a bomb and never changes) The hunting brigade (both grouse shooting and the blokes with whippets and lamps). Tractor grid lock on the roads in and around.

Race days. I avoid the centre of town on race days as do most people I know. People get dressed up in cheap wedding outfits, get absolutely shitfaced and cause hell from before lunchtime. I saw a lady pull her tampon out and throw it a bunch of lads a few weeks ago. Fucking disgusting.
Half of them don't even make it to the race course, they either brawl amongst themselves or pass out on a bench after pissing themselves in the street. And we have a plethora of actual tramps for that.

The guts of SE London. Love most things about it, hate that the new developments round us provide no true social housing. I’m not a bleeding heart type but it’s egregious.

The corrupt local council; the amount of new builds; the fact that the corrupt local council sold off the building which housed a great youth club and community cafe to a housing developer; the fact that the kids are getting more badly behaved and visibly less healthy; the increasing problem with drugs; the massive increase in traffic.

It’s a beautiful town, but it feels as though the community is slowly unravelling.

LooBrush Ascot?

The only thing I hate about the village is the infestations of MAMILs from outside.

The people