To not think Aylesbury is the worst town in the UK.

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I mean. It’s not the best place in the UK, but hardly the worst!

www.countryliving.com/uk/homes-interiors/property/a38671598/worst-places-to-live-uk/

I grew up in Oxford, I’d say blackbird leys and Witney are worse.

I’ve visited Luton and driven through Slough.

I’ve lived in Aylesbury for 12 years, and other than the traffic, it’s not that much of a bad place! Having read an article about someone stabbed in MK recently, it got me wondering why on Earth it’s so awful!

And of course I understand you can and do get antisocial behaviour anywhere

Witney is lovely, I lived in Ducklington for years and l loved shopping in Witney. My parents had a pub there as well.
Don't know much about Aylesbury but I love the Bowie statue. My husband has his name on the plaque

They totally screwed up there. It is, without question, Harlow.

I grew up there

They also voted Stroud as the best place to live and that place is seriously weird.

People there have a weird relationships with the pavements and roads. (Not in a sexual way, just randomly walking into roads/traffic without consideration for their own safety.)

And it has a weird vibe.

That said, the market town I live in was recently voted as an ‘up and coming place to live’. And, no. It’s perfectly pleasant, but when you have a whole country to choose from it shouldn’t have made the cut.

Northampton is the arsehole of the country.

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Swindon is pretty grim.

Peterborough topped a similar list a while ago, which puzzled me. It's a bit grotty in parts and hardly a cultural hub, but the worst place to live? Nah.

Luton is an absolute unadulterated shit hole. There are no ‘nice parts’. It makes Aylesbury look like the Cotswolds. Anyone that doesn’t think Luton is the number 1 worst town hasn’t been to Luton.

@UsernameInTheTown

Whoever compiled this list has clearly never been to Northamptonshire. Kettering, Wellingborough, Corby, not to mention Northampton. Turd holes. Utter turd holes.

I was just about to mention Wellingborough! What an absolute HOLE.

@SuziLikeSuziQ

I'm always amazed Huntingdon doesn't come up on these kind of lists. Even when I was growing up and it was a shithole, it never appeared. No idea if it's any better now - I haven't been back in about a decade.

There is nothing wrong with Huntingdon. It is a lovely place to live- good schools, transport links and lovely riverside properties. I've lived in Luton - now that is an awful place to live.

@Howyoualldoworkme

Witney is lovely, I lived in Ducklington for years and l loved shopping in Witney. My parents had a pub there as well. Don't know much about Aylesbury but I love the Bowie statue. My husband has his name on the plaque

Oooh which one??

Leicester has some interesting bits but how does someone design a city THAT badly though?
You are right about Wellingborough - most of the South Midlands east of Oxford suffer from the London Effect.

Just down the road from Aylesbury in a naice little town. We had a stabbing here last year and it was very shocking (but the drug culture behind it really wasn’t that big a shock).

I thought this post was going to be about the tik tok that’s been doing the rounds over the weekend.

Now that has me proper laughing.

‘Who opens a new Wimpy!’

I can't believe I've got to the end of this thread and no one has mentioned the shit hole that is Harlow!

@Singlebutmarried

That Tik Tok had myself and my friend in stitches.

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They totally screwed up there. It is, without question, Harlow.

Was going to say this too! Although Basildon gives it a run for its money.

Corby is fab- £2.10 for a pint on Monday night. Cheap housing, real community, countryside and thatched cottages within minutes
I travel the Uk for work
Blackpool
Grimsby
Scunthorpe
Reading
Boston
Grantham (very run down)
Loads more but not Corby-love it and spend 20 nights a year there

@painauraisin

They totally screwed up there. It is, without question, Harlow.

Was going to say this too! Although Basildon gives it a run for its money.

Missed this!!!! It is, without question, Harlow. The end.

Aylesbury is fine. Lovely surrounding countryside, good rail link to London, good schools, SMH is fine, not the best but not the worst either.
Some of the two centre near the theatre and cinema is nice.

@UsernameInTheTown

Whoever compiled this list has clearly never been to Northamptonshire. Kettering, Wellingborough, Corby, not to mention Northampton. Turd holes. Utter turd holes.

Corby is on there! But it's only number 7, which makes me think they must have paid it a flying visit.

@IDontHaveAnOutingHobby ah, I grew up near there but maybe it's mellowed

Aylesbury isn't that bad. Some bits are nice. Dunstable is worse (but saved by the Downs). But oh my god, Harlow...

We need to create the MN definitive list. Many strong opinions here.

I grew up in Aylesbury, on an ex-council estate because it was all my parents could afford in Bucks having relocated from Cornwall (Dad in the RAF) - my mum had aspirations of country cottages and was sorely disappointed.

Over the years we lived there, it got worse and worse. I left to go to Uni and never returned, and my mum moved to the country a few years after that.