Most boring place you’ve lived?

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I’ve lived all over. London, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Cambridge, and Singapore and Chicago.

The most boring place I lived was Cardiff. Lovely city, but lived in the bay in the redevelopment for 6 months and couldn’t wait to leave.

It’s the most boring place I’ve lived. The other places I have lived are London, Newcastle, Durham, Glasgow, Madrid, Old Cassop, Aberdeen and now a village in Speyside. So from huge cities to a tiny hamlet.

Edinburgh to me was like a very picturesque theme park. Kind of predictable and a bit parochial although pretty. But something vital has just about vanished.

That vitality might be there in pockets, I did catch glimpses of it but they were fleeting. I suspect it’s got something to do with how expensive it is, how steeper in history it is. But for me it was a bit caught in aspic.

I did spend a lot of time there a few decades earlier and found it different then. So I concede that I might be jaded or whatever. But I think it’s got more to do with the real life has been largely ripped out of the centre by the proliferation of air bnbs and so on.

The boring part stems for me largely I think for me from the predictability. There is the ever expanding cycle of various festivals which grown increasingly disconnected from the people who live there and put huge pressures on the city’s infrastructure and population. Something broke.

There’s also an element of it being so convinced it’s a cultural gem that it somehow just isn’t. Like someone who is so convinced they are really good in bed that they lose the spark and chemistry element.

It’s got an ersatz quality to it now.

Same.Awful place and I lived there for 20years!

Nottingham! Still there unfortunately

Winnipeg.
Just...don't. Freezing depressing place. And the only time it gets warm in mid summer the mosquitoes will devour you.

I'd probably also say London. It takes ages to get anywhere, everything is always really busy (and expensive) and I found it was very difficult to make friends, people didn't seem interested.

Norfolk

I think you’re comparing apples and pears!

Apples and pears, surely that's cockney?

Leaving aside the possible counter-arguments, is that 'boring' though?

This thread made me laugh. I live and work from home in central Brighton and a man has just ridden down the middle of the road outside my house on a skateboard, wearing speedos and playing fraggle rock ok a ghetto blaster. You can call Brighton a lot of things but boring it ain't.

However, just a few miles up the road to Worthing and the closer you get the more boring it becomes.

Ah Northwich, my hometown 😂 although I no longer live there!!

Where do you live that makes London seem boring?

I thought the cutesy village outside Banbury where I used to live was the dullest spot on earth until my best friend moved to Daventry. That really is the pits.

LOL! I wish that happened in Worksop 😂

This thread made me laugh. I live and work from home in central Brighton and a man has just ridden down the middle of the road outside my house on a skateboard, wearing speedos and playing fraggle rock ok a ghetto blaster.

I will have both that image and that tune in my head all day now 😆

Oh yeah. We live in Farnborough. Seriously boring. But we've done it for more than 40 years now. Nothing happens here. Boring can be good.

DH's nan lived there years ago and he and his siblings often joke about how utterly boring it was, flat as a pancake! Never been myself.

Lol at the people who commented London, Singapore & Edinburgh. Jeez, there’s no pleasing some people!

Actually I can slightly understand Singapore (especially if the poster has only ever lived in other global cities/ expat hubs). It is very very small and you're in the position where the city is also the country. It is a very convenient and pleasant enough place to live, especially with a young family, but it is a bit one dimensional. It would drive me nuts living somewhere where there's basically no actual "countryside". Hong Kong for the win where city (sort of) states are concerned.

Yes, there's a reason we called it "Singabore" when we lived there. Sterile, soul-less, exceptionally horrible weather as high humidity all the time. On a lesser scale there is no service. We used to have dinner and specify that we wanted to eat at the same time. If not (and even when we did specify this) food would just arrive willy nilly. They had NO idea.

Lerwick - Shetland Islands

Horrible horrible weather, boring drunk people doing boring drunk things at all times of the day and night, insular, narrow mindedness, drugs....

Can I say Glasgow. I had a contract job there and TBH I was lonely, but there’s nothing worse than being lonely in a city.
I mean there was nice parks and museums and stuff. I never have any desire to go back. Whereas I was also in Dundee and Aberdeen and I’m interested do go back and see them again.

someone mentioned NZ and I had a colleague who saved for a massive once in a lifetime/travelling in a camper van holiday for 3 weeks. When she came back she didn’t dare say to her husband she thought it was really boring.

Try the outlying villages if you want to know what boredom feels like! A bus trip to Hemel was genuinely the height of excitement.

On a related note, I can't believe people think Luton and even St Albans are boring. I suppose they are if you're comparing them with central London, but compared to their rural hinterlands the thrill is almost too much to bear!

Never move to rural eastern France. 😂

I hope you don't mean Strasbourg! I loved that place .

Although thinking about it, that's probably not considered rural.