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Most boring place you’ve lived?

318 replies

laviniaqueenoftheromans · 02/02/2024 21:11

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.

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cheezncrackers · 03/02/2024 10:15

piscofrisco · 03/02/2024 08:59

@JanuarySlog I lived in Toronto for a year 15 years ago. I also found it pretty dull (once you've been up the cn tower and being to Niagara Falls there just wasn't much going on or much sort of atmosphere if you like) I thought it might have improved a bit by now?

Toronto is really dull. Montreal isn't much better.

NewHouseNewMe · 03/02/2024 10:25

A brand new build estate where very quickly parking disintegrated as no-one would use their garages for the purpose they were designed, the promised facilities like transport hubs and shops took years to be built and very strangely everyone was born in the same decade more or less.
I lasted two years.

SOxon · 03/02/2024 10:25

Cheadle Hulme

ALunchbox · 03/02/2024 10:27

I don't think I've ever lived in a dull place but I was lucky enough to have a car. Some of the places I lived in didn't have much by way of public transport and this would really affect one's experience.

1stTimeMama · 03/02/2024 10:27

Cornwall. Not as a whole I suppose, but the town I lived in has nothing there. It's so dull, and all the lifelong residents love it, but it's so depressing.

XVGN · 03/02/2024 10:35

Flatandhappy · 03/02/2024 10:13

Lewes

Provocative! You're just trying to stir up the New Age grouping.

Eyesopenwideawake · 03/02/2024 10:37

Smokedcheesyballs · 02/02/2024 21:56

Spalding

Ditto (actually Gosberton). Whole fucking area is dismal.

BoobyDazzler · 03/02/2024 10:37

AndThatWasNY · 03/02/2024 09:44

Kidlington used to be me and my friends pissed take of where we would end up living when we were middle aged ... One day you will wake up next to an balding fat bloke in Kidlington 😂
Now of course I couldn't afford to live in fecking Witney let alone Kidlington

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I grew up in kidlington and managed to escape. I don’t even like driving through it now, it brings back such hideous memories.

FriNightBlues · 03/02/2024 10:42

Milton Keynes

First job after graduation. Left immediately after my 2 years were up. One of the best days of my life as I drove away from those blimmin roundabouts.

PauliesWalnuts · 03/02/2024 10:45

Derby. Famous for being the only time I ever heard my dad swear (we were driving around the one way system as he dropped me off at college for the first time).

RazzleDazz1e · 03/02/2024 10:45

Southampton

HelpMeGetThrough · 03/02/2024 10:48

Cullompton, in Devon.

Absolute shit hole. Lasted 2 years and bailed.

Newsenmum · 03/02/2024 11:05

KievLoverTwo · 03/02/2024 01:27

Lincolnshire

My OH once took himself off for a trip to the coast. Meant to be a 6ish hour trip.
Arrived back home after 4 hours because the journey was so boring that he couldn't even cope with the return boredom.

This made me chuckle

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 03/02/2024 11:07

Archway (north London) before it was trendy. It depressed the soul.

FlatWhiteExtraHot · 03/02/2024 11:09

localnotail · 02/02/2024 21:49

Northamptonshire. No one knows where it is and its mind numbing. Luckily, did not stay long ))

My son was at university there. I swear it’s 200 miles from everywhere! 😂

Crikeyalmighty · 03/02/2024 11:10

I think this very much depends what you like doing- I like pottering in town, cafes, shopping, cooking , meeting friends for a coffee etc and a nice walk - but to somewhere. I'm not into walking for walking sake, climbing, cycling etc - so find vast swathes of countryside 'boring' - I wouldn't live on Lake District or west wales etc - but I can see for others that would be their ideal. My FIL lives in a village in north Kent in Medway - it's neither pretty nor has good facilities, not even a proper shop but lots of houses and the 1 pub is an absolute grothole- I hate visiting- the nearest semi ok town is 6 miles away and that's not that nice either- it's my very definition of boring. For those who mentioned Kidlington- well you are in Oxford in about 10 minutes even on the bus. I used to live in north Oxford so know it well-

SquashPenguin · 03/02/2024 11:11

Falmouth, Cornwall.

Christ alive.

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 03/02/2024 11:13

FlatWhiteExtraHot · 03/02/2024 11:09

My son was at university there. I swear it’s 200 miles from everywhere! 😂

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Haven't lived there, but this is also true of Aberystwyth. How can I still be driving? Surely I should be in Ireland by now?

memedear · 03/02/2024 11:19

Ohyeahwaitaminute · 03/02/2024 09:12

I think it’s unfair to lump Aldershot and Farnham together.

Aldershot is mainly an ex military area and is a gentrification waiting to happen... It’s pretty multicultural in terms of its residents. It’s very cheap to live there, but excellent train service to London.

Farnham is an old Georgian market town with a thriving university, castle and many live and craft based events. It has some excellent state schools too. It’s hugely popular with families moving out of London, but I guess it’s not THAT exciting if you’re a student.

I think you’re comparing apples and pears!

Well I have lived experience and oh they are racist af over there! They don't like seeing change - Made a mistake studying there! So I know what I'm talking about.

Imbusytodaysorry · 03/02/2024 11:20

saltrock123 · 03/02/2024 06:18

A village in Scotland. Pissed up locals and lots of rain.

Name?

onanotherday · 03/02/2024 11:23

Basingstoke....soulless

TomatoketchupfromMandS · 03/02/2024 11:23

Stevenage or Basingstoke.
My mum grew up in Bedfordshire & couldn’t wait to leave the area.
I share the view about living in the suburbs although we are having to make the move there for practical reasons. At least we won’t be far from London. Totally agree about avoiding the keeping up with the Joneses scene!

Violinist64 · 03/02/2024 11:24

As a child, I grew up in Norfolk, near Norwich and was really happy there. When I was eleven, we moved sixty miles south to a village on the Suffolk/Essex border because of my father changing his job. It was a terrible age to move, added to which I had had a traumatic time a few months previously as I had a major operation. I didn’t fit in, was bullied at school; a school which was nowhere near as good as my excellent Norfolk primary school. It was and is a very pretty village on the edge of Constable country but I have hardly any happy memories of it. Fortunately, we moved again three years later.

Goldenbrowntexturelikesun · 03/02/2024 11:29

Violinist64 · 03/02/2024 11:24

As a child, I grew up in Norfolk, near Norwich and was really happy there. When I was eleven, we moved sixty miles south to a village on the Suffolk/Essex border because of my father changing his job. It was a terrible age to move, added to which I had had a traumatic time a few months previously as I had a major operation. I didn’t fit in, was bullied at school; a school which was nowhere near as good as my excellent Norfolk primary school. It was and is a very pretty village on the edge of Constable country but I have hardly any happy memories of it. Fortunately, we moved again three years later.

I’m pretty sure you are describing the area that I’m still stuck in. Long to move.

Patrickiscrazy · 03/02/2024 11:36

Ynysybwl, Wales. 😖