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.

I hardly live in an area of outstanding natural beauty myself (outskirts of London), but I have family in deepest darkest Lincolnshire and omg... Their house is nice and the town normal enough to spend no more than 20 mins in, but I feel strangely trapped there and the drive in has an almost apocalyptic feel. You know, the kind of apocalypse where every point of interest or natural feature has been razed to the ground by armies of cabbages? That.

Norwich - safe, comfortable, but more like a big town than a city. Got sick of seeing the same faces all the time. It's also described as the graveyard of ambitions - where folk abandon their dreams just because it's easier/comfortable to stay than move away!

Sandhurst.

I’m surprised to see Leicester on here. It’s not boring!

Some parts are a bit of a shit hole, yes. I feel allowed to say that as I am from Leicester-the same way I can complain about my dog, but am mightily offended if someone else does!

I’ve moved around, and returned many times.

I love Spalding but I can see why people think it's boring at the same time.

Absolutely agree.

Egham, Surrey. Just ridiculously boring.

What you're describing isn't boring though. In fact, most of the posts on here are not describing boring places. You might dislike a place because it's rundown, feels soulless, you have bad memories there, it's full of people you don't connect with, there's a lack of shops, there's a racist undertone etc etc but none of that is boring.

I agree with you

How is Egham boring? You're right on the Thames. Take up rowing as a sport or walk along the paths. You're next door to Windsor great park. Go rollerblading/running/walking. You're surrounded by nice pubs, bars, shops, restaurants. It's an affluent areas, so there's no end of job possibilities. There are fast trains in to London. I honestly don't know how you can describe it as boring. What are you wanting from a place?

Can’t remember ever being bored 🤷🏻‍♀️I’m an over-thinker and I just go into daydream mode 😏

Falmouth,Cornwall
WHAT!
How long ago was this?!
The nightlife and culture is amazing for a small town, greatly aided by the presence of the art college and University. Not to mention all the standard outdoorsy, beachy stuff.

Sutton Coldfield. My god it was boring. Completely soulless and full of nimbys. Hated it.

I agree with everything you said and I maintain my answer: Egham is incredibly boring and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. Other than the students, which are great, that place is just extremely wealthy and racist people who hate anyone who’s under 40. There’s a lot of great places sorrounding it, and that’s why I moved there and I’m no longer in Egham. That being said, I’m really happy you like it and I hope it remains that way.

I've only ever lived in London, but the worst area was Edmonton Green. We had a council flat there, so little choice over where we could live. Grey and miserable. We used the opportunity of cheap rent to save up to buy elsewhere and have never regretted it.

First job after graduating was the Civil Service when the HQ was at Alencon Link. I got sent on a training course in Basingstoke and it was the longest week of my life. It rained every day (something to do with it being between hills that trap the rain - and I went to a Welsh university, so I knew about rain 😃).

@AndThatWasNY I am BAFFLED at how expensive it is now. I suppose it's because of the station.

Personally I'd pay 400k not to live on an 80s estate in Kidlington...

Mine was south-east. More dead than crime-ridden.

Southampton - has nothing going for it.

Slough. There’s hardly anywhere nice to go out and nothing nice to see (unless you go into Windsor). It’s too close to London for anyone to bother investing in the social scene; anyone who wants to go anywhere interesting just gets on the fast train to Paddington .

Welwyn Garden City in the 1980s .

I’d say being somewhere run down with poor facilities that feels soulless and where you don’t connect with anyone is pretty boring.

What would YOU say makes a place boring if none of that qualifies?

That's good. Cos he certainly did not!

Rugby. Soulless with nothing much of interest.

for some people, everything you have listed is boring AF