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.

Did you visit the Talisker distillery?

or some people, everything you have listed is boring AF

Slough just reminds me of the office. As in Ricky Gervais not my work 😂

I chose some random actives. I loathe shopping and would never go rollerblading but my point is that, whatever you want to do, it's on your doorstep.

St. Albans.

@PauliesWalnuts I lived in Derby over 20 years ago if you were there at that time did you ever go to the indie club bluenote I think it was called?

I think you're letting Slough off too lightly. The same is true of Windsor, Winchester and loads of other towns close to London, but they still have a bit of life of their own too.

A bit of life, presumably.

It's nice, but dim.

Telford

Was going to say the same about NZ. It's really boring. No doubt there are a lot of beaches and the countryside is beautiful.

Guernsey, the most exciting thing to happen was the Guernsey Press printing that Mr & Mrs Le Sauvage were moving and someone else had their garden gnome stolen.

I'd throw in Australia too, if you're not into beaches. You can do the non-beach highpoints of Sydney in 2 hours. Darwin? 20 minutes with time for a flat white en-route.

Australia does have some wonderful countryside - Blue Mountains, Kakadu, Margaret River etc - but they are inconveniently far from each other: you're not going to live in easy reach of more than one. And the suburbs of Australia have to be some of the ugliest and dullest on the planet - Porpoise Spit (Muriel's Wedding) is pinpoint accurate.

Rugby. Should be a thriving town, what with the train line to London, grammar schools and a bit of history. Sadly, they don't make the best of any of it and it's dull as ditchwater. Couldn't wait to leave.

Aberdeen - get the weather out of the way freezing with a biting wind that'll whip your make up off the second you open the door. But the real issue is the culture - obsessed with consumer shit, brand labels, it's Essex on steroids.

Then there's the violence, Friday night town is heaving with football thugs and men off the rigs looking for a good time ie getting shit faced and having a punch up. There's a lot of money around for range rovers, tat and drugs, that rubs alongside extreme poverty. But the whole city is affected by poverty of mind, designer sportswear aside, it's a cultural vacuum.

Maybe what I've described isn't classed as boring but something else. I had a fairly visceral reaction to the place. Sorry Aberdonians.

My folks owned a house there circa 17 or 18 years ago that they rented out. My impression at the time was although it has a thriving arts scene, the locals were climbing the walls with boredom, desperate to get out.

(They also owned an art gallery and friends lived there, so we had lots of interaction)

Switzerland - it's soulless and the people I worked with had no sense of humour (apparently a common trait in the Swiss). I missed the usual banter of the British office.

"How is Egham boring? You're right on the Thames. Take up rowing as a sport or walk along the paths"

Fucking pmsl 🤣 how dare you? It's not boring, you can WALK ON A PATH! 🤣🤣

The spelling isn't boring

Edmonton Green is definitely a shithole (astonishingly so). But I wouldn't call it boring or lifeless or lacking in slightly scary vitality. Yes, it might make you question every life choice you ever made, but it wouldn't sap your will to live like some of the dull, dull places listed here.

I literally took a photo of it because I couldn't believe the state of it. If it were truly boring I wouldn't have thought to do that.

How’s the underground art, music and queer scene?

Isle of fucking Wight

I did. Also Ritzys on a Thursday night sometimes. But it was 30+ years ago, I’d hit my late teens in Manchester at the height of acid house, the Boardwalk, the Hacienda etc, and so Derby nightlife was quite a comedown. We lived in the red light district for a while and used to make the ladies of the night a cuppa if it was cold - that’s as exciting as things got.

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I live not too far from Edmonton Green (ie close enough to have driven over to explore the "shopping mall" when I moved to where I am now... biggest mistake I've ever made), can confirm it is indeed a shithole. I've never even looked in the pub INSIDE the mall but I just know 100% they are racists, last bastion and all that. Only thing I liked about Edmonton was the Wilko and I didn't like Wilko enough to ever go back to Edmonton.

I haven't properly lived there but visited many, many times as OH is from there: Ormskirk. The only interesting thing about Ormskirk was the Blockbuster. I hear it's gotten better and trendier now, but it was so, so dull every time I went. Couldn't wait to leave my in-laws' through no fault of theirs 😅

Steyning.
There’s just no place more depressing. I cried pretty much everyday while I was there

Oh wow, I always thought it was a lively place as well