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.

Agreed, I lived in a village in West berks, it was soooo utterly boring. When I'd see a kid or teenager (rare), i'd really pity them, poor sods.

Winchester really isn’t a reasonable point of comparison though. It’s a very attractive city, full of history, and is over an hour from London. Slough is just a crappy commuter town with cheap office space and a good train connection.

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

It is, it's fabulous. I know someone who lived there that did less in her 8 months there than I did in 2 weeks. She went to Clarke Quay and Chymes a lot but had never heard of Pulau Ubin 🤣

I remember visiting a friend in Stratford upon Avon. She’d moved to follow her dream after getting a job at the RSC theatre. Her teens hated it because other than the theatre, there wasn’t anything happening and nothing for teens. I was surprised.

No idea how anyone could find London dull. Egham I get though as I went to uni there and we spent most our student loan travelling until London for nightlife outside the uni bars.

The Wilko is gone . But you can still see bats flying around the shopping centre in broad daylight, plus the library isn't bad and you can get Turkish-delight twists, cannoli and a cup of sweetcorn. Also I take my elderly neighbour there because the pet shop has a parrot expert, so it is probably more useful than the average high street now.

I love how offended people are getting when their beloved town is described as
boring 🤣 I also find egham boring fwiw and that’s ok!

Witney isn’t much better tbf 😂😂

@maddiemookins16mum It has a Waitrose! Positively glamorous compared to Kidlington.

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Crewkerne has got a Waitrose, so it cannot be considered a marker of quality.

Bicester. Total shithole, nothing but barber shops.

Melton Mowbray.

When did you live in Singapore? We found Singapore to be a lot of fun, always something to do and def a lot of soul. You want to talk soulless go to Dubai, that place is horrid.

Well, yes, but someone else said Luton was boring and that's where they film 24 Hours in Police Custody!

Another vote for Northamptonshire

Hmm. Bit of a random anecdote about Luton but I worked in Watford for a while and a colleague from Luton proudly told me she'd slept with most of the local football team.

So either Luton's not boring at all or it's SO boring people go to extremes.

"Bicester. Total shithole, nothing but barber shops."

Did you miss the turn off for Bicester shopping village? 🤣

Totally Kidlington. I didn’t grow up there my Mum did and swore never to return. Loads of fantastic places fairly close without the delights of kidlington

Bournemouth in the late 90s. Grim.

Winchester and Guildford. The students make both places a bit more lively, but when they’re gone it’s so dull.

Frome

Hemel Hempstead. It's a glorified corridor.

Trowbridge

It's not my hometown. I live in the North.

I deserve that! I worded it badly. I just meant that living with a river right next to you affords you all kinds of opportunities to spend time on or around the water.