Best and Worst Places to live - anyone watching?

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What do you reckon?

I like living in a multicultural, busy, vibrant city myself. But Hackney will probably be last again because it's got too many immigrants or something...

All the best places are probably v nice but zzzzzzzzz...

(Speaking as a resident of no7 Worst: Islington)

I think its a load of poo

& how crap was Kirstie's sister?!!
I think Phil & K's natural chemistry got them through that, though you could tell K was bricking it...

The programe was no good live and dosen't need a 90 minutes slot. I quite like location location but that twas pants...they seemed stilted and Sophie has Kelly Brooks' natural slick presenting skills......

for anyone that can be bothered here is the list

Apparently Middlesbrough was the worst place to live, I grew up there until I was 20 and erm no comment really tis pretty shit but it had it's good points.

Didn't Edinburgh win?

I live in Scotland, but wouldn't ever want to live in Edinburgh. A lovely city, but not to live in.

What a load of old bollix. the facts would make a reasonably good newspaper feature or maybe even a 30 minute programme but it was really badly done. It was stilted and badly produced and kirsties sister was just rude to her interviewees.

Carmenere, was Edinburgh meant to be the best place to live in??

How do they justify their findings? Just wondering, as according to the link given, my county had not been voted for. But it is a lovely place to live, very quiet, very little crime and absolutely beautiful. So wonder what their criterias are and wonder where they get their votes.

They had loads of criteria.
Prices
Crime
Education
Green credentials
Amenities
Other stuff I can't remember.

my town got 5/5 stars rated in top 20 seaside towns in uk.

This is absolute crap.

We live in one if the most beautiful counties of Scotland, but because it is the smallest in Scotland, it has had, as a result, the fewest votes. This absolutely does not not make it the wost place to live in Britain however. We have virtually no crime, beautiful scenery, very good schools (although my girls are HE'd) and is a lovely place to live. I wouldn't wish to live anywhere else.

My town (not mentioned) got 5/5 ahead of Guildford which is close to where I used to live and was rated No. 12 and only 3/5, so how does that work out then?

and where was harrogate? we were second last year i do recall..........

The presenting made me cringe....and I do love phil and kirsty.

Edinburgh is lovely, I agree - but what about its horrendous drug problem & that constant icy wind off the Firth of Forth?!

& have these people never watched Rebus??

i love it - but then i am in edinburgh!

I live in Middlesbrough (there I've said it.) and I love it here, it's got it's grim points,yes, but I've been to some far nastier places. Dh and I had a chat about this the other night and basically we can't see the point to it, it's just damaging to the areas voted worst and the areas voted best will already be doing just fine. I didn't see the programme and don't have any particular wish to, but I'm sure that they won't have shown any of the nice aspects of our town.

im in middlesbrough too!..it DOES have lots of problems (drugs/unemployment/crime etc) but i do NOT believe it is worse than most other palces..it showed the most run down horrible areas on this town, not where i live, or acklam, marton, nunthorpe which would have totally changed the veiw!, we dont all live in boarded up ex crack houses my dd's school is absolutely fantabulous and she is doing so well..we have beautiful parks, good shopping, lovely resteraunts and nice bars, great uni and where i live in particular, there is so much development going on (already nice here though), im astounded, new homes, apartments, multi million pound new college being built not to far away.
im not 'outraged' just think like with everything these days its the way they WANT to portray it..clever editing!
like theyve just said on tfm, london has more gun/knife crimes/deaths, more terrorism attacks, more homlessness etc, but was all that mentioned???Nope!

Well said missinvisible, are you new to MN we tried to organise a mini-meet up a while ago, but I had a minor flounce and wasn't sure how it turned out! Do you like living in Middlesbrough? I do, I was brought up in Redcar and I'm really enjoying Middlesbrough life, our fave places being the museums and parks! Have yet to experience Mima I have always wanted to live in YOrk, but even if the opportunity should present itself, I'm not ready to leave the Boro! I'm very settled here, and I have my roots firmly down, I've never been this settled anywhere! So there! Kirsty and PHil, or should I say, programme makers!

Hello North East folk!!! I grew up in redcar and worked in Middlebrough.

Last night Phill kept saying Middles borough

Grrr.

My Mam is fuming and is refusing to watch the programme ever again!

Hi Northerners

I was brought up in Redcar and have lived in the SE for the last 12 years returning to the area when youngest was born, we love it. The seaside at Salburn the NY moors and parks etc.

Load of Bollocks is you ask me

Ooh wonder if any of yuo rEdcar folk know me then?!!

I'm 31 and went to Westredcar school - how about you guys?

I love saltburn - got married at rushpool hall.

33, went to West Redcar, have a bro who is 30 and I also had my reception at Rushpool (although this was 13 years ago)