I have the misfortune of living in Melksham for most of my life, and I was genuinely surprised that it not received the honour (or dishonour!) of appearing on this list. Lying in between the equally deplorable town of Chippenham and Trowbridge, Melksham is sadly another example of how decades of decline and social issues […]
I’m utterly gobsmacked that no one’s mentioned Cullompton yet! On the surface it’s a quaint, quiet Devon town but the harsh reality is that it’s overrun with ch@vs. You will lose track of the amount of hoodies that you’ll see, Cullompton (or Cully as the locals call it) has to hold the record for the […]
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If a later day Virgil were to lead Dante through Purgatory he would come upon Hoylake and description would fail them and they would not wish to linger long. ‘Hoylake is nice’, the words uttered by an estate agent is like a diagnosis of dementia, or a slow growing tumour that will ultimately **** you, […]
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It was always going to happen eventually. The house price crash, it cometh. If you give more “handouts” to the rich than the poor, you create inflationary pressure as the wealthy scrabble to buy assets, not create jobs (lol). That has a knock on effect throughout the entire economy. You either have the wealth to […]
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Unfortunately, I have lived on the outskirts (no, not Jaywick thank God) for some years and have great delight in being on the verge of moving to somewhere slightly less pony asap. The whole town is sinking. Not like Canvey, in that respect, sinking as in the mire of depression, drug abuse, gang violence and […]
Read More… from Clacton: where the tide doesn’t want to have to come in
Ferryhill, a once thriving mining village had (at some point in its history) the longest recorded railway platform in the world! Sadly these days the trains speed up as they pass through… presumably commuters experience something akin to Jurassic Park as they pass by. Only with wasted yokels taking the place of velociraptors. Those few […]
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Some towns get articles on this site because of mass unemployment and petty (and not so petty) crime, others because they’re too small and underdeveloped to support any decent nightlife or culture. Wellingborough manages to do both at once. Once upon a time the town had a major railway depot, in addition to various factories […]
I grew up in Hoddesdon and as a child and teenager it was alright. Close to woodland and countryside, some reasonable pubs, safe town. I moved away for a few years before returning in 2007 and initially was pleased to be returning to the town of my youth. The novelty quickly wore off. It took […]
I had the chance to escape back in the 80s and blew it big time. A good job near Heathrow and a lovely girlfriend in Oxfordshire only a couple of miles from Henley on Thames. Temporary insanity is the only thing I can attribute to my decision to return to my hometown, that and being […]
I am writing this post in defence, from a post which I just stumbled across! I moved to the large village of South Normanton 7 years ago, and would quite humbly state, that the only reason I would leave is to emigrate to a warmer climate. For the most part, the village is a hard-working, […]
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After reading many different posts about Aldershot and just how bad it supposedly is, I felt compelled to write something of my own experience. After doing some research like most people I found that Aldershot has good links to both London and Reading. Something that is becoming more and more desirable as London is brought […]
Read More… from Aldershot: is not all bad, in fact, it’s quite good!
I have now lived in Slough or “oh Dear, Slough” as people comment when I tell them, since 1992. I have seen it slide from a town of some limited qualities to the toilet of Berkshire within the last 5 yrs. Having had to move from Windsor because a Bike shed would set you back […]
