Poole looks like it might not be apart of England when you look it up on Google – except most of the images on its Google search page aren’t actually in Poole. Corfe Castle – not in Poole; Kingston Lacy – not in Poole; Old Harry Rocks – also not in Poole. I’ll tell you […]
Read More… from Poole – a downward curve of roller-coaster proportions
Someone has to say it. Britain and Carlisle are falling. Problems abound in every possible direction. Towns and cities around the country looking more and more like a slipped on dog log. At this point, does it really matter whether you support red or blue? Hasn’t the circus show in America taught us anything? Whether […]
Read More… from Carlisle: A place ablaze with trauma and lost souls
Do you hold progressive political views? Don’t want to find yourself in a town where a lot of the residents get upset by pronouns? A constituency where they still shout ‘We want our country back!’, despite getting their precious Brexit and really mean they want their 1960’s white monoculture fantasy? A place where they are […]
Read More… from 25 towns to avoid where Reform rocked the polls
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 […]
Read More… from What you’ll witness in Cullompton will haunt you for the rest of your life
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, […]
Read More… from Hoylake: a level of purgatory dante couldn’t describe
With the release of the Census 2021 data, at iLiveHere we have been analysing the figures to see if popular right-wing immigration ethno-nationalist conspiracy theories are true. Is Nigel Farage (allegedly and in our view alone Nige) and others who are desperate to propel far-right white nationalist tropes like ‘The Great Replacement Theory‘ into the […]
Read More… from 180 wards where immigrants outnumber people born in the UK
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 […]
Read More… from Opinion: Should I sell my home before house prices crash?
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 […]
Read More… from Ferryhill: The trains speed up as they pass through
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 […]
