25 towns to avoid where Reform rocked the polls

Is Clacton a nice place to live or is Clacton rough?

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 […]

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Top 10 most deprived towns in England 2019

Is Jaywick Sands a nice place to live or is Jaywick Sands rough?

A minor miracle has just happened in the UK. The government has published the new indices of multiple deprivation statistics… before the next election. Coming around less often than a leap year, these are the statistics that a lot of politicians dread. Last published in 2015, they are the definitive guide to how god-awful each […]

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Grimsby: the name says it all, GRIM-sby, it’s an utter dump

Is Grimsby a nice place to live or is Grimsby rough?

The name says it all. GRIMsby. After suddenly deciding I wanted to go university three weeks before the new education year started. I was left with very limited options. Grimsby was one. So I decided I would move there for a year and then transfer to a different university of my choice. My god what […]

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Heaven and Hull

Is Hull a nice place to live or is Hull rough?

Never been there before today, didn’t believe all the adverse comments but **** me WHAT A SH*THOLE. **** empty shops with useless staff, food takeaways serving cold **** and none of the tech works to order and pay for your Big Mac (no names, no packdrill); empty arcades; dirty water. And then there are the […]

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A list of **** that you will have seen growing up in Hull

Is Hull a nice place to live or is Hull rough?

Hull… *sigh* I was born in Hull, and lived there for 19 years until I decided I didn’t want to live in such a draining place anymore. This article is based on my overall reflection on what it was like to grow up in Hull, the list features some specifics, that some may argue could […]

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For those who criticise the North

Is The North a nice place to live or is The North rough?

Having read articles on Hull, Sheffield, Bradford, Leeds and Middlesbrough, I think that it’s about time to redress the balance. For the uninitiated, in 1979 a new Prime Minister was elected in the UK. Immediately she set about doing what her party did best. And she was best at it out of all of them. […]

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Cottingham, we would love our village if it wasn’t so close to Hull

Is Cottingham a nice place to live or is Cottingham rough?

I think I can speak for the entire population of Cottingham when I say that we love our village. Or we would, if it wasn’t so close to Hull. There is a local school where very no paedophilia takes place, a local library where you can take out books and read them, and a Thursday […]

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Why is Hull so hated? A few reasons…

Is Hull a nice place to live or is Hull rough?

I know that many of my friends now seek new, exciting and unvisited places. Where you can view wonders and witness alien-like wildlife roaming the very streets of the places you visit. I scoff at their idiocy for do they not realise they themselves live in such a place themselves? For where is more un-visited […]

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Hull – A city under siege

Is Hull a nice place to live or is Hull rough?

The trouble with Hull (Kingston-upon-Hull) is two-fold. There is a complete anti-education and anti-authority attitude running through the veins of the place AND the place is completely surrounded by council estates. It is like a city under siege. Let’s see: East – Bransholme and Preston Road and Greatfield North – Orchard Park and Bransholme West […]

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Hull – Officially Rubbish

Is Hull a nice place to live or is Hull rough?

Following the revelation by Channel 4 that Hull is the worst place to live in England, based on official government statistics, the local “news” programme Look North has been in uproar. They have over the last few days been wondering the streets of ‘Ull asking the locals what they think. They originally asked Kate Aidy […]

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Let me introduce everyone to a little town called Hessle

Is Hessle a nice place to live or is Hessle rough?

I would like to introduce everyone to a little town called Hessle. Most of you will have never heard of it, but just think of the biggest, most known s**thole in the UK… yep you guessed right, Hull! Now head a few miles west and yes you Have its little sister town Hessle, equally as […]

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