Towns & Cities that are F----d.

Lots of post-industrial places then.

Politicians promise to revive them in exchange for votes: The Rust Belt in the US, The Red Wall in the UK...
 
MCFC Wirral said:
I hated Hull, Barnsley and Carlisle the most. I find it’s the smaller places where people are borderline inbred. Terrified of change too.

There’s almost nobody in Prenton I know who isn’t from Merseyside. Everyone is local and it took a while to get accepted.
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Fucking hell, you'll no doubt be known as "dead posh" by anybody round there. I swear Birkenhead or 'Birrrrrrko' as the locals call it is a social experiment set up by the government. I used to dread working round there, especially if it meant leaving my vehicle parked in residential areas.
 
Also agree with Hull, Barnsley and Carlisle. Done a bit of work in Hull and the Tesco's was robbed each and every time I was in there, it was just the norm for locals to walk in and take trivial items like chocolate bars and walk out. A lot of poverty around there.

Barnsley as previously mentioned, a lot of travellers and also very dubious family relationships. Even other shitty areas of Yorkshire call them 'backward Barnsley'. I worked with a total nutcase of a bloke from the Cudworth area of Barnsley. That was a fucking sight for sore eyes seeing him try and communicate with some fella from a village near Nottingham. Every other word was 'love' or 'duck', they gave up trying to communicate with each other in the end as they didn't have a clue what each was saying.

Only been to Carlisle on one occasion as a very good friend lived round there for a few years. He's got tales a plenty from round there, very very questionable inbred behaviour. There was certainly an undercurrent in the place when out on the piss, a real nasty little shithole of a place. The villagers on the outskirts of there make Wigan folk look well to do.
 
Inbreeding is common in many of the inner city estates of this country apparently. There are many who don't travel further than a few miles from home in their entire lifetime.
 
The successes ( failures ) of capitalism are clear to be seen by all - curiously some ( many who suffer from its instigation ) refuse to call it out and side with the rich capitalists
 
Once when I was about 19 me and a few mates piled into this van with a tent and decided to go camping for a night in what we thought was Sherwood Forest. We pitched the tent on Sat afternoon and saw on the map the nearest town was Worksop ! So off we all go for a pub crawl round Worksop, check out the chicks etc...
What a bunch of weird fuckers inhabited that place in the 70s, as the night went on and the locals got more and more pissed it got much much worse, death stares, ignored at the bar till all the local freaks got served. Just a very strange and worrisome atmosphere in every pub we stumbled in.
I swear we were actually scared going back to the tent, it was like they'd all been smoking crack, I attempted to confer with a couple of locals who (I think) told me that Common hobbies in Worksop include getting shitfaced and hitting someone with a bit of wood, committing suicide, and intergenerational welfare dependency. As it got close to midnight I fully expected the night might play out like one of those movies where 4 lads go camping and disappear, forever. I feared we'd be woken at 3 am with a sort of KKK gathering around our tent..

If someone ate a shit and then shat it out again, 70s Worksop would be that second shit. In mathematical terms, shit times shit equals Worksop. It’s the shit in a shit pie if the pastry was also shit.
 
Semper aggressus said:
Stockport - scally central.
Barrow - it’s still 1983 there.
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I saw a article about the regeneration of Stockport and some crap about red rocks . But what made me laugh was it actually said Stockport is the new Berlin. The crack head who wrote that needs sectioning. More like Baghdad or basra . I was there last week and they have put a few new sections of block paving on mersey/misery way . I've said for years if aliens landed there they would think it had been bombed or had a nuclear incident.
 
Reminds me of a time in the 00s when the Daily Recod published a story in a Friday about how out of the top 10 most impoverished areas in the UK, the top 6 were in Glasgow. We, Hibs, played Celtc the Saturday in Glasgow. For the whole game we chanted “top 6, you’ll always be top 6”. Good times.
 
bluem@n said:

Informative and opinionated website
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I wouldn’t believe a think they say on there. On their list of nice places to live they list Swindon (which is the arsehole of Wiltshire) and fucking Norwich. If people think some of the areas in the north are in-bread wait until you visit Norfolk, it’s the land that time forgot, they positively laugh at people only being able to count to 6 on one hand.
There’s a reason why it’s so difficult to get to Norwich, it’s to make it hard for the locals to escape.
 
MCFCTrick said:
Go to Oldham.

Have a walk around.

Close this thread.
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Where? Delph, Dobcross, Austerlands, Moorside, Greenfield, High Crompton? Oldham isn’t just Werneth, Glodwick, Westwood, Coldhurst… Some shitty places and some nice places, like most Northern English Industrial towns.
 
Bill Walker said:
Once when I was about 19 me and a few mates piled into this van with a tent and decided to go camping for a night in what we thought was Sherwood Forest. We pitched the tent on Sat afternoon and saw on the map the nearest town was Worksop ! So off we all go for a pub crawl round Worksop, check out the chicks etc...
What a bunch of weird fuckers inhabited that place in the 70s, as the night went on and the locals got more and more pissed it got much much worse, death stares, ignored at the bar till all the local freaks got served. Just a very strange and worrisome atmosphere in every pub we stumbled in.
I swear we were actually scared going back to the tent, it was like they'd all been smoking crack, I attempted to confer with a couple of locals who (I think) told me that Common hobbies in Worksop include getting shitfaced and hitting someone with a bit of wood, committing suicide, and intergenerational welfare dependency. As it got close to midnight I fully expected the night might play out like one of those movies where 4 lads go camping and disappear, forever. I feared we'd be woken at 3 am with a sort of KKK gathering around our tent..

If someone ate a shit and then shat it out again, 70s Worksop would be that second shit. In mathematical terms, shit times shit equals Worksop. It’s the shit in a shit pie if the pastry was also shit.
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It's worse now.
 
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