What city/town do you hate the most?

[A57 the snake]

Don’t want to bad mouth any uk town or city but…. Fook me Middlesbrough what a place .
The only town where rats walk around in two’s and there’s a rear gunner on a milk float.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

HAS to be Stoke. The place AND the people.

I’m a Yank and this is the first place I thought of; how did a bunch of Brits take more than one page on the thread to say it?!?

 

[Bluesince1979]

Gosport. An unimaginable dump

 

[Midlands Blue]

Went to Walsall town centre after watching City play there years ago and thought it was the biggest dump in the country I'd been to.
After now working there for 20 years, I haven't changed my mind! (Although Cannock runs it a close second)

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Probably be quicker to name places that aren’t shitholes.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Sheffield is ace

Great city - too many bastard hills to get around it

 

[BrianW]

Wales can provide some candidates - Rhyl (full of Scousers who have passed a special Obnoxious Scouser test to qualify for residence.) Holyhead (Bacup with a harbour.) Merthyr Tydfil (makes Radcliffe look like Beverley Hills.)

Liverpool centre is quite OK tbh, but some of the hinterlands - fuck me. Bootle could give pre-reunification East Berlin a run for its money.

Nottingham has some singularly weird people in it.

Stoke, yeah, shit tip. But I did use to visit quite often at one time and found some of the locals to be surprisingly affable.

Bolton and Rochdale - both fallen badly in the last 30 years. Although both have some nice bits.

(EDIT) How did I forget fucking Grimsby? Mega shithole that stinks of fish. Harpurhey if moved to the sea and enlarged, would be a cut above it.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Wales can provide some candidates - Rhyl (full of Scousers who have passed a special Obnoxious Scouser test to qualify for residence.) Holyhead (Bacup with a harbour.) Merthyr Tydfil (makes Radcliffe look like Beverley Hills.)

Liverpool centre is quite OK tbh, but some of the hinterlands - fuck me. Bootle could give pre-reunification East Berlin a run for its money.

Nottingham has some singularly weird people in it.

Stoke, yeah, shit tip. But I did use to visit quite often at one time and found some of the locals to be surprisingly affable.

Bolton and Rochdale - both fallen badly in the last 30 years. Although both have some nice bits.

*Waves*

 

[threespires]

I'm currently visiting Stoke. It's like a down market version of Northwich.

Which town? Classic example of being left to rot by successive governments. Once replete with some of the most iconic of Britains manufacturers now better known for bet365. Many years ago when it truly was on its arse, I went to see Matthew Bourne's version of Swan Lake at the theatre there. Was a bizarre experience of being transported away for a couple of hours and then tipped out into the Stoke night.

All that said, lots of smaller businesses are doing their level best to drag the place back up by it's boot laces.

Interesting that a number of places people are citing were once thriving communities who were left to fry when their primary industries went to the wall often as a result of deliberate policies. I'm inclined more to hate the politicians that allowed that to happen to them than the places themselves.

 

[A57 the snake]

Honourable mention to Luton now there’s shit hole,