[Closed] top 10 uk dumps...

Most places that are close to Manchester city centre. E.g. Ashburys

Doncaster. Lived in a small village just outside donny for 4 years and can count the number of times I went into the town centre on one hand (and that's an outsider's hand, not a local's 6 finger offering).
Aids capital of Europe. EU area of extreme poverty/aid/etc (massive grants available). Wonderful place.
And yet travelling through liverpool still shocks me.

I feel I must nominate Brownhills, West Midlands. Flanked by the A5 on one side & the outskirts of Walsall on the other, it's claim to fame for a long time, was a sprawling outdoor market on a Saturday. The stench of fried food has never left, long after the market fell in to demise. At one end of the single street that forms this oasis of retail delight, is one of the most awful concrete shopping monstrosities ever constructed. The other end sat a collection of hi-rises, most gone now I think. I always felt sorry for Brownhills, its home to some good people, but it's never been able to escape it's unfortunate location on the outskirts of Walsall, & I'm not sure why. It no doubt survives on the scraps thrown out by Walsall, & that in itself must be meagre pickings. Geographically it's closer to delights such as Cannock & Chavlyn Hay. Staffordshire, sitting just metres away across the A5, must look temptingly close yet a world away. One day the good people of Brownhills will rise up & carry the town out if Walsall reach, across the A5 & into the shire of Stafford, but until then it must stay annexed to the delights of Aldridge, Bloxwich, Pelsall & Walsall Wood.

Cumbernauld, wins every time.

Where the missus is from. Crap and irredeemably soulless but a dump? Not really close to a lot of places mentioned. Maybe if NLC spent some money on the fabric rather than stupid "art" nobody asked for it might do better.

Most of the 'dumps' I know near to me are in lovely countryside, but have fallen into a downward spiral of epic proportions due to the loss of industry, mainly mining.

PATNA! (not where my family is from. Though historically Dalmellington features...) Oh, and JY's hometown.

Ardrossan

Isn't [i]that[/i] bad, have you ever seen Stevenston? Or "the Vale" for that matter?

In Govanhill that would have 12 families living in it.

Lived there about 10 years ago, was okay then but I've heard stories since I left. Grim doesn't really cover it, you forgot to mention the kids getting pimped from the close. Oh, and went to the Nautical college in the Gorbals.

Of all the places I'm familiar with that have been mentioned Govanhill is the only one that is worth nominating. The rest are just economically depressed crap.

@squirelking...I've just spent a month up at the college doing my old man's. First time in Glasgow, thought it was a fantastic city. Even the rougher parts seemed full of nice people. Fleetwood on the other hand (Mates in 2013 for 9 months)....Real dive! Sure it was nice enough back in the day. Just very sad with the loss of industry there. While I can't stand some places the people are often really good people. Just live in rough towns!

I just did a quick google streetview tour of Govanhill and was pleasantly surprised. Nice buildings, wide streets and general look of well being.

I spotted that Clacton was mentioned in this post earlier, but nearby lies Jaywick Sands. I cycled past it once on the sea front. It's like a shanty town, or a permanent travelers site.

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Personally I hate Weston Super Mare, full of brummies on holiday and local narrow minded meat headed morons.

Isnt Moffat where the Tarlair Festival used to be?
Not a bad little place if it is. Fond memories of that Festival

Hull is pretty grim although I think Grimsby may be worse. I vote for Wolverhampton (although it has improved of late), Fleetwood taking the jewel of the northwest award and Rhyl for best in Wales by narrowly beating Holyhead and Merthyr. Special mention to Birkenhead.

I've considered all those above and whilst most are worthy i believe Slough will always top the lot. You pay a lot of money there to live in a dump.

Harrogate - it's like someone gave all the worse people from the worse places listed in the previous 5 pages a lottery jackpot.

Perfect proof that you can have money and zero class.

Worked there for 5 years and pretty much there were no redeeming features about the place. Full of horrible selfish entitled arseholes.
If the modern attitude of not giving a stuff about anyone else outside of your tiny minded little world was a virus the source would be Harrogate Spa Water. Even Betty's is shit!

Ah, feel better now 🙂

I work in Harrogate and agree that it's got far more than it's fair share of utter, utter w@nkers. I tend to find the old money not too bad but it's the flash, modern all mouth and no trousers lot that stick out. My pal has lived there all his life and has some great tales to tell about this group.

Plenty of decent people too but one of the reasons I have worked there for 16 years but never moved to the town is all the bell ends.

I just did a quick google streetview tour of Govanhill and was pleasantly surprised. Nice buildings, wide streets and general look of well being.

From what I understand it's the closes and back greens you need to be looking at. But Glasgow is, on the whole, a pretty pleasant place (if frustrating) to live.