[Closed] Which area in YOUR country would you not live?

When I lived in Scotland it was either Glasgow and the surrounding area or Fife. I lived in Fife...

Where I am now? The list is long. The south east. The Midlands below the Derbyshire Dales. Sunderland. East Anglia. East Yorkshire. About 2/3rds of the country is pretty grim.

Marseille

The one I live in.

As a Scot, my nomination is - Scotlands midlands - Hamilton/wishaw/motherwell area. Grim.

Anywhere along the M62 corridor

Lahndahn.

Ayrshire - full of sheepshaggin inbred weirdos 🙂

The South.

Ayrshire - full of sheepshaggin inbred weirdos

Getting slower in yer dottage Clow... 😆

yup London, what a nightmare. Full of weirdos and miles and miles away from any decent countryside.

Some of North Wales you couldn't get me to live.

As an economic migrant you couldn't get me to live in Bournemouth it is just down the road and I loathe the place.

There are some seriously grim towns in deepest darkest Ayrshire. Patna, Drongan, Dalmellington etc. Shudder.

Middlesbrough. I've not been to all areas of the UK but Middlesbrough is the one place that I would never even go near to through choice after my visit in the late 90s.

Anywhere south of the M62, and a few places north of it as well. Don't really want to live where I do right now but it's where the work and the missus are...

BoardinBob - Member

There are some seriously grim towns in deepest darkest Ayrshire. Patna, Drongan, Dalmellington etc. Shudder.

london. or Wales (sorry Wales) only place I've suffered suffered racism directly to my face.

I used to live in Toxteth, and on Manor Estate in Sheffield. Ergo, I would live anywhere.

I suffered racism in Wales once, from a small gnarled bore in the corner of the bar here:

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... because I'm English.

He got thrown out.

As a Scot, my nomination is - Scotlands midlands - Hamilton/wishaw/motherwell area. Grim.

As a Scot, anywhere else [b]except[/b] here.

It might be a grim shitehole, but it's my grim shitehole. Mon' the Shire!

(edit) Most especially Prestwick. Elvis wouldny even get aff the plane FFS! 😆

You can easily pick out the hell holes on this map. The red bits:

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Most of the country is lovely.

I'd find anywhere other than London/SE to be so intolerably dull as to make life pretty unbearable - just horrid in fact!

😆 I was called a second class Welshman because I don't speak the language, a disgrace to my country and worse than being english; as I said there are some parts of North Wales I wouldn't live 😆

Anywhere not in a 30 mile or so radius around the Surrey/Sussex borders where I live now frankly.

Sure there are some lovely bits. But I'm happy here.

Anywhere South of the combined Cumbria / North Yorkshire border.

London and the south east area below it.

5thElifant has it 😆

Blue bits for me, the Red bits I wouldn't live in.

5thElifant has it

Blue bits for me, the Red bits I wouldn't live in.

You want to get a more up to date map. All the good red bits and the best orange bits are now yellow.

@pigface I agree RE Bournemouth I live near by too, its not a shit hole but seems to have taken the bad points of London but none of the good points.

Of the places I know I would add the area just north of London and Bradford. Sorry Bradford, near to lots of nice countryside but pretty dire town / city dispite its past glory.

Any part of the Greater Manchester conurbation.

Reading.

Having just last week escaped London, it's there for me.

Also Rotherham and Barnsley and Wakefield.

The flat lands of Britain (i.e. Cambridgeshire, Essex, East Anglia, Suffolk, Norfolk, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire)and I would avoid living in a big city

Anywhere south of the Tyne. And north of the Tyne, and not too far east or west. Where we are we have the right mix of hills and generally nice MTB areas either on the doorstep or not too far a drive away.

Plenty of lovely places to visit and even stay for an extended period, but would hate to live there.

From a poshish village in Ayrshire (mauchline) but wouldn't live in Cumnock or Auchinleck if you paid me.

Live in Hampshire now so anywhere south of the M27. Have particular contempt for Aldershot and Boscombe.

Drongan

😯

I ended up back at a house party a long, long time ago with a couple of (slighty odd) guys from work in Drongan.

I ended up crashing out in a bedroom at about 5am. I was woken up a couple of hours later to find my two "colleagues" taking photos of each others genitals on a disposable camera. I then had to step over a drunk 12 year old with sick all over him since he'd been drinking cider all night. Downstairs was even worse. Someone had decided to throw the dining room table through the patio doors, and a half naked middle-aged man was sleeping on the table (now in the garden). I decided to go outside and see if I could find a taxi. A girl was slumped against the front door, covered in her own vomit and she fell inwards when I opened the door. After two hugely unsuccessful attempts at punching me for waking her up, she fell over and didn't get back up.

I walked two miles to a petrol station before getting a cab.

Next day at work my colleagues described our night as "brilliant".

Drongan is not somewhere I'd recommend to tourists!

Sydney. Horrid.

The thought of moving to almost any part of my country (the UK) would fill me with dread, though I suspect much of it would be ok once I'd given it a go.

Sydney. Horrid.

That London.

London - Too expensive.
Hull - Too Hull.

Arctic Circle , not much going on.

Slough.

Aberdeen. All the drawbacks of a proper city and none of the benefits.

Anywhere in the south east outside London. Its all just so bland.

Anywhere in the south east outside London. Its all just so bland.

Oi! Me and the missus want to retire to East Sussex! However, I did only score 1 out of 8 on the vices thread and that 1 involved you blowing ciggy smoke up my nose.

Live in the Surrey Hills, can't see what's not to like! Well, some anti-cycling feeling here.

Not much of the East side of the country appeals really - Kent would be OK I think. Parts of North Wales, such as Rhyl, are worth avoiding.

I think I'd most like to be in the Cotswolds but a bit too far from London for comfort really.

Birmingham and to a lesser extent Leeds, all of the bad stuff of a big city but with not enough of the good stuff to make it worthwhile.

muppetWrangler - Member
London, all of the bad stuff of a big city but with not enough of the good stuff to make it worthwhile.

FIFY as I live here in the week..

Would NOT want to stay here for the rest of my life and thankfully I've already got somewhere in Hampshire to really "live"

London has it's good bit's but often getting to them and ejoying them can be a PITA.
And despite what folks say it's rubbish for riding around. Most folks get out of the city to ride, not surprisingly the Surrey Hills gets bad press for all the Londoners heading that way at the weekends.. I do feel for folks that live there.
As for Regents Park, it's joke waiting to be closed down. Moves ahead for speed bumps and bans for both vehicles and Bikes.. indeed we cause more angst in there than anyone I reckon, it's a proper bun fight riding around it to the point of other riders jostling and shouting you down for riding in their park.. tossers.
If you ride slowly and take in some of the views Londons ok, just.

I grew up in Kent, went to Uni in Bradford and have lived in west London, Stafford, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire and I'm now in Wakefield so I feel that I have lived in a fair few places. There's good and bad everywhere but, of all those places, I wouldn't live in Cornwall again - to far from reality and Devon is so much nicer.

Liskeard

and miles and miles away from any decent countryside

I used to think that too.......

I live in the proud nation of Cornwall, so wouldn't want to live in Bodmin, St Blazey or Cambourne.

Thats easy. London. I cant stand the place and have no idea what attracts so many people to it

I'm another one who suffered verbal and physical racism in Wales for a number of years. I'm in no hurry to go back there.

Bath (snobby and expensive) / Croydon and Sutton (nasty dumps) Bracknell (boring) Slough (boring) Port Talbot (no explanation needed) Liverpool (just thought it was ugly and sh*te).

London? Its ok. There are better and worse places.

Conversely - the best place by far is Bristol. Closely followed by South West Wales.

nowhere above a line drawn from the wash to the bristol channel except Hereford and Worcester then omit places like south Essex, Southampton, Bristol, North kent/Sheppy, Luton, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Ipswich Ashford (Kent), Swindon, Crawley, Croydon and the less salubrious parts of london like Catford, Hackney and the whole of the west around places like Park royal, Wembley, Slough and towards Heathrow.

Colby, although our daughter lives there and she reckons it's ok.

Thats easy. London. I cant stand the place and have no idea what attracts so many people to it

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Calne

Oi! Me and the missus want to retire to East Sussex!

That's one of the most bizarre things I've ever read! 🙂

I've already moved to where I want to retire to, not that I'm gloating or anything.

the Surrey Hills gets bad press for all the Londoners heading that way at the weekends.. I do feel for folks that live there.

Do you feel for all the londoners who' streets are clogged up by people from the surrey hills driving in to work?

Berlin..... full of students (who all seem to talk with a mix of their home town accents and some faux Berlinerisch, wa). loads of unemployed. too many drug dealers doing there thing openly on the streets. loads of "alternative" bars and people... so much so that "alternative" is now mainstream.
sure, there are some nice areas, but they are massively outnumbered by the shitty ones.

Leipzig, Dresden, Cottbus and lots of the former East Germany....
run down, massive unemployment, a slight Nazi-undertone in some places (lots of fascist political posters around), a funny accent, lots of abandoned buildings and awful soviet architecture. rather depressing at times.
paradoxically, much of the countryside is beautiful and much of it untouched.

Ruhrpott area.... (area round Duisburg-Essen-Dortmund).
Just one massive conurbation. it's hard to tell where one town ends and the next begins. bah!

My area should be the best ....greater London but only 5 miles away from boxhill Dorking ( sorta).....but the whole area has changed in the last 10years....
It's more Eastern European and Asian now

Slough.

Peaslake - swarms of cyclists (are we allowed to use those terms) every weekend.

Bracknell

Binners do you keep a database of dailymash articles to hand for things like this?

Widnes / Runcorn.
My grandparents lived in Widnes and it really is a soul-destroyingly awful shithole with no redeeming features at all. No access to any countryside nearby, totally flat, smelly cos of all the heavy industry nearby and not even really near to anywhere decent either - not without a while in a car to get anywhere - eg to North Wales/Lakes/Peaks for outdoorsy things or Liverpool/Manchester (for "culture" or proper shopping.)

Shy of being offered at least £500k p/a I wouldn't ever consider london.

Cardiff and most parts of Newport.

Scotlands midlands - Hamilton/wishaw/motherwell

Hamilton ain't that bad especially compared to Coatbridge and Airdrie up the road.

Can't say I'd be in a rush to move back the the Shire either. Despite spending many nights in my youth in sunny Saltcoats, I wouldn't relish a return visit.

But yes London, visited plenty of times but can't imagine ever living there

wrecker - Member
Shy of being offered at least £500k p/a I wouldn't ever consider london.

That's not enough for me to stay here 😆

I agree with wrecker on London, you need a massive wage, that's the price to go because you need to do it properly or not bother

Dowlais Top, Neath or Port Talbot near to home, anywhere in England other than Cumbria, Scotland's nice to visit but never ever had even an inkling on wanting to live there.

Despite spending many nights in my youth in sunny Saltcoats, I wouldn't relish a return visit.

Not unless they reopen Metro 🙂

Bacup

omit places like south Essex, Southampton, [b]Bristol[/b]

Wondering why you don't like Bristol

Swindon, East Coast flatlands, Liverpool, Birmingham

Anywhere with a high proportion of BMWs, Audi A4s and above or Range Rovers.

Wild horses wouldn't drag me back to Birmingham, or London. Life's so much nicer living slightly further north and anywhere worth visiting is much easier to get to.