Nottinghamshire - iLiveHere: Best & Worst UK Towns Reviewed

Bulwell: a market town… mostly down market

Bulwell,on the whole is no worse than any other market town on the edge of a large city. All the local pubs that are left stink of toilets, sweaty feet and cheap paint. So do most of the die hard punters who live in them. Bulwell is not the place for a quiet relaxing pint […]

Nottingham, A dirty place full of people who can’t speak properly

You’re driving along the M1 northbound from Leicester sort of way and the journey feels fine except from a couple idiots on the outside lane trying to knock your car out of the way. Seems to be nothing around but fields, ‘Nice’ I thought. Then I see a sight that just looks so unwelcoming, the […]

Eakring: not the end of the earth but you sure can see it from there

There are so many elderly here it’s shocking but anyone with any sense and young enough moved out into a more hospitable place. If you cant drive then your career possibilities are pretty much doomed. it’s not the end of the earth but you sure can see it from there. Now there is a ****** […]

Newark-on-Trent, what is there to be proud of?

I’ve lived in Newark-on-Trent for almost 20 years and can’t stand the place. It promotes itself as an ‘historic market town’ (aren’t they all?) and has next to nothing going for it. The locals don’t like outsiders, and that includes people from nearby towns, never mind actual foreigners. They seem to feel being Newark born […]

Sutton-in-Ashfield: avoid eye contact and you’ll be just fine

I’m not saying that Sutton in Ashfield is a bad place to live. It could be much worse, like Kirkby in Ashfield. Basically if the name of the town you are in is followed by “in Ashfield” you have stumbled into the district that time forgot and where good taste never existed. The locals aren’t […]

Ollerton: the most boring place to live

New Ollerton = old biddy central and a load of manky *****. DO NOT come here, for your own sanity don’t even visit. Train station? you wished. Public transport, few and far between and doesn’t take you where you need to go when you need to get there. If you don’t drive you have virtually […]

Sneinton, Nottingham, do not come here for peace

A very mixed community, which somehow also makes it fragmented.. The 50% Pakistani community keep to themselves, the Roma ******* have their own “welfare rights” day once a week at the Sneinton Library.. There is also a contingent of dreadlocked “New Age” type individuals. And Street Drinkers are quite common also, with there being at […]

Bulwell: If crippling depression could build a town.

Bulwell isn’t a bad town. It is the metropolitan equivalent of a distant gulag in Siberia – reserved only for the vilest and most capitalistic kulaks. Masses of black and blue tracksuits, penned in by dismal alleyways and busy roads, prowl the cold grey streets. Streets. Streets that are barely illuminated by the synthetic glare […]

Brinsley, a former mining community tinged with just a hint of racism

Welcome to Brinsley, blink and you might miss it. Situated on the A608 between M1 J27 and Eastwood, it’s a shining example of a former coal mining community, tinged with just a hint of closet racism. Keeping the village white is a well practised art, with minority families being made to feel just unwelcome enough, […]

Selston where everyone feels like family, because they are!

Selston: a wonderful place to live if you like to make up and spread gossip, so long as the gossip wasn`t about you or your family. But, family is exactly what the people of Selston are. It is an ex mining village just off junc.26 of the m1. The most noteworthy thing about it being […]

Underwood… we have a school a church one shop and two pubs

Underwood…well what can I say..its a village situated just off junction 27 of the M1 you can’t miss us really. We have a school a church one shop and two pubs . Thats all we need ..oh and lots of fields and animals. It’s pretty boring really not much happens in underwood but everyone knows […]

Kirkby-in-Ashfield: Another Slowly Dying Ex-Mining Town With Nothing There.

Living in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire

When I was little and growing up here, I used to hate Kirkby with a passion. Nowadays, there’s not even enough left to hate. It’s a dirty, dingy skeleton. If some people didn’t have to live here, nobody would come anywhere near the place. If you like charity shops and hairdressers you’ll be amply served […]