The Worst places to live in East Anglia
As I walked through the town where I grew up, to meet my brother for a Christmas drink a single thought keeps running through my mind. The thought being that Thanos might actually have been right, though when it comes to Peterborough he was only half right. As I stroll through these dystopian streets one […]
Read More… from Peterborough: Santa Claus is not coming to town
In one of the “boutique shops” on the High Street (between a Costa and a charity shop), they sell mugs that say “I’m terribly posh, I’m from Harpenden”. Clearly intended to be slightly tongue in cheek but in practice bought by people whose tongues are less in their cheeks and more worming into their own […]
Read More… from Harpenden – the smuggest town in the smuggest county
Hitchin, allegedly one of the happiest places to live in the country. That is, if you’re the sort of person that gains immense pleasure from sitting in a barber shop and admiring one’s self in the mirror. For sure the town centre is reasonably attractive, but it’s nothing compared to similar-size towns in other parts […]
Soham, a town well known for the murders of 2002. The way the community came together after these terrible incidents would’ve made you think of Soham as a normally peaceful town with a good community ready to help each other when disaster strikes. You’d be wrong. As a lifelong resident of Soham I have never […]
Unfortunately, I have lived on the outskirts (no, not Jaywick thank God) for some years and have great delight in being on the verge of moving to somewhere slightly less pony asap. The whole town is sinking. Not like Canvey, in that respect, sinking as in the mire of depression, drug abuse, gang violence and […]
Read More… from Clacton: where the tide doesn’t want to have to come in
Jaywick has one of the nicest beaches in Essex, but buried in the fine golden sands you will find beer cans, cigarette butts, condoms and spliffs. Drugs have brought this place to its knees and the folks who are unfortunate enough to live in one of the rickety huts that lines its streets either originate […]
Read More… from Jaywick: Drugs have brought this place to its knees
I grew up in Hoddesdon and as a child and teenager it was alright. Close to woodland and countryside, some reasonable pubs, safe town. I moved away for a few years before returning in 2007 and initially was pleased to be returning to the town of my youth. The novelty quickly wore off. It took […]
A lot of locals still cling to the idea that Kings Langley is still a village. Well if it is, it’s a damned big village. Nestled between the quaint old fashioned villages of Watford and Hemel Hempstead, Kings Langley to many people that don’t live here, is the traffic jam between the M25 and the […]
Read More… from Kings Langley: A Hertfordshire village of very little
Don’t Live Here! I came to Hunstanton for a ‘peaceful retirement in a Victorian seaside town’. Built and designed from scratch by the Lord of the Manor – a ‘Mr Le Strange’. It has over the years evolved from the picturesque splendour of a retreat for the well heeled Victorians of London, seeking the health […]
Billericay is one of the slightly lesser known towns of Essex and those who don’t know it, think it’s a posh place. Only the houses in Norsey road are posh, otherwise it’s a sh*thole full of *****. South Green is probably the worst part of Billericay especially the shopping area where drug dealers and druggies […]
I visited Great Yarmouth several times recently and hope never to have to return. Where the bleak, brown, hostile sea stops, bleak, hostile depressing streets start, with grim “amusement” arcades on the dilapidated front where it is impossible to imagine deriving any joy or amusement. The star attraction The star attraction it seems is a […]
Read More… from Great Yarmouth – A museum of bleakness and decay
I grew up near Watford, but as soon as I was old enough, I left to never return. Due to Covid 19 pandemic, I have been doing shopping for my parents who live in South Herts. This has meant trips to a large supermarket in Watford. When the town comes in to view from the […]
Read More… from Watford – Every day is the day of the living dead
