The sting in the wonder tale of Forest Row in Sussex

Is Forest Row a nice place to live or is Forest Row rough?

There is a village in England that has some pretty astounding features for a village, such as five or six non-chain places where to have a decent cup of coffee, a village hall where a certain film society shows some pretty decent films, like, ‘lo and behold, Werner Herzog and other illuminati. a Rudolf Steiner […]

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Haywards Heath – the patio of England

Is Haywards Heath a nice place to live or is Haywards Heath rough?

Haywards Hoth dates back to 1544 meaning a “heath by the enclosure with a hedge”. An unsearchable and unheard of ‘legend’ suggests that the town is named after a local highway man, Jack Hayward, who committed his crimes in the vicinity at some undefined period in the past. I suspect this is a colossal in-joke […]

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Hailsham… Town of the ‘wannabe’

Is Hailsham a nice place to live or is Hailsham rough?

Hailsham… Town of the ‘wannabe’! In the past the local youth aspired to be like the local traveller community. This came to an abrupt end when people from London whom could not cope with an influx of immigrants migrated here. The people from London soon put an end to the ridiculous claims of ‘being hard’ […]

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East Grinstead: a nothing town filled with horrible people

Is East Grinstead a nice place to live or is East Grinstead rough?

I have lived in East Grinstead now for 5 years. Although the town has one of the oldest high streets in the country, it does not take away from the fact that it’s a nasty horrible place. The town itself is filled with *****, nutters, nasty middle-class idiots and Scientologists (the national Scientology headquarters is […]

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St Leonards on sea is the place to be… for hipster’s parents!

Is Hastings a nice place to live or is Hastings rough?

Once the damp, roof leaking, same-threadbare-blue-carpet-since-83 flat and doss house asset location of the slumlord, St Leonards on sea has changed a lot over the last twenty years and is now becoming the (2nd) home of a quite different, but equally odious breed of investment class ********, the hipster’s parents. That’s right, the twenty something […]

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Is it Horsham or is just me?

Is Horsham a nice place to live or is Horsham rough?

What even is Horsham? Horsham is spending the majority of your time at school making fart noises with your armpit then ten years later, owning your own business with 10 employees and a fleet of vans. It’s dreading walking down West Street in the company of your own mother, because in all likelihood, you’ll pass […]

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High Wycombe- a place once famed for its furniture making and heritage, now famed for being a s**thole

Is High Wycombe a nice place to live or is High Wycombe rough?

A place so dull and awful it cannot be said enough, a town once known as a scenic marketplace is now just a squalid mess, the very centre of Wycombe is the worst with up to 12 homeless people either asking for change or threatening you around it seems every corner. A familiar sight is […]

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Herne Bay: Kent’s finest for coke addled spontaneous sparring sessions

Is Herne Bay a nice place to live or is Herne Bay rough?

Why not take a day off and come visit Kent’s finest seaside town? Feeling cultured? Herne Bay has so much to offer. What with its historical amusement arcades, untouched since the 1980’s, and it’s many food outlets that outnumber the town’s entire population, TWICE  OVER,  yes… you’re guaranteed a journey through time – and not […]

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Stanwell: The Town Directed By John Carpenter

Is Stanwell a nice place to live or is Stanwell rough?

Some towns are glaringly bad, often apologetically so. Then there are towns whose insidious nature lures folk like the sirens of the sea. As kids, we called it the mutant village of Stanwell. If you have ever seen the John Carpenter motion picture “In The Mouth Of Madness”, you can get a glimpse of the […]

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Dover – Most neglected unloved town in the UK

Is Dover a nice place to live or is Dover rough?

Dover as we all know is the gateway to Europe, and most people that stop here for any reason are normally glad they can leave it behind very quickly, I mean C’mon if leaving the country and feeling safer in CALAIS of all places seem better – there’s something to be said about Dover! The […]

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Southampton: The ex soviet bloc government funded retirement resort

Is Shirley a nice place to live or is Shirley rough?

Is life getting you down comrade? Does your babushka keep saying she wants to have more money and not work? Are your fingers falling off from all that Krokodil and nuclear waste in the water? Then you need a benefits holiday to….. SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON!!!! Seriously though, it has now gotten to the point down Shirley […]

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Gillingham: a quaint little sh*tehouse situated on the river Medway

Is Gillingham a nice place to live or is Gillingham rough?

Gillingham, Kent, a quaint little sh–ehouse situated on the river Medway. Once upon a time, it was separate from Chatham and Rochester and was a decent thriving town, a good place to live. The people of Gillingham had a different accent to their p–ey ****** rivals from Chatham, who are easy to distinguish since the […]

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