Yeovile or Yobvil as it is better known

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

Realistically named Yeovile or Yobvil by locals, visitors can appreciate the dire state of the town centre as soon as they arrive and park in one of the tatty car parks surrounded by derelict/semi derelict buildings. Ukrainians settling here probably feel well at home as the Council’s town centre ‘Yeovil Refresh’ programme has turned it […]

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Cotford St Luke – Fantastic if you like GUNFIRE!

Is Cotford St Luke a nice place to live or is Cotford St Luke rough?

Cotford St Luke is a nondescript ‘new town’ (well, 20 ish years old) 6 or so miles to the north west of Taunton. It has a Co-Op shop and a quite well reviewed diner/bar called The Chapel. The problem with this place is gunfire or gunshot, call it what you will. SIX days a week […]

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Wiveliscombe: sh*te rolled down hill and collected in one glorious cesspit

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

Wiveliscombe in Somerset: Well where do you start? Often described in the glossy tourist brochures (I jest – there are no glossy tourist brochures!) as ‘The Gateway to Exmoor, nestling in an amphitheatre of glorious surrounding hills’. Instead what we find is that all that collective sh*te from those glorious surrounding hills (and by heck […]

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“I hate life and Watchet” – said a poignant piece of graffiti

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

“I hate life & Watchet” was some especially poignant graffiti I saw carved into the bus stop. It pretty much sums things up really. Although I never actually lived there, I visited Watchet pretty much 5 days a week to score [“A sh*t ton of illicit substances” -Ed] back in the mid-late 90’s for about […]

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Bridgwater: like an open cesspit, the thickest sh*ts tend to accumulate here

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

Bridgwater is best described as a ‘meeting place’ in that like an open cess-pit, the thickest ***** tend to accumulate here. These are the people that cut themselves shaving and place the plaster on the mirror. Cro-magnon man would have no trouble fitting-in here though his wife would need to get a ‘wide load’ tattoo […]

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