Ferryhill: the town’s female population are permanently pregnant

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

Ferryhill is a small, former pit village in South West Durham with a population of around ten thousand. A typical terraced house can be purchased for about the same price as the weekly shop in any town in the Home Counties. Unfortunately they’re still overpriced due to the high concentration of pond life who reside […]

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Horden: Never make the same mistake as I did

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

Never make the same mistake as I did. Moving to this old mining town solely because of the housing crisis in London, has cost me my sanity. The housing is very poor, and for sure I have seen better squats around the UK. The houses that are not boarded up are smashed, and the ones […]

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Crime Statistics for Pelton Fell, Chester-le-Street, County Durham, 2024

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Ferryhill: full of jobless drugged up muppets

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

Ferryhill is full of jobless drugged up muppets, who like nothing better than getting stoned, high, drunk or all three and fighting because they’ve got nothing else better to do. Ferryhill is full of fast food places and also has a GREGGS. Parents pick their kids up from school at 3:15pm still in their pyjamas. […]

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Ferryhill: What an absolute heap

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

Ferryhill grew during the coal mining years, around the turn of the 20th century. Situated south west of Durham, it is surrounded by other sh*tholes, such as Chilton, Spennymoor, Bishop Auckland, and Kirk Merrington. The housing reflects most of the people that live there; with most of the houses in this little patch of **** […]

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Blackhall Colliery – I honestly wish I had never set foot in the place

Is Blackhall Colliery a nice place to live or is Blackhall Colliery rough?

Lived in Blackhall Colliery for a while now and I honestly wish I had never set foot in the place,cannot wait to get out this really is the pits here, but of course there is now no pit here now. Blackhall Colliery, Easington, Horden and other villages in this area are all down at heel, […]

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Mixed bag for Darlington (Darlo)

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

Darlington is truly a mixed bag. It consists of the best and the worst, and by the worst, I mean you’ll feel like you’re in Mogadishu or Baghdad. Unlike other nearby towns, such as Middlesbrough, Hartlepool or Stockton which are all universally **** throughout, Darlington consists of several okay areas in which you’ll find old […]

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