Borehamwood, a grey, menacing world of 60’s tower blocks & sink estates

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

I, like quite a few people am fortunate enough not to have to live in Borehamwood. However, I do have to work there, and just a few hundred yards away from the relatively pleasant business quarter near the station, the nightmare of urban chavdom begins. Borehamwood’s main street, Shenley Road is an ugly, run down […]

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Peterborough, I’d advise acquiring shares in Sports Direct, Tesco & Poundland

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

Peterborough has existed for a great many years and the its grandiose cathedral plays host to a site of an ancient Benedictine order of monks who, after an era of penetance, became somewhat affluent revelling in their pious prosperity with great banquets. All that remains of these foundations has been buried, for better or worse, […]

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Princes Risborough, if you find yourself there just keep driving

Is Princes Risborough a nice place to live or is Princes Risborough rough?

Take a classic small English market town in the London commuter belt. Bolt an enormous post-war pre-fab council estate onto the side and fill with ****. That’s Princes Risborough. This estate is so incredibly downmarket they actually had Sky television in the eighties before the dishes came out – it got pumped in by wire […]

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Owlsmoor, Sandhurst: enter at your peril!

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

I can’t believe no-one has added Owlsmoor to the list of **** towns before. Having lived in Sandhurst my whole life, I believe it’s got to be one of the ********* places I’ve ever seen. The row of shops, which are often covered in graffiti, constantly have a group of ***** outside them, covered in […]

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Andover, stay away from this abysmal little town

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

I am at University of Liverpool at the mo, but used to live in what many refer to the ‘******* of the world’, that is Andover. As my family still lives there I have the unfortunate duty of going back there every few months to visit this ****-********, culture-free, hell-hole. The Chantry centre is home […]

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If Margate is a spot on England’s ****, Westgate-on-sea is the pus

Is Westgate-on-sea a nice place to live or is Westgate-on-sea rough?

Margate is a nasty little ******** on the tip of Kent, like a fat spot on England’s ****. As if Margate is not bad enough, it’s connected to loads of surrounding towns that are just as bad. So imagine a city the size of Birmingham with nothing except council estates, a theme park (dreamland) and […]

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Saltcoats: first thing to hit me was the smell of raw sewage

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

Eleven months ago I moved to a small seaside town in Ayrshire to be closer to work. Unfortunately, relocating to Saltcoats turned out to be the worst move of my life. The first thing to hit me was the smell of raw sewage. That, I convinced myself, I could live with. However this was the […]

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Tipton, West Midlands

Tipton used to be one of the worst towns in England but it’s improved a bit in the last 10 years with regeneration and better places to live. But it’s a real **** town where nearly everyone under the age of 20 wears a baseball cap and a hoodie. The **** capital of Tipton is […]

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Selby is packed to the grubby chlamydia gills with utter dreck

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

Selby – Not too far from York and i believe once a busy mining and market town (it still has a very good Monday market). I admit i do not know too much about the history and before you all hang me I have met an abundance of locals who are genuinely nice people……. However, […]

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Scunthorpe…. The name says it all!

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

Scunthorpe…. The name says it all! When I first moved here in 1994 ***** existed, but they were mainly isolated in their chavpalaces in the westcliffe or riddings areas. These days they are littering our streets with their chavness. Nowadays you cannot go into town on a half term/saturday/holiday without ***** and ********* being in […]

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Northampton: characterless & overflowing with nobs & Eastern Europeans

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

Poor old Nobhampton! When I was growing up in the late seventies, it was believe it or not, quite an interesting town to live in, it had a healthy punk scene, loads of gigs, good record and clothes shops etc. Don’t get me wrong, the toned-down **** equivalent existed even then, we called them ‘Yampi’s’ […]

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Winsford, once a nice, peaceful and prosperous town

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

I’ve lived in Winsford all my life, and apparently according to my parents it was once a nice, peaceful, prosperous town. But as with most towns, it has became infected.  Several council estates were built, there are three all around my cul-de-sac. One ironically called ‘Mount Pleasant’ nicknamed ‘Mounty’ by the local *****. Another called […]

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