Wigan – where hell once froze over… and then it rained constantly

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

Wigan, to be blunt, has become a ****-******** sh*thole. Having spent 29 years (too long, I’m currently looking for a place elsewhere, but I digress…) in this dump of a town I can safely say that in the last five years or so things have gone downhill here at a terrifying speed. The town centre […]

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Belper, known as “Brown Town” for its off-the-scale drug problem

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

Belper is a handful of miles above derby, but just as notorious for its *****. Known as “Brown Town” for its off-the-scale drug problem, the local name for ***** here is Townies. They plague the town centre in droves, adorning their sports clothes with their ridiculously big football socks tucking over their adidas trousers. Baseball […]

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Carlisle, so bad the Scots don’t want it back!

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

Where can a person start when talking about the all-round classiness of a place locally known as, without irony, ‘The Great Border City’? Well let me try and sell it to you: 1) – For those who find the local  Aldi a bit upmarket, we have a Lidl chock to the brim with home brand […]

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Sittingbourne – a bleak wasteland between the M2 & the Isle of Sheppey

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

One of my earliest memories is that of a train journey with my mother and grandfather. As the train pulled into Sittingbourne, my grandfather read the sign and growled “hmmmmm….Shittingbourne more like! He then began to sing a song which had the first line “Chaversham and Shittingbourne where all the ******* live”. My mother hushed […]

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What a complete and utter sh*tehole Stirling is…

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

What a complete and utter ********* Stirling is. Awarded City status by the Queen in 2003, that doesn’t stop this from being a Chavtown, in fact, it rather makes it even more of an attraction for the ****** ********. First off , there’s the ubiquitous McDonald’s full of **** – here you can quite commonly […]

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