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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Eastleigh, an armpit of a town

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

Ok, so Eastleigh is by no means the worst places in Britain (I’m thinking it’s possibly Paulsgrove, Portsmouth) but it is well worth a mention if only for the ‘**** per square mile ratio’; Beastleigh is comparatively small to that of neighbouring Southampton, but it stands brimming proudly with all that is ****, clutching to […]

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Deal, a pleasant Kent seaside resort on the face of it, but dig deeper…

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

What can you say about Deal? On the face of it, a pleasant Kent seaside resort with a charming “old town” clustered around the lovely Middle Street area. But dig deeper and you will find that these beautiful old houses are connected by a series of 18th century tunnels which helped smugglers to transport their […]

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