What is the best/worst town/city you have been to?

Harper_Milne · 19/12/13 - 21:34

Best: NYC, Seattle, Berlin, Barcelona, Liverpool
Worst: LA

AaronWx · 19/12/13 - 21:42

Best: Oxford, London
Worst: Possibly Paris

This has made me realise i haven't visited many cities and need to visit a lot more!

[Deleted User] · 19/12/13 - 21:43

It is practically becoming libellous, since I have put the same answer in at least three previous threads, but I am nominating Hattersley, on the Cheshire side of Manchester, as the worst. It is a bleak and featureless 1960's overspill town famous only because the Moors murders happened there.

Best...well I come from Cambridge, and though it is dreadfully overcrowded, it really does have a ludicrous number of beautiful buildings; and I reckon on any day of the year you have a choice of concerts or plays to go to.

scott789s · 19/12/13 - 21:51

Slough

yellowpark · 19/12/13 - 21:53

Worst - Bexleyheath

Croctacus · 19/12/13 - 21:56

Worst - Great Yarmouth....or Deptford on Sea as we renamed it.

necromancer20 · 19/12/13 - 21:57

Best - London
Worst - Coventry

Abomination · 19/12/13 - 21:58

Best: London, Edinburgh, Berlin
Worst: Newport (Wales), Newport (Isle of Wight), Birmingham

Pumping Iron · 19/12/13 - 22:01

Best - Cambridge

Worst - Mataram

JulesF · 19/12/13 - 22:04

Croctacus wrote: »

Worst - Great Yarmouth....or Deptford on Sea as we renamed it.

Haha! Great Yarmouth is my worst too. What a hole.

Best for me is a toss up between Florence, despite the hordes of Tourists, and Bath, despite the hordes of tourists.

NX-74205 · 19/12/13 - 22:06

Best: NYC.
Worst: Cali.

farmer bob · 19/12/13 - 22:06

Best - Berlin, Tallinn,
Worst - Paris, Blackpool, Newton-Aycliffe.

vosne · 19/12/13 - 22:09

Rhyl. Nothing else comes close. I shan't expand as last time I did so (sort of) I got launched out the window.

Molly Bloom · 19/12/13 - 22:11

Best - Cardiff was really nice, and I will always have fondness for London.

Worst - Milton Keynes. Ugly and soulless with very unwelcoming locals.

vosne · 19/12/13 - 22:13

Oban's pretty awful. I keep ending up there for some God foresaken reason and it's still pish.

[Deleted User] · 19/12/13 - 22:14

vosne wrote: »

Rhyl. Nothing else comes close. I shan't expand as last time I did so (sort of) I got launched out the window.

I seem to remember that last time there was one of these threads, Rhyl won by miles. Worse than... I dunno....Runcorn....Gateshead...Gravesend...

DMN1968 · 19/12/13 - 22:14

UK and abroad:

Best: Cardiff and Athens
Worst: Blackpool and Prague.

Si_Crewe · 19/12/13 - 22:14

Worst would probably be a toss-up between Huddersfield or Basildon.

Both seem to have roughly the same problem. The city centre is just a sea of concrete monuments with roads around them.
Doesn't seem to be much of anything for people.

TH14 · 19/12/13 - 22:20

Best- Dubrovnik, London, Dubai, Florence
Worst- Naples

BleatingSheep13 · 19/12/13 - 22:36

Best - Oostende, Amsterdam, London

Worst - Blackpool, Sheffield

vosne · 19/12/13 - 22:36

wonkeydonkey wrote: »

I seem to remember that last time there was one of these threads, Rhyl won by miles. Worse than... I dunno....Runcorn....Gateshead...Gravesend...

I think it was my suggestion of burning it to the ground.

Trsvis_Bickle · 19/12/13 - 22:44

Abomination wrote: »

Best: London, Edinburgh, Berlin
Worst: Newport (Wales), Newport (Isle of Wight), Birmingham

Mmm, bit of a pattern there...

I've always loved Paris and the worst city I've been to was Coventry. Utterly soulless and depressing.

[Deleted User] · 19/12/13 - 22:45

vosne wrote: »

I think it was my suggestion of burning it to the ground.

Looking through Google images in the hope of finding a nice picture of Rhyl, I came across this....http://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2008/aug/08/star.wars

To be fair, Rhyl has sand and sea. I deliberately missed out the ghastly town of Blyth because it also has a nice sandy beach.

Tim_Holcroft · 19/12/13 - 22:47

Molly Bloom wrote: »

Best - Cardiff was really nice, and I will always have fondness for London.

Worst - Milton Keynes. Ugly and soulless with very unwelcoming locals.

I live in MK and agree it is a hole

John259 · 19/12/13 - 22:49

Best:
Bad Liebenzell, Germany (but I haven't been there for many years and it may have changed)
Bishop, California
Boone, North Carolina
Cedar City, Utah
Cortez, Colorado
Durango, Colorado
Gatlinburg, Tennessee (touristy but pleasant)
Golden, British Columbia
Jackson, Wyoming (also touristy but pleasant)
Kalispell, Montana
Martigny, Switzerland (also not visited for many years)
Montrose, Colorado
Pincher Creek, Alberta
Porterville, California
Princeton, British Columbia
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia (on Vancouver Island)
St George, Utah
(Most of those are medium sized towns conveniently close to national parks etc)

Worst:
Virtually any big city just about anywhere in the world

Inkblot · 19/12/13 - 22:52

Best - Vienna
Worst - Bradford

I really like Los Angeles and Marseille, but not in a "best city" way, more like a "most interesting city" way.

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