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Best and Worst Cities/Towns in the UK
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I'm always interested in these kinds of things, and having visited a whole surge of new towns and cities around the UK recently I was curious.
Does anyone have a favourite 3 or a least favourite 3 cities in the UK to visit? I thought 5 was a bit ambitious to ask for, though I'd love to hear people's views on different places.
I'll add my own later if the thread kicks off
Does anyone have a favourite 3 or a least favourite 3 cities in the UK to visit? I thought 5 was a bit ambitious to ask for, though I'd love to hear people's views on different places.
I'll add my own later if the thread kicks off
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http://www.knowhere.co.uk/
Just type in the town name and choose what you want to find out about.
Here are the worst bits about the town I live in
http://www.knowhere.co.uk/Folkestone/Kent/South-East-England/info/worstthings
1: London
2: Birmingham
3: Cardiff
Worst:
Coventry
Hull
Sunderland
Also London is brilliant for things to do, if you're not the sort to enjoy long country walks and quiet time. I live in it, and feel it's a little wasted on me since we so rarely take advantage of all it has to offer - with the exception of nice restaurants and exploring different cuisines.
http://britishexpats.com/forum/rovers-return-111/crap-towns-50-worst-places-live-uk-360683/
I reckon that Slough, Reading, Didcot and Swindon might have been considered crap towns some years ago because many of the residents originated from London and worked on the Great Western Railway, eventually settling in these towns. Can't think of any other reason.
http://www.ilivehere.co.uk/didcot-2.html
If someone was to ask me the difference between Didcot and Wantage, I would just tell them that Didcot had Aldi & Tesco while Wantage has Waitrose and Sainsburys.
LOL just kidding, of course it's not Luton.
Probably somewhere in Surrey or Hampshire.
Worst would be Bradford or one of the Welsh ghettos.
York
Edinburgh
Liverpool - don't think of the stereotype, the city centre was a dive when I was at uni 20 years ago, but it is amazing now.
Worst:
Bradford
Hull
London - great sights, but much to full of it's own importance and over crowded
1. Swindon
2. Manchester
3. Exeter
Worst
1. Reading
2. Southampton
3. Norwich
Cambridge
Truro
Ely
Worst:
Sheffield
Luton
Birmingham
I agree with Liverpool, I left Liverpool 18 years ago and I still go home (yes I still call it home
The only people who still think of the stereotype are the ones who haven't been or went in the 80s and never returned
All you need really.
You think Swindon is the best town/city in the UK?! Seriously?!
"i hear they dropped an atomic bomb on Swindon....about fifteen quids worth of damage....2
"i dont agree with that in the workplace.."
Can't say a worst one as I haven't been everywhere and I've not yet been to a city that didn't have something good about it.
I nominate my hometown Oxford - a city centre full of students who are so up their own backsides its untrue, supplemented by a load of gawping tourists, surrounded by estate after estate of crap estates, full of flea-infested houses that are ridiculously expensive even as the south east goes.
Best: Totnes, Wells, Lewes
London
Chester
Manchester (for good shopping, drinking & food)
Worst:
Manchester (unless it's for those reasons listed above, not much else to the place)
Newcastle
Birmingham
The worst would have to include Glasgow.
How about Okehampton?
Coventry top of your list?
Why?
Best: London, Sheffield, Birmingham.
Worst: Liverpool, Hull, Wigan.
York
Chester
Edinburgh
Worst:
London
Birmingham
Inverness