Grottiest Town/City

[The Big Shrimp]

Having just completed a 800+ miles trip up & around the north, I was astounded how much of a depressed dump Middlesborough is.

Both my partner & I thought this is the worst place we've seen in our travels around the country. Consider that I've been to places like Hartlepool, Manchester, Leeds, Yeovil (a surprisingly depressed place!) Swansea, Telford, Birmingham, Liverpool etc etc.

How can I justify this? Every house I saw looked tired or run down, the railway station looked like a prison. In general it looked dirty, tired & in need of flattening & starting again.

The high points? The Transporter Bridge was a novelty & an experience & Middlesbrough's Riverside stadium was a good too, especially with a ship parked directly behind the home end!

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What I would like to know is what is the grottiest town you've been to?

 

[Napster]

If we're talking Britain - Falkirk was pretty grim.
Globally, Detroit is bad and Mumbai is shocking for its slums.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

We've done this thread a few times - but the names Grimsby, Corby, Airdrie and Jaywick often crop up.

 

[Mad Cyril]

There seems to be a strong correlation between rugby league and grotty towns/cities.

That said you won't find many people with kind things to say about Southend.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

The North.

 

[GBJ]

We've done this thread a few times - but the names Grimsby, Corby, Airdrie and Jaywick often crop up.

Was gunna mention Jaywick straight away

 

[MK Shrimper]

If we're talking Britain - Falkirk was pretty grim.
Globally, Detroit is bad and Mumbai is shocking for its slums.

Agreed. Around Columbo and Bangkok is pretty shocking but this is the third world I suppose.

 

[Firestorm]

Grimsby and Scunthorpe

 

[Smiffy]

Was gunna mention Jaywick straight away

Noooo. Don't get me started on that place again.

 

[Smiffy]

Old thread HERE

Jaywick wins hands down.

End of thread.

 

[Calvin Candie]

Luton, Bradford, Hemsby, Grimsby, Leytonstone

 

[Smiffy]

Jaywick video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxowB9RVYN4

 

[canveyshrimper]

Goole, the level of in breeding there outdoes anything in Colchester & Tilbury.

 

[EastStandBlue]

The whole Grimsby/Cleethorpes/Scunthorpe area is abysmal.

 

[mattytheshrimper]

see personally i think london is shocking particular south london. worse than most northern places i've been too.

 

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

The outskirts of Wolverhampton!

 

[Uncle Leo]

There seems to be a strong correlation between rugby league and grotty towns/cities.

Twickenham (Harlequins RL) and Perpignan (Catalans) are quite pleasant. But I'm guessing that's not really what you were driving at.

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Luton, Grimsby, Basildon. In that order.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

Sheerness takes some beating.

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

When you move away from a place/town then that place can at times look/feel grim when you later return.
The wife spent a night in southend at that travel podge place in keedies and said she couldnt sleep because of the non-stop police sirens racing around at night but for me the worse place has to be london.