[Closed] Miserable, miserable places

You've clearly never been to East Grinstead.

East Grinstead has loads of, errr, 'niche' churches in it, non? So i suppose the people that live there are happy 😕

I always get miserable when I see the grey blanket of concrete that is London

a more depressing and selfish destination you will not find 😉

I think there have been worse welcome signs....

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Can't see the original pic but I've never felt so depressed as when I went to Middlesborough - ugly, miserable and it smells.

Hull.
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Hull.
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A: You look like awful!

B: Yeah, I have just been to Hull and back.

IGMC.

Uranium City is surrounded by millions of square miles of pristine wilderness tho - can't be that bad 🙂

The evocatively named Severn Beach, near Bristol:

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walled city, kowloon;

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+1 for Hull.

In the UK, hard to surpass Hull in terms of it's overwhelming sense of void

Taking in the rest of the world I'd say Hull

I once went to Belgrade and the adjective I used at the time was 'grey'. It was easily the worstest place I have ever been to - and I used to date a girl who was a student in Hull so I do have the pits to compare to.

Although, I do have to admit, I didn't spend too long there and my time was spent around the train station desperately trying to get a train to Brindisi IIRC.

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Croydon

I work in Preston. Even when the sun shines it's truly a miserable place, and I've been to Bracknell.

stoke on trent.

Reading - the town-centre 'improvements' of the last 15 years have merely removed more of the soul it never had.

I grew up in Basingstoke, heaven on earth compared to Stevenage where I ended up working!

Sorry you can't throw Reading in the list when Swindon is but a short drive up the motorway.

Oi! I live in Hull and I've been to MUCH worse places.

Tipton.

Queenstown, Tasmania. Joy is apparently banned there.

+1 for Stoke (very good student days there though early 90's)

Barrow....I just dont understand the place!

How Hull can be categorised as worse than Middlesbrough, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sunderland, Leeds or London is beyond me.
I lived there for 18 years so speak from experience.

Any of the grim northern towns beginning with B

and Lancaster University (and no it's proximity to the Lake District doesn't make up for it).

Widnes
Runcorn
Slough

My grandparents used to live in Widnes and even as a kid going up there was awful. There was NOTHING to do. Runcorn is basically one big trading estate/chemical works surrounded by a maze of dual carriageways. One of the few places I've been to where you can't even go road riding from the front door without risking your life on horrible dual carriageways.

Slough - doesn't really need anything saying about it! At least it's easy to get out of the place, A4 and M4.

I can only imagine that this place was something of a let down.

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Telford

The most depressing spot I know off
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Not specifically that branch but the whole lot of them.

Everything about it just says "I have given up on life"

The worst place I have ever been in the UK was Lennoxtown in Scotland. I was only a boy but it left a lasting impression.

Milton Keynes

Hull worse than Leeds? Are you mental?

+1 for Telford

Got a cheap deal on a hotel there for the weekend. Now I know why!

Cost a fortune in taxis going to Iron Bridge to eat / drink.

I take it you lot have never been to Wigan?

I work in Preston

Hull is Ok My mum lives there nothing special either good or bad IMHO
Manchester has very few open spaces and is like lots of villages /towns boundaries just grew untill there was no space left between them- hated living there but the nightlife was fun.

I take it you lot have never been to Wigan?

Or any of the dreary, dead end towns in Cumbria...

By all accounts Mogadishu is a bit of a shithole.

Probably not as bad as Bracknell though

Wigan is ok actually.

Anyone else know Jaywick Sands?

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I'm currently sat in Bracknell, had to get up at 5 to be here too, you're right, it's a shitehole.

I grew up in Preston. It is categorically nay catastrophically worse than Hull.

How could I forget Coldstream!

Not a miserable place as such, but I don't think I've ever met a more miserable population. Everyone in the town seemed to be intent on draining any joy from anything they could.

Bracknell takes some beating but as a local Dudley takes it. Run down town on top of a hill so it is always cold and windy. Absolute dump.

Grangemouth in Scotland. I visited once as I thought it sounded nice. Jesus tonight what a waking nightmare it is. A bizarre fusion of green fields, grey council houses and INDUSTRY.

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I found out it's the hometown of The Cocteau Twins which goes some way to explaining their weirdness!

Just made a list of all the places I've lived, worked or studied in. So far I've got Barrow in Furness, Worthing, Stockwell in Saaarf London, Telford, Reading, Bracknell AND Preston.

By all accounts Mogadishu is a bit of a shithole.

It sounds like it might be an improvement on that lot 😀

I really need to move somewhere nicer next time.