Newton Abbot - beautifully situated, horribly populated
This is an interesting one. Places that are beautiful (not that Newton Abbot is, but it is beautifully *situated* like you say), but the people who live there are either insular jumped up morons or complete inbreds. Salisbury in Wiltshire is a case in point. Rich area, picture-postcard city (tho size of a town), but horrendously f***d up occupants in every way!
Bristol I love as a city itself (nothing more beautiful than the downs and the Avon Gorge, Clifton etc), but the attitude of the yokel underclass there has to be seen to be believed. A Saturday night out has a horrible undercurrent of nastiness/violence!
Jesus Christ! Reading this it looks like 90% of towns in the UK are designated shit holes by the CL aficionados!
There are some good calls here, in all my years following Charlton the worst place I ever went to was Stoke, in 1996 you could buy a house there for £6,500....and that was on the nice side of town!
Anyone posting on here should declare where they live .. after all, people who live in glass cities ....
Agree with this....Hastings often gets slagged off on these types of threads, I'll defend it to the hilt as I choose to live here and if your in the right part of town it's a great place to live.
Newton Abbot - beautifully situated, horribly populated
This is an interesting one. Places that are beautiful (not that Newton Abbot is, but it is beautifully *situated* like you say), but the people who live there are either insular jumped up morons or complete inbreds. Salisbury in Wiltshire is a case in point. Rich area, picture-postcard city (tho size of a town), but horrendously f***d up occupants in every way!
I'd say tunbridge wells is up there. Filled with massive snobs and wannabe shoreditch/brighton types that live in tunbridge wells but get the bus to brighton every day just to hang out. Really pretty round the pantiles though and decent shops
Newton Abbot - beautifully situated, horribly populated
This is an interesting one. Places that are beautiful (not that Newton Abbot is, but it is beautifully *situated* like you say), but the people who live there are either insular jumped up morons or complete inbreds. Salisbury in Wiltshire is a case in point. Rich area, picture-postcard city (tho size of a town), but horrendously f***d up occupants in every way!
I'd say tunbridge wells is up there. Filled with massive snobs and wannabe shoreditch/brighton types that live in tunbridge wells but get the bus to brighton every day just to hang out. Really pretty round the pantiles though and decent shops
Interesting point that, when the wife commutes upto London for work (only in the winter...she takes the entire summer off) she thinks the same of those Tunbrdge Wells types.
Only in the parallel universe that is Charlton Life could places like Salisbury and Royal Tunbridge Wells make the list of "Crap Towns".
And I was born in Lewisham and brought up in Catford, so I think I'm qualified to know.
By all means T wells is a really nice place to live, just I'm glad I'm glad I've effectively moved out of there now. Great place to grow up and raise a family, not so much when you're a 22 year old.
Newton Abbot - beautifully situated, horribly populated
This is an interesting one. Places that are beautiful (not that Newton Abbot is, but it is beautifully *situated* like you say), but the people who live there are either insular jumped up morons or complete inbreds. Salisbury in Wiltshire is a case in point. Rich area, picture-postcard city (tho size of a town), but horrendously f***d up occupants in every way!
St Albans is overrated although not a people issue per se. Has a lovely small historic area but otherwise you could be anywhere and the traffic is abysmal (yet people pay the equivalent of a small country's GDP to live there). Has two pound shops next door to each other on the High St.
I went to Battle on Saturday and thought it was rather lovely. Not just a decent town but, of course, a magnificent abbey, 1066 battlefield etc. Looked like a few good boozers and restaurants too. Recommended.
This. Absolutely this. Living in Reigate, they're only two miles apart in distance, but light years apart in class. The absolute scum around the station and town centre have to be seen to be believed.
I scanned this thread looking for Redhill. Went to school there. It's gone backwards over the years to the extent that when I visited last week, I took a walk around in a state of awe at how scummy it has become. Last time I was there was when I was looking for my stolen property. Plenty of shops willing to sell it on.
Looking to buy in Reigate, but flatly refuse to go anywhere near the Redhill border, even if it saves heaps of cash!!
Tescos has destroyed Orpington High Street, which got a mention in the Daily Mail recently. How they didn't see that coming I'll never know. I think Thresher's closed down whilst they were still building it!
Orpington High Street must be the best place around for a choice of restaurants. Looks more alive down there than I'd ever known it.
the caves that we used to go into not sure if there were anymore
were underneath st peters school you used to access them from Anglesea rd behind the old wooded bit and all the way the edge of the school grounds in the far corner was a crack and you used to be able to go inside and into the caves
This. Absolutely this. Living in Reigate, they're only two miles apart in distance, but light years apart in class. The absolute scum around the station and town centre have to be seen to be believed.
I scanned this thread looking for Redhill. Went to school there. It's gone backwards over the years to the extent that when I visited last week, I took a walk around in a state of awe at how scummy it has become. Last time I was there was when I was looking for my stolen property. Plenty of shops willing to sell it on.
Looking to buy in Reigate, but flatly refuse to go anywhere near the Redhill border, even if it saves heaps of cash!!
Used to work in Reigate at a firm that had relocated from it's "historical" office in Redhill simply because of the downturn in the quality of the population.
Being a South London lad and given the utter snobbishness of native Reigatians I treated this attitude with the contempt I thought it deserved until I had to go to a client meeting in the aforementioned Redhill.
By Christ I don't think I have ever seen a social divide like it, as mentioned above Reigate and Redhill are physically two miles apart but exist in parallel universes. It doesn't end there either most towns around Redhill are prosperous (Merstham for example) and perfectly OK but Redhill is the definitive carbunkle on the arse of the world, and only because of the bottom feeeding pond life that live there.
P.S I put historical in quotes because the firm was formed in Redhill in 1995!
Tescos has destroyed Orpington High Street, which got a mention in the Daily Mail recently. How they didn't see that coming I'll never know. I think Thresher's closed down whilst they were still building it!
Orpington High Street must be the best place around for a choice of restaurants. Looks more alive down there than I'd ever known it.
I think Petts Wood has a better choice only a mile up the road. I would agree with FoD, Tescos put the final nail in the coffin for the high street, also M&S leaving did no favors.
Tescos has destroyed Orpington High Street, which got a mention in the Daily Mail recently. How they didn't see that coming I'll never know. I think Thresher's closed down whilst they were still building it!
Orpington High Street must be the best place around for a choice of restaurants. Looks more alive down there than I'd ever known it.
I think Petts Wood has a better choice only a mile up the road. I would agree with FoD, Tescos put the final nail in the coffin for the high street, also M&S leaving did no favors.
Tescos has destroyed Orpington High Street, which got a mention in the Daily Mail recently. How they didn't see that coming I'll never know. I think Thresher's closed down whilst they were still building it!
Orpington High Street must be the best place around for a choice of restaurants. Looks more alive down there than I'd ever known it.
I think Petts Wood has a better choice only a mile up the road. I would agree with FoD, Tescos put the final nail in the coffin for the high street, also M&S leaving did no favors.
Tescos has destroyed Orpington High Street, which got a mention in the Daily Mail recently. How they didn't see that coming I'll never know. I think Thresher's closed down whilst they were still building it!
Orpington High Street must be the best place around for a choice of restaurants. Looks more alive down there than I'd ever known it.
I think Petts Wood has a better choice only a mile up the road. I would agree with FoD, Tescos put the final nail in the coffin for the high street, also M&S leaving did no favors.
Petts Wood does have some decent places too. But compare Orpington to Welling, Eltham, Sidcup, etc and it has far better choice of places to eat. For anything else though it's a dump, but then Orpington High St has always been shit.
This. Absolutely this. Living in Reigate, they're only two miles apart in distance, but light years apart in class. The absolute scum around the station and town centre have to be seen to be believed.
I scanned this thread looking for Redhill. Went to school there. It's gone backwards over the years to the extent that when I visited last week, I took a walk around in a state of awe at how scummy it has become. Last time I was there was when I was looking for my stolen property. Plenty of shops willing to sell it on.
Looking to buy in Reigate, but flatly refuse to go anywhere near the Redhill border, even if it saves heaps of cash!!
Used to work in Reigate at a firm that had relocated from it's "historical" office in Redhill simply because of the downturn in the quality of the population.
Being a South London lad and given the utter snobbishness of native Reigatians I treated this attitude with the contempt I thought it deserved until I had to go to a client meeting in the aforementioned Redhill.
There is massive snobbery in Reigate, 'tis true. Often unfounded. But I've schooled, lived and worked in Redhill over the years, and frankly, give me a wax jacket and call me Percy if it means living next to the Priory and not the Cromwell estate!
I don't know as much as maybe I should about the history of the area, but Redhill is on the London-to-Brighton line, whereas Reigate is set apart somewhat, tied closer to Dorking and Leatherhead. I've always assumed the divide is something to do with that. I'd be interested to know more really. As long as I don't have to go to the Harlequin library to find out.
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westealing currentlyThere are some good calls here, in all my years following Charlton the worst place I ever went to was Stoke, in 1996 you could buy a house there for £6,500....and that was on the nice side of town!
Only in the parallel universe that is Charlton Life could places like Salisbury and Royal Tunbridge Wells make the list of "Crap Towns".
And I was born in Lewisham and brought up in Catford, so I think I'm qualified to know.
still no takers then
by the way does this mean i do not need a tour as i reckopn i could show you around it a lot better than you could show me
do you know where the caves are in woolwich
NLA - I've heard about the caves - but where exactly are they? Nearish Burrage Road?
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I live Locksbottom, not the best of areas but better than the rest of Orpington
Looking to buy in Reigate, but flatly refuse to go anywhere near the Redhill border, even if it saves heaps of cash!!
I'll add Blackburn, devoid of any soul.
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Oldham, Greater Manc authorities could do with slinging a bit of dosh at the town.
were underneath st peters school you used to access them from Anglesea rd behind the old wooded bit and all the way the edge of the school grounds in the far corner was a crack and you used to be able to go inside and into the caves
Being a South London lad and given the utter snobbishness of native Reigatians I treated this attitude with the contempt I thought it deserved until I had to go to a client meeting in the aforementioned Redhill.
By Christ I don't think I have ever seen a social divide like it, as mentioned above Reigate and Redhill are physically two miles apart but exist in parallel universes. It doesn't end there either most towns around Redhill are prosperous (Merstham for example) and perfectly OK but Redhill is the definitive carbunkle on the arse of the world, and only because of the bottom feeeding pond life that live there.
P.S I put historical in quotes because the firm was formed in Redhill in 1995!
I would agree with FoD, Tescos put the final nail in the coffin for the high street, also M&S leaving did no favors.
I don't know as much as maybe I should about the history of the area, but Redhill is on the London-to-Brighton line, whereas Reigate is set apart somewhat, tied closer to Dorking and Leatherhead. I've always assumed the divide is something to do with that. I'd be interested to know more really. As long as I don't have to go to the Harlequin library to find out.