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What's the worst city in England?

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,893
    Chizz said:

    killerandflash said:

    Not sure why Sheffield is getting a bad rap here, I quite like it, it's got some cracking pubs for a start. Indeed I don't think I've been in a British City that didn't have some redeeming features or some nice bits

    ...apart from Sheffield

    ;-)
    We mustn't let Operationpig cloud our judgment :-)
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,212
    You can check all the other threads and my opinion hasn't budged. Rochdale.
  • Danny Addick
    Danny Addick Posts: 3,931
    Sheffield, Bradford, Middelsbrough or maybe even Oldham.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,958
    BR7_addick said:

    You can check all the other threads and my opinion hasn't budged. Rochdale.

    Spent some time in Rochdale a few years ago - it's like Reigate compared to say, Burnley.
    Burnley is where half the houses are boarded up and the rest are run down.
    There's hardly any jobs. And the weather's shite.

    At least in somewhere like Leicester, you can get a good curry.
  • Its_Hamer_Time
    Its_Hamer_Time Posts: 1,565
    Sheffield is by far the biggest dive of the lot. If you're still wearing shell suits in 2014 then you have issues!
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    We're not very friendly down here, but definitely the best place to live in the country by a very long way.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    BR7_addick said:

    You can check all the other threads and my opinion hasn't budged. Rochdale.

    I've checked other threads and Rochdale still isn't a city.

  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,958
    dizzee said:

    We're not very friendly down here, but definitely the best place to live in the country by a very long way.

    You should try Cornwall, Dizzee ...... it's capital city has a population of 20,000!
    We're pretty friendly and like good beer.


  • banckzy
    banckzy Posts: 81
    Doncaster, absolute shithole.

    Pawnbrokers and pound shops galore, not too different from Eltham High Street!!
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    banckzy said:

    Doncaster, absolute shithole.

    Doncaster. Shithole, maybe; city: no.

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  • banckzy
    banckzy Posts: 81
    Chizz said:

    banckzy said:

    Doncaster, absolute shithole.

    Doncaster. Shithole, maybe; city: no.
    sorry Chizz
  • ValleyFred
    ValleyFred Posts: 539
    Coventry surely has to have a good shout?
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    personally think sheffield is a great city, one of the best up norf.

    Gloucester. My girlfriend's parents live in herefordshire, nothing like the coach journey which goes through beautiful cheltenham and then stops in gloucester where its all dirty and everyone looks like they're inbred.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,870
    Can we keep to this list please:

    Bath
    Birmingham
    Bradford
    Brighton & Hove
    Bristol
    Cambridge
    Canterbury
    Carlisle
    Chelmsford
    Chester
    Chichester
    City of London
    City of Westminster
    Coventry
    Derby
    Durham
    Ely
    Exeter
    Gloucester
    Hereford
    Kingston upon Hull
    Lancaster
    Leeds
    Leicester
    Lichfield
    Lincoln
    Liverpool
    Manchester
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    Norwich
    Nottingham
    Oxford
    Peterborough
    Plymouth
    Portsmouth
    Preston
    Ripon
    Salford
    Salisbury (formally known as New Sarum until 2009)
    Sheffield
    Southampton
    St Albans
    Stoke-on-Trent
    Sunderland
    Truro
    Wakefield
    Wells
    Winchester
    Wolverhampton
    Worcester
    York
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,870
    Stoke for me.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,461
    Didnt realise that Carlisle was a City... thought it was a United ;-)
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    MrOneLung said:

    Can we keep to this list please:

    Bath
    Birmingham
    Bradford
    Brighton & Hove
    Bristol
    Cambridge
    Canterbury
    Carlisle
    Chelmsford
    Chester
    Chichester
    City of London
    City of Westminster
    Coventry
    Derby
    Durham
    Ely
    Exeter
    Gloucester
    Hereford
    Kingston upon Hull
    Lancaster
    Leeds
    Leicester
    Lichfield
    Lincoln
    Liverpool
    Manchester
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    Norwich
    Nottingham
    Oxford
    Peterborough
    Plymouth
    Portsmouth
    Preston
    Ripon
    Salford
    Salisbury (formally known as New Sarum until 2009)
    Sheffield
    Southampton
    St Albans
    Stoke-on-Trent
    Sunderland
    Truro
    Wakefield
    Wells
    Winchester
    Wolverhampton
    Worcester
    York

    *Rochester
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,212
    Oggy Red said:

    BR7_addick said:

    You can check all the other threads and my opinion hasn't budged. Rochdale.

    Spent some time in Rochdale a few years ago - it's like Reigate compared to say, Burnley.
    Burnley is where half the houses are boarded up and the rest are run down.
    There's hardly any jobs. And the weather's shite.

    At least in somewhere like Leicester, you can get a good curry.
    Plenty of boarded up Houses/Shops etc when I visited to see us in 2011
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,461
    Chizz said:

    MrOneLung said:

    Can we keep to this list please:

    Bath
    Birmingham
    Bradford
    Brighton & Hove
    Bristol
    Cambridge
    Canterbury
    Carlisle
    Chelmsford
    Chester
    Chichester
    City of London
    City of Westminster
    Coventry
    Derby
    Durham
    Ely
    Exeter
    Gloucester
    Hereford
    Kingston upon Hull
    Lancaster
    Leeds
    Leicester
    Lichfield
    Lincoln
    Liverpool
    Manchester
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    Norwich
    Nottingham
    Oxford
    Peterborough
    Plymouth
    Portsmouth
    Preston
    Ripon
    Salford
    Salisbury (formally known as New Sarum until 2009)
    Sheffield
    Southampton
    St Albans
    Stoke-on-Trent
    Sunderland
    Truro
    Wakefield
    Wells
    Winchester
    Wolverhampton
    Worcester
    York

    *Rochester
    Isnt good enough to be a City anymore... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_Kent#Former_City_of_Rochester
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,668
    dizzee said:

    We're not very friendly down here, but definitely the best place to live in the country by a very long way.

    Best place to live?! Have you ever lived outside London?

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  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,212
    Chizz said:

    BR7_addick said:

    You can check all the other threads and my opinion hasn't budged. Rochdale.

    I've checked other threads and Rochdale still isn't a city.

    The City Police you.
    Town, Village whatever you want to call it.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,199
    CAFCjoe94 said:

    North London

    That's just envy talking.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,213
    Wolverhampton takes some beating.
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,597

    Sofa City
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,341
    Stoke and Leicester are pretty naff.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    edited August 2014
    Birmingham. It's an absolute eyesore and only serves to slow down traffic trying to transit between the South and the North West or Wales. It's the only place in the UK that's so bad that they charge you a fiver to avoid it by using a purpose-built bypass that avoids it altogether. If the whole thing was paved over, I don't think anyone outside of Brum would really care, except those (like myself) who commute between the North West and London who would notice a considerable reduction in the travel time. I'm not sure why we're spending 30billion quid on making it an hour closer to London by train, personally I'd rather we'd spend the money making it an hour closer to the seabed.

    The only reason why I can see anyone giving Sheffield a bad rap is because they haven't visited it since 1979 or because they're only visited the areas around Bramall and Hillsborough, which are both awful areas (it'd be like judging London based on the areas around Palarse or Millwall). As a former resident, the city itself is cracking and has plenty of decent watering holes, venues and eateries.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,341
    St Davids - not really a city is it if you can't do a pub crawl and buy a kebab at the end of the evening?
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    Stoke. London isn't the best in the UK, it's the best in the World by a long way. London and it's history is my passion and I never tire of it.
  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,839
    PopIcon said:

    Middlesbrough or Oldham

    Middlesbrough by miles!
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,813
    I really like Sheffield as a city, worked up there on a conference, and its a lovely place, if you ignore the bores from Hillsborough.

    Gloucester is about the worst city in the country, nothing going for it on any level.

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