What's the worst city in England?
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Anywhere in Yorkshire is exempt because wherever you are the countryside is a hop and a skip away. It is magnificent!MattTeesHeader said:Its either Birmingham or Sheffield for me
Many relatives in Sheffield and have fond memories of staying with them as a kid and spending days in the Peak District. Great people, wonderful tomato sausages and good pubs!
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Do Counties have capital cities ? What is the capital city of Bedfordshire ? or Surrey ?Oggy Red said:
You should try Cornwall, Dizzee ...... it's capital city has a population of 20,000!dizzee said:We're not very friendly down here, but definitely the best place to live in the country by a very long way.
We're pretty friendly and like good beer.0 -
'County towns', but it's not always the one you'd expect.PL54 said:
Do Counties have capital cities ? What is the capital city of Bedfordshire ? or Surrey ?Oggy Red said:
You should try Cornwall, Dizzee ...... it's capital city has a population of 20,000!dizzee said:We're not very friendly down here, but definitely the best place to live in the country by a very long way.
We're pretty friendly and like good beer.
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Places visited... Sunderland top of the pile, the difference between there and 10 miles up the road is remarkable! Also the only place I'd seen a Greggs restaurant. Their best shops were Debenhams and Sports Direct! It has been 4 years since I last went mind so might have changed...
Birmingham is the only city that you seem to spend an hour searching for a pub that's not a crack den. I've also always had a disliking for Manchester. The locals I've found twice as bad as Londoners for rudeness and its just a polished turd0 -
Wolverhampton, and I remember reading something not so long ago that it was voted in the top five world's worse cities to attend.0
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Most football grounds are in the worst parts of cities, I think that may be clouding people's judgement of Sheffield for example.
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Always find Birmingham incredibly depressing. They always go on about how it's improved and proudly show you the walkabout as an example of the city's new found development. Nice people but they sound like moomins and all get dressed up in their Sunday best to visit rancid chain pubs because they believe it's the height of sophistication. In many ways I think it would be kinder if the government ran an eradication programme and we all agreed that we'd not talk about it again.
Blackpool is as bad. Whenever I've been there for a game I find myself in some stinking, sticky floored dive looking around at the fat legged hen parties and stoic Scottish holiday makers desperately guzzling vile brews and I think, "this is your holiday, the bit of the year you look forward to, the bit that makes all of the rest of the dirge worthwhile. You should end it."2 -
London best and worst.
Best for the sights an history worst for many reasons0 -
Completely agree. Spent the weekend in Sheffield in March for an event of some sort that I seem to have blocked out of my memory and it's a lovely city.LawrieAbrahams said:Most football grounds are in the worst parts of cities, I think that may be clouding people's judgement of Sheffield for example.
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Agree with London being the best city in the world but wouldn't say by a long way - New York runs it close in my opinion.masicat said: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.
Stoke? I'll have you know that I happen to work there and at this precise moment I'm looking out of my office window at therainsun drenched streets.
Ok fair comment.
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There is no way we can categorically say which cities are the best and which are the worst, I think we need to make sure we all realise this.
That however doesn't mean we can't have a opinion. I love London, I grew up here, it's diverse and it's interesting. To me it's the greatest city in the world. That said sometimes I hate it. For example when I'm broke it's crap or take for example today I popped down to Oxford St to buy the missus a present and I couldn't move for tourists*...but then I suppose if it wasn't so great they wouldn't be here in the first place.
The worst city I have ever been to is hard. I go to the University of Hull, the place has a bad reputation but I love it. It's cheap, on the most part the people are friendly and it's got a quaint charm to it...but I don't want to spend the rest of my life living there.
I'd have to say Doncaster. I've had many stop overs there on my way to Hull and the occasional away day. I've almost always found the place desolate and deserted bar a few kids hanging round in the station car park. Somebody once told me that Doncaster was "the place society went to die." I think that's a little harsh, but it's not too far from the truth.
*Interesting story, at Oxford Circus I saw a busker playing the guitar with around 10 Japanese tourists standing around him. Following the conclusion of Stairway to Heaven they all cheered and applauded and walked off without leaving him a penny, unfortunately I only had 50p I could chuck his way.0 -
Doncaster is not a city although I read someplace they had aspirations.
Chelmsford has never impressed me. Completely without character.0 -
London is the best
Coventry is the worst0 -
If you are travelling from the North East to London how does B'ham effect you?Fiiish said:
Birmingham.
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 East and London who would notice a considerable reduction in the travel time.0 -
Ugh, typo, I meant the North West. I obviously have House of Lords syndrome.SheffieldRed said:
If you are travelling from the North East to London how does B'ham effect you?Fiiish said:
Birmingham.
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 East and London who would notice a considerable reduction in the travel time.
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Love Sheffield, people are absolutely amazing people.1
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All of them? Including the red half?operationpig said:Love Sheffield, people are absolutely amazing people.
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Good point.guinnessaddick said:
All of them? Including the red half?operationpig said:Love Sheffield, people are absolutely amazing people.
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By the way, people saying Hillsborough and surrounding area is a S**t hole, I beg to differ, the terrace houses on the side streets next to it might be a little run down as most are rented properties but just a mile up the road towards Wadlsey is nice, next door to SWFC is Hillsborough park2
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I grew up 20 miles from Birmingham and went to Uni there and Morts has pretty much nailed it. It's got a grand old history with its part in the industrial revolution etc. It might not be glamorous but it's what put it on the map but instead of sympathetically celebrating that they've made the centre of the city look like any other chain-restaurant monopoly run town centre just with more canals.Mortimerician said:Always find Birmingham incredibly depressing. They always go on about how it's improved and proudly show you the walkabout as an example of the city's new found development. Nice people but they sound like moomins and all get dressed up in their Sunday best to visit rancid chain pubs because they believe it's the height of sophistication. In many ways I think it would be kinder if the government ran an eradication programme and we all agreed that we'd not talk about it again.
Blackpool is as bad. Whenever I've been there for a game I find myself in some stinking, sticky floored dive looking around at the fat legged hen parties and stoic Scottish holiday makers desperately guzzling vile brews and I think, "this is your holiday, the bit of the year you look forward to, the bit that makes all of the rest of the dirge worthwhile. You should end it."
Still the best place in the world to get a curry though.
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t'Come t'Sheffield. We got t'trees and t'allsorts.operationpig said:By the way, people saying Hillsborough and surrounding area is a S**t hole, I beg to differ, the terrace houses on the side streets next to it might be a little run down as most are rented properties but just a mile up the road towards Wadlsey is nice, next door to SWFC is Hillsborough park
t'This t'message t'were brought t'to t'you by t'Sheffield t'tourist board.0 -
t'Twat.Exiled_Addick said:
t'Come t'Sheffield. We got t'trees and t'allsorts.operationpig said:By the way, people saying Hillsborough and surrounding area is a S**t hole, I beg to differ, the terrace houses on the side streets next to it might be a little run down as most are rented properties but just a mile up the road towards Wadlsey is nice, next door to SWFC is Hillsborough park
t'This t'message t'were brought t'to t'you by t'Sheffield t'tourist board.
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I notice there is a lamp post to the left of your picture.operationpig said:By the way, people saying Hillsborough and surrounding area is a S**t hole, I beg to differ, the terrace houses on the side streets next to it might be a little run down as most are rented properties but just a mile up the road towards Wadlsey is nice, next door to SWFC is Hillsborough park
Gas or electric?
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Gas.charltonkeston said:
I notice there is a lamp post to the left of your picture.operationpig said:By the way, people saying Hillsborough and surrounding area is a S**t hole, I beg to differ, the terrace houses on the side streets next to it might be a little run down as most are rented properties but just a mile up the road towards Wadlsey is nice, next door to SWFC is Hillsborough park
Gas or electric?
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You cant kid me, you've Photoshopped that in ;-)operationpig said:
Gas.charltonkeston said:
I notice there is a lamp post to the left of your picture.operationpig said:By the way, people saying Hillsborough and surrounding area is a S**t hole, I beg to differ, the terrace houses on the side streets next to it might be a little run down as most are rented properties but just a mile up the road towards Wadlsey is nice, next door to SWFC is Hillsborough park
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I watched that 'Threads' promotional film from the 80s the other day Piggy, I thought the South Yorkshire Urban Planners showed some real vision in their proposals to improve Sheffield town centre. Whatever happened to those upgrades, I bet Thatcher pulled the plug on them didn't she, the old northern hating cow?operationpig said:
t'Twat.Exiled_Addick said:
t'Come t'Sheffield. We got t'trees and t'allsorts.operationpig said:By the way, people saying Hillsborough and surrounding area is a S**t hole, I beg to differ, the terrace houses on the side streets next to it might be a little run down as most are rented properties but just a mile up the road towards Wadlsey is nice, next door to SWFC is Hillsborough park
t'This t'message t'were brought t'to t'you by t'Sheffield t'tourist board.
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Can I put a vote a vote in for Southampton....it really isn't very nice. I think it gets overlooked in its shiteness by being (very) down south.0
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Yeh, them, that's my choice.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
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Did you also watch Ghostbusters and band aid after Threads?Exiled_Addick said:
I watched that 'Threads' promotional film from the 80s the other day Piggy, I thought the South Yorkshire Urban Planners showed some real vision in their proposals to improve Sheffield town centre. Whatever happened to those upgrades, I bet Thatcher pulled the plug on them didn't she, the old northern hating cow?operationpig said:
t'Twat.Exiled_Addick said:
t'Come t'Sheffield. We got t'trees and t'allsorts.operationpig said:By the way, people saying Hillsborough and surrounding area is a S**t hole, I beg to differ, the terrace houses on the side streets next to it might be a little run down as most are rented properties but just a mile up the road towards Wadlsey is nice, next door to SWFC is Hillsborough park
t'This t'message t'were brought t'to t'you by t'Sheffield t'tourist board.
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