Top ten best and worst places to live in the UK

[MrsSnake]

Middlesbrough is a bit of a shithole, but it's still not as bad as some places surely?

[Col]

Middlesbrough is a bit of a shithole, but it's still not as bad as some places surely?

I actually found 'boro okay. Certainly better than the shitehole that is Derby.

[newtechlover]

i was surprised that devon wasnt in the 'best' top 10 its really nice here altho i was surprised by most of the places, and nottingham iv been there a few times didnt think it was that bad altho it was the first place i did see someone eat out of a bin at the bus station.... my friend offered him her chips he said no i dont like chips! lol

[chris4500uk]

Middlesbrough is a bit of a shithole, but it's still not as bad as some places surely?

I actually found 'boro okay. Certainly better than the shitehole that is Derby.

I live there atm, going to move when my job turns permenant. I could imagine a lot more worse places in the UK though

[Loada]

Boro' is just like any other large town/city - there are nice places and there are bad. You have the stereotypical ASBO-yob, poverty-stricken, chav hell-holes but other parts...the more affluent districts of Acklam and Linthorpe are fairly nice places to live, lots of professionals with families and the like. A few miles out of Boro, in the more rural North Yorkshire parts like Guisborough (my current residence) and Great Ayton, the scenery is fabulous with some great mountain-biking routes.

I think it's very easy to pigeon-hole places based on reputation but the reality is often a bit less dramatic.

[Col]

I was expecting a smogtastic dump, but the town centre is excellent. Jam packed full of shops, it is.

[MrsSnake]

Acklam

Guess I lived in a crap bit of Acklam then

[piku]

10 Manchester
Lots of investment but still not a nice place to live.

Sure, the middle of town isn't that pretty and you're likely to get shot at wandering around some parts at night, but just drive a few miles out and it gets prettier.

9 Blaenau Gwent
Unemployment is rife since the steelworks closed.

*shudder*... Bethesda is equally nasty. It's all the piles of slate everywhere I recon.

Orkney is a windswept little shithole in the north atlantic full of socially inept boss eyed mutants. Think Royston Vasey with gale force winds. Sure there is little crime, but it's such a sterile environment, no culture, nothing to do, and everyone makes a point of knowing your business (I could rant for hours about how crap it is).

Sounds like most little communities. The only thing to do is visit the pub every night or throw yourself into the sea.

The list seems a tad London-centred. It'd be nice if researchers actually visited the country as a whole, rather than picking the big bits off the map.

No mention of anything from the Lake District for example. They're a better quality of mutant for a start, plus civilisation is just down the motorway. Same with the parts of Wales not driven by digging stones out the ground.

Nothing worse than a rainy day in a dead Welsh mining town.

[matt303]

Yet despite supposedly having the lowest crime rate in Wales I heard about all sorts of awful things out there, from violent break-ins at the halls, to rape right through to stabbings in the street.

I think some of the stories you hear are just rumors that go around the student population and are not based in fact, we had a few reports of some highly violent attacks in The Cambrian but nothing ever backed up these rumors. I always felt safe walking around the place and none of my friends got mugged ( unlike Brighton ).

[Loada]

Acklam

Guess I lived in a crap bit of Acklam then

I meant the "posher" parts of Acklam, not Whinney Banks

[MrsSnake]

I meant the "posher" parts of Acklam, not Whinney Banks

Cheeky fecker, I lived on Trimdon Ave

[sack]

It annoys the hell out of people in Nottingham that our city gets all this unnecessary bad press. The way the media describes Nottingham you'd think you couldn't walk down a street without getting shot. It's so fucking innacurrate, it's untrue.

My advice, don't take any notice of this utter bollocks.

Sign me up for that. There's reasons I didn't like Nottingham but at no point did I ever feel unsafe whilst walking anywhere at anytime of the day whatsoever.

Brixon, however, was definite 'shit yourself when you open the door' territory - nearly got jumped for no reason whatsoever 3 times in the 4 days I was there.

[gilesgoat]

It annoys the hell out of people in Nottingham that our city gets all this unnecessary bad press. The way the media describes Nottingham you'd think you couldn't walk down a street without getting shot. It's so fucking innacurrate, it's untrue.

My advice, don't take any notice of this utter bollocks.

Sign me up for that. There's reasons I didn't like Nottingham but at no point did I ever feel unsafe whilst walking anywhere at anytime of the day whatsoever.

Brixon, however, was definite 'shit yourself when you open the door' territory - nearly got jumped for no reason whatsoever 3 times in the 4 days I was there.

Seeing some kind of stuff "in the air", the amount of messages about
things happening in Nottigham I have to say made me tought as well
"it's quite an unsafe place to live".

But probably, just a bit more unsafe than any big city, it looks to me that
any big city in UK has its problems with criminality, chavs or other, I
think it's simple just a matter of "big town, lot of people".

[lowey]

Yet despite supposedly having the lowest crime rate in Wales I heard about all sorts of awful things out there, from violent break-ins at the halls, to rape right through to stabbings in the street.

I think some of the stories you hear are just rumors that go around the student population and are not based in fact, we had a few reports of some highly violent attacks in The Cambrian but nothing ever backed up these rumors. I always felt safe walking around the place and none of my friends got mugged ( unlike Brighton ).

Yes, there were a lot of rumours that didn't seem to be true, but the two incidents I am thinking of were in the news. In one of them someone was attacked with, as the papers were calling it, "a sharp implement". I later learnt that said implement was actually a short sword used in one of the martial arts. Can't remember which or what type of sword it is. The violent break-in at halls was in Penbryn. Someone got assaulted and their computer nicked. Again it was in the papers. Plus there was the tramp who OD'ed in the toilets in the Weatherspoons. Never heard of anything like that before or since.

But besides all of that, my point was that although I heard about lots of shit there it was by far one of the best places I've ever lived, and I've never felt as safe anywhere else. Yet Newbury is supposedly a nice place, I hear about very little crime, yet I constantly feel intimidated if I go out at night.

[Yak]

Pity the old Clocky in Newbury is no more. Fantastic metal pub that was, inhabited by shedloads of biker types. They were generally all excellent guys to hang out with and you could be pretty certain nobody would try anything on with that lot around, so it felt extremely safe .

Last time I passed through Newbury it was changed into a fucking IRISH THEME PUB. Bastards .