Grim Places In The Uk

[237SJ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4419214/Corby-tops-table-unhappiest-places-live-UK.html Is it really that bad?

[Jackdaw33]

Can't be that bad, they have a Tory MP.

[sandyRoe]

Islington features? I thought it was all luvvies in artisan coffee shops.

[Cloverjo]

What a load of rubbish! Of course, it must have been reported by the DM.
I thought Islington was quite a posh area. The respondents from there may have been unhappy because their new kitchen wasn't installed on time, or something.

[ummmm]

I haven't been to Corby for a number of years but when I did it was an absolute dump.

[ichkeria]

Corby is probably really lovely but my memory of it is miles of unrelenting mud during an inter counties XC race. Everyone seems to be Scottish too which is a good thing of course but slightly odd :-)

[jackthehat]

Yes, it is. :o)

[mikey4444]

I have never been to Corby, so I can't really comment. But I did spend a weekend in Blackpool, in 1995, and that still haunts me !

[jackthehat]

Blackpool is brilliant......Corby is horrible. I know both towns well.

[ummmm]

Yes, Ich, the Corby accent has a Scottish twang to it. It's because so many Scottish moved there because of the steel works (I think)

We used to have a works contract there so I had to go over quite often. Even the sweet shop had protective glass around the till!!!

[ummmm]

I like Blackpool. Just stay out of the water...eh Jack :-D

[Baldric]

Dover must rate highly on the List.

[aelmpvw]

//But I did spend a weekend in Blackpool, in 1995, and that still haunts me !//
must have been the tory party conference mikey?

[jackthehat]

LoL.......yes!

'Corby-jocks' sound odd to everyone, both Scottish and English. When the steelworks shut down Corby became a very depressed and depressing place to live. There were plans to create a huge theme park called Wonderworld, which despite receiving £millions never even broke soil. Airborne contamination from the reclaiming of the steelworks site was found to be responsible for birth-defects in a number of children.

[TWR]

I used to carry out of Corby, it was a thriving place until the steel works went. It's no more dismal than the rest of the UK.

[AB Editor]

Corby is very grim.

But useful, if you want to pop out of London as an MP or journo and go somewhere grim, but be able to get back within the hour - then Corby is the place to go. It's like going to the north, without having to go there.

[ummmm]

Years back didn't they have an out break of Weil's disease?

[Garaman]

//I thought Islington was quite a posh area. The respondents from there may have been unhappy because their new kitchen wasn't installed on time, or something.//

Islington is a borough of social extremes. It has some of the richest and poorest residents in London.

[TWR]

Is it the people that can make the town unhappy the likes of Chavs?

[ummmm]

How do you mean, TWR?

[gness]

Odd isn't it.....if I had to move back to either Corby or Kettering it'd be Corby without a doubt...

It's survived the loss of the steel works....and most knew that Wonderworld was never going to happen.... Sir Roncalot would have seen to that even had the plans to build it been genuine.....

I liked the time I spent in Corby.....I suppose because people make a place and the folk who arrived to settle there integrated well and built new lives together....

In all my years of tin rattling and fund raising around Northants and of giving talks in schools the people of Corby were the most generous, chatty and good humoured....

I've not lived there for some time......but I have many friends and family still in Corby....I visit often.....and it's fine.....more than fine....x