Scary places

[mightyWBA]

I once had the misfortune to spend a week in Cleator Moor, Cumbria. This was the most intimidating place I've ever been.We were advised to stay out of the Pubs in the High Street,which obviously made us go in them.It was like the wild west,the pubs fell silent as we walked in,and remained so until we left! The original Village of the Damned.

Cleator Moor made the town in the League of Gentlemen look normal.Where is your least liked place,and remember I've been to Wolverhampton!

[lodekka]

I used to deliver to a builders merchants there - one long wide main street and absolutely eff all else.

As for my least liked, Blackpool's grim once you go a couple of streets in from the seafront.

[CheekyChops]

The company I work for has a factory in Cleator Moor and a couple of women in our office went up there last year. They said it was like living in 'the back of beyond' and that they had never seen anywhere so grim and depressing in their lives although they didn't sample the local nightlife.

I have never been myself although your testimony seems to back up the view of my colleagues and confirms to me that it should be high on my list of places NOT to visit!

P.S - apologies to anyone who actually lives there, first impressions are sometimes wrong!

[littleoldme]

I don't have to do anything as rash as going up North to find suitable candidates :-) Most soulless and depressing - a dead heat between Basingstoke and Slough (or Slough of Despondency to give it its full name). Dagenham takes the bronze.

Most terrifying - Aldershot on a Saturday night. Made me yearn to go somewhere more hospitable. Like downtown Baghdad, for instance.

[chongalolo]

In Florida there is a place called Celebration which was created by Walt Disney as a perfect town of the future. We drove around the streets that had perfectly built expensive houses where the residents get fined if the grass is not cut to a certain level. We did not see a person, animal or any sign of life in 20 minutes. I felt like I was in a horror film and was so scared I couldn't wait to get out of there.

[joko]

...dorn't gor near't moowers...stick t' roards...!

[Mudman]

I worked on a US military base in Germany just before the Iraqi invation. Lot's of weapons, munitions and 'trigger happy' college kids. All wearing green! You don't even *whisper* the word "Terrorist" there.