The 2017 List Of C R A P Towns Gives The 10 Worst Towns To Live In England.

[ladybirder]

Do you live in one? Does it deserve to be included? What do you think? Are there some that should be on the list but aren't?

For quickness they are:
10 Blackpool
9. Oldham
8. Sunderland
7. Gravesend
6. Bradford
5. Rochdale
4. Scunthorpe
3. Luton
2. Kingston upon Hull
1. DOVER

http://www.ilivehere.co.uk/top-10-worst-places-to-live-in-england

[douglas9401]

I'm quite fond of parts of Scunthorpe.

[jourdain2]

I was born in nearby Baildon and grew up with Bradford as our city. In those days it was a good place to grow up. I trained and taught there and in Halifax. Now, there is no way I would live anywhere near it and my sister is stuck in Baildon and never, but never goes into Bradford. She drives miles extra every day to their garage to avoid it.

[ladybirder]

You sound quite peeved Douglas that they've had the cheek to include Scunthorpe in the list.

Never mind, your post made me smile, so you can have BA.

[Gromit]

I visit Bradford quite often. It has the television museum, and excellent curry houses, I really like it.
I sometimes go shopping in Oldham, and that's OK.

My list would include Rhyl and St. Helens.

[dannyk13]

All depends on which part of town you reside.

[Zacs-Master]

I'd like to defend Bradford also. It now has the Westfield shopping centre and on a recent trip there last November I had some amazing Iberian ham, chorizo and olives in a small bar which is also a vinyl record shop on Northgate. The Sunbridgewells development has also just opened which is a series of shops and bars in the old vaulted semi subterranean cellars where the Beatles once played.

[Jackdaw33]

I wonder, of which part of Scunthorpe is Douglas particularly fond.

[ladybirder]

Gromit, sounds about right for Rhyl.

http://www.ilivehere.co.uk/rhyl-2.html

[Cloverjo]

Bradford sounds lovely from your description, zacs. I'd love to visit that shop and bar.

There are so many parts of this country that I've never been anywhere near. Must do something about that.

[melv16]

I can't believe that Croydon and Slough haven't had a mention!

[Jackdaw33]

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough...

John Betjeman.

[mikey4444]

I would agree about Blackpool.

I spent a weekend there, at a conference and I thought it was ruddy awful. The trams were nice but the seafront went on for ever, just miles and miles of sheer tat. At night it was even worse.....I don't think I can ever remember stepping over more pavement-pizzas in my whole life. Wild horses would never get me back again.

But that was at the end of May 2005, so I suppose it could have improved since then.

[mikey4444]

By the way, have a look at the link and see where this is coming from.

Ilivehere is just a place to rant and moan....nowhere escapes.

[MargoTester]

Luton - fairly close to where I live - maybe considered horrendous but house prices have risen by nearly 20% recently! Local airport, excellent motorway and train links make it an easy commute into London. Glad I don't live there though!

[MargoTester]

http://www.independent.co.uk/property/house-and-home/uk-property-prices-latest-2016-luton-bedfordshire-a7501381.html

This is the link

[RobNorth]

Sunderland is crap - and long may it remain so....even the great unwashed can afford good housing, no heavy traffic, 98% of the population have always lived there...people talk to each other in public places and on transport....