DCI Gene Hunt

1. a) Middlesbrough - North East
1. b) Brighton - Just outside mainly
2. Hull - Humberside
3. Newham - East London
4. Nottingham - East Midlands
5. Merthyr Tydfil - South Wales
6. North East Lincolnshire - Eastern England
7. Islington - North London
8. Blaenau Gwent - South Wales
9. Mansfield - East Midlands
10. Knowsley - Merseyside
11. Blackpool - North West
12. Hackney - East London
13. Stoke-on-Trent - Staffordshire
14. Barking and Dagenham - East London
15. Doncaster - South Yorkshire
16. Cannock Chase - Staffordshire
17. Manchester - North West
18. Haringey - North London
19. Burnley - Lancashire
20. Hartlepool - North East

And I'd hazard a guess that they're not wrong!

PeteBrant

It is worrying in the extreme that there are apparantly places on the whole of the Earth that are worse than Blackpool, let alone in the UK.

dpb

All depends on your own prospective tho

DCI Gene Hunt

Yep, and mine is that they are all 100% crapola holes ..... I'm guessing you're in the top five then

davegtt

I cant see how Manchester got in the list when places like Birmingham are by far a bigger sh!thole. How have they compiled the list?

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

How come Bradford didn't make the list?

It seems flawed to me

pslewis

Strange list that .... seems at odds with the GENUINE one!!

1 Luton

2 Windsor

3 Sunderland

4 Edinburgh and Glasgow

6 Clapham

7 Bath

8 Nottingham

9 Corby

10 Middlesbrough

11 Birmingham

12 Hackney

13 Kew

14 Hanwell

15 Camden

16 Brixton

17 London

18 Littlehampton

19 Hull

20 Port Talbot


BBC - Beds Herts and Bucks - Read This - Is Luton still crap now?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...eL._AA240_.jpg

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

Luton should be up there, judging by my experience of that hole relative to a few of those on the list

Edit - seems Lewis's list agrees!

dpb

The list is based on a number of factors including jobs,crime,schools and healthcare is it not - if you dont need schools for example it could be bliss

i live outside Brighton mainly

DCI Gene Hunt

Amended

Snazy

6 Clapham

12 Hackney

13 Kew

15 Camden

16 Brixton

Then......

17 London

Are all the above not actually IN London? Or is it meant to be City of... ?

Leslie

I lived near Mansfield for a while, and you are not wrong!

Les

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

I lived in Islington and quite liked it, well some bits

Merthyr Tydfil is one of the most depressing places I've ever been to, along with Blackpool

dpb

Islington was a ****ehol 20 years ago - a bit different now

Jerome

I'm amazed Bracknell and Aldershot aren't in there somewhere.

pslewis

If we are talking depressing places I would like to nominate ... Aberystwyth in Wales.

Rows and rows of drab grey pebbledashed Council houses ..... rows and rows of MOT failures.

Aberystwyth is where cars go to die ... I have never seen such a deprived hole of a place.

I'm sure the people are great .. but, I felt rather vulnerable with my Scooby in the LIDL Car Park there!!

falkster

Looking at the list it does look pretty accurate but Im sure, as said before, there are worse areas!!!

Doncaster should be higher up the list aswell!!! It really is rank!!

davyboy

No Hemel Hempstead or Slough?

dpb

Should North Shields be on the list- just askin like

scoobynutta555

Luton, hah. I live in Luton, a very nice part of the town where nowhere near any riff-raff. It is an ok town to live in, much the same as any other town with 180,000 living in it. Touch wood, never been burgled or had my car stolen, I bet some on here that live in 'good' areas can't say that. Luton is quite a central place with excellent transport links.

I've been to far far worse places, especially Birmingham, what a true craphole that is.

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

it is no wonder that boro fan pete dosent agree with the list

KiwiGTI

Cannot see why Brighton is there at all, apart from Whitehawk there are no real bad areas.

Clarebabes

I think they should compile a list of the top 100 crappiest places to live and then ALL of us would be in it.

PeteBrant

Agreed. Brighton is a great place to live. As house prices demonstrate!

Matteeboy

Nowhere in Cornwall.
In fact nowhere in the whole South West.

Splendid.

Where's Doncaster and Croydon? Minging pits of gloom and doom.

Dream Weaver

Having lived in/near 3 of those places I would disagree, although it depends which parts of each place they mean?

I currently live near Burnley, and its a very decent town - full of hard as nails folk who would kill you in an instant, and has the odd rough area that you stay away from, but as a town its very good and offers everything you need, including decent shopping and boozing facilities if you're that way inclined.

I actually live on the outskirts though for various reasons

Can't believe Coventry isn't on there

Dieseldog

Ascot - a soulless collection of "executive gated developments", Mercedes SL drivers, aspiring Mercedes SL drivers, and ridiculously suntanned 40 something bints. Give me rows of Northern Town terraces and real people any day...

Matteeboy

18 out of 20 are Midlands/Up North or Wales.

It's grim ooop North...

davegtt

Weatherwise I agree, other than that its a much nicer place to be IMO

Matteeboy

Love Scotland and much of Wales but the North and the Midlands are deeply unimpressive - excepting Yorkshire Moors, Peak District and much of Cumbria.