Slough Berkshire

[McMouse]

Is there anywhere in UK worse than this dump? Apart from Watford…….

[bookbinder]

Well, now. It all depends on which website you look at:
https://crimerate.co.uk/berkshire/slough

[Spicerack]

Ipswich takes some beating. Chris always defends it, lol.

[JimF]

Betjeman would have agreed with you.

[bookbinder]

...and then there's this one:
https://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/19117859.three-reasons-slough-fantastic-place-live/

[naomi24]

Jaywick in Essex. The worst place in the country.

[Vagus]

Can’t think of a positive to say about Slough, maybe the M&S food...until we found a better one near Reading.
And their Land Rover dealership were very helpful.
Drove through Watford once when satnav took us that way. I’d say it’s marginally better than Slough, based on that one drive through.

[melv16]

Stoke's a bit of a s***tip, as well:-)

[Spicerack]

Swindon's another weirdo magnet.
Stayed in what I'd call an expensive hotel.
Woke up out of bed, opened the curtains and there was no glass in the windows. Wouldn't have minded if it was cheap.

[McMouse]

Slough has one saving grace………HM the Q lives across the Thames at Windsor Castle.

[Vagus]

Yeah, you can see the castle from the motorway..as you leave! :)

[Canary42]

Staines-upon-Thames

[Spicerack]

I suppose it's all relative. You dare not walk the streets in some places.

[McMouse]

Venus I used to drive through Slough to get to the office. I used to say that happiness was seeing Slough in my rear niece mirror.

[Buenchico]

Ipswich possibly used to be a bit of a dump, Spicerack, but it's very much 'on the up' these days, especially with all of the developments around the Waterfront, which is now full of bars and restaurants,
https://allaboutipswich.com/highlights/the-waterfront
as well as in 'The Saints' shopping district
https://allaboutipswich.com/blog/2020/indie-shops

Jaywick is, indeed, not exactly the best place in the country to live but it's got a decent beach and plenty of community spirit. (My grandparents lived there when I was a kid. Visits to their house was the nearest our family ever got to holidays. I've still got quite a soft spot for Jaywick).

Watford's not as bad, in my opinion, as McMouse suggests it to be. The town centre is better than many others and it's got the lovely Cassiobury Park.

My candidate for the biggest dump in England (since I don't know enough about the UK's other three nations to pass comment) is probably Grays, in Essex. It's the sort of place where McDonald's is considered high-class dining and where entry to every pub seems only to be granted to people (invariably covered in tattoos) who've already had a skinful before getting there and who want to
(a) get drunker still ; and/or
(b) sell or score some drugs ; and/or
(c) find someone to fight.

[Spicerack]

Greys, Essex sounds really posh to me. (the name)
Haven't been to Ipswich for 40?years. A lot can change.

[AuntPG]

You all need to get on a bus to Middlesbrough, or if you fancy fish and chips -Redcar. The north do dumps much better than the south :O)

[Spicerack]

Nice in the Black Country. It always looked grim driving past it.
But stopping there was great. Great beer, great pubs, friendly people (not that I understood them)

[Peter Pedant]

Agree Jim. Betjeman would have agreed with you.
and not a peep of agreement from the usual suspects who rush to incriminate other areas. Newton Heath, a notorious white ghetto seems rather welcoming ....

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death! ....

[Peter Pedant]

AgreeChris
Moon and Sixpence Deansgate. Ay was going to see Trojan Women ( a Greek play - no not THAT Greek, it had women in it, see title)

And I thought I was going to get slashed, beaten up and trampled on thirty minutes before curtain up - yes 7 pm. - by clientele such as he describes.

[Spicerack]

Moon and Sixpence was there when I was there.
Nice name for a pub. That's all.