Depressing Places in the UK

[VeritasVincit]

You don't even after go, just say the name: Goole !
Isolated in the middle of a featureless wasteland.

[JudgeTedd]

I’ve often felt sorry for the poor saps who, after spending years with their head buried in books studying, finally get a chance to go spread their wings. Go to a place of higher learning. Some of these people get a chance to go to a place which is only twenty minutes outside of London by train. It also has a grand historic house. It must sound so exciting.

So imagine their disappointment when they realise that for the next few years of their lives they’ll be living in Hatfield. God only knows what their first week is like when the realisation dawns on them. Poor souls.

A greater waste of bricks and mortar I have yet to discover!!

In fact I Googled a review of Hatfield town centre and it came back saying Permanently Closed.

If that place dropped into a sinkhole today I doubt anyone would notice for a few days.

The town centre, if you can call it that, is worse than the worst shopping precinct you can imagine. All the people using it look like life has defeated them and it’s only a matter of time before they throw in the towel to remain some dignity.

Any shopping review suggests jumping on either a bus or train and going to either Watford, St Albans or even Stevenage (ye Gods!! Things must be bad if the ‘Nage is seen as a better option).

Truly one of the most depressing towns in Britain.

[Carlos J]

You don't even after go, just say the name: Goole !
Isolated in the middle of a featureless wasteland.

As per, don't ask why, went with a couple of mates for a trip of the area. Spent a night with two friends in some shitty Datsun in Goole Leisure centre car park. It was as grim as it sounds.

[Carlos J]

I’ve often felt sorry for the poor saps who, after spending years with their head buried in books studying, finally get a chance to go spread their wings. Go to a place of higher learning. Some of these people get a chance to go to a place which is only twenty minutes outside of London by train. It also has a grand historic house. It must sound so exciting.

So imagine their disappointment when they realise that for the next few years of their lives they’ll be living in Hatfield. God only knows what their first week is like when the realisation dawns on them. Poor souls.

A greater waste of bricks and mortar I have yet to discover!!

In fact I Googled a review of Hatfield town centre and it came back saying Permanently Closed.

If that place dropped into a sinkhole today I doubt anyone would notice for a few days.

The town centre, if you can call it that, is worse than the worst shopping precinct you can imagine. All the people using it look like life has defeated them and it’s only a matter of time before they throw in the towel to remain some dignity.

Any shopping review suggests jumping on either a bus or train and going to either Watford, St Albans or even Stevenage (ye Gods!! Things must be bad if the ‘Nage is seen as a better option).

Truly one of the most depressing towns in Britain.

I've got a Hatfield Poly T-shirt somewhere.

[JudgeTedd]

I’ve often felt sorry for the poor saps who, after spending years with their head buried in books studying, finally get a chance to go spread their wings. Go to a place of higher learning. Some of these people get a chance to go to a place which is only twenty minutes outside of London by train. It also has a grand historic house. It must sound so exciting.

So imagine their disappointment when they realise that for the next few years of their lives they’ll be living in Hatfield. God only knows what their first week is like when the realisation dawns on them. Poor souls.

A greater waste of bricks and mortar I have yet to discover!!

In fact I Googled a review of Hatfield town centre and it came back saying Permanently Closed.

If that place dropped into a sinkhole today I doubt anyone would notice for a few days.

The town centre, if you can call it that, is worse than the worst shopping precinct you can imagine. All the people using it look like life has defeated them and it’s only a matter of time before they throw in the towel to remain some dignity.

Any shopping review suggests jumping on either a bus or train and going to either Watford, St Albans or even Stevenage (ye Gods!! Things must be bad if the ‘Nage is seen as a better option).

Truly one of the most depressing towns in Britain.

I've got a Hatfield Poly T-shirt somewhere.

You’ll have to get it changed to a University of Hertfordshire T-shirt.

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I’ve often felt sorry for the poor saps who, after spending years with their head buried in books studying, finally get a chance to go spread their wings. Go to a place of higher learning. Some of these people get a chance to go to a place which is only twenty minutes outside of London by train. It also has a grand historic house. It must sound so exciting.

So imagine their disappointment when they realise that for the next few years of their lives they’ll be living in Hatfield. God only knows what their first week is like when the realisation dawns on them. Poor souls.

A greater waste of bricks and mortar I have yet to discover!!

In fact I Googled a review of Hatfield town centre and it came back saying Permanently Closed.

If that place dropped into a sinkhole today I doubt anyone would notice for a few days.

The town centre, if you can call it that, is worse than the worst shopping precinct you can imagine. All the people using it look like life has defeated them and it’s only a matter of time before they throw in the towel to remain some dignity.

Any shopping review suggests jumping on either a bus or train and going to either Watford, St Albans or even Stevenage (ye Gods!! Things must be bad if the ‘Nage is seen as a better option).

Truly one of the most depressing towns in Britain.

That'll be me, then

[kancutlawns]

I’ve often felt sorry for the poor saps who, after spending years with their head buried in books studying, finally get a chance to go spread their wings. Go to a place of higher learning. Some of these people get a chance to go to a place which is only twenty minutes outside of London by train. It also has a grand historic house. It must sound so exciting.

So imagine their disappointment when they realise that for the next few years of their lives they’ll be living in Hatfield. God only knows what their first week is like when the realisation dawns on them. Poor souls.

A greater waste of bricks and mortar I have yet to discover!!

In fact I Googled a review of Hatfield town centre and it came back saying Permanently Closed.

If that place dropped into a sinkhole today I doubt anyone would notice for a few days.

The town centre, if you can call it that, is worse than the worst shopping precinct you can imagine. All the people using it look like life has defeated them and it’s only a matter of time before they throw in the towel to remain some dignity.

Any shopping review suggests jumping on either a bus or train and going to either Watford, St Albans or even Stevenage (ye Gods!! Things must be bad if the ‘Nage is seen as a better option).

Truly one of the most depressing towns in Britain.

That'll be me, then

Welwyn’s worse. Soulless place and I’ve been Telford, in Milton Keynes and Letchworth too.

[Sadact7]

It’s an interesting distinction between “depressing” and “shithole”.

For example, my nomination of Dunstable. It’s far from the most crime ridden, dangerous places in the country, but it just has that sense of bleak hopelessness.

Happy Monday everyone

[Petingo]

Basingstoke.

[The Tick]

It’s an interesting distinction between “depressing” and “shithole”.

For example, my nomination of Dunstable. It’s far from the most crime ridden, dangerous places in the country, but it just has that sense of bleak hopelessness.

Happy Monday everyone

An important distinction to make. Southern Italy and southern Spain are home to some of Europe's most impoverished communities yet their urban landscapes have a far better aesthetic appeal than the well to do suburban jungles of the UK. The nice weather helps too i guess.

In the UK it does boil down to the short sightedness of urban planners which transcends decades. Cheap municipal brutalism of the 1960s to the rampant commercialism and functionality of the 1980s onwards. All have contributed to towns and cities which exist only as basic functions of work, domesticity and consumerism. Very little attention is paid to public services, utilities and cultural interests. There's often no flourish, imagination or panache to much of what is built.

The one glimmer of hope is the admittedly trashy tarting up of city centres of the UK to make them more attractive to visit.

Its the small towns and city peripheries that remain dungeons of mediocrity.

[Basualdo]

It’s an interesting distinction between “depressing” and “shithole”.

For example, my nomination of Dunstable. It’s far from the most crime ridden, dangerous places in the country, but it just has that sense of bleak hopelessness.

Happy Monday everyone

An important distinction to make. Southern Italy and southern Spain are home to some of Europe's most impoverished communities yet their urban landscapes have a far better aesthetic appeal than the well to do suburban jungles of the UK. The nice weather helps too i guess.

In the UK it does boil down to the short sightedness of urban planners which transcends decades. Cheap municipal brutalism of the 1960s to the rampant commercialism and functionality of the 1980s onwards. All have contributed to towns and cities which exist only as basic functions of work, domesticity and consumerism. Very little attention is paid to public services, utilities and cultural interests. There's often no flourish, imagination or panache to much of what is built.

The one glimmer of hope is the admittedly trashy tarting up of city centres of the UK to make them more attractive to visit.

Its the small towns and city peripheries that remain dungeons of mediocrity.

Weather doesn't help.
It might be slightly easier to be upbeat in constant sunshine - I wouldn't know .
It's far harder to raise the spirits in incessant greyness, gloom and rain.

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

Grey Britain

[Sadact7]

It’s an interesting distinction between “depressing” and “shithole”.

For example, my nomination of Dunstable. It’s far from the most crime ridden, dangerous places in the country, but it just has that sense of bleak hopelessness.

Happy Monday everyone

An important distinction to make. Southern Italy and southern Spain are home to some of Europe's most impoverished communities yet their urban landscapes have a far better aesthetic appeal than the well to do suburban jungles of the UK. The nice weather helps too i guess.

In the UK it does boil down to the short sightedness of urban planners which transcends decades. Cheap municipal brutalism of the 1960s to the rampant commercialism and functionality of the 1980s onwards. All have contributed to towns and cities which exist only as basic functions of work, domesticity and consumerism. Very little attention is paid to public services, utilities and cultural interests. There's often no flourish, imagination or panache to much of what is built.

The one glimmer of hope is the admittedly trashy tarting up of city centres of the UK to make them more attractive to visit.

Its the small towns and city peripheries that remain dungeons of mediocrity.

It’s true.

For example my own hometown can quite legitimately be regarded as a shithole. The people are largely scum (including yours truly) and the place has been mostly trashed and forgotten.

But if you look above eye level some of the architecture is absolutely fantastic. Fortunately nothing happened here in the 60s and 70s so when the likes of Bradford were being steamrolled and replaced with flyovers, brutalist concrete and god awful 70s apartment blocks, the old buildings here were left alone.












Mind yer ‘ead

[Basualdo]

It’s an interesting distinction between “depressing” and “shithole”.

For example, my nomination of Dunstable. It’s far from the most crime ridden, dangerous places in the country, but it just has that sense of bleak hopelessness.

Happy Monday everyone

An important distinction to make. Southern Italy and southern Spain are home to some of Europe's most impoverished communities yet their urban landscapes have a far better aesthetic appeal than the well to do suburban jungles of the UK. The nice weather helps too i guess.

In the UK it does boil down to the short sightedness of urban planners which transcends decades. Cheap municipal brutalism of the 1960s to the rampant commercialism and functionality of the 1980s onwards. All have contributed to towns and cities which exist only as basic functions of work, domesticity and consumerism. Very little attention is paid to public services, utilities and cultural interests. There's often no flourish, imagination or panache to much of what is built.

The one glimmer of hope is the admittedly trashy tarting up of city centres of the UK to make them more attractive to visit.

Its the small towns and city peripheries that remain dungeons of mediocrity.

It’s true.

For example my own hometown can quite legitimately be regarded as a shithole. The people are largely scum (including yours truly) and the place has been mostly trashed and forgotten.

But if you look above eye level some of the architecture is absolutely fantastic. Fortunately nothing happened here in the 60s and 70s so when the likes of Bradford were being steamrolled and replaced with flyovers, brutalist concrete and god awful 70s apartment blocks, the old buildings here were left alone.












Mind yer ‘ead

From Hell, Hull and Halifax may the good Lord deliver us.

[kancutlawns]

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