Thread: Crap Towns and Cities: What's the worst place you have ever lived?

For me it is the twee broadland town of Wroxham in England. Mostly populated with bigoted Little Englanders who take great pride in being uneducated. It's a reasonably wealthy little town with very little to do other than soulless humdrum pubs and a library that stocks more DVDs than books.

The second goes to Roehampton, the only place in the world I have felt "unsafe"; quite an accolade if you consider I have lived in Honduras. It's close to Richmond Park, which is nice but that's about it.

Over to you

An oven full of Indians Pakistanis and Arabs, no women no grog at 52 degrees, welcome to the Magic Kingdom, fortunately made enough to pay for my home and never visit KSA again.

Apia, Samoa....

Dhahran, KSA

Crewe is a shithole with no decent restaurants or nightlife for the younger generation, the town centre is a ghost town populated by charity shops and betting shops, so bad even Wetherspoons have left the town not to return. Place is full of East Europeans which personally I have no issue with as their women are easier on the eye than the natives. Only plus sides are it's cheap to live both rent and buying and plenty of work with good transport links, basically if unemployed in Crewe it's by choice hence the attraction to the East Europeans. Thankfully I live in a nice village a couple of miles outside the place which may aswell be on a different planet.

Originally Posted by HuangLao

Apia, Samoa....

When were you there?
How long were you there for?
What did you do there?

Are you bull shitting yet again Jeff?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apia

St. Paul's in Bristol was pretty bleak for a white man.

Originally Posted by HuangLao

Apia, Samoa....

Embassy brat?

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

St. Paul's in Bristol was pretty bleak for a white man.

St Paul's Bristol UK.

Why?
When?
They make very good pies.

Originally Posted by reinvented

Selly Oak in Birmingham, though I really liked bournville and edgbaston when I lived there

youve surely got mixed up

Selly Oak is a varsity town with pussy and student nights and busy boozers everywhere

Bournville is a village with a chocolate factory

Edgbaston has a cricket ground and is tame

Wolverhampton takes some beating for bring crap town

Birmingham has got a lot going on nowadays

Originally Posted by lamphun alan

Birmingham has got a lot going on nowadays

more canals than Venice........ and shopping trolleys

I had the misfortune of working in Kings Heath Birmingham for a year or two.
Thankfully my office was on the 6th. floor with a balcony.
Unfortunately, I had to got to the bank every day, a kilometer up the high street.
Incredibly depressing.

Originally Posted by Norton

Embassy brat?

My much later independent Pacific years.
Remembering that my first four girls are of Tahitian/Marquesan heritage.
Long story - Asia/Pacific.

Yakutsk in the Sakha republic. arrived in the airport only to be told that my Russian Visa was invalid and I needed a Sakha Yakutia Republic visa instead. Thank fully I was allowed to go into town to a ''hotel'' and our fixers would arrange the papers the next day upon receipt on numbers of USD. Hotel.... wwell, that was what is was optimistically called. Ancient Soviet blockhouse but at least it had heating. This was January when the temperature can fall to -40C. The next day I was invited to my interpreters parents home. A wooden building on pillars sunk into the permafrost. We went in and met them in the formal room and then moved to the kitchen to eat.... up a 40 odd degree slope! the whole joint rose and fell according to the state of the permafrost. Thankfully wood moves where as concrete cracks.

after dinner I asked to go to the bathroom and was escorted to a small outhouse with a long drop toilet. Unfortunately due to the freezing conditions there was a pinnacle of frozen turd sticking up above the toilet rim so you had to be very careful.

The sole saving grace of the whole place was going into another hotel on the way to the airport on my last day for breakfast and to say good bye to our ahem ''' colleagues''. I walked in and the your girl behind the counter said... '' Bacon and Eggs?''..... 3 plates later I headed to the airport.

Originally Posted by reinvented

probably Pinklao in Bangkok for the Thailand version.

Whaaaaaaat???? No.

A couple of big, fuck off malls, several great hospitals nearby, cinemas, three giant soapy massage places, dozens of bars and 20 mins from the center of bangkok. Nearly all farang comforts available.

Compared to some places in thailand, its a great place.

South Tottenham for 2yrs in the mid 90s.


First time I tried antihistamines with booze

Wombwell, Barnsley, late 80s.
Veg lady on the weekly market nervously pulled me aside when I asked whether they stock Avocadoes.
"We have them in our Sheffield shop, but here they don't know what it is, they don't eat 'foreign muck'."

Says it all.

My wife's closest city (Udon Thani) has never sat well with me. Not sure why.

My hometown of Ada, Ohio is a nice enough town to raise a family, I suppose, but lacks diversity.

Funny, Davis and David citing Saudi as I've lived in Riyadh, Dhahran and Taif for 10 years total and really don't mind Saudi. Safe and always great desert trekking/camping nearby.

Originally Posted by hick

Davis and David citing Saudi as I've lived in Riyadh, Dhahran and Taif for 10 years total and really don't mind Saudi

...agree: I've lived comfortably in both Riyadh and Dhahran, though generous vacation time outside the klingdom helped...the real Saudi pits aren't usually seen by well-paid foreigners: Ha'il, Buraydah and Ar'ar spring aggressively to mind...

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Whaaaaaaat???? No.

A couple of big, fuck off malls, several great hospitals nearby, cinemas, three giant soapy massage places, dozens of bars and 20 mins from the center of bangkok. Nearly all farang comforts available.

Compared to some places in thailand, its a great place.

oh I know mate
but the worst of my hi-so Thai experience

I did write a long reply but seem to have lost it, and you obviously know the area, so no offence intended

Selly Oak: Pussy and curry good, its a student slum, and the locals are a bit err, inter-related in my opinion
Bournville: nice and quiet, the Hibernian on pershore road, village in the city yes, in town in 10 mins
Edgbaston: 5 ways end, border of ladywood, I was young and dumb, best of times, monument road acroos the road from that tower that inspired Isengard

I could have just said Brum, but as someone pointed out, it is much improved from the early 90's when I lived there

and much better than St Helens

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