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Rubbish other places we've lived...

tosscattosscat
edited March 2008 in Local discussion
By far the worst for me was Bristol, managed 6 months before realising what an horrendous mistake I had made. As well as being not really my cup of tea, it just refused to stop raining.
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  • Four EyesFour Eyes
    edited 5:44PM
    6 months in Stratford (E15 not Shakespeare) was the most rubbish place I've lived. Nothing would ever drag me back there again, Olympics or no Olympics.
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  • SimonBSimonB
    edited 5:44PM
    Sydenham SE16 ... see other thread about Sydenham forum ... I was there 6 months
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  • GilesGiles
    edited 5:44PM
    Forest Gate - between Stratford and Ilford. Stratford was the bright lights compared to Forest Gate, even <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1002189.stm"> the local MP got mugged </a>
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  • ColetteColette
    edited 5:44PM
    Oh this is easy - Canada Water/Rotherhithe. How I hated it. I lasted 4 months before running back to Highbury as fast as my little legs could take me.
    The local off-licence had security grills and a doorbell, the block had all its garden furniture stolen despite a high spiky fence surrounding it, everyone owned a pitt bull and all the pubs were BNP strongholds.
    I feel queasy just thinking about it.
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  • petrapetra
    edited 5:44PM
    East Acton - not very nice!!
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  • mattmatt
    edited 5:44PM
    The first flat (room) I stayed in on Oxford Road was pretty horrendous.
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  • dominicdominic
    edited March 2008
    @colette the vicky wines across from my old flat in herne hill was like that. no chance of stealing special brew from there... it did though have a wonderful bin of discount booze which was past its sell by date. at 50p a can, can't complain really. (I've moved on since that now and instead spend lots of money at Jack's on fancy beer - what a shop).
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  • katiejanekatiejane
    edited 5:44PM
    Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
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  • LucyLucy
    edited 5:44PM
    It's a tie between a hospital flat in Aberdeen and a hospital flat in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
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  • VictorMosesVictorMoses
    edited 5:44PM
    I lived in a crumbling flat in the slums of Madrid for two years. In the winter it was so cold that you could see your breath. The bathroom was really manky, with red slime oozing from between the tiles. There was a bearded lady downstairs who shared her flat with pigeons.
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  • LizLiz
    edited 5:44PM
    Aside from King's Lynn, South Tottenham (the other 'Nam). When I moved in to my flat, there were slugs in the kitchen cupboards, and I every time I came home I was worried in case someone had kicked the door in. Haven't we all gone up in the world!
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  • groligroli
    edited 5:44PM
    would like to add a second vote for Wakefield, are we running a poll?
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  • tosscattosscat
    edited 5:44PM
    I went out once in Wakey - it wasn't even good for that. I used to live in Croydon - the Chicago of Europe.
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  • jandbjandb
    edited 5:44PM
    I thought Croydon was being touted as the new Barcelona ?
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  • poxypoxy
    edited 5:44PM
    I also lived in Croydon. Six months in an unfurnished house rented by my company. The furnishing budget ran to a bed in each bedroom. No furniture in the lounge or the kitchen. It was hell.
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  • LucyLucy
    edited 5:44PM
    They used to bus people into Wakey from all over the country to experience the night life (this is true). People used to come from down south and everything. Night life was crappy but there was a lot of it.
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  • tosscattosscat
    edited 5:44PM
    What was the name of that 'great' club in Batley that used to be TV advertised in the Eighties?
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  • tosscattosscat
    edited 5:44PM
    @ jandb I think Barcelona is becoming the new Croydon in reality.
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  • groligroli
    edited 5:44PM
    Stuart Maconie reckons Knightsbridge is te Batley of the south, @ tosscat was it the Frontier club?
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  • LucyLucy
    edited 5:44PM
    Oh my god! That's still open. Not sure it's still called the Frontier though. Awful place.
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  • katiejanekatiejane
    edited March 2008
    talking of awful places, I've changed my mind to 'opposite a weatherspoons pub on a warm summer evening'
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  • poxypoxy
    edited 5:44PM
    <a href="http://www.batleyfrontier.co.uk/" target="qwerty">It's still open!</a>

    I've been. And to Rooftop Gardens and Rumours in Wakefield. Awful places.
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  • andyandy
    edited 5:44PM
    I've been to Rooftop Gardens in Wakefield. Never again.
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  • LucyLucy
    edited 5:44PM
    Rooftop gardens - 10p a pint night. I still have fond memories of putting down 5 x 2p pieces and getting a beer. It seemed reasonably drinkable too. Don't have fond memories of most of the rest of the evening though!
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