The worst town you've had

[FEDUP]

I somehow ended up on the isle of sheppey once, suffice to say , i felt suicidal by the end

Absolute dump mate aint it!

my ex's dad lived there and i was forced to go there on a regular basis and go out to mix with full on chavs and lunatics! hated it!!

 

[RM-Taylor]

Grimsby
Cleethorpes
Scun thorpe
Hull
Lincoln

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

whitley bay

 

[withdeanwombat]

And the winner is.......................



................................COVENTRY!!!!

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Sheerness isn't great

 

[Trufflehound]

Bintauna in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Port Talbot and Merthyr Tydfil are horrible, but mercifully I've never been forced to stay the night there.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Reading most definitely - I was fearful of getting 'done in'.

Reading? What rubbish! The Purple Turtle is a legend in it's own time. One of the best bars in the world!!!

 

[Guinness Boy]

Have to go along with Crawley. Simply the most depressing place for a night out ever.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Bintauna in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

*lights cigar, sips on large brandy, prods fire, reclines in chesterfield armchair*
So - what was so crap about it?

 

[Uncle Buck]

Carlisle was a pretty pony night out. Although ended up as an amusing weekend, due to a taxman and a matress....

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

If we include the whole world then I defy anyone to do worse than

Radom, Poland (circa 1995-2000)

Everywhere shuts by 6. Small bars stay open till about 10.30...... beer is watered down or 90% proof. Most of the people in the bar are drunk, old, looking for a fight or canvassing for the mafia. These bars are the SOLE entertainment any night and going home you run the risk of being arrested for being on ther streets (usually you are mafia or drunk if you out after 10) or mugged. Since they opened a mall in 1999 it got a little better.... if you had a car cos the mall was outside of town... naturally.

Daytime entertainemnt included visiting the petrol station, macdonalds, the super market, the very crappy cinema (which granted did let you take beer into the movie) or tuning into World Service to listen to the footie.

BEAT THAT!

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh... have to say though the girls were great...provided they weren't practising catholics and didn't 'accidentally' get pregnant to get you married or had another boyfriend/brother/father/ second cousins uncle's sister in the mafia...... ooops no one left...

 

[Gwylan]

Port Talbot and Merthyr Tydfil are horrible, but mercifully I've never been forced to stay the night there.

I have lots of family in Merthyr so I've spent several nights out there, truly horrible. I've been to Port Talbot though and I can imagine that's pretty grim.

The worse Welsh town though has to be Newport: the pubs are uniformly awful, the architecture looks like something from a Stalinist state and everyone on the street looks like he (or she) is ready to take a swing at you.

The most miserable night I've ever had in the UK was in Plymouth; godawful place.

 

[Trufflehound]

*lights cigar, sips on large brandy, prods fire, reclines in chesterfield armchair*
So - what was so crap about it?

It was mainly memorable for providing the worst meal of my life. To be fair, there are only three buildings in Bintauna, so it's not really surprising there was one choice of place to eat/sleep. Trouble is with so few people passing through there was also nothing to do and only one thing on the restaurant menu: a chicken that had died of old age and boredom waiting for a customer to come in, rice that had been boiled in river water and was at least 50% sand, and something fibrous and chewy that was probably once green, but had been boiled for so long it had gone anaemic and grey. The only thing to drink was tea made from the same gravelly river water.

I was recovering from concussion at the time and knew I had to force myself to eat to regain my strength, but that didn't stop my jaws going on strike for the first and only time.

The evening's entertainment consisted of watching giant flying beetles crash into the bare light bulb in the middle of the room. Until the generator was turned off at 8pm, and everyone had no alternative but to go to bed...

On the plus side, the bill was under £1 for both food and lodging for two. Although I was probably still being ripped off.

 

[Professor P]

It was mainly memorable for providing the worst meal of my life. To be fair, there are only three buildings in Bintauna, so it's not really surprising there was one choice of place to eat/sleep. Trouble is with so few people passing through there was also nothing to do and only one thing on the restaurant menu: a chicken that had died of old age and boredom waiting for a customer to come in, rice that had been boiled in river water and was at least 50% sand, and something fibrous and chewy that was probably once green, but had been boiled for so long it had gone anaemic and grey. The only thing to drink was tea made from the same gravelly river water.

I was recovering from concussion at the time and knew I had to force myself to eat to regain my strength, but that didn't stop my jaws going on strike for the first and only time.

The evening's entertainment consisted of watching giant flying beetles crash into the bare light bulb in the middle of the room. Until the generator was turned off at 8pm, and everyone had no alternative but to go to bed...

On the plus side, the bill was under £1 for both food and lodging for two. Although I was probably still being ripped off.

You certainly were concussed. You were actually having a long weekend in Sunderland.

 

[sunshine]

I used to travel around a lot for work.

Here is my list of Woe.

in no particular order.

Dublin Ohio (USA)
Birkenhead
Basingstoke
Littlehampton
Warrington
Burnley
Romford
Port Talbot
New Brighton
Wrexham
Sheffield

On the Other hand, top nights available in:

Liverpool
Cardiff
Manchester
Birmingham
Leeds
Brighton
New York
Lisbon
Marrakesh
Glasgow
Dublin Ireland

Ha ha yes Romford.. what a dive!!!

 

[Man of Harveys]

You certainly were concussed. You were actually having a long weekend in Sunderland.

 

[seagully]

And the winner is.......................



................................COVENTRY!!!!

Yeah I'd have to agree there, after all I have been out there every week for 4 years now and its f***ing terrible!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

So, In summary NSC thinks the worst dives in the country are (by vote)

Reading
Wrexham
Port Talbot (one voter hadn't even had a night out there but could IMAGINE how awful it was just by looking at it! top work!!)
Merthyr Tydfil
Crawley
Sheppey
Worthing
Romford.

Just in case you are planning your hollybobs!

 

[Trufflehound]

You certainly were concussed. You were actually having a long weekend in Sunderland.

Aye. (Or is that Haway! ?) And there's no such thing as a short weekend in Sunderland. Even a few hours there feels like a lifetime.