Grimmest place in the south?

[colacubes]

Aldershot

Yep. It mings

 

[Firky]

There is fucking loads, something strange about the south coast.. the amount of grim places. I think it is because London is like a vacuum and anything within a 100 miles of it just doesn't really take off.

Here's my list

Gosport
Portsmouth
Southampton
Windsor (no soul)
Croydon
Aldershot
Bexhill-on-Sea
Isle of Wight
Carshalton
Slough
Stevenage
Hythe

Gosport, Portsmouth, Croydon and Windsor should be looked after the IDF way.

Edit to add: Actually Portsmouth wouldn't be so bad if it wans't for the people that inhabit it*


*tongue firmly in cheek

 

[chio]

I tend not to go down south, I've not usually got a reason to, but I've been to Stevenage and thought it was quite green and pleasant.

Woolwich is somewhere I've been and wouldn't like to see again, though...

 

[Firky]

Hythe

Init, felt like I was stuck in a dystopian film

 

[bluestreak]

i can't beleive we got to page 2 without a mention of DAGENHAM.

 

[El Sueno]

Five Bridges.

Weird flat ghost town.

 

[davesgcr]

How about Neasden - or that bit near the North Circular.

 

[El Sueno]

Dover's pretty mingin', as Spion pointed out earlier.

It fucking stinks.

 

[Errol's son]

I think Thamesmead is really grim as is Erith.

I wouldn't like to live in Chelsea either but it is preferable to Thamesmead or Erith, particularly if given a house.

 

[El Sueno]

When I was in Thamesmead I found it had a kinda charm with it's Clockwork Orange architecture, but only the kind of charm a tourist is at liberty to benefit from. I was mainly there serving legal papers on wifebeaters, which does kinda tarnish your memory of a place.

 

[spanglechick]

When I was in Thamesmead I found it had a kinda charm with it's Clockwork Orange architecture, but only the kind of charm a tourist is at liberty to benefit from. I was mainly there serving legal papers on wifebeaters, which does kinda tarnish your memory of a place.

i was supply teaching.

 

[El Sueno]

i was supply teaching.

Any stand-out memories?

I always find the drive out Essex way gets depressing, seems like an endless flat wasteland. A week spent in hospital in Romford after smashing my ankle on the vert ramp didn't bolster my overall impression.

 

[gaijingirl]

All of the above for sure - I also have a personal loathing for Basingstoke.... the countryside around it - gorgeous - the town itself, a giant shopping centre inside a ring road where I seem to have been unceremoniously dumped by malfunctioning trains on too many occasions... On the last occasion to be told to take the replacement bus instead (at close to midnight) - they overlooked the fact I had a fully laden and panniered up bicycle...

 

[Idaho]

Bombed to fuck, hence the crap buildings. Exeter is another one like that - every block looks different

Oi! (Puts up dukes)

Yeah what the Luftwaffe left, the city council of the 1950s did their best to finish off. There are nice little niches, but as yet their isn't any cohesive theme.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

London. By far.

 

[WWWeed]

luton

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Strood.

Strood's just the bit of Rochester over the bridge with the industrial estates - pretty insignificant as a place in its own right.

 

[zoltan]

youse lot have no idea

try living in the hell of the Dagenham - barking- Rainham A13 corridor and youll see what grim really is. Rainham i tself s built over the entrance to hell.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

youse lot have no idea

try living in the hell of the Dagenham - barking- Rainham A13 corridor and youll see what grim really is. Rainham i tself s built over the entrance to hell.

That's not south, that's Essex.

 

[bi0boy]

Tilbury
Benfleet
Sarfend
London
Margate
..really anywhere south of Cambridge or east of the New Forest

 

[nino_savatte]

Stevenage
Harlow
Brentwood
Billericay
Canvey Island
Erith
Thamesmead

 

[DJ Squelch]

I lived in Woolich for a year. Not an experience I'd want to repeat.

Come friendly bombs and fall on Aldershot.

 

[Griff]

Brentwood

Brentwood is hardly grim in the way the other places are. It's damn expensive, pretty boring, have bouncers on every bar is and populated by Essex city boys.

I bet it's the only place in this list that has an Aston Martin dealership.

 

[nino_savatte]

Brentwood is hardly grim in the way the other places are. It's damn expensive, pretty boring, have bouncers on every bar is and populated by Essex city boys.

I bet it's the only place in this list that has an Aston Martin dealership.

That isn't my experience of Brentwood tbh.

 

[Griff]

That isn't my experience of Brentwood tbh.

I lived nearby in the village of Mountnessing years ago, and must admit I didn't really go into Brentwood much. There was quite a nice Indian restaurant behind the High Street though.

 

[piff diddly]

brixton without question

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

brixton without question

MODS!!!

BIN!!!

BAN!!!

 

[Brainaddict]

Hythe, Folkestone, Dover

Agree wholeheartedly. In fact you could nominate pretty much any town in Kent - except perhaps Canterbury, which is still shit but isn't really grim because it has nice historical buildings. Ashford is the pits. Anywhere in Thanet is a place to get out of. Folkestone is mostly a good place to get pregnant if you're a teenage girl (there are grand plans afoot for its regeneration but I'll believe it when I see it). The Mudway towns are only redeemed by being a bit closer to London than the others.
Weird place, Kent - lovely countryside, fucking appalling towns.

 

[Pete the Greek]

brixton without question

where do you live then?

 

[portman]

Northfleet, Dartford, Erith - anywhere along that stretch to be honest. The wierd thing is, as mentioned by another poster, is that the countryside to the south of these places is pretty decent but the towns are just dismal...