Worst Place in the World?

[fela fan]

I'm not actually going to go there to verify my claim, but i imagine that saudi arabia is a very strong contender in answering the thread's question. I've heard about it from a few mates who went over there for the money, a couple of whom barely lasted a couple of months before fleeing the place.

And any place/country where you can only see men, and no women, seems like some kind of deep hell to me.

Never mind that barbaric is a most appropriate word to describe this place.

And it's just brown everywhere with virtually no green to delight the soul.

In fact i think i win with my answer!

 

[Dhimmi]

Erith and Balham joint first.

Addis Ababa is alright, bit hot though.

 

[Dhimmi]

Why isn't Morecambe listed?

 

[Chairman Meow]

Can't believe I forgot Morden!

 

[selamlar]

Sunderland. Or Milton Keynes.

 

[selamlar]

Erith and Balham joint first.

"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham".

Linda Smith

 

[Lea]

What is the worst place you have ever been to in the whole world?

Poll to follow.

Wow Phil. Impressive list. Have you really been to all those places? I've only ever been to Calcutta on your list but I quite liked it there. Stayed with a friend's family there. Not much to see but very crowded and lively.

 

[bodach]

What is the worst place you have ever been to in the whole world?

Airdrie/Coatbridge.

 

[Dillinger4]

hanley

I feel your pain.

You know, people live there as well?

 

[bluestreak]

I'm going to answer this question seriously. I'm not very well travelled, but my family have a knack of living in or near atrocious places. Milton Keynes, Southwark sink estates (before inner London was a good place to live), Romford, etc etc. I've also stayed and explored some truly horrid places in the UK, Toxteth in the early 90s was a bit grim, as was Newcastle at around the same time. I've been lost in Northampton, beaten up in Ilford, lived in squats with no toilet facilities or roof and with incontinent feral cats roaming around the place, been attacked with knives by drunk ulstermen in tottenham, breathed the tyre factory air in edmonton, and slept on railway benches in peterborough. However, in all my life I haven't ever had as miserable time as the thirty six hours I spent in Birmingham following Crufts dog show in 1998. Each and every person I met appeared to be on a personal mission from god to make my life and that of my girlfriend an absolute misery. I have never been back to that rude, arrogant, abusive, violent shithole, and come the revolution I'm going to have it raized to the ground and all mention of its existence purged from history.

 

[Augie March]

Jaywick.

 

[skyscraper101]

Where's Swindon?

 

[May Kasahara]

Gibraltar

 

[Annierak]

Rochdale

 

[gabi]

Gibraltar

I liked gibralter Thought it was bizarre, a tiny pocket of super-englishness, complete with bobbies and red phone boxes. In Spain.

My votes for Kuala Lumpur. It has zero redeeming qualities. Oh and Cancun. oh and Dubai.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Slough

or

Los Angeles

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Where's Swindon?

Wiltshire

 

[Badger Kitten]

Peterborough

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Los Angeles

Los Angeles can be a great place to be.

 

[innit]

Malta

 

[kyser_soze]

From that list, Vegas. From personal experience, LA and Vegas. Vegas cos it's just so fucking horrible, not just the stench of desperation and retirements and college funds going 'clingclnigcling' into the slots, but the whole general more money that taste feel about everything there.

LA because it promises so much, has such a tremendous mythology about it and is possibly one of the most boring places I've been to (and I got to see some WAY too exciting elements of LA while I was there). It's SFs harebrained and soulless twin.

 

[dylanredefined]

Gibraltar

Whats wrong with gibralter odd place full of spanish looking people proclaiming their English utterly mad but not worst by a long way.
Only one of those places I ve been to is barry which looked terrible people were friendly though and ended up having a great day.

 

[Brainaddict]

A city called Gorakhpur in India. It first distinguished itself as a truly awful city with a lonely planet entry that said something along the lines of "Gorakhpur is mostly known for the amount of shit in the streets and for the flies. Even the local tourist office admits there's nothing to do here."

I don't always believe the Lonely Planet but when I was forced to spend a night in the city due to a missed train connection I found myself largely agreeing with it.

 

[gabi]

A city called Gorakhpur in India. It first distinguished itself as a truly awful city with a lonely planet entry that said something along the lines of "Gorakhpur is mostly known for the amount of shit in the streets and for the flies. Even the local tourist office admits there's nothing to do here."

India in general for me. Totally overrated.

One place in particular, Coimbatore, sounds very similar to what u describe.

 

[nino_savatte]

It has to be Vegas for me.

 

[Andy the Don]

Gibraltar

Oh yes, Pompey Sur Med..

The Gibraltarians live in a haze of cheap booze & fags.

 

[Zinedine*]

India in general for me. Totally overrated.

One place in particular, Coimbatore, sounds very similar to what u describe.

I totally agree. i remeber spending a night there onto anther city that was slightly better but still looked the same.

 

[Brainaddict]

India in general for me. Totally overrated.

Mmm, but then so is Europe.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Mmm, but then so is Europe.

every place is overrated really when you think about it.

 

[Kanda]

Or Milton Keynes.

What exactly is so horrific about Milton Keynes compared to somewhere like Lagos?? (Been to both)

Addis Ababa doesn't deserve to be on there, been there loads of times and loved it/the people.

Vegas is what you make of it, hardly the worst place in the world.

Glasto is just shit these days. Everyone should be given a paving slab with their ticket this year. Full on pave it and finish the gentrifying off

The Isle of Sheppey however....!!