[Paul and Linda]

For all those who have just watched Phil and Kirsty on "The ten worst and best places to live in the UK"....YES, unsurprisingly Middlesbrough came in at the 5th worst place to live in the UK.

So nobody else ever consider asking me...ever...why I want to go to NZ!

Smoggy boy

[Milliemoo]

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Milliemoo :nice1

[pleccy2000]

Hee hee - I live in the best place in the whole of the uk !! (Bourough of Epsom and Ewell) :clap

[jo b]

No-one wonder you came back twice!!!

[K&CS]

Well, we're in the 3rd best place - Harrogate! Does anyone out there want to buy our house??

Kate

[Paul and Linda]

I loved one of Phil's descriptions.

This place is so full of old people it's positively creaking

PS this wasn't Harrogate, at least I don't think it was.

[Aydon]

Ah but only Middlesbrough town centre. Once you get out of town towards MArton and then on to North Yorkshire it's beautiful.

(Okay, so I *am* slightly biased having been borin in Marton then moved to Castleton in North yorks, but the point is still valid ;) )

[Paul and Linda]

It's also valid that towns such as hartlepool and stockton and billingham live more in the shadow of industry than Middlesbrough does, but to give it a lower rating still the vast majority of the surrounding area come to middlesbrough for a pub-style night out, hence the slur of a town full of drunken fatties.

In addition whilst not being a horrible place to live, there are worse very close to us, it has few socially redeeming features. That is, there's not much worth doing.

Overall I would sort of agree with the positioning of 5th using the scoring system they applied, but I know from first hand experience of both visiting and living across the UK that there are much worse places to live.

For Instance I thought that Liverpool and Manchester would be in the top 5, but they both have redeeming features that Middlesbrough doesn't (like excellent museums, bars, restaurants, galleries).

Anyway, I'm off anyway, but I also think that nowhere else in the UK has sufficient pull for me to move there rather than to emigrate.

Plus.....just another thing that annoyed me, Phil described harrogate in terms of All Creatures great and small (Thirsk) and Heartbeat (Glaisdale) when both of those places are way closer to middlesbrough.

We get a lot of bad press and very little good. There are a lot of good places to live that are overshadowed in part by industry ("clouds of smelly chemicals" Phil? I think you may be hearing from the Environment Agency on that one, This area is heavily patrolled and policed for emissions) and an industrial style population who have the tendancy to live for the weekend and drink a lot of beer.

Am I really defending Middlesbrough?

Would i chose to come and live here? If not for family, then no. Are we coming back, if not for family, then no.

Do i want my kids to grow up here, no.

Nuff said.

[Cardiff Irons]

Paul, I reckon you should be pleased with 5th ;)

(only joking, Middlesbrough is one of the few proper places - ie. with a football ground - that I've never visited)

[Paul and Linda]

Good point it could have come out worse for us smoggies

[Timbo]

Along with Adam, we too live in "the best place to live", Epsom area. All I can say is, is THIS is the best that the uk has to offer, get me out of here.........quick.
It is pretty widely accepted that going into Epsom town in the evenings (specially weekends) is a bad idea if you dont want to get caught in the cross fire at kicking out time. For the third week in a row, we have been kept awake till 3/4 am by Chavs doing what Chavs do best....and yes, I can call them that as it is now in the Oxford dictionary (for any Chavs reading this, it is a big book with lots of words).
I dare say a lot of the above could well apply to many other parts of Britain today. Sad, but true.

[Bubbles]

(for any Chavs reading this, it is a big book with lots of words).
.

:laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh

I think your description of the dictionary may still confuse some of them mate.

:nice1

[clarabell]

Can anyone remember the worst place to live in Britain? I didnt watch this, but for the last two years in a row its been Stoke on Trent, our neighbouring town :roll:

You can just imagine house prices here cant you :wah :wah

[clarabell]

Scratch that, just done a search on google. S.O.T was not even mentioned! :clap
Wonder if house prices will suddenly inflate and our house will sell for squillions with five buyers fighting to sign for it!! :laugh :mrgreen:

[K&CS]

Hull was the worst place to live. Only ever been there to catch a ferry to Rotterdam, so really can't comment!

[DLW]

Who wrote this book?

They can't have visited Bradford!.....at least in wasn't in the Top Ten, I thought it would have definately been in the Top five of the worst places to live.

Good to see they are still showing plenty of depressing programmes on the BBC :nice1 ....was it followed by A place in the Sun or one of the other 'escape this crap country' type programmes?....I'm beginning to wonder whether it's some kind of ploy by the powers that be to cut the UK population! :exit


DLW

[Michelle and Richard]

Harrogate 3rd ?????? thats my home town seriously considered moving back there before we came out here, we made the right choice coming here.

Michelle

PS Bradford would definitely top my list, closely followed by Doncaster

and who are Phil and Kirsty what happened to Fern ????