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Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by FactualFrank » Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:51 pm

Hull came in at number seven despite also winning the capital of culture prize, Accrington number eight, and at joint ninth, Bristol and Blackburn.

Huddersfield top the charts.

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by CleggHall » Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:56 pm

Up the Dale!

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by houseboy » Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:09 pm

I don't know who comes up with these lists but they need to get a life. The towns on it are almost invariably in the North so I suppose it's a southerner who just believes all the crap about the north. I know a guy who lives near Milton Keynes and he thinks it's the ass end of nowhere.

I've not read the article but I'd like to know where Rochdale is placed. I've worked at a couple of places there and with 'Rochdalians' and that really is a desperate place.

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by bobinho » Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:13 pm

Only ninth?
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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by Aclaret » Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:37 pm

Can't believe there are 8 worse places.

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Post by HatfieldClaret » Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:57 pm

The Venkys will spend lots and get them to the top of that league.....

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by IndigoLake » Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:25 pm

Why would Bristol be on the list? It's not a bad city at all.

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by LS7 » Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:38 pm

This anti northern bias is annoying.

I am working in Southampton at the moment. A place with no redeeming features.

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by holdyourfire » Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:44 pm

CleggHall wrote:Up the Dale!
spot on c/h

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by CleggHall » Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:50 pm

Rochdale was ranked 4th worst, a bit harsh.
Iconic town hall, Hollingworth Lake, Springfield Park, Healey Dell, the Baum pub, decent football and rugby league teams, Littleboro cricket club amongst its treasures.
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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by Burnley1989 » Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:10 pm

CleggHall wrote:Rochdale was ranked 4th worst, a bit harsh.
Iconic town hall, Hollingworth Lake, Springfield Park, Healey Dell, the Baum pub, decent football and rugby league teams, Littleboro cricket club amongst its treasures.
Clutching a bit there, it’s like saying Burnley has Pendle Hill etc

I’ve worked in Rochdale and it’s struggling, I was shocked

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by CleggHall » Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:22 pm

Rochdale - the road to Turf Moor via idyllic Bacup is surely an attraction! :D

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by TheFamilyCat » Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:37 pm

CleggHall wrote:Rochdale - the road to Turf Moor via idyllic Bacup is surely an attraction! :D
When the best thing about a town is the road out, it's usually a sign that the town is pretty crap.

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by Damo » Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:45 pm

I would rather live in Karachi than Accrington to be fair. Has to be the worst place on earth

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Post by Siddo » Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:01 pm

Parts of the Rochdale canal are beautiful.

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by Blackrod » Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:02 pm

There is s common theme with many of the towns in that list but I'm not sure Bristol belongs in there. The people replying don't seem very intelligent so it's s bit suspect really. Poverty causes tatty town centres and I can see why the likes of Rotherham appear in that list. Billingham and Shadwell should be up there. Not uplifting places.

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by Bosscat » Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:13 pm

Blackrod wrote:There is s common theme with many of the towns in that list but I'm not sure Bristol belongs in there. The people replying don't seem very intelligent so it's s bit suspect really. Poverty causes tatty town centres and I can see why the likes of Rotherham appear in that list. Billingham and Shadwell should be up there. Not uplifting places.
A lot of these sites are written in a way as to be humourous... so take some of it as a tad tongue in cheek.
Having worked as a Locksmith in places across the North from Lancaster and Kendal down to Preston across Blackburn, Burnley, Todmorden, Halifax, Bradford, Leeds, Harrogate and all points in between.

I can truthfully say that there are parts of Harrogate you would not wish to venture into after dark without a lump of 3 x 2 in your hand.

There are awful areas in nearly every large town .... where the sc*m of the earth reside .... and Harrogate has some of the worst.....

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by Top Claret » Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:20 pm

Damo wrote:I would rather live in Karachi than Accrington to be fair. Has to be the worst place on earth
Don't most of Accringtons inhabitants come from karachi?
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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by TheFamilyCat » Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:40 pm

Bosscat wrote:A lot of these sites are written in a way as to be humourous... so take some of it as a tad tongue in cheek.
Having worked as a Locksmith in places across the North from Lancaster and Kendal down to Preston across Blackburn, Burnley, Todmorden, Halifax, Bradford, Leeds, Harrogate and all points in between.

I can truthfully say that there are parts of Harrogate you would not wish to venture into after dark without a lump of 3 x 2 in your hand.

There are awful areas in nearly every large town .... where the sc*m of the earth reside .... and Harrogate has some of the worst.....
I'm sure the nice parts of Harrogate far outweigh the worst (I'll be honest, I didn't know Harrogate had any rough parts). I think these treat a town/ city as a whole. For example Leeds has plenty of areas which are barely more than slums but there's enough affluent areas and thriving city centre to be considered desirable on the whole.

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by Damo » Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:57 pm

TheFamilyCat wrote:I'm sure the nice parts of Harrogate far outweigh the worst (I'll be honest, I didn't know Harrogate had any rough parts). I think these treat a town/ city as a whole. For example Leeds has plenty of areas which are barely more than slums but there's enough affluent areas and thriving city centre to be considered desirable on the whole.
Perhaps you need to travel a bit

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by TheFamilyCat » Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:06 pm

Damo wrote:Perhaps you need to travel a bit
Eh?

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by Volvoclaret » Fri Dec 07, 2018 10:41 pm

Some of the worst towns I've seen are in Greece and Cyprus. Guns blatantly on show, don't go out at night, Taxi drivers who will rob you blind, literally. Maybe the reporter needs to look closer at her roots.

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by AngleseyClaret » Sat Dec 08, 2018 6:55 am

Have you ever been to Margate, the place is a total Sh**t Hole, the worst place I ever visited.

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Re: Blackburn 9th Worst Place to Live in England

Post by Inchy » Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:08 am

Bracknell is the most pointless place I have ever visited

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