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UK's 'most depressing' town 2024: 153 towns on most 'soul-destroying' shortlist www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uks-most-depressing-town-2024-31813466

Do you agree if where you live is included in the list or disagree ?

Aenurse1
4 months ago
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Emerge11

Where I am right now living Is on the list and yes I agree. There Is nothing to do here and no where to go.

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Aenurse1

Emerge11 same mines on there and it’s a seaside town and it’s empty shops it is soul destroying

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Emerge11

Aenurse1 Yes I live In a coastal town to. Charity shops, coffee shops, shoe shops and ridiculous parking charges. It Is rather DEPRESSING.

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Aenurse1

Emerge11 sooo true of many seaside towns

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janphoenix51

Emerge11 ,When my partner, daughter & I visited Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland when we were over visiting family in Portadown we found a beautiful Marina,Castle,Award Winning Toilets & FREE Parking. I was told rather than drive Tourists away the Council ENCOURAGE them to come,that's why the Parking is FREE..

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Emerge11

janphoenix51 I think the Council where I live encourages us not to visit our town. Where I originally come from the parking Is free and It can hold about 3000 cars too. Crazy Isnt It.

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janphoenix51

Emerge11 ..I live in Sheffield, our council have ruined our city,ask anyone who lives there...Where do you live?

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slightfoot

Emerge11 sounds the same as where I live, I'm also on the list, we have a lovely beach, but cold brown muddy sea, and the shops are rubbish

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Emerge11

janphoenix51 Its crazy Isn't It. Yes the Council dont help do they. I live In Ilfracombe.

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martinlufc5637

Our town is not on the list, but it should be, totally depressing, most shops closed, junkies begging everywhere, crime and anti social behaviour out of control

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Aenurse1

martinlufc5637 it seems to be the norm these days

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martinlufc5637

Aenurse1 yeah and they wonder why no one goes into town centres anymore

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janphoenix51

martinlufc5637 ...Leeds??

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martinlufc5637

janphoenix51 no we moved away from Leeds a few years ago

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janphoenix51

martinlufc5637 ....Where to?

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lindace73

We're not on the list but our town is depressing!! No cinema clubs only salons and take outs. 😪

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janphoenix51

I was expecting to find the Steel City where I was born n bred & call home on this list too but it isn't...

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JLouM

Can’t read the list unfortunately so can’t tell. Too many ads and jumping about.

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Jackscot

My town is on the list the town centre is terrible empty shops

Drug useers look like zombies

Alcohols asking for money

prostitutes trying to sell their bodies

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Lynibis

Mine's on it and I agree wholeheartedly, some of the others I had considered lovely places to live.

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Sarahvwomble

Glad to see Lancaster and Kendal not on list but that maybe because noone from the smaller population has nominated it!

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Daffodil90

I agree as here is nothing much here shops closing, anti social problems a bus station that cost over 10million and hardly any buses, nothing for kids tbh

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BonzoBanana

Quite a few places on the list I know including my own home town Yeovil. Yeovil does have a awful run down high street with many empty shops but we are in a low population density area of the UK with easy access to the countryside and beaches and have a good average temperature being so southerly. I actually like Yeovil except the poor high street which is poor compared to how it was 15 years ago. We have all killed the high street with online purchases so it was our choice to do so.

Chard is on the list which is a nearby town to Yeovil at about 15 miles I think. It's only a small town anyway so it was never going to have an amazing high street but I quite like the place.

A lot of cities on that list including England's smallest city which is about 20 miles from Yeovil which is Wells. Wells is a very historic place with the cathedral and many old buildings.

I feel this list is more about people's attitude to complain or perhaps their own personal circumstances rather than where they live to a degree. Also maybe people are simply making the comparison of how it used to be in the past. We are a bankrupt nation heading for a IMF bailout with most of our industry gone and staggering debts. Obviously things are getting worse everywhere with a collapse in public services, increase in crime and general increase in poverty.

I noticed Poole was on the list which is an area I love and if I was moving elsewhere in the UK that would be a strong candidate. Famous for sandbanks where a lot of rich people live it has good infrastructure, lots to do, great beaches in the area. I really think the Poole/Bournemouth area is one of the best places to live in the UK. Close to the New Forest which is amazing too.

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patarule

I think k Gateshead even with its cinema and large Tesco is not as good as it used to be. Durham has lost a lot of its charm and may improve as new bus station has just opened

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lilyflower

patarule The new bus station is a cleaned up version of the old, they've added more seats and better toilet facilities but that's it. The few shops that opened onto the bus concourse have gone and it's now a solid wall with the new units awaiting tenants. Buses are still late and arriving at the wrong stand!

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KeithMorri30374

I agree and it includes Croydon where I live nearby. Was once trumpeted as the West End south of London and has now deteriorated into a shambles with expensive parking with virtually no shops. It has also become a centre of knife crime. It is such a demoralizing place to go now and I avoid it at all costs

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jms19

There’s some really nice places on this list. I guess it just shows how different we all are and that we’re all looking for different things

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PhilipMarc

Better "depressing" than crime-ridden. People don't know how good they have it till it's gone.

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Jerseydrew

Mine is so expensive. Nothing to keep people especially youngsters. Jobs are underpaid and price of rents or mortgages are out of their price ranges. There's barely anything to do in jersey

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dawarwick

Lots of comments on here about there being no shops. That’s because most of us buy lots of things online. High St shops will be a thing of the past and we need to get used to it.

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BonzoBanana

dawarwick It's easy to change taxation so it works out cheaper to buy locally than online. Japan keeps shopping local by having less tax on small shops so convenience stores can be competitively priced. They have a high population density so they try to get people to move less by staying local as much as possible to reduce congestion and so many people can live their lives without a car at all and use bikes more for example. It's all about looking at the problem and finding solutions and certainly companies like Amazon are hugely damaging to the UK economy.

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