A few I've been to
Portsmouth: Arguably one of the worst places I've ever lived in my life. A grey, depressing, scum of the earth filled cauldron of skinheads and chavs. I doubt anyone would miss it if it was walled off and carpet bombed.

Sunderland: Has been mentioned earlier and really is an awful place.

Slough: I couldn't possibly imagine what reason anyone would ever have for moving to or visiting this hellhole, unless they had a masochistic desire to be beaten, mugged, sodomised and stabbed.

Yeovil: Locally known as Yobovil. Any illusions of it being a quiet country town are quickly shattered, after driving through kebab alley and seeing the various miscreants unconcious in their own bodily fluids and past a Weatherspoons where inevitably you'll see someone getting glassed/bottled, you don't even hit an area that could be considered civilized until close to the northern part of the town. That is, assuming you even stop after the horror show when entering from the direction of Sherborne.

Swansea: Ugh.

Southampton: only seen the immediate area around the train station, while stranded there for 3 hours because someone had jumped on the train tracks, probably because they lived in Southampton. But from the initial impression of that area I'd say it looks like a concrete hellhole.
(Spackles Made sexual advances in your general direction on, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 15:17, 4 replies)

Southampton
The initial part by the train station is a little bit grey, but you were literally a 5 minute walk from the inner city parks, which are beautiful.

Very few proper city parks left, and Southampton has bucket loads of them
( Moonraker isn't the droid you were looking for, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 18:19, closed)

I grew up 5 miles from Yeovil and 5 miles from Sherborne.
This means that I went to school in Sherborne but shopped in Yeovil as a teenager. At that time I didn't think Yeovil was too bad.
Now when I go and visit the folks I tend to go into both towns. These days I don't even stop in Yeovil. It really is a shit hole, and I live in Ipswich for fuck sake.
Sherborne on the other hand is a very lovely town.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 30 Oct 2009, 20:55, closed)

I went to Yeovil College
It was pretty awful, but you're right Sherborne is a lovely town.
(Spackles Made sexual advances in your general direction on, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 15:23, closed)

I went to Yeovil college
in the early 90s.

I don't know if it's any better now but the way everyone walked to the college from the town was across the grounds.
This meant that in the winter the constant trudging of students across the grass turned it into a quagmire which got tramped through the college.

Of course PJ Harvey went to Yeovil College and our music teacher was John Parish - her co writer. In fact one of the tracks from their most recent album was written for our production of Hamlet.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 31 Oct 2009, 15:40, closed)