Tenby
A tourist trap of a town whose centre is stuck in multiple timewarps - Late Norman, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian and everything else in between except modern, as all new builds in the centre are mock Georgian/Victorian. With everything facing the sea front painted in pastel hues.

The town itself possesses an abundance of hotels, B&B's, cafes, takeaways, 5 members clubs and 16 pubs (for a town of 6,000). There's bugger all in the way of high street chain stores for shopping [Smiths, Boots, New Look, Sainsburys, Tesco - that's it]. The nearest nightclubs are both 2 miles away from the town centre in opposite directions (great for the local Taxi's).

The only other recognisible form of entertainment, for those who are fed up of drinking, is the cinema with 1 screen and 1 showing per day outwith the summer holidays when it can be 2 showings per day, with the outside possibility of it being 2 different films. The exterior is brightly painted, the interior is however stuck in the 1970's with narrow brown velour seats, well worn 70's patterned red carpet throughout and a strong smell of damp in the auditorium. The only upside is that this usually means you have a near free pick of the seats for most blockbusters.

The sedate nature of the town makes it a magnet for retirees and those with young children. It is so quiet, that minor acts of vandalism, such as scratched cars and upturned benches, have been known to make it into the local paper, with the details of the PC assigned to the case given, so the cad can be apprehended.

Hence why most youths stay in education as long as possible to find an adequate means of escaping the town, with very few returning after uni.
(trainee mad doctor is currently trying to build a secret laboratory, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 18:21, 2 replies)

nope, not agreeing with you at all there.
Tenby is a fantastic town and mostly for he reasons you don't like it. I love the fact that it doesn't have many high street chain shops, most towns in the uk are identical because they all have exactly the same shops as each other, so theres no reason for anybody to bother visiting anywhere other than their own town, same goes for large local multiplex cinemas, they're all identical (and fecking expensive) and tenby's 1 screen cinema is brilliant.

you've also got 3 beaches, some beautful coastline, a great independant record shop and some of he most beautiful coastline in Britain.

Tenby (and pembrokeshire in general) is one of my favourite places in the world, if you want an identikit clonetown like most of the rest of the country then feel free to move there, but please leave Tenby as it is.
(evilging www.drivenlikethesnow.co.uk, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 18:36, closed)

THIS^^
Worked there twice 20 years and 2 years ago. Most of the other posts moan on about the influx of chavs, council estates. et al. But at least Tenby has kept its identity.

Rant over-gets coat
(SBCkittencure, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 23:05, closed)