Back in the day
When I was a county standard swimmer, I had to travel all over the South of England competing. The worst place I ever went to was Edmonton in North London. Used needles in the bushes, an inch of filth on the bottom of the pool and a street gang who tried to smash up our coach with the driver still inside.

We had to go back next year too. Not good.

I currently live in Wester Hailes (highest rate of drug and knife crime in Edinburgh) and it's lovely and peaceful as I live bang opposite a police station.


Also, Luton is a shithole.
( MatJ LOOK, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 11:57, 5 replies)

First mention of Luton so far
Good shout.
(SonoraAeroClub "OH SWEET HELEN OF BALLS!", Thu 29 Oct 2009, 12:34, closed)

Luton
I agree about Luton, but why do you think it is a shithole?

I just want you to reinforce my own reasons. Still better than watford though.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 12:50, closed)

Luton
I only ever go through Luton once a year on my way to somewhere else and every time I drive through on the way home I let out a little sigh of relief that I don't live in Luton. It's mostly the sheer scale of the concrete molding that puts me off, plus the titanic blot on the landscape that is the Vauxhall works.
( MatJ LOOK, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 18:23, closed)

Do you,
mean the A505? Used to drive through Dunstable before hitting Luton on my way to Cambridge many moons back. Dunstable rivals Luton as a fetid arse-sore on the rump of Bedfordshire.
(SonoraAeroClub "OH SWEET HELEN OF BALLS!", Fri 30 Oct 2009, 16:54, closed)

Yep
But coming from the Cambridge direction myself. In fact, I head to Dunstable because I'm part of one of the display teams for the annual kite festival. I only really see the downs, which are quite nice.
( MatJ LOOK, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 14:10, closed)