Portsmouth
I love Portsmouth. Southsea is actually really nice, Albert Road is brilliant, even North End has a kind of grimy charm. It's not exactly nice, but it is soulful and I've been there literally hundreds of times at night and never got beaten up myself. Which is nice.

That's not to say it isn't godawful, though. I heard one story, which I really hope is not apocrhyphal, about a guy who did a round the world cycle tour, cycling through every country on Earth. He was almost shot or stabbed or bombed hundreds of times in grotty, awful countries like Rwanda or Afghanistan or Australia, but made it through unscathed and successful. Finally, he had completed his herculanean task, and returned to England on the ferry, docking in good old Pompey.

Where, within half an hour, his bike, that had seen more action than most of us would see in ten lifetimes, was nicked.

Good old Pompey.
(WarneMarsh My priority for frivolity begets quality jollity, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 12:04, 8 replies)

Good old Portsmouth
That's a true story, the bike was pinched in Pompey but was later returned to the German round the world chap - but he had not locked it up!
(ergaster, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 12:16, closed)

That happened in
Southampton the other day as well which, incidently is also a shite-hole.
(Ghost101, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 12:18, closed)

Yes
Yes it is. Southampton doesn't even have any of the redeeming features Portsmouth has, although admittedly I am partisan
(WarneMarsh My priority for frivolity begets quality jollity, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 12:40, closed)

Redeeming features?
Love to know what redeeming features those are! Admittedly parts of Southampton are shit, but Portsmouth is the devil's gusset. Fucking hovel.
(Tighthead, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 16:16, closed)

Ah, Pompey
One of those towns where the 1960's planners did an even worse job than Goering.
(Neil_E_There didn't the Aussies used to be good at cricket?, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 14:44, closed)

Greenock
...where Pirate ships go to get robbed
(MartinB9999, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 18:16, closed)

I love Albert Road day! More cities should love themselves. It might improve things. :D

(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Fri 30 Oct 2009, 22:54, closed)

Portsmouth has nice areas
Correction, a nice-ish bit. It also has Somers Town, Buckland, Portsea, Paulsgrove and Cosham. The only way I'd ever live there is if you bricked up all my windows and I was allowed to keep a pet alligator.
Then there's Guildhall Walk. Every single time I've been through there on a Friday night there's been some bloke facedown on the pavement with three bouncers standing on his head.
Classy place.
(Big D, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 12:25, closed)