Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK : Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:09 am  

I live in Bradford and I would concur it is an awful city to live in these days.

The roads are full of uninsured morons who have no consideration for other road users nor any driving skills - its bl00dy dangerous to say the least. Education is amongst the worst in Britain - the town centre is a sad reflection of a once prosperous city. The soccer team has to virtually give away its season tickets to sell them. Social integration is negligible with districts divided up by ethnicity in the main.

Bradford has nothing to recommend it at all

Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK : Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:07 pm  

I had to scratch my head when I saw that transport links were considered a factor. Living in the centre of Wakefield I can be on the A1 in around 20 minutes, and the M1 and M62 in around 10 minutes. I can get on a train at Westgate, one of Wakefield's 2 railway stations, and be in Leeds in 15 minutes, Sheffield in 20 minutes, York in 40 minutes and London in 2 hours. Compare this to the backwards nature of Oxfordshire, where I spent a long weekend this Summer, and Wakefield looks like a commuter's dream!

Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK : Thu Dec 24, 2015 3:29 pm  

King Street Cat wrote:

I had to scratch my head when I saw that transport links were considered a factor. Living in the centre of Wakefield I can be on the A1 in around 20 minutes, and the M1 and M62 in around 10 minutes. I can get on a train at Westgate, one of Wakefield's 2 railway stations, and be in Leeds in 15 minutes, Sheffield in 20 minutes, York in 40 minutes and London in 2 hours. Compare this to the backwards nature of Oxfordshire, where I spent a long weekend this Summer, and Wakefield looks like a commuter's dream!

Yes, but you forgot that other than the Cotswolds nowhere north of the 18th hole on Potters Bar golf course is worth bothering about. Things are far superior in the south, so they assume.

I live in Wakefield (WF4) and spent my working life driving around the country to various jobs and I've been to a lot worse places in may opinion, Bracknell, Slough, Dagenham, Romford. Strangely enough all in the south.

Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK : Thu Dec 24, 2015 4:49 pm  

Romford is a frightening place!

Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK : Thu Dec 24, 2015 6:23 pm  

Crawley is a creepy place.

Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK : Sun Dec 27, 2015 4:39 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

I live in Bradford and I would concur it is an awful city to live in these days.

The roads are full of uninsured morons who have no consideration for other road users nor any driving skills - its bl00dy dangerous to say the least. Education is amongst the worst in Britain - the town centre is a sad reflection of a once prosperous city. The soccer team has to virtually give away its season tickets to sell them. Social integration is negligible with districts divided up by ethnicity in the main.

Bradford has nothing to recommend it at all

Awww, got a sore head have we? Take more water with it next time, you won't wake up so grumpy!

But, you only get one life. If you really feel that way, WTF are you doing here? Only a fool or a masochist would deliberately choose to remain in what they thought was that bad of a place

Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK : Sun Dec 27, 2015 10:36 pm  

Woolstanton in stoke is rough. Infact the whole of stoke is rough. A lot of vale fans are scum as well.

Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK : Mon Dec 28, 2015 9:13 pm  

Any town within 50 miles of London.

Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK : Mon Dec 28, 2015 9:15 pm  

Look that's not enya wrote:

Woolstanton in stoke is rough. Infact the whole of stoke is rough. A lot of vale fans are scum as well.

Grow up you muppet.

Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK : Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:06 am  

Lovesauce wrote:

Any town within 50 miles of London.

What - good, bad or indifferent?