UK's Best/Worst Places To Live??

Canucklehead

Good morning: As many property-!!!!!! fans already know C4's Phil + Kirstie will be counting down the most/least attractive places to hang your hat tonight. Any predictions? After the results are 'revealed' will you have discovered your hometown is on the carp list or the idyll list? Comments please;)

Canucklehead

dougs

to be honest, does anybody really care? If people like where they are living, then fine, if they don't I guess they move. I'm sure not many people base their decisions on where to live just on tripe sprouted in programs like this.

It seems like just more K & P hype from Channel 4 to keep them occupied between series of that other rubbish program they do.

All IMHO of course

Badger_Lady

Well, last year the worst place was Merthyr (just up the road from me), and I don't think it's got any better! Has anywhere else got worse?

I heard a few months ago there was a whole terrace of cottages for sale at £5k each :-D

m00m00

meaningless unless they factor in the ratio of local wages to local houseprices. Most people live where they live because they have to.

BobProperty

I was never too convinced by this after the first one. I think that put Hull as the worst place in England but the next year it had disappeared out of the top 10. So Hull got that much better in 12 months? I don't think so.

nicola1982_2

Normally Nottingham is high on the worst places, but I think it's complete snobbery, it's always these overpriced southern twns that win and cheaper Northern/Welsh cities that lose. I'm sure the winning places are lovely, but I think the 'worst' places are always dismissed because a small section of the place is bad.

Badger_Lady

m00m00 wrote: »

meaningless unless they factor in the ratio of local wages to local houseprices. Most people live where they live because they have to.

I can't remember what their criteria are, but I know it's more than just houseprices... does anyone have more info?

Evee2000

Drugs, prostitution, fuel poverty, general neglect - Middlesbrough to a tee. My husband is an avid photographer. Wanted to take a flood lit shot of the famed (and very wonderful) transporter bridge. Turned down the road toward the bridge and here was a couple sh*gging in the street - skirt hitched up and in full view to the passing motorists. Classy.

trf1960

I think these type of surveys (and TV programmes) do more harm than good actually. Seriously, what purpose do they serve? All it does is accentuate the 'have and have nots' and make the 'have's' even more smug and up their own backsides than they were before. I don't even want to imagine what it must be like to be told you live in the worst place in Britain.

Will we ever get rid of the class system and the "have to be better than the neighbours" attitude in this country - I doubt it, especially if these type of programmes/surveys keep reiterating the totally unnecessary. :rolleyes:

Canucklehead

Thanks for the comments so far... don't know what the criteria will be ...factors such as good schools won't mean diddly if you don't have kids or home-school (unless selling on to young family is in the cards)...very subjective for me...I live where I do because I do like to live beside the seaside but also need to be within striking distance of London for OH's family and easier access to the airports for those dreaded emergency flights to Canada.

Canucklehead

BobProperty

Evee2000 wrote: »

Drugs, prostitution, fuel poverty, general neglect - Middlesbrough to a tee. My husband is an avid photographer. Wanted to take a flood lit shot of the famed (and very wonderful) transporter bridge. Turned down the road toward the bridge and here was a couple sh*gging in the street - skirt hitched up and in full view to the passing motorists. Classy.

Did he get some photographs of them? (thinks of Monty Python's Blackmail TV show :rolleyes:)