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Stoke-on-Trent is shit. Thread starter chio Start date Oct 3, Now, I don't usually slag off places - everywhere has its redeeming features. Brixton, for example, for all its faults it's an exciting multicultural place to be. My small town is full of local yokels, but it's close to the centre of Manchester and a relatively quiet, crime-free place to live.
But I'm really, really struggling to find anything, anything nice to say about Stoke-on-Trent. This half-arsed excuse for a "city" lies half-way between Manchester and Birmingham and enjoys none of the prosperity those two places have earned in recent years. It's been swallowing up ever-increasing chunks of my time, what with me being at its equally half-baked university for much of the year. A typical morning in Stoke goes like this. You get in your car and cruise along swimmingly until you reach the sign reading "Staffordshire: A creative county".
Then you stop. You'll sit, crawling up t'hill and down t'dale in first gear for hour after hour while lazy clayhead workmen smoke fags by the side of the road they've had coned off for well over four years.
So you turn on the radio to relieve the mind-numbing, catatonic boredom - none of your fancy pants metropolitan stuff here, no sir - just two equally parochial stations, one of which plays Bon Jovi eighteen times a day while the other features hours of low-rent phone ins, used by no-one apart from Doris from Burslem with her regular Tuesday call moaning about the bins not being emptied properly.
So, eventually, after throwing the head-end of your car radio in the canal out of sheer screeching frustration at hearing "It's My Life" six times in a row, you reach the university car park. My place of birth, Barnsley in South Yorkshire, is awful too and was named by The Sun years ago as the worst town to live.
All the pits are closed, hardly anyone works and chippies don't cook fish as no-one can afford one, just chips 'n' scraps! Haven't been back since my mum died in and have no intentions of doing so.
Last edited: Mar 23, Autumn Rain Well-known Member. Newport, Gwent is a bit grim. Towns on a whole are just going to become worse and more bleak, the high street is dying on its arse, soon it will just be chicken shops and bookies and pound stores and not much else. Oh and Greggs. They are spending loads building a LOT of new flats in Barking, granted it's a good place transport wise and there's a new train station being built too, but it's still an inbred fested dump.
Wallasey Saint Active Member. Carlos dfc Active Member. Wow, no mention of Hartlepool yet..? Agrippa 57 Well-known Member. It's very clear to me that none of you have ever been to Goole One of England's greatest Unexplained Mysteries, and one which never fails to beg the question "Why? The Exiled Dub said:. Actually, before retiring, I'd like to pay tribute to the town f my birth, which is Grimsby. And a truly awful place to go back to. Cuisines: British.
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Thank mickeboy. Write a review Reviews Traveller rating. See what travellers are saying:. Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. Reviewed 7 October via mobile. Wrong food, long wait for correct food then barely lukewarm. Absolutely awful service and no staff. Thank NicholasT Reviewed 19 September via mobile. Breakfast visit. Date of visit: September Report response as inappropriate Thank you.
Tim Bristol. I have attended staffordshire Uni in stoke since september. Before I went there were coments made about stoke being worse than my home town of Nottingham! Its repuatation is formed in stoke stoke and Shelton where there is alot of racism and crime rates are high but the majoiry of stoke is the best place to live ever! The grass is always greener People. There are good and bad points to every grid reference on the planet. True, Stoke has had its fair share of economic problems since it's once thriving industrial heritage took a bit of a tumble.
But, the problem with many places in Britain and Stoke is no exception is that people so rarely these days take the time to look out for one another and are so easily distracted by the problems they face themselves. The decline of a whole town is not one persons problem but that of all of us - we need to work together for a more prosperous future and stop denying our children the chances they so rightly deserve because we can't find the inspiration to do something a little different to what we're used to.
We can do it if we work together. Here's the smallest of starts - when you see that well worn, hang dog expression of the every day Potter as they trudge through the City pondering the future of our potential filled town, give them a smile and be on you! It's the small things that will make a difference. Oh, and don't forget to let that little old lady on the bus before you and to hold the door for the next person who walks in behind you when you next go into the Potteries shopping centre.
Til' the next time - here's to a few more smiles Al Dadge Stoke on Trent. Its so boring,it has been said its the unimportant bit between Birmingham and Manchester, and its so true. Ian Eccleston. Where does the blame lie? To, the critics of Stoke-on-Trent: how many of you who have helped to make our city untidy by dropping litter? How many of you who own pets and take them for a walk so that they use our pavements and grass verges as toilets?
How many of you are parents who are only to glad for their children to go out and play only to cause annoyance to other folk? I'ts all to easy to blame other people, we need to take pride in our selves, our property, and our surroundings. Turley Longton. Don't suppose anyone could translate Dannie's message could they? Simon Griffiths Fenton. Born N bread Stokie Hey Up i Tink sum ov u peepz dissin stoke shud take anova look dere is worse places u can live n them ew r from stoke dissin it should be ashamed ov dem sens if u dont like it y dont they move sum were else like outta stoke okay so peepz call it stokie Broke on Trent hah but stokies can lafe bowt it but at de end ov de day its were i was born n i a stokie born n bread n prowd xxx big up all u stokies Dannie Blythe bridge.
Stoke - a dump? My main concern about Stoke is the fact that the National Front has such a strong following. This often makes me feel really uneasy about living here. Ellen Stoke. Reply to Lauren You've raised a good point. The people who go on about how wonderful stoke is are the ones who have lived there all their lives and know no different.
The negative remarks come from people who have been elsewhere and can compare. This isn't a dig at people who like stoke - if they're happy then thats fine, but they really don't know what they're missing What are you on about!
I really do think that there is not much differance between stoke and birminham I no a number of people who live and work there includding my mother work. So i do not no what you are taking, but you had better start thinking!
Lauren stoke. We are proud to be trading in Hanley catering for all family needs. A ladies fashion retailer with a difference are we. We are brave and prod to be in Staffordshire. But it is true Hanley is not up to a high standard of policing. We get alot of trouble; including shop lifters, and arson attacks on the store because we are asian own business. Leisure and Tourism is the way forward in Hanley; better hotels and more please.
All places are the same, land, bricks mortar etc, the distinguishing factors are the cultures, if people think Stoke is a dump they should look inward at themselves for it is people that change the evironment not the other way around.
Last time I looked it was part of Newcastle! And didn't Stoke have 6 towns???? Paul Jones Fenton. Wherever I was I often thought 'what a nice place this is' after a short while I realised that it was not that most places were much nicer than my home town, rather it must simply be that my home town stoke was really a dismal place, and compared to virtually everywhere else in this country it is.
Ralph henderson Stoke. John Doe stoke on trent. I live in near Stoke and think people judge it quite harshly. It may not be the cleanist area, but it's home. Me Cheadle. Stoke as a Whole or Hole? With reference to Chloe's comments, i fully agree, adolescent stokies seem to be in a consistant rhetorical mindframe.
Jonathon Gough Brindley, West Dumfries. Message to people who live in stoke on trent Hi, I'm a student from Italy I would like to know from someone who live in Stoke on Trent which his or her values are
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