I live about 150 miles from Mexico and I'd love to drive down and explore Nuevo Laredo, but the border cities are just too dangerous these days. Hopefully the Mexican government will extricate itself from its predicament and give the people the security they deserve.
Quote: DaButt @ March 30 2009, 5:30 PM BSTHopefully the Mexican government will extricate itself from its predicament and give the people the security they deserve.
By moving them North?
Know what you mean; having done Tijuana across the border from San Diego couple of years ago, which is touristed by comparison. Walking down the high street is like running the gauntlet - every shop has its own minder who almost literally tries to drag you inside. And the begging street kids on every corner are heartbreaking...but at least nobody takes potshots at you.
Quote: Rob H @ March 30 2009, 1:03 PM BSTGillingham.
The worst place I've ever seen.
Which one?
Quote: chipolata @ March 30 2009, 1:50 PM BSTLondon.
Quote: random @ March 30 2009, 1:50 PM BSTYou should of come to sunny Boston
have*
Quote: Tuumble @ March 30 2009, 2:23 PM BSTPersonally I don't rate Calais too highly (or any other town in France)
Quote: zooo @ March 30 2009, 2:43 PM BSTThat's the beauty of it.
Swindon is a hole... (sorry Shoepie).
Quote: ducky @ March 30 2009, 3:37 PM BSTHi Leevil
i live down the road in loverly louth. you're right, chapel is dreary. the type of place tight parents take their kids rather than shell out on all the musicalments and donuts and chucklebrother extravaganzas in skegvegas.
ducky x
CAPITALS!! >_<
Quote: Aaron @ March 31 2009, 4:13 PM BST
Careful. If you keep making faces, I will take you there and show you.
Quote: chipolata @ March 30 2009, 3:56 PM BSTAren't all towns crap when you live there? You can't wait to get out and go somewhere else? Then when you go somewhere else you realise it's just as crap, maybe even worse?
Unless you move to London, perhaps.
Quote: zooo @ March 30 2009, 4:00 PM BSTYes, you tend to hate your hometown, but once you've escaped and been gone a while, you start to feel all affectionate towards them.
You've not lived in Slough.
(Although to be far I live in the good suburby type bits.)
Quote: Aaron @ March 31 2009, 4:25 PM BSTUnless you move to London, perhaps.
And aren't a miserable bastard with no imagination once you're there. 
Quote: Aaron @ March 31 2009, 4:25 PM BSTYou've not lived in Slough.
(Although to be fair I live in the good suburby type bits.)
Well, move far away for several years and then we shall see. 
Bexhill on Sea. The most boring place on earth. No wonder Eddie Izzard turned out like he did.
Quote: Aaron @ March 31 2009, 4:25 PM BSTUnless you move to London, perhaps.
You've not lived in Slough.
(Although to be far I live in the good suburby type bits.)
Britwell?
They've got a Starbucks on Slough High Street where Madhouse used to be. Progression.
Going back to the original post, Grantham is as grim as anywhere I have been, and that includes Barentsburg, the Russian coalmining town on Spitsbergen.
Grantham's soulless desolation explains a lot about the development of the psyche of the town's most famous daughter.
Quote: The Rook @ March 30 2009, 7:10 PM BSTWhich one?
The one in Kent. Never been to the one in (?)Dorset.
Quote: chipolata @ March 30 2009, 1:50 PM BSTLondon.
How dare you! Get back down your closed mine / call centre / mad cow farm this instant you vagabond! 
Worst places I've been in no particular order - Sidcup, Folkestone, Ipswich and anywhere on the outskirts of Birmingham (reminded me too much of City 17 from Half Life 2).
To put a positive spin on the argument, me likey - London, Brighton, Tunbridge Wells, Battle (near Hastings), Edinburgh, Bury St. Edmonds, Newcastle, Manchester and Sheffield.
I've never been to Liverpool and after meeting the whiny Scousers we get in 'That London', I never will. Stick your ferry up your Mersey.