Grim Places In The Uk

[237SJ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4419214/Corby-tops-table-unhappiest-places-live-UK.html Is it really that bad?

[Arksided]

Did anyone else pick up on Ed's sly dig saying basically It's grim oop north!

if you want to pop out of London as an MP or journo and go somewhere grim, but be able to get back within the hour - then Corby is the place to go. It's like going to the north, without having to go there.

[hereIam]

^ Yes I did, the cheeky git !!!

[emmie]

don't know why Islington should be unhappy, plenty of wealthy people and places there.

[Jackdaw33]

With Corbyn as your MP, what's not to like about Islington?

[New Judge]

“…don't know why Islington should be unhappy, plenty of wealthy people and places there.”

As garaman has explained, like many London boroughs, Islington has extremes at both ends of the affluence table. I know it well because I went to school there. What you see on the telly are the leafy squares containing large town houses that politicians inhabit. Indeed these are very nice. But these make up only a small part of the borough. There are other parts of Islington which display quite a fair level of poverty and deprivation. There are lots of large council estates, particularly between Essex Road and Upper Street, in Finsbury Park, Barnsbury and off Holloway Road. Even the area towards the City of London (City Road, towards Bunhill) is not particularly affluent. Many of these areas contain large town houses but most of them have been converted into flats, which are not particularly attractive.

Hackney is similar as is Lewisham and Camden. In fact, most of the Inner London boroughs display a wide diversity of affluence (and presumably, with that, goes a wide diversity of happiness).

[emmie]

i know Islington quite well too, and yes they have some deprived areas, so does my borough Camden.

[ludwig]

I find much of London to be grim. Once you stray outside of the posh bits that feature in the Hugh Grant films it's an absolute dump.

[emmie]

in the film Nottinghill you hardly saw a black face, let alone an asian one, and anyone who knows the area and i do quite well, the film didn't do justice to the area and its vibrant people.

[EdmundD]

Islington has in the last few years been cited as having one of the highest crime rates in London.

[emmie]

they can't have been to the slightly newer 60's mess that is Stevenage. now that is a dump..

[TWR]

When I was at my place of birth I used to live near a vast Council estate Ummmm, in excess of 2000 houses, the place was rough & I mean rough.

[DTCwordfan]

Redruth must be in there.

They had an earthquake on nearby Carn Brea four years ago- it caused three million pounds worth of improvements to the town.

[Arksided]

hereIam... Like the Beano's Lord snooty some of those soft southern gits. The last word was selected carefully don't want anyone crying to mummy...

[mazie]

You should all Move to Scotland. It seems such a happy friendly place :o)

[Jackdaw33]

Move to Sunderland, then you''ll know what grim really is.

[Arksided]

Scotland is rather friendly as a visitor and guest. As for Sunderland I'm not that brave mate.

[anaxcrosswords]

Rhyl. Question answered.

[New Judge]

Definitions of "grim" vary. Down south, Sheerness and Leysdown take some beating (by my definition of "grim"). Anyone not knowing the Isle of Sheppey and seeing it on a map probably envisages a very agreeable island handily situated in the Thames estuary. Then you realise there are three prisons on its eastern end and perhaps wonder why. Those really depressed with living on Sheppey go for a day out to Dungeness to realise how lucky they are.