Low quality of life, or unhappiness does not imply it is boring. Sometimes to the contrary albeit in a negative way. Some affluent places can be much more boring
I lived in South Kensington and you would think it's a dynamic place with all the rich people ? nope, South Kensington High Street in central London is totally dead Mon-Thur, residential streets at night you are the only one walking around as many houses are empty are they are just investments for the rich. Neighbours don't want to know each other, no sense of community ... I didn't like my 6 years there. I think Henry Cavil has an apartment there and just plays PC games indoors like most people there, celeb chef Nigella Lawson just locked herself inside in a home there with rich ex hubby and took cocaine. Not my sort of place.
@@Pluggit1953 Try living in Corby then. The architecture and landscape would drain your soul and creativity and make you reserved and untrusting. Badly designed landscapes do that to you. When you're having to negotiate roads without pavements and constant roundabouts it saps you. It's all designed to cause dissonance and confuse you. It's not just about places of entertainment and leisure.
@@lemsip207 We have a welsh version of corby called Cross Hands. 8,000 people live there just to be close to a lacklustre retail park, and the town "centre" is just a roundabout. I've never seen anyone smiling here, and it's absolutely the soul sucking place to blame.
Golden mine? In Blackpool? That typo in the script just went way over the narrator's head. It didn't occur to him that there's never been a gold rush in Blackpool, so its highly unlikely there are any gold mines. The 'Golden Mile' is quite famous and still where it always was, but apparently neither the writer nor the narrator bothered to do any research before reducing a very popular seaside resort to 'boring'. The writer could try employing a dictionary. A good word to check the definition of would be 'boring'. Not sure what he's using as a dictionary right now, but it isn't a dictionary. .
The BBC managed a report from "10 Drowning Street". If you listen to Radio 4 there are some absolute corkers. I have an eye for detail since one dot out of place can make computers go haywire.
How can you trust any report that can't get a simple fact like that right? You have to ask how much research was done or rather how much was done in this country and not America?
Have to disagree. As someone who was born in Luton, it may be many things but it isn’t boring. The author of this list has clearly never been to Basingstoke.
All these towns have pubs, restaurants, cinema's, bowling Alley's, sports facilities & parks. So it's up to people that live there to make the most of it
The biggest problem is that every English Town or City (exempt London) are looking same. It is how you wrote: pub, Cinema, restaurant, parks and sport facilities so o it means boring
Exactly! Blackpool FGS...it's choc full of all manner of leisure facilities. I wouldn't choose to live there, but you could hardly call it boring. Seems more like a list of the towns with the whiniest residents.
Surprised that Blackpool is on this list. I have always thought it is one of the most vibrant seaside resorts with its Pleasure Beach, piers, illuminations and tower.
I live in one of these ten towns. I have done all my life as my parents have and as my grandparents did. It is a poverty trap you can't get out of. Before anyone says you should work harder then I would just point out I work an average 42 hours a week for £25k a year. That's a lot higher than average paid job here and yet its still impossible for young people to buy their own homes despite property prices being a fraction of what they are in nearly every other place in this country. There's been no levelling up here. In fact the gap is probably getting wider as wages haven't risen for year after year and the stats show we have only a fraction of the government funding per person than that enjoyed by nearly every other place in the UK. It is generational poverty here where people can't afford to live here but cannot afford to move out anywhere else.
I live in number 2 and I agree with what you say. Here is very much a low wage economy but there is a certain amount of solidarity and some would say, misplaced loyalty to the town. I come from a generation that if you didn’t ‘escape’ through education etc you never do. Everyone I went to school with have long since moved out. I have to say the influx of Eastern Europeans has given the town a useful shot in the arm and created variety - great shops !
It’s primarily a commuter town for London. A place would never go to by choice. There are plenty of nicer places near by and also you are less than 30 mins to centre of London by train. All the towns listed apart from Luton have suffered from deinstitutionalisation and have yet to recover. Luton is quite the oxymoron. It is only 30 miles from London, surrounded by extremely affluent towns, great transportation links and while it lost a lot industry (GM use to have a car plant) there have been plenty of high skilled jobs that filled the void due to the airport and business park. Yet the town centre still has a vibe of a depressed town you would find in the North of England.
@@MATTY110981 Maybe but it's really close to Windsor, as a compensation. I'll assume you've seen enough TV to know why that's an entirely different proposition. And it's probably no further away from the good citizens of Slough that your nearest shopping mall is from you!
@@missmerrily4830 Hence why I said there are plenty of nicer places near by. Slough is no different to most London suburbs or commuter towns. And that included where I live.
When I went to college, and I said where I came from, one lad from Leeds said "Bromsgrove? It even SOUNDS boring". No cinema, pubs closing, theatre closed and put into administration, and no top class restaurants.... Mind, a girl I met lived in a suburb of Leeds, she said people in the town gathered on Saturday night to watch the traffic light change
It's all subjective, I know, and I tend to agree the top two on the list belong there, but not the rest of the towns here and aside from these two, there does seem to be an anti-northern bias about this. Milton Keynes should top the list as the most boring. Other places which belong on the list are Slough, Stevenage, Watford, Woking, Crawley and Bracknell.
Most of these places appear regularly on your videos there may be a personal reason for that and I have a suspicion what it is. In a time of virtually same name stores in shopping centres all over England singling out places for being boring seems unfair.
It still looks as if a section of outer Newport has been chopped away and dumped there. Compare with Coleford and it's Georgian architecture that is a proper market town.
I would definitely say my home town Leatherhead has got to be the most boring town in the U.K. I mean it isn't the roughest of towns but there is literally barely anything to do in it. Leatherhead town centre is particularly boring.
I use to work in Leatherhead and would agree about it being a boring place. Also it doesn’t help that the surrounding towns are also boring and that the trains into London are painfully slow.
Stayed in Leatherhead. Absolutely nothing wrong with it apart from being a bit boring. When the high street shops close, people disappear as if an air raid siren is going off. Empty!
Now there are plenty of boring places in England ..real dumps too ..but to put Blackpool in the top 10 with its famous landmark that looks amazing lit up at night , fabulous sunsets , coastal views , great pubs , entertainments galore ,and fun for everybody ..is really quite silly
Blackpool has lots of suicides per year that is why it is classed as depressing. I like Blackpool, Has quite a few things going for the town but living there is completely different.
Some years ago I had to go to Corby quite a lot in the course of my work. Even though my visit, or the news I was bearing, wasn't always welcome, everyone I ever dealt with there was very nice to me. It may have some issues but based on my experience it has some advantages also. And as others have implied in other comments, it might be a good idea to look up the definition of the word boring. I was expecting comments on what facilities there are, what social venues, what local attractions, etc.etc..
Corby is probably one of the worst of those New Towns and all are badly designed with houses facing back to front so the roads run between the backs of houses and nearly every road junction is a roundabout because that's how the 60's saw the future of urban development. Every neighbourhood is cut off from neighbouring ones with ring roads around them and the pavements along the roads disappear as you move from one to the other. You're supposed to drive or get the bus not walk to the town centre even though it's only a mile away.
I've lived in Blackpool since 1968 and tbh I get SICK of people knocking the place and taking the micky! ALWAYS in the top 10 worst places to live??? Let me tell you, I'd MUCH prefer to live here than say London for instance, with it's traffic gridlock and pollution...and house prices and cost of living are a FRACTION of what they are down there! No one's pretending Blackpool hasn't got huge problem's but the promenade is fantastic these days and other area's of the town are gradually being regenerated. Rome wasn't built in a day though, as they say! Just could do with some of that Spanish sunshine though! 😀
take no notice of them Graeme, all these videos and comments prove is that class based prejudice, racism and snobbery is alive and well in England. In my experience, the friendliest people I’ve ever met are in the so called crap/boring/dangerous towns. Personally, I’m quite happy with these type of films, it helps to keep the snobs and racists out! 😀
Blackpool is a bit of a strange one. Unlike some here, about half of it really isn't too bad (most of the northern and southern suburbs). But the 'bad' half is so rough, drug-ridden and dirty that its what the place is known for. While most 'dodgy' Northern towns tend to just be consistently bad, with no parts too awful.
Boring ; not interesting / tedious Blackpool is far from that with plenty to do and some lovely coastal walks. I think you are confusing boring with dissatisfaction and in many of your examples poverty.
Wouldn't boring be like living in a Town in the middle of nowhere far away from entertainment and amenities and where not much happens ? Not sure you can say that about most of places on this list.
Exactly, a lot of the towns featured here may have their issues, but they are still large enough to have a reasonable amount of amenities compared with smaller out of the way places.
@Vaughanb Brean As a young adult, i spent a lot of time in east devon, and yes, it's much the same there. The towns featured in this video have things like cinemas too, which are unheard of in lots of places in those outlying areas. Even here in wiltshire, my town doesn't have one, i'm just grateful we have a railway station.
I used to be a van driver in the early 90's fitting video cassette racking (long story) my home was Peterborough, and to get on to the M6 for the NW I had to go through Corby.. there is a lovely dual carriageway through the town problem is it was only 30 mph and took ages! (Don't know if it's still the case)
Before the pandemic we went on holiday to Hartlepool, lovely beaches near there. I don’t agree with all of these. Middlesbrough isn’t that bad, used to go on holiday to Redcar when we were kids.
Redcar is the best side of Middlesbrough and so much money is being poured to renovate Hartlepool but they are indeed very depressing. Every place has its own charm though.
Dudley? There's literally a sign on the video showing the way to the Zoo, Castle, Black Country Museum (which is brilliant, been there several times) and Hinley(?) Hall and Park....
@@releesadopamine9810 Google Black Country Living Museum. It is not racist, The Black Country is the official name of an area in the English West Midlands.
If you can't help but wonder why Scunthorpe is on this list you should try living here pal boring doesn't even come close to describing this hole, it's one big yawn move here and you're likely to die of terminal boredom thank goodness for the bus and rail services they're a Godsend and help us to escape to somewhere more interesting
I expected to see more of the new towns on this list, eg Harlow, Milton Keynes, Welwyn Garden City etc. i.e. towns that have no historical merit at all, whether it be through sport, manufacturing etc, and are known for absolutely nothing.
How dare you call Middlesbrough boring? They have the the magnificent Boro at the Riverside, they have the delicious Parmo, they have the lovely Albert Park with the Brian Clough statue, they have the engineering excellence of the Transporter Bridge and they have the Grade II listed building Middlesbrough Town Hall. Sir, you've been corrected by a Norwegian Boro supporter!✌
As a life long resident of Middlesbrough I think this video is utter junk. Are you telling me that there isn’t a town in the UK that doesn’t suffer a degree of unemployment or that has rough/poor estates? The nice areas of Middlesbrough are perfectly fine. There are plenty of quality bars. There are plenty of other things to do in the town, like the biggest outdoor kart track in the UK. We have Stewart’s Park as well as Albert Park. The Dorman Museum. It always annoys me that people who’ve never been here just slate it without knowing a single thing about its history. Yes it’s an industrial town but the place owes its existence to those industries. Living in Boro you only have to drive for 15 mins to be on the coast or in the Yorkshire moors. So many other places to see and do in the area. Not really any facts in this video to support the claim that any of these towns are boring.
@@annettekearney9798 yeah and? Car dominated, like most cities outside London. Sprawling housing estates - what’s your point? Where is there a town centre that’s bigger than the housing areas? Those sprawling estates were for all the workers in the town. What should they do, just demolish the houses and make the town centre bigger?
@@annettekearney9798 also let’s not forget that the town was one of the first major targets of the Luftwaffe during the war so a lot of the Victorian buildings were levelled
Having lived in several places around England over my life I really cannot recognise the criteria that make these places "boring". Everywhere I have met friendliness and people willing to chat and make friendships. If you make an effort towards getting to know people wherever you may be it's likely you'll have the basis for not having a boring life. What a sad and dismal video.
Hi Marie, how are you. Yes Darlington is rated as a nice town to live in. A survey of over 7000 locations listed Stockton-on-Tees as the 6th best place to live in the UK. Best wishes for a good day 😊🙏 Michael
If you have an imagination you can find something interesting in anything. It is not the towns that are boring it is the attitudes of the people who live there.
Not really. With your imagination only you can’t create new friends, a social group or a community. You can live your life reading books and drinking tea but there is so much reality to enjoy! I come from Venezuela and I miss my life there, it was full of activities, parties, beach life, leisure, good food, modern places, friends and family. The problem is the economy and political situation there but I can’t wait to go back sometimes. Outside London, is really calm and peaceful but I feel as boring as a depressed cow eating grass in an empty field on a grey day.
No place is boring, only the person behind the eyeballs is. It is people with zero perspectives that foster a boring outlook. Having lived and worked all over the world, it is the people who make a town , city or village. Every person can easily tell you a 1000 stories and some. Real stories are never dull
As a resident of the Cinderford area I'm surprised to see it here instead of places like Swindon or Basingstoke. Being right on the edge of the Forest of Dean means there's plenty to do in the area.
I have to agree. Swindon should be on the list as my Husband is from there and was desperate to move out. It needs investment badly now Honda has gone as every time we visit it looks worse which is a real shame as there is lovely spots like Lydiard Park.
Come to Havant! Leigh park estate must rank as one of the most depressing places . Non imaginative council, self centred and photo opportunity obsessed MP. Lack lustre shopping centre. I'm surprised it wasn't featured in the 10 most boring towns.
You could call Blackpool a lot of unpleasant things (ad rightly too) but boring isn't one. It's got more entertainment than any town in the North and more visitors too.
Can I nominate Waterlooville in Hampshire. I had to spend 4 hours there and ended up in the library as it was comfy, warm, free and had lots of reading matter.
This seems to be a list of the ugliest, most squalid towns. In which case, where are all the places in the South? Swindon, Stevenage, Bedford, Dover, Basingstoke, Andover...
Yea, I'm in Chippenham Wiltshire and it's a shit hole, the people are still trying to rake the moon out of the pond! Oh yes, believe me it's totally crap.
Blackpool is a dreadful shithole. You have to go inside to get some fresh air because of all the smokers outside. I saw a bloke walking a ferret on a lead on the prom the last unfortunate time I was there and the whole town smelt like the bins behind a Mac Donald’s. I wouldn’t bury a dog in Blackpool.
What a load of cobblers. I was bred and born in Cinderford and its a great place. My job took me away but my sister still lives there. We Foresters never regards ourselves as either English or Welsh , we are Foresters first.
I'm from Waterlooville, 10 mins north of Portsmouth and this town should be on the list. There is literally nothing to do here. The town centre is terrible, it's mostly populated by Chevs and Elderly (Nothing wrong with the elderly) there are more empty shops than running ones. That has to quality as "boring"
I come from Swindon, which definitely deserves to be on this list, but I had business in Stafford recently and that was shocking. Swindon really is just a Railway Museum and Outlet Village, where the shops just sell damaged stock at a cheap price. Coate Water and Lydiard Pk are nice but nothing special. Probably a good place to base yourself for Oxford, Bath and Salisbury + Stonehenge, Avebury, Uffington White Horse and a walk along the Thames or Ridgeway Path. Just basic Indian and Italian restaurants in Swindon. If you want to feel that genuine dystopian element then have a brave walk through the Town Centre, the locals if they're not homeless are generally fat people with disrespectful children.
Of course people will say a town is boring if they are unemployed and can't afford to go to the amenities the town has to offer. Try interviewing people who can afford to go out and you will get a different opinion.
Cinderford looks like the outskirts of Newport in South Wales. I've actually seen houses in countryside near Torpoint that look like terraced Victorian villas in towns and cities yet they are standing alone on a country road.
How on earth does happiness equate to boredom? No wonder this annual fiasco is such a crazy, mixed up and untrue list. It's not the towns which are the problem, it's the mindset of the bored!
Need to re phrase the word "boring" for this video...especially Blackpool...Number 3!!! You can do lots of things in Blackpool, Zoo, Tower, sandcastles,pleasure Beach,Stanley Park,amusment arcades, beaches,outdoor go Karting on the prom, casinos..list is endless...not boring!
I honestly don't get how Burnley is boring. Townley Park is a huge plot of amazing things. There's a whole Victorian house including a fountain plus a pond and a garden also having a grand memorial graveyard full of marble gravestones. In the town centre, you can find many shopping spots and a huge bridge (Centenary Way Bridge) which you can see the whole town. There's a huge grand theatre (The Mechanics) and the L & L Canal with paths covered with cyclists. So you can't always talk about the bad areas of Burnley because it isn't all bad.
Putting Blackpool at No.3 proves how much click bait this list is. Blackpool has a Tower, Opera House, Pleasure Beach, Winter Gardens, Trams, Illuminations, and many indoor leisure, pubs and sports facilities. Compare this to, say, Accrington in Lancashire, which has non of those things.
Scunthorpe is by far the largest town in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire, not third as claimed here. It is the third largest settlement in the whole of Lincolnshire (behind Grimsby/Cleethorpes and Lincoln). Also there is no evidence for an over-zealous police force in the town.
The problem with this country is that is underdeveloped in many ways. The issue Is not industrialisation, is the lack of affordable leisure and activities for its citizens. The people in charge hate to build more modern or luxury places outside London and they seem to reject comfort and modernity, they can’t think of giving the people more leisure, fun things to do for the middle class and low income population. You need to be a have a really high income to enjoy life here… not realistic as the majority of people share the same range of salaries without opportunities.
It appears the major problems of being a foreign person creating clickbait "lists" on RUclips are, not only using tedious autocue voice-over software but also not understanding the difference between "boring" and "economically deprived"!
some of these, look very appealing. I don't want, loud, busy & overpriced. I live in a major US city. You can have it. It stinks & I don't want to live here.
Oh what joy to see so many Yorkshire towns listed as either crap or boring. Considering how much Yorkshire people bang on how beautiful the county is (and it does have pretty bits of the county) and how proud they are of being from there, all I can say I'm so very glad I'm not. Rotherham has spawned kind of notoriety not seen elsewhere in the UK. The rest you can keep.
How do you define 'boring' in terms of a town? 'Boring' as in lack of entertainment venues? Lack of decent careers to follow? Substandard educational and childcare facilities? Nothing to attract tourism to the area? You'd also have to look at population demographics, because they would have an effect on which of the suggestions above matter more; a predominantly senior population would care less about those things than a younger one, for instance, which means THEY wouldn't necessarily rate their town as 'boring' even if outsiders would.
I visited "Dudley" once!! once I went round it, and it,s neibouring "Smethwick" I couldn,t get home quick enough, I don,t think the word "boring" is correct though? "hostile" and uncomfortable" seems a better description,
Doncaster is where I live and wouldn't say its boring it has great Racecourse with many events also the Wildlife park and two Motorcross tracks. The nightlife is also decent or was (too old for it now). Lots of nature reserves etc. Granted the centre is a bit run down but most towns are.
Hartlepool (which is often used to cover the adjoining West Hartlepool) has the Royal Navy museum. No mention of that or is having a museum of that quality considered boring?
The best Premier Inn stayed in. Lovely out look, museum lovely. Nice people. Just the shopping centre bit was sad. Just a reflection upon being hit so hard and changing face if shopping.
I find most towns boring, at least there's no high rise flats and generic shops like Next, M&S and all the rest of them in Cinderford. Nice people too.
Low quality of life, or unhappiness does not imply it is boring. Sometimes to the contrary albeit in a negative way. Some affluent places can be much more boring
I lived in South Kensington and you would think it's a dynamic place with all the rich people ? nope, South Kensington High Street in central London is totally dead Mon-Thur, residential streets at night you are the only one walking around as many houses are empty are they are just investments for the rich. Neighbours don't want to know each other, no sense of community ... I didn't like my 6 years there. I think Henry Cavil has an apartment there and just plays PC games indoors like most people there, celeb chef Nigella Lawson just locked herself inside in a home there with rich ex hubby and took cocaine. Not my sort of place.
@@davedogge2280 The Cotswolds is like that as well.
Boredom is all in the head. If you use your brain for your growth and amusement it doesn’t really matter where you’re located.
@@Pluggit1953 Try living in Corby then. The architecture and landscape would drain your soul and creativity and make you reserved and untrusting. Badly designed landscapes do that to you. When you're having to negotiate roads without pavements and constant roundabouts it saps you. It's all designed to cause dissonance and confuse you. It's not just about places of entertainment and leisure.
@@lemsip207 We have a welsh version of corby called Cross Hands. 8,000 people live there just to be close to a lacklustre retail park, and the town "centre" is just a roundabout.
I've never seen anyone smiling here, and it's absolutely the soul sucking place to blame.
Golden mine? In Blackpool? That typo in the script just went way over the narrator's head. It didn't occur to him that there's never been a gold rush in Blackpool, so its highly unlikely there are any gold mines. The 'Golden Mile' is quite famous and still where it always was, but apparently neither the writer nor the narrator bothered to do any research before reducing a very popular seaside resort to 'boring'.
The writer could try employing a dictionary. A good word to check the definition of would be 'boring'. Not sure what he's using as a dictionary right now, but it isn't a dictionary.
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The BBC managed a report from "10 Drowning Street". If you listen to Radio 4 there are some absolute corkers. I have an eye for detail since one dot out of place can make computers go haywire.
How can you trust any report that can't get a simple fact like that right? You have to ask how much research was done or rather how much was done in this country and not America?
Have to disagree. As someone who was born in Luton, it may be many things but it isn’t boring.
The author of this list has clearly never been to Basingstoke.
or Reading or Waterlooville or any of those dormatory towns along the Waterloo line
Clearly neither of you have been to Slough
Agreed. Luton is a toilet
@@Daisy-tl2lh I agree that Reading is very boring in fact I've only been there once that I can remember of and I can't say I found it too exciting.
@@Daisy-tl2lh Definitely Waterlooville, the last pants stop before Portsmouth.
All these towns have pubs, restaurants, cinema's, bowling Alley's, sports facilities & parks. So it's up to people that live there to make the most of it
The biggest problem is that every English Town or City (exempt London) are looking same. It is how you wrote: pub, Cinema, restaurant, parks and sport facilities so o it means boring
Luton being bottom
@@andrzejnowak1312 ,,,,,
Exactly! Blackpool FGS...it's choc full of all manner of leisure facilities. I wouldn't choose to live there, but you could hardly call it boring. Seems more like a list of the towns with the whiniest residents.
@@andrzejnowak1312 Most American cities look the same too, so New York & Chicago are boring too?
I've been to Luton a few times. Every time I went there I felt like I was lost somewhere in the middle of Pakistan 😂😂😂
Luton also has a large Bangladeshi community.
Lutonistan
You've not been to Burnley or Bradford then?
@@luvstellauk I was referring to Luton as it was the top one in this video. Don't know about Burnley but, been to Bradford so, get your point...
@@cruisesoetz1087 potato potarrrrto
1:04 "Long rows of identical terrace houses" as it shows a detached house next to three houses in a row, and then another semi.
Surprised that Blackpool is on this list. I have always thought it is one of the most vibrant seaside resorts with its Pleasure Beach, piers, illuminations and tower.
I agree. Loads of pubs, too. The sea can be far from boring in a storm
Agreed, been there many times, still lot of things to do.
I agree. I grew up in and around it (parents still live there), and while parts of it sure are rough and dirty there’s still a lot for people to do.
I agree. I love Blackpool
No town that has trams is boring.
I live in one of these ten towns. I have done all my life as my parents have and as my grandparents did. It is a poverty trap you can't get out of. Before anyone says you should work harder then I would just point out I work an average 42 hours a week for £25k a year. That's a lot higher than average paid job here and yet its still impossible for young people to buy their own homes despite property prices being a fraction of what they are in nearly every other place in this country.
There's been no levelling up here. In fact the gap is probably getting wider as wages haven't risen for year after year and the stats show we have only a fraction of the government funding per person than that enjoyed by nearly every other place in the UK.
It is generational poverty here where people can't afford to live here but cannot afford to move out anywhere else.
I live in number 2 and I agree with what you say. Here is very much a low wage economy but there is a certain amount of solidarity and some would say, misplaced loyalty to the town. I come from a generation that if you didn’t ‘escape’ through education etc you never do. Everyone I went to school with have long since moved out. I have to say the influx of Eastern Europeans has given the town a useful shot in the arm and created variety - great shops !
I think you need to look up ‘boring’ in a dictionary.
As an American who only knows about England through television, I fully expected to see Slough on the list because of The Office.
It’s primarily a commuter town for London. A place would never go to by choice.
There are plenty of nicer places near by and also you are less than 30 mins to centre of London by train.
All the towns listed apart from Luton have suffered from deinstitutionalisation and have yet to recover.
Luton is quite the oxymoron. It is only 30 miles from London, surrounded by extremely affluent towns, great transportation links and while it lost a lot industry (GM use to have a car plant) there have been plenty of high skilled jobs that filled the void due to the airport and business park.
Yet the town centre still has a vibe of a depressed town you would find in the North of England.
You are absolutely right my trans-atlantic friend, Slough is notoriously a complete dump!
@@MATTY110981 Maybe but it's really close to Windsor, as a compensation. I'll assume you've seen enough TV to know why that's an entirely different proposition. And it's probably no further away from the good citizens of Slough that your nearest shopping mall is from you!
@@missmerrily4830 Hence why I said there are plenty of nicer places near by.
Slough is no different to most London suburbs or commuter towns. And that included where I live.
Slough absolutely deserves it's reputation. It even makes Reading look pretty 😂
When I went to college, and I said where I came from, one lad from Leeds said "Bromsgrove? It even SOUNDS boring". No cinema, pubs closing, theatre closed and put into administration, and no top class restaurants....
Mind, a girl I met lived in a suburb of Leeds, she said people in the town gathered on Saturday night to watch the traffic light change
No Teesside is dull. I come from there so allowed to comment. Glad I escaped. Roads dominate, no history or much culture.
It's all subjective, I know, and I tend to agree the top two on the list belong there, but not the rest of the towns here and aside from these two, there does seem to be an anti-northern bias about this. Milton Keynes should top the list as the most boring. Other places which belong on the list are Slough, Stevenage, Watford, Woking, Crawley and Bracknell.
I agree with you, milton Keynes It is really boring,
Yes, Slough deserves a place on the list!
Slough is a difficult one because whilst it may be boring in some regards, it has a highly active and diverse economy.
I have been to Watford a few times and I would agree it's not immensely interesting
@@leonayersdax8336 And it's also convenient with frequent trains to London and other places.
Most of these places appear regularly on your videos there may be a personal reason for that and I have a suspicion what it is. In a time of virtually same name stores in shopping centres all over England singling out places for being boring seems unfair.
How could anyone be bored in Cinderford? Look at that lovely countryside!
It still looks as if a section of outer Newport has been chopped away and dumped there. Compare with Coleford and it's Georgian architecture that is a proper market town.
You obviously haven’t been to Hartlepool!! Absolutely fascinating place!
I liked the monkey hanging festival.
@@offwithhishead2556 Exactly😂👍
Congratulations Luton. You’re now No 1.
Luton, twinned with Islamabad!
I would definitely say my home town Leatherhead has got to be the most boring town in the U.K. I mean it isn't the roughest of towns but there is literally barely anything to do in it. Leatherhead town centre is particularly boring.
I use to work in Leatherhead and would agree about it being a boring place. Also it doesn’t help that the surrounding towns are also boring and that the trains into London are painfully slow.
Stayed in Leatherhead. Absolutely nothing wrong with it apart from being a bit boring. When the high street shops close, people disappear as if an air raid siren is going off. Empty!
There's a wild service tree behind the Tescos. That's pretty exciting, surely?
@@teesman61 Yep. = boring!
Now there are plenty of boring places in England ..real dumps too ..but to put Blackpool in the top 10 with its famous landmark that looks amazing lit up at night , fabulous sunsets , coastal views , great pubs , entertainments galore ,and fun for everybody ..is really quite silly
The compiler of this film needs his head tested.
Blackpool has lots of suicides per year that is why it is classed as depressing. I like Blackpool, Has quite a few things going for the town but living there is completely different.
There’s no illumination is now
This dude really doesn't like Blackpool...🤣
You are the most wrong person that ever lived
Some years ago I had to go to Corby quite a lot in the course of my work. Even though my visit, or the news I was bearing, wasn't always welcome, everyone I ever dealt with there was very nice to me. It may have some issues but based on my experience it has some advantages also. And as others have implied in other comments, it might be a good idea to look up the definition of the word boring. I was expecting comments on what facilities there are, what social venues, what local attractions, etc.etc..
The commentary showed a basic lack of understanding of the English language throughout to be fair.
Corby is probably one of the worst of those New Towns and all are badly designed with houses facing back to front so the roads run between the backs of houses and nearly every road junction is a roundabout because that's how the 60's saw the future of urban development. Every neighbourhood is cut off from neighbouring ones with ring roads around them and the pavements along the roads disappear as you move from one to the other. You're supposed to drive or get the bus not walk to the town centre even though it's only a mile away.
@@simonparker57 I agree. I think the narrator/s on Learning Canteen videos are probably not human. AI perhaps?
Corby is the worse dive I have ever been to. Full of brainless chavs also.
I've lived in Blackpool since 1968 and tbh I get SICK of people knocking the place and taking the micky! ALWAYS in the top 10 worst places to live??? Let me tell you, I'd MUCH prefer to live here than say London for instance, with it's traffic gridlock and pollution...and house prices and cost of living are a FRACTION of what they are down there! No one's pretending Blackpool hasn't got huge problem's but the promenade is fantastic these days and other area's of the town are gradually being regenerated. Rome wasn't built in a day though, as they say! Just could do with some of that Spanish sunshine though! 😀
"its" "problems" "areas"
take no notice of them Graeme, all these videos and comments prove is that class based prejudice, racism and snobbery is alive and well in England. In my experience, the friendliest people I’ve ever met are in the so called crap/boring/dangerous towns. Personally, I’m quite happy with these type of films, it helps to keep the snobs and racists out! 😀
Blackpool is a bit of a strange one. Unlike some here, about half of it really isn't too bad (most of the northern and southern suburbs). But the 'bad' half is so rough, drug-ridden and dirty that its what the place is known for. While most 'dodgy' Northern towns tend to just be consistently bad, with no parts too awful.
Just so you know, as I skimmed through to see the towns' names, the ad at the bottom of the screen covered them all up.
A lot of it is a drug-ridden dump, sure, but I really wouldn’t say Blackpool is boring. There still remains a fair amount to do.
Boring ; not interesting / tedious
Blackpool is far from that with plenty to do and some lovely coastal walks.
I think you are confusing boring with dissatisfaction and in many of your examples poverty.
Wouldn't boring be like living in a Town in the middle of nowhere far away from entertainment and amenities and where not much happens ? Not sure you can say that about most of places on this list.
Eggland.the underpopulated country
Considering USA is only wat? 500 years old And UK is wat a million years old.wat happened.
Exactly, a lot of the towns featured here may have their issues, but they are still large enough to have a reasonable amount of amenities compared with smaller out of the way places.
@Vaughanb Brean As a young adult, i spent a lot of time in east devon, and yes, it's much the same there. The towns featured in this video have things like cinemas too, which are unheard of in lots of places in those outlying areas. Even here in wiltshire, my town doesn't have one, i'm just grateful we have a railway station.
YES LIKE SUDBURY SUFFOLK WHERE I LIVE, SMALL TOWN FULL PEOPLE WITH SMALL BRAINS
I used to be a van driver in the early 90's fitting video cassette racking (long story) my home was Peterborough, and to get on to the M6 for the NW I had to go through Corby.. there is a lovely dual carriageway through the town problem is it was only 30 mph and took ages! (Don't know if it's still the case)
Before the pandemic we went on holiday to Hartlepool, lovely beaches near there. I don’t agree with all of these. Middlesbrough isn’t that bad, used to go on holiday to Redcar when we were kids.
Holiday to Hartlepool and Redcar? With respect you must live somewhere boring then
Redcar is the best side of Middlesbrough and so much money is being poured to renovate Hartlepool but they are indeed very depressing. Every place has its own charm though.
Salturn is a gem - not so Redcar.
Redcar on holiday? That’s child abuse
My Top 10:
No.10 - Highbridge, Somerset
No.9 - Farnborough, Hampshire
No.8 - Slough, Berkshire
No.7 - Frimley, Surrey
No.6 - Pangbourne, Berkshire
No.5 - Westward Ho!, Devon
No.4 - Ascot, Berkshire
No.3 - Bideford, Devon
No.2 - Thatcham, Berkshire
No.1 - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
@6:35 you mention Blackpool’s “Golden MINE”. Could you please tell us all ore about this?
"ore" about this answers the question
@@turquoisecat761 I wish that was done on purpose!
He really shafted the place.
@@offwithhishead2556 That comment is the pits!
Why isn’t Basingstoke on this list?
Dudley? There's literally a sign on the video showing the way to the Zoo, Castle, Black Country Museum (which is brilliant, been there several times) and Hinley(?) Hall and Park....
Exactly it’s extremely misleading.
Himley Hall.
And still sucks
Black Country museum????
@@releesadopamine9810 Google Black Country Living Museum. It is not racist, The Black Country is the official name of an area in the English West Midlands.
If you can't help but wonder why Scunthorpe is on this list you should try living here pal boring doesn't even come close to describing this hole, it's one big yawn move here and you're likely to die of terminal boredom thank goodness for the bus and rail services they're a Godsend and help us to escape to somewhere more interesting
I expected to see more of the new towns on this list, eg Harlow, Milton Keynes, Welwyn Garden City etc. i.e. towns that have no historical merit at all, whether it be through sport, manufacturing etc, and are known for absolutely nothing.
living in the North of England or South West of England is better than living in London
How dare you call Middlesbrough boring? They have the the magnificent Boro at the Riverside, they have the delicious Parmo, they have the lovely Albert Park with the Brian Clough statue, they have the engineering excellence of the Transporter Bridge and they have the Grade II listed building Middlesbrough Town Hall. Sir, you've been corrected by a Norwegian Boro supporter!✌
As a life long resident of Middlesbrough I think this video is utter junk. Are you telling me that there isn’t a town in the UK that doesn’t suffer a degree of unemployment or that has rough/poor estates? The nice areas of Middlesbrough are perfectly fine. There are plenty of quality bars. There are plenty of other things to do in the town, like the biggest outdoor kart track in the UK. We have Stewart’s Park as well as Albert Park. The Dorman Museum. It always annoys me that people who’ve never been here just slate it without knowing a single thing about its history. Yes it’s an industrial town but the place owes its existence to those industries. Living in Boro you only have to drive for 15 mins to be on the coast or in the Yorkshire moors. So many other places to see and do in the area. Not really any facts in this video to support the claim that any of these towns are boring.
No it’s dull - car dominated, no history or culture and sprawling housing estates. I’m from there so know it well!
@@annettekearney9798 yeah and? Car dominated, like most cities outside London. Sprawling housing estates - what’s your point? Where is there a town centre that’s bigger than the housing areas? Those sprawling estates were for all the workers in the town. What should they do, just demolish the houses and make the town centre bigger?
@@annettekearney9798 also let’s not forget that the town was one of the first major targets of the Luftwaffe during the war so a lot of the Victorian buildings were levelled
I lived in Middlesbrough for a good few years and I loved it people positive and friendly ❤
As a kid i grew up in the town of Cinderford, indeed boring but we did have WoolWorths!
its a fucking shithole
Having lived in several places around England over my life I really cannot recognise the criteria that make these places "boring". Everywhere I have met friendliness and people willing to chat and make friendships. If you make an effort towards getting to know people wherever you may be it's likely you'll have the basis for not having a boring life. What a sad and dismal video.
I live in Tonbridge in kent and thats borring all we have here is cafe's take a ways and charity shops
Well I'm pleased to hear that Darlington and Stockton are not on the most boring list of towns to live in.
Why
Hi Marie, how are you. Yes Darlington is rated as a nice town to live in. A survey of over 7000 locations listed Stockton-on-Tees as the 6th best place to live in the UK. Best wishes for a good day 😊🙏 Michael
If you have an imagination you can find something interesting in anything. It is not the towns that are boring it is the attitudes of the people who live there.
But it is the people that make the town but to be fair to the inhabitants of ‘boring’ towns have it harder, sometimes.
Not really. With your imagination only you can’t create new friends, a social group or a community. You can live your life reading books and drinking tea but there is so much reality to enjoy!
I come from Venezuela and I miss my life there, it was full of activities, parties, beach life, leisure, good food, modern places, friends and family. The problem is the economy and political situation there but I can’t wait to go back sometimes. Outside London, is really calm and peaceful but I feel as boring as a depressed cow eating grass in an empty field on a grey day.
There are no boring towns, just boring people. Interestingly, most of the towns were also recipients of EU funding but voted Brexit.
No place is boring, only the person behind the eyeballs is. It is people with zero perspectives that foster a boring outlook. Having lived and worked all over the world, it is the people who make a town , city or village. Every person can easily tell you a 1000 stories and some. Real stories are never dull
As a resident of the Cinderford area I'm surprised to see it here instead of places like Swindon or Basingstoke. Being right on the edge of the Forest of Dean means there's plenty to do in the area.
I have to agree. Swindon should be on the list as my Husband is from there and was desperate to move out. It needs investment badly now Honda has gone as every time we visit it looks worse which is a real shame as there is lovely spots like Lydiard Park.
He's not going to put Swindon in a list of most boring places since he think's it's the best place in the UK to live.
I really thought Grantham ,Lincolnshire was the most boring town in England
Come to Havant! Leigh park estate must rank as one of the most depressing places . Non imaginative council, self centred and photo opportunity obsessed MP. Lack lustre shopping centre. I'm surprised it wasn't featured in the 10 most boring towns.
If Blackpool is boring then why does it get millions of people visiting the place. It’s the golden mile not mine, and No I don’t live there.
You could call Blackpool a lot of unpleasant things (ad rightly too) but boring isn't one. It's got more entertainment than any town in the North and more visitors too.
Try the Trades Hotel in Blackpool, you will most likely be board in there, especially during the night 😅🍑🥒
Can I nominate Waterlooville in Hampshire. I had to spend 4 hours there and ended up in the library as it was comfy, warm, free and had lots of reading matter.
This seems to be a list of the ugliest, most squalid towns. In which case, where are all the places in the South? Swindon, Stevenage, Bedford, Dover, Basingstoke, Andover...
Yea, I'm in Chippenham Wiltshire and it's a shit hole, the people are still trying to rake the moon out of the pond! Oh yes, believe me it's totally crap.
Blackpool is a dreadful shithole. You have to go inside to get some fresh air because of all the smokers outside. I saw a bloke walking a ferret on a lead on the prom the last unfortunate time I was there and the whole town smelt like the bins behind a Mac Donald’s. I wouldn’t bury a dog in Blackpool.
I'm surprised every town in Warwickshire isn't on the list or any
"Living in Fleet is like watching a plank warp". That was daubed on the library in the late 70s. Fortunately I moved away......
Dudley has a beautiful art deco zoo, and also has a beautiful canal network.
What a load of cobblers. I was bred and born in Cinderford and its a great place. My job took me away but my sister still lives there. We Foresters never regards ourselves as either English or Welsh , we are Foresters first.
I'm from Waterlooville, 10 mins north of Portsmouth and this town should be on the list. There is literally nothing to do here. The town centre is terrible, it's mostly populated by Chevs and Elderly (Nothing wrong with the elderly) there are more empty shops than running ones. That has to quality as "boring"
Bicester, the town centre has been killed off probably due to the luxury retail village on the outskirts.
I come from Swindon, which definitely deserves to be on this list, but I had business in Stafford recently and that was shocking.
Swindon really is just a Railway Museum and Outlet Village, where the shops just sell damaged stock at a cheap price. Coate Water and Lydiard Pk are nice but nothing special. Probably a good place to base yourself for Oxford, Bath and Salisbury + Stonehenge, Avebury, Uffington White Horse and a walk along the Thames or Ridgeway Path. Just basic Indian and Italian restaurants in Swindon. If you want to feel that genuine dystopian element then have a brave walk through the Town Centre, the locals if they're not homeless are generally fat people with disrespectful children.
You actually make it sound better than it is.
That's if you make it alive coming off the magic roundabout!
My son lived there for a while and he said that it was even worse than Doncaster.
My question is,How do you define a Town?
There again,how do you define a Village,Etc.
Of course people will say a town is boring if they are unemployed and can't afford to go to the amenities the town has to offer. Try interviewing people who can afford to go out and you will get a different opinion.
Believe me, I'd rather live in any of them than in London!
Spot on.
Potters Bar, Watford, Redditch, Kidderminster, Wrexham, Neath, Ellesmere Port.
Cinderford looks like the outskirts of Newport in South Wales. I've actually seen houses in countryside near Torpoint that look like terraced Victorian villas in towns and cities yet they are standing alone on a country road.
How on earth does happiness equate to boredom? No wonder this annual fiasco is such a crazy, mixed up and untrue list. It's not the towns which are the problem, it's the mindset of the bored!
Need to re phrase the word "boring" for this video...especially Blackpool...Number 3!!! You can do lots of things in Blackpool, Zoo, Tower, sandcastles,pleasure Beach,Stanley Park,amusment arcades, beaches,outdoor go Karting on the prom, casinos..list is endless...not boring!
You forgot Louth in Lincolnshire, now that is the Pits. Everyone is interbred there, and consequently Tuppence short of a Shilling.
Slough should be top of this list without a doubt 💩💩💩
I honestly don't get how Burnley is boring. Townley Park is a huge plot of amazing things. There's a whole Victorian house including a fountain plus a pond and a garden also having a grand memorial graveyard full of marble gravestones. In the town centre, you can find many shopping spots and a huge bridge (Centenary Way Bridge) which you can see the whole town. There's a huge grand theatre (The Mechanics) and the L & L Canal with paths covered with cyclists. So you can't always talk about the bad areas of Burnley because it isn't all bad.
When Dudley was being featured, there was a road sign saying Stourbridge Town Centre --->
Putting Blackpool at No.3 proves how much click bait this list is. Blackpool has a Tower, Opera House, Pleasure Beach, Winter Gardens, Trams, Illuminations, and many indoor leisure, pubs and sports facilities. Compare this to, say, Accrington in Lancashire, which has non of those things.
Most of these places are great if you wanna see a drunken fight at 1am on a Saturday night.
1am is morning
What about Hinckley in Leicestershire. Too many charity shops not enough decent entertainment venues.
What you mean the crescent and Britannia centre aren't exiting enough for you ? :)
Try picking a few dozen (hundred) towns in Saudi Arabia!!
Scunthorpe is by far the largest town in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire, not third as claimed here. It is the third largest settlement in the whole of Lincolnshire (behind Grimsby/Cleethorpes and Lincoln). Also there is no evidence for an over-zealous police force in the town.
I live in suburban Luton, it's only 25 miles from central London where I often visit.
The problem with this country is that is underdeveloped in many ways. The issue Is not industrialisation, is the lack of affordable leisure and activities for its citizens. The people in charge hate to build more modern or luxury places outside London and they seem to reject comfort and modernity, they can’t think of giving the people more leisure, fun things to do for the middle class and low income population. You need to be a have a really high income to enjoy life here… not realistic as the majority of people share the same range of salaries without opportunities.
It appears the major problems of being a foreign person creating clickbait "lists" on RUclips are, not only using tedious autocue voice-over software but also not understanding the difference between "boring" and "economically deprived"!
I live in Sheffield it boring as hell I wanna move out
Watch the Mel Smith Griff Reese Jones "football results"read by Mel Smith that gives a more accurate description of towns..
I visited a friend in Chessington and was struck by the blandness and greyness of the place. The most boring place I’ve ever seen.
some of these, look very appealing. I don't want, loud, busy & overpriced. I live in a major US city. You can have it. It stinks & I don't want to live here.
Cinderford is banging we have pubs on every corner
The USA must have a different definition of boring. Poverty, crime, lack of home ownership etc. doesn't make a town boring.
Oh come on!!!° lol Blackpool is far from boring!!!!!
Haywards Heath . Architectural 1930s Ribbon development. The best part is the road OUT to Burgess Hill. The Cultural Centre of Mid Sussex ...
1:07 "Identical terraced buildings" While showing three completely different houses, one of them detached....
Chard, Sommerset.
Awesome.
Oh what joy to see so many Yorkshire towns listed as either crap or boring. Considering how much Yorkshire people bang on how beautiful the county is (and it does have pretty bits of the county) and how proud they are of being from there, all I can say I'm so very glad I'm not. Rotherham has spawned kind of notoriety not seen elsewhere in the UK. The rest you can keep.
Ergh, Yorkshire people too. Horrible, bigoted and tightfisted too. Just awful.
None of these towns are as boring as the narrator of this video!
How do you define 'boring' in terms of a town? 'Boring' as in lack of entertainment venues? Lack of decent careers to follow? Substandard educational and childcare facilities? Nothing to attract tourism to the area? You'd also have to look at population demographics, because they would have an effect on which of the suggestions above matter more; a predominantly senior population would care less about those things than a younger one, for instance, which means THEY wouldn't necessarily rate their town as 'boring' even if outsiders would.
Doncaster being no 9 is unfair. There's plenty to do there and it's a shopping Mecca
Go and live in Petersfield. THAT'S boredom.
I would advise a visit to Herne Bay (Kent)!
I visited "Dudley" once!! once I went round it, and it,s neibouring "Smethwick" I couldn,t get home quick enough, I don,t think the word "boring" is correct though? "hostile" and uncomfortable" seems a better description,
CINDERFORD!!!!???? I LIVE THERE it’s actually pretty good ngl +there are a a couple of taxis and a lot of buses tbh
Doncaster is where I live and wouldn't say its boring it has great Racecourse with many events also the Wildlife park and two Motorcross tracks. The nightlife is also decent or was (too old for it now). Lots of nature reserves etc. Granted the centre is a bit run down but most towns are.
Where is Warrington from this list?
And note that most of these places have heavy immigrant numbers.
Who'd have guessed?
The video is about most boring towns. Don't really see how this relates to immigrants.
Hartlepool (which is often used to cover the adjoining West Hartlepool) has the Royal Navy museum. No mention of that or is having a museum of that quality considered boring?
The best Premier Inn stayed in. Lovely out look, museum lovely. Nice people. Just the shopping centre bit was sad. Just a reflection upon being hit so hard and changing face if shopping.
Tbf burnely is pretty decent i dont mind it too much i think preston should be on this list
I find most towns boring, at least there's no high rise flats and generic shops like Next, M&S and all the rest of them in Cinderford. Nice people too.