Middlesboro worst place to live in UK?

[Wittmann 44]

Any Middlesborians(?) care to comment
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Researchers for the Channel 4 show Location, Location, Location bestowed the title after taking into account the city's high crime levels, severe drug and health problems and substandard education results.fficeffice" />
Middlesborough is one of the top 10 places in ffice:smarttags" />Britain for car theft and burglary, has an annual salary 6,582 pounds below the national average and 27 percent of its population admit to binge-drinking, way above the 16 percent average, it said.
The survey, based on data from bodies including the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics places nearby Hull in second place while last year's winner, Hackney, in east-London, falls to 12th place in the new list.The best place to live will be announced on the show on Wednesday.
Presenter Kirstie Allsopp said: "Announcing this year's results live for the very first time will just add to the tension of finding out who has topped our poll.
"And what I want more than anything is to champion, not condemn, the places on the worst list as there are some real diamonds in the rough."
A quarter of the top 20 are London local authorities, while Scotland and Northern Ireland have the proud record of contributing no cities to the list.
The top 20 worst list:
1. Middlesbrough - North East
2. Hull - Humberside
3. Newham - East London
4. Nottingham - East Midlands
5. Merthyr Tydfil - South Wales
6. North East Lincolnshire - Eastern England
7. Islington - North London
8. Blaenau Gwent - South Wales
9. Mansfield - East Midlands
10. Knowsley - Merseyside
11. Blackpool - North West
12. Hackney - East London
13. Stoke-on-Trent - Staffordshire
14. Barking and Dagenham - East London
15. Doncaster - South Yorkshire
16. Cannock Chase - Staffordshire
17. Manchester - North West
18. Haringey - North London
19. Burnley - Lancashire
20. Hartlepool - North East

[Tom Sawyer]

and a shite football team into the bargain.

[ONEDUNME]

And the fans obviously agree Tom.Take out the two north east local games against Sunderland and Newcastle and their average attendance will be just over 20 thousand.

[mrmuzeman]

Whats wrong with Islington?

Go to London and I guarantee youll either be mugged or not appreciated.

[Seen]

To beat Hull takes some doing - Boro, hang your head in shame.

[AnothrSpacecat]

bloody hell, wee search online reveals that theres big toxic brownfield sites all over the place and in general its as skanky as that list would suggest.



8. Blaenau Gwent - South Wales ?

[keemanan]

Originally Posted by mrmuzeman

Whats wrong with Islington?

Go to London and I guarantee youll either be mugged or not appreciated.

I hate not being appreciated