Is Rhyl a toilet or what?

[shouldbeinbed]

Rhyl now sounds a positive boom town compared to how it was a decade or so back. Walking past boarded up after boarded up shopfront, it was like being in some sort of dystopian nightmare, yes it even made Blackpool look classy and loved. I've not been through for a few years, nice to hear there are signs of improvement, it either needed significant investment or bulldozing into the sea as it was. It could do really well, the North Wales coast is a lovely stretch of land.

 

[stephec]

Rhyl now sounds a positive boom town compared to how it was a decade or so back. Walking past boarded up after boarded up shopfront, it was like being in some sort of dystopian nightmare, yes it even made Blackpool look classy and loved. I've not been through for a few years, nice to hear there are signs of improvement, it either needed significant investment or bulldozing into the sea as it was. It could do really well, the North Wales coast is a lovely stretch of land.

That's my view as well.

I passed through about fifteen years ago and instantly thought of that Morrissey song, 'Every Day is Like Sunday.'

 

[ASC1951]

.... I spent a few years in Rhyl and the surrounding areas when I was young (parents caravan in towyn)
...

Your parents had a towyn caravan? Mine could only afford to rent a static....

[reaches for coat]

 

[Globalti]

Most British seaside towns are full of SS dossers and social dross. Our nearest is Blackpool where tons of money has been spent beautifying the seafront but one block back is shameful. A tsunami would be a merciful end for Blackpool but unfortunately all the dross would wash inland and up the Ribble valley where we go cycling, which would not be good.

 

[ufkacbln]

Apparentlythe New forest is a toilet according to the Verderers!

 

[ufkacbln]

I have cycled through some dodgy areas including the rougher parts of London, MAnchetser, Birmingham and Galsgow. I have also cycled through Rhyl

Yet the only place I have ever had a sixth sense crawling up my back saying "don't stop here" was Annan in SCotland (just)

 

[vernon]

Most British seaside towns are full of SS dossers and social dross. Our nearest is Blackpool where tons of money has been spent beautifying the seafront but one block back is shameful. A tsunami would be a merciful end for Blackpool but unfortunately all the dross would wash inland and up the Ribble valley where we go cycling, which would not be good.

Sigh as said elsewhere before....

I've said it before and i'll say it again.

Your assertion says more about you than it says about your targets.

 

[booze and cake]

Consider it like a colon, it does'nt look good, its a bit smelly and your best hope is to slide through it like a morning coffee induced bowel contraction. But if you relax, don't clench and ignore the tempting warm embrace of the Sun Centre carpark, eventually you will emerge into the beautiful cycling country of Snowdonia and beyond. And its Wales, so as colons go, its a well irrigated one, if you like that kind of thing.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Yes, been there once for a week's holiday many years ago, I didn't manage to stay the week. I would never go back.

I very in-frequently visit that part of the forum, and it never feels like a holiday.

 

[Dangermouse]

Obviously none of you have visited Scumthorpe........I moved here for work 10 years ago and have been looking for a way out ever since, this has to be the worst place in the UK

 

[vernon]

Obviously none of you have visited Scumthorpe........I moved here for work 10 years ago and have been looking for a way out ever since, this has to be the worst place in the UK

Scunthorpe, along with Penistone, are so bad that they challenge porn filters in schools.

 

[Graham]

It's easy to sneer at run-down towns.

 

[bigjim]

t's easy to sneer at run-down towns.

I agree and it's also an insult to decent people that live there. Often it's no fault of the populace that the area has declined. Much of the blame can be left at the feet of local or national government or corrupt officials etc.
There are many run down areas in the UK and also within these areas you will find tiny pockets that are a delight.
I doubt there is any town/city that is free from some areas that are far from the ideal.
To some the prospect of living freely and safely from war and pestilence The ability to walk along a beach, good weather or bad and come back to a warm secure home would make the place a veritable paradise.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

It's easy to sneer at run-down towns.

Fun too!

 

[gavgav]

Used to like going there as a kid to the "Sun Centre" for swimming and for a spin on the go karts on the promenade. Going back nowadays is totally depressing and it is a run down dive of a place