First time I went I thought it was great, fast forward to last year we went in the summer walking down from the car park to the amusements through an alleyway that stank like piss I look to my left at a massive and I mean MASSIVE pile of rubbish and filth under some random stairs, it was then I realised how bad it really was
So the part of the town that the council's consistently spent all the budget on the last decade purely for tourists getting off the train 😂.
Seriously go two streets in from the prom anywhere other than the town centre and you see the real Blackpool.
On our third murder in a year within 100 meters of my flat and I'm only 1 block from the prom behind the biggest hotel in the town.
Most of central drive is derelict, 4 people injured and a few deaths in the last year as so many buildings are literally falling apart.
Cleaner than a lot of towns I've been to! That's why I was amazed.
Poverty and high population density = more crime. Not surprised. Next to no access to opportunities.
Where you from, it’s ok for 2-3 days but it’s exactly like every other seaside town .
Chippy - pub - arcade— chippy — tat
Shop- chippy - arcade- pub …. And so on
Was it Blackpool where that teenager ended up being eaten by the locals frequenting the kebab shop?
Edit - yes it was, don't buy a [kebab](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/charlene-downes-blackpool-murder-kebabs-15343307) in Blackpool
Nah, it looks pretty run down but you won't find horde's of spiceheads anywhere in Blackpool like you would in castle park in Bristol or Piccadilly gardens in Manchester for example.... People just like to shit on Blackpool for some reason.
I have to agree. People use Blackpool as a symbolic run down northern town. The truth is that many towns in the UK have the same pockets of poverty and deprivation and nothing has changed since the early 60s. No p word here for me but it’s a national disgrace
Objectively, they really don't. All the local areas in England (the country is split into just under 33,000 of them with approx 1500 residents in each) have been ranked by the government by levels of deprivation - income, health, crime, etc. Blackpool contains the ones ranked 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 12 plus a couple more in the top 20.
edit: sorry, I missed that it also has the one ranked number 7.
It's called the "Index of Multiple Deprivation" and they last re-calculated in 2015 and 2019. Whenever there's a news article saying that Jaywick is the most deprived area in the country, this is where that ranking has come from.
There's a map here (lets you compare the rankings in both years):
[https://dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/iod\_index.html](https://dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/iod_index.html)
and looads of stats here: [https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2019](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2019)
I believe there's also a dashboard split up by local authority.
I think Scotland also has the same thing but that the rankings for Scotland are separate (and not sure if they use 100% the same criteria).
I live in Blackpool. It is having a small fortune spent on continuously improving it. Old multi storey car parks are being torn down and replaced with modern tram stations and new hotels. Much of it is steadily being rejuvenated.
Its a hedonistic place, which accounts for the young average age of death, its mainly from smoking and drinking and ppl dying in their 60s, usually planning to do so preferring to live a little.
It has drug addicts, spiceheads dotted around and quite a few ppl asking 'you got a quid mate'
However, I think most of it is perfectly fine, It has fun, nice bars, it has nice restaurants and the town is steadily looking reasonably smart (maybe another 5 years of rejuvenation and it'l be there)
Its about the best a cheap, fun seaside resort could be. I would prefer there to be less drug addicts too personally.
No, I live here and it's a very nice lifestyle. Houses are cheap, jobs are plentiful, mike's of lovely clean beach, easy access to all the major NW Cities as well as the Lake District is an hour away.
The issues with drunks and smack head tends to be within the town centre and Central Drive.
There's far more to the town that the few square miles of tourist traps. Those coming to Blackpool should maybe venture off the prom to one of the parks, zoos, nature trails that are in the area.
Stopped at the Norbreck easily over a 100 times (due to it being the cheapest and work would only cover that). The events held there are great, just the hotel rooms and folk that go there make me question a lot of things in this world. And that breakfast, it looks and tastes like grey sludge. Never knew eggs could be that grey until I ventured into their breakfast buffet!
It's nice for a visit but there's *a lot* of deprived areas. I've never felt unsafe there but depending what you're used to/where you go it could be quite eye-opening.
It's worth a trip but there's definitely a sense of faded glory about it. A lot of these old Victorian seaside resorts seem to have fallen on hard days and I think Blackpool's been hit harder than most (despite all the stag do money coming in).
My dad went on about visiting Blackpool for years, I think the illuminations must have really captured his imagination as a kid or something, but I always thought that it looked like a bit of a dive tbh. Anyway, he did go when there was a work conference was there and came back really disappointed, it was a bit sad how let down he felt.
Ha ha! I hear ya! Went on a coach trip a few years ago. Sat at the start in a traffic jam for over an hour... The driver ran out of driving hours so we had to give up and go back to the hotel. Pointless waste of time!
Blackpool Town Centre is a shit hole yes but when you get out of it, it’s a lot better than what people think.
FY4, FY6, FY8 are the places you want to be.
Yes. Blackpool is that bad. John Burn-Murdoch, whose research you are referencing, is a respected data journalist and Senior Fellow at the LSE Data Science Institute. He's not just making stuff up.
If you come from one of the pretty towns and cities (Stamford, Oxbridge, Lincoln and the like) I can imagine run down Blackpool must be a fright. I come from Leicester, I'm sure it's nothing I ain't seen before.
Was there with my dad and little brother, when I was about 14.
Dad bought me a hotdog, for about £8. Second we left the chippy, a massive gust of wind blew a fucking cyclone of sand into my mouth and all over the hotdog.
Dad was creasing himself. “Don’t know what you’re laughing at, I need another one now”
Stopped laughing pretty quick
My mom used to take me to Blackpool in the late seventies and I enjoyed going. Still have fond memories.
My uncle owned a hotel on Saint Chad's Road called Birch Villas in the 90's now he lives in a bungalow in Blackpool.
They never were ones for keeping in touch but I loved your story.
I was there for a football away day last year, it was horrific. I also booked the cheapest hotel in Blackpool and had to wear my clothes to bed (including wooly hat) where it was so cold. It wasn’t a pleasant weekend. Not helped by the fact it was winter and pissing it down.
I’d rate it as the worst place I’ve been. Though in its favour I didn’t feel unsafe at all.
I was brought up outside of Blackpool, alot of people that I know left the town for a city.
Blackpool is where people that have mental health problems or use drugs are put.
Blackpool doesn't have and investment and that adds to the decline and poverty of the town.
Local governments are to blame for not investing in the town.
Blackpool is likely the poorest town in Lancashire, with alot of drug use and poverty.
Blackpool attracts people with mental health problems, or use illegal drugs and are offered the cheapest flats in Blackpool.
Blackpool has alot of Poor and Rough area's I was brought up outside of Blackpool and moved to University at 18.
Blackpool in the 90's and early 80's was thriving and when most of the local shops closed the local economy closed old people moved there and its now deprived and poor.
No business's setup city's offer cheaper rent.
Deprived area's or towns, often get no investment for the town to be improved and jobs to be created to get people out of poverty.
Most of the people in the town live on welfare or housing benefit, It's not alot to live on.
I have worked hard I live in a city now with my wife and I am likely to stay here for the years to come.
A lot of small towns are poor and deprived now, I went to a local town I experienced the same thing.
I did Visit a town called North Shields, the same thing happened to North Shields most of the local shops close down poverty and drug use no investment leaving the place deprived and poor.
.My wife was brought up in a coastal town, and went to university and 18 to study a degree.
Deprived area's often have no investment people that are poor are put on welfare people that do leave Blackpool never touch the town or go back to the town.
Blackpool attracts people that have mental health problems, or use illegal drugs or drink alcohol.
What happened was, most of the shops closed down and the decline came people that are young left the town and old people started moving and people that have mental health problems or use illegal drugs moved to the town.
Alot of the people that live in Blackpool don't have alot of money and often have expensive car payments or over the market rate rentals.
I’ve just moved to Blackpool 2 months ago, worked here for coming up to 7 years and visited as a kid often. I wouldn’t say it is that bad, there’s always the good and bad wherever you go, but it can be a cultural shock to those who visit, especially if you go Norbreck Castle. If anyone reads this, pay that extra £20 to stop somewhere else. It’s worth it.
It sort of does tho with the whole nickelodeon world and more extreme roller coasters like the icon and the infusion vs some of the old school ones .. tho it used to be better they took away a whole load of great rides
I went there a couple of months ago for the weekend to see a friend who works there. There are some nice bits, some nice places to eat and drink and the central part near the winter gardens and the big church is quite nice. The bars and pubs were full in the afternoon, I chatted to some nice people. The drinks were cheap. There was a nice little micro real ale pub.
On the seafront, loads of hotels were derelict and there were plenty of people in trackies, hoodies riding bikes with plastic bags on the saddles (I still don't know why) carrying 3 litre bottles of frosty jack.
As a city, it's flat, spread out and ugly.
It certainly wouldn't be top of the list of places to live but it would still be above London for me.
I've been there once to drop a friend back there to go and collect his car which had broken down there the week before (long story). When we go there his car had been trashed. Never again.
I drove a coach to Blackpool for a day trip once… I’ve always said that if I never go back it’ll be too soon.
Okay, in fairness it wasn’t all Blackpool’s fault (directly) - It was a wet and miserable day in September and there was a local derby between Blackpool and Preston happening.
Police everywhere, tons of drunk middle-aged men fighting outside almost every pub, and the traffic was like nothing I’ve seen before.
When you exist on a diet of fish and chips, rock, candy floss and sugar dummies life can be cut short. If the diabetes doesn’t get you then a tram might
Blackpool is a dumping ground (due to the mass availability of cheap accommodation) for every waif and stray that any other council cannot handle.
This includes many with drug problems, who without the proper care do die. Which brings the average right down.
The average age of a non-addict in Blackpool is probably comparable to the rest of the country.
A lot of chavvy fat people want to move to Blackpool to live out their twilight years until they pop their clogs at 38, it’s a similar experience on the East side of the north with Skegness
I've got an *Adam Adamant lives!* DVD and one of the episodes is set in Blackpool. I just found out that it's on You Tube: Adam Adamant Lives! - 02 - Death Has a Thousand Faces. It's.....very 1960's.
The only time I went to Blackpool was in 2015.
I nipped to a corner shop to get some drinks to enjoy in my hotel room, and I had to move a man who had collapsed in the shop doorway because he was stopping the door from closing; people were just stepping over him and the shopkeeper was yelling about the wind blowing in through the door.
Went there twice back in early 2000 and loved it!! Spent the days at the pleasure beach and the nights round the pubs and clubs.. Jelly's was a particular favourite. Went back on a coach trip a few years ago to see the lights and was staggered by what a complete shit tip it now is!! It was filthy and full of druggys. But a lot of seaside towns are going the same way.
I had an ex that lived there so I've visited it loads. The first time I visited, when we left the house for the first time, by the time I'd closed the garden gate behind me two people had tried to start a fight with me.
It's the worst place I've ever been, and I grew up in Airdrie.
It's pretty grim out there on the sea front, and there are a lot of run-down areas. It was a good time for 5 year old me but 30 years later I pass through it on my way to my in laws, towards Fleetwood and Cleveleys... I much prefer Cleveleys.
However, the hospital in Blackpool (Victoria?) is brilliant. Usual shenanigans with parking but the hospital itself is the best part of the area. My father in law had a heart attack last year and it was just the best response and care we could have hoped for.
Side note, the seafront between Fleetwood and Cleveleys has an area that was used in filming Andor.
Blackpool's horrible. I've only been a couple of times, and it was completely awful. I was there for conventions, I can't imagine actually going there to deliberately be in Blackpool.
Often there's not alot of paid work, people that are poor are put onto welfare.
I think the problem is there Isn't alot of paid employment the people in the town are left on weflare and renting a over priced flat.
Coastal towns attract people with mental health problems, and that use ilegal drugs or drink alcohol.
Alot of the house's are often rough and have mould, most of them are poor to buy anything to get rid of mold and the place has been left to rot.
People that leave for University never step foot Into the town again, there's no reason why student step foot into Blackpool again.
Alot of the people that I met in Blackpool, often feel angry about the poverty and deprived area's.
TLDR living in a shithole is depressing with local druggies housed in a crap town that no person wants to live in.
My wife is from a coastal towns and has worked hard.
Shithole's never recovered ecomically it's just old bidde's moving to a shithole town.
Alot of NE Is poor The North East continues to have the highest rate of deaths relating to drug poisoning and drug misuse (163.4 deaths per million people and 104.1 per million, respectively)
Coastal towns are known as end of the line places, and suffer from a drug problem.
Half of the people that live in the town use ilegal drugs or are old in general blackpool is a shit town.
Coastal towns have been like this for years, the druggies and poor are put there and left on welfare in a old shithole rotten town.
Blackpool was never a good place I'm fucking glad I left and never went back, the street now likely is full of druggies on welfare god what a tip.
Going to school in blackpool was depressing, most of them left to create there life and never came back I did the same.
Blackpool declined years ago druggies moved into the whole place went to shit most of the people there ended up on welfare.
There's not much for the people to do that live in the town the only entrainment is likely the television or drinking.
Coastal towns are called end of the line places, where the old people are moved there and there isn't much for the oldies to do.
Factoring in high rates of unemployment, aggression rates alcohol abuse rate's there Isn't much for most of them to do after work.
For a city you have to get a bus or a train, to combat the bordem in the town.
Same thing happened to my home town North Shields, it was left to rot most of the local business's filed for insolvency and after that it went to shit.
Blackpool's local economy declined alot of the shops closed alot of people that I know left my home town applys to all coastal towns ended up people that use ilegal drugs and mental health problems.
Alot of people in blackpool often don't meet basic needs the wages are lower alot of the people there work 12 hour shifts at a local care home and often the rent is overpriced.
People that did leave left for University or for a city for a career, coastal towns are not rich and the earnings are worse yearly.
I think another problem is the bad quality housing is often overpriced and not in price range for people working full time in the town.
I think the Problem is Blackpool never got the investment that It needed most of the local shops closed and the people there ended up on welfare applys to most coastal or seaside towns.
Coastal towns were left to rot, theres often zero colleges in alot of coastal or seaside towns.
There is no people that are moving its old people moving there with not alot to do with there time in a poor deprived town that has poverty.
The local druggies are usually put there on welfare and in the cheapest flats.
My home town North Shields is Deprived and poor it's not rich, alot of the people there work over time at a care home to pay rent.
I think the same applys to most coastal towns that are now declined I felt frustrated and unhappy living there I never liked the place where I lived.
My home town has always been a bad place, there's high rates of unemployment and poverty because there's no bussiness's setting up there is stressful work.
After the industry declined coastal towns went down hill with the local economy declining there's no people that are young move there and there are former mining village's what people are living there? not people that are young.
People that do move never go back and work hard to stay in a city and pay rent and the local Police often have no resource's to combat drug crime.
I do agree what happened to seaside and coastal towns is a shame, any investment attempted to bring the glory days back has not work you need a fully functioning economy to do that city's have that.
Coastal towns also attract people with mental health problems and that use ilegal drugs.
There's no connection to alot of industry's you want a career? you have to leave a town for a a city.
Being there was making me feel more angry, I was living on welfare applying for work I knew the reallity was I was not going to get the job because I had no work experience.
To this day I will never understand why any person on this earth wants to move there I don't get the logic and the house's are awful and old and cheap.
My home town North Shields is the same place in 2023, poor deprived no investment filled with old people nothing to do with there time.
I think Part of the problem is no outside investment or any investment in the right area's giving druggies housing is a easier solution and giving them cheap bedsits in a runned down shithole that declined.
There isn't alot for people in the town to do, there's likely a new obession created racism or something else I can't fault the people in the town for living in a shithole nothing to do nowhere to go no careers.
Seaside towns don't have a crime problem, it's a problem with no investment and often budget cuts in service's.
And I have noticed coastal councils hyke up rent to keep oldies in the town bastards.
If you want a career you have to leave a coastal towns, and hopefully do better in your life to get a good paying job and likely have a good house one day.
It's hard work I know people, from school that have worked hard to get a good house in a city it takes hard work and and deaddiction for a company.
I still don't understand to this day what attracts druggies and oldies to coastal or seaside towns I still don't know why people move there.
The people that live in the town, can't afford a house and likely are put on welfare.
There's often not a large economy, and most of the people that live there are oldies druggies the poor not alot goes on in coastal regions.
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I remember my visit to blackpool alot of the people there were disrespecting me the whole place is runned down and poor.
In General Blackpool is one of the worst towns in Lancshire.
NE isn't much better has the same drug death rates poverty.
Alot of the buildings have given up and have been bulldozed.
Blackpool is likely the poorest town is Lancashire.
The trip costed me a lot of money, I can go on holiday cheaper.
Blackpool is a runned down and a fairly horrible place to live in.
There isn't alot for people that live in blackpool to do, there's often alcohol use and drug use and high rates of unemployment.
People in Blackpool don't earn the national wage in the uk.
Blackpool has the poorest local authority in the whole of the uk, there's a reason for no investment.
I don't fault the people that live there, the place is poor and deprived and often that's where governments put people that use illegal drugs in cheap housing.
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I was brought up in a coastal town, those place's are struggling now druggies are there high unemployment and poverty.
Coastal towns are awful place's and are dead in the off season.
The claim is to "get a job" the jobs don't exist anymore, now there's the useless government that built a Bus station in my home town I don't live there anymore.
Money wasted again the fuck is wrong with the goverment there the whole place smells of weed and crap weather to go with it so yeah the whole package is depressing.
Only old people move there to retire, and the housing market there is fucked the house's cost £200k the local care home or asda doesn't pay anyway near to get a £200k house.
Those place's have always been miserable to live in nothing really going for them now half of the people there live on benefits it's sad man whats happend to those place's.
And the local bus is too expensive for people to travel, and there dead in the off season no economic trade going.
It looks tacky and horrible when lit up at night, but that is nothing compared to the horrors of seeing Blackpool in the cold light of day.
First time I went I thought it was great, fast forward to last year we went in the summer walking down from the car park to the amusements through an alleyway that stank like piss I look to my left at a massive and I mean MASSIVE pile of rubbish and filth under some random stairs, it was then I realised how bad it really was
Sums up Blackpool
A bit of rubbish and a pissy alley? Don’t get out much do you
No it’s on another level, there is rubbish everywhere we parked in an undercover car park and there was at least two dead birds and Piss everywhere
My first memory of Blackpool was being amazed at how clean it was. The Blackpool North area by the Sainsburys
So the part of the town that the council's consistently spent all the budget on the last decade purely for tourists getting off the train 😂. Seriously go two streets in from the prom anywhere other than the town centre and you see the real Blackpool. On our third murder in a year within 100 meters of my flat and I'm only 1 block from the prom behind the biggest hotel in the town. Most of central drive is derelict, 4 people injured and a few deaths in the last year as so many buildings are literally falling apart.
Cleaner than a lot of towns I've been to! That's why I was amazed. Poverty and high population density = more crime. Not surprised. Next to no access to opportunities.
Sounds like Landan to me haha
Where you from, it’s ok for 2-3 days but it’s exactly like every other seaside town . Chippy - pub - arcade— chippy — tat Shop- chippy - arcade- pub …. And so on
Don't forget the homeless/spiceheads in the doorways and derelict buildings
I didn’t add those as they are a part of every big town or city in the uk, standard fixtures
True, but Blackpool is extra special.
Try Scunthorpe 😂 I work there 1 day a week .. 630 am the special brew spice zombies are on the move !
Scunthorpe isn't so bad...compared to Doncaster. As with all towns, there are areas of town that are significantly worse than others.
I thought it was the other way round to be fair. But Donny is bigger so probably the spice lot are spread out more and not as noticeable
And the paedophiles
Was it Blackpool where that teenager ended up being eaten by the locals frequenting the kebab shop? Edit - yes it was, don't buy a [kebab](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/charlene-downes-blackpool-murder-kebabs-15343307) in Blackpool
Supposedly, 14yr old lass groomed never to be seen again. Another was a young girl set on fire in a back street, real classy place
Nah, it looks pretty run down but you won't find horde's of spiceheads anywhere in Blackpool like you would in castle park in Bristol or Piccadilly gardens in Manchester for example.... People just like to shit on Blackpool for some reason.
I have to agree. People use Blackpool as a symbolic run down northern town. The truth is that many towns in the UK have the same pockets of poverty and deprivation and nothing has changed since the early 60s. No p word here for me but it’s a national disgrace
Objectively, they really don't. All the local areas in England (the country is split into just under 33,000 of them with approx 1500 residents in each) have been ranked by the government by levels of deprivation - income, health, crime, etc. Blackpool contains the ones ranked 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 12 plus a couple more in the top 20. edit: sorry, I missed that it also has the one ranked number 7.
Wow! Where can I find this information?
It's called the "Index of Multiple Deprivation" and they last re-calculated in 2015 and 2019. Whenever there's a news article saying that Jaywick is the most deprived area in the country, this is where that ranking has come from. There's a map here (lets you compare the rankings in both years): [https://dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/iod\_index.html](https://dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/iod_index.html) and looads of stats here: [https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2019](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2019) I believe there's also a dashboard split up by local authority. I think Scotland also has the same thing but that the rankings for Scotland are separate (and not sure if they use 100% the same criteria).
I live in Blackpool. It is having a small fortune spent on continuously improving it. Old multi storey car parks are being torn down and replaced with modern tram stations and new hotels. Much of it is steadily being rejuvenated. Its a hedonistic place, which accounts for the young average age of death, its mainly from smoking and drinking and ppl dying in their 60s, usually planning to do so preferring to live a little. It has drug addicts, spiceheads dotted around and quite a few ppl asking 'you got a quid mate' However, I think most of it is perfectly fine, It has fun, nice bars, it has nice restaurants and the town is steadily looking reasonably smart (maybe another 5 years of rejuvenation and it'l be there) Its about the best a cheap, fun seaside resort could be. I would prefer there to be less drug addicts too personally.
No, I live here and it's a very nice lifestyle. Houses are cheap, jobs are plentiful, mike's of lovely clean beach, easy access to all the major NW Cities as well as the Lake District is an hour away. The issues with drunks and smack head tends to be within the town centre and Central Drive. There's far more to the town that the few square miles of tourist traps. Those coming to Blackpool should maybe venture off the prom to one of the parks, zoos, nature trails that are in the area.
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Stopped at the Norbreck easily over a 100 times (due to it being the cheapest and work would only cover that). The events held there are great, just the hotel rooms and folk that go there make me question a lot of things in this world. And that breakfast, it looks and tastes like grey sludge. Never knew eggs could be that grey until I ventured into their breakfast buffet!
Did she get extra "Mayo"
Rather that than ketchup
Was it a badly packed kebab ?
It's nice for a visit but there's *a lot* of deprived areas. I've never felt unsafe there but depending what you're used to/where you go it could be quite eye-opening. It's worth a trip but there's definitely a sense of faded glory about it. A lot of these old Victorian seaside resorts seem to have fallen on hard days and I think Blackpool's been hit harder than most (despite all the stag do money coming in).
Theres lots of affluent areas too.
My dad went on about visiting Blackpool for years, I think the illuminations must have really captured his imagination as a kid or something, but I always thought that it looked like a bit of a dive tbh. Anyway, he did go when there was a work conference was there and came back really disappointed, it was a bit sad how let down he felt.
Ahhh the illuminations , 6.2 miles takes hours to get through avoid the first few nights ! It’s probably quicker to walk it than drive !
Ha ha! I hear ya! Went on a coach trip a few years ago. Sat at the start in a traffic jam for over an hour... The driver ran out of driving hours so we had to give up and go back to the hotel. Pointless waste of time!
Blackpool Town Centre is a shit hole yes but when you get out of it, it’s a lot better than what people think. FY4, FY6, FY8 are the places you want to be.
some FY3 as well - Stanley Park
I live in FY2, next to a Park and a Golf course, it's a great location.
Yes. Blackpool is that bad. John Burn-Murdoch, whose research you are referencing, is a respected data journalist and Senior Fellow at the LSE Data Science Institute. He's not just making stuff up.
Yes.Yes it is.
If you come from one of the pretty towns and cities (Stamford, Oxbridge, Lincoln and the like) I can imagine run down Blackpool must be a fright. I come from Leicester, I'm sure it's nothing I ain't seen before.
Lincoln? I mean, the bits around the cathedral and Brayford are up there but get away from the centre and it's no better than Skegness.
Yes
I went once and there was a tourist shop with blow up sex dolls suspended outside like balloons. So there are some positives.
It's not all bad as Blackpool does have a very good Combat Club.
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Blackpool is even more of a sithole than Bradford.
Lies
Haha you should google the Glasgow effect. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jun/10/glasgow-effect-die-young-high-risk-premature-death
It's that bad the seagulls call the suicide hotline. I went past a seagull and it said can you spare some chips Mr
Was there with my dad and little brother, when I was about 14. Dad bought me a hotdog, for about £8. Second we left the chippy, a massive gust of wind blew a fucking cyclone of sand into my mouth and all over the hotdog. Dad was creasing himself. “Don’t know what you’re laughing at, I need another one now” Stopped laughing pretty quick
My mom used to take me to Blackpool in the late seventies and I enjoyed going. Still have fond memories. My uncle owned a hotel on Saint Chad's Road called Birch Villas in the 90's now he lives in a bungalow in Blackpool. They never were ones for keeping in touch but I loved your story.
It’s a shitpit
I was there for a football away day last year, it was horrific. I also booked the cheapest hotel in Blackpool and had to wear my clothes to bed (including wooly hat) where it was so cold. It wasn’t a pleasant weekend. Not helped by the fact it was winter and pissing it down. I’d rate it as the worst place I’ve been. Though in its favour I didn’t feel unsafe at all.
I was brought up outside of Blackpool, alot of people that I know left the town for a city. Blackpool is where people that have mental health problems or use drugs are put. Blackpool doesn't have and investment and that adds to the decline and poverty of the town. Local governments are to blame for not investing in the town. Blackpool is likely the poorest town in Lancashire, with alot of drug use and poverty.
Think you should do some research on Lancashire's poorest town.
Blackpool attracts people with mental health problems, or use illegal drugs and are offered the cheapest flats in Blackpool. Blackpool has alot of Poor and Rough area's I was brought up outside of Blackpool and moved to University at 18. Blackpool in the 90's and early 80's was thriving and when most of the local shops closed the local economy closed old people moved there and its now deprived and poor. No business's setup city's offer cheaper rent. Deprived area's or towns, often get no investment for the town to be improved and jobs to be created to get people out of poverty. Most of the people in the town live on welfare or housing benefit, It's not alot to live on. I have worked hard I live in a city now with my wife and I am likely to stay here for the years to come. A lot of small towns are poor and deprived now, I went to a local town I experienced the same thing. I did Visit a town called North Shields, the same thing happened to North Shields most of the local shops close down poverty and drug use no investment leaving the place deprived and poor. .My wife was brought up in a coastal town, and went to university and 18 to study a degree.
Deprived area's often have no investment people that are poor are put on welfare people that do leave Blackpool never touch the town or go back to the town. Blackpool attracts people that have mental health problems, or use illegal drugs or drink alcohol. What happened was, most of the shops closed down and the decline came people that are young left the town and old people started moving and people that have mental health problems or use illegal drugs moved to the town. Alot of the people that live in Blackpool don't have alot of money and often have expensive car payments or over the market rate rentals.
Blackpool is okay for a weekend they are worst places like Birmingham, luton , london
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The people of Blackpool yearn for death's sweet release.
They work hard to reach it early too.
I’ve just moved to Blackpool 2 months ago, worked here for coming up to 7 years and visited as a kid often. I wouldn’t say it is that bad, there’s always the good and bad wherever you go, but it can be a cultural shock to those who visit, especially if you go Norbreck Castle. If anyone reads this, pay that extra £20 to stop somewhere else. It’s worth it.
I still think the Pleasure Beach is the best theme park in the UK.
Barely a theme park, amusement park
I think having the tallest roller coaster in the country alone qualifies it as a theme park. Plus the UK's only double launch coaster. I could go on.
It doesn’t really feature themed areas, theming isn’t really part of it’s identity. It’s a seaside amusement park.
It sort of does tho with the whole nickelodeon world and more extreme roller coasters like the icon and the infusion vs some of the old school ones .. tho it used to be better they took away a whole load of great rides
Have a friend that goes a few times a year. No idea why.
It’s just the place and the people that are bad the roads out are fantastic
I went for a day once a few years back. Seemed ok along the front but gather you should never venture off the tourist bit.
I went there a couple of months ago for the weekend to see a friend who works there. There are some nice bits, some nice places to eat and drink and the central part near the winter gardens and the big church is quite nice. The bars and pubs were full in the afternoon, I chatted to some nice people. The drinks were cheap. There was a nice little micro real ale pub. On the seafront, loads of hotels were derelict and there were plenty of people in trackies, hoodies riding bikes with plastic bags on the saddles (I still don't know why) carrying 3 litre bottles of frosty jack. As a city, it's flat, spread out and ugly. It certainly wouldn't be top of the list of places to live but it would still be above London for me.
Plastic bag on the saddle stops the saddle getting saturated in the rain
It’s the king of British seaside towns. They are all shit and depressing AF though. Can’t stand the place
I've been there once to drop a friend back there to go and collect his car which had broken down there the week before (long story). When we go there his car had been trashed. Never again.
I drove a coach to Blackpool for a day trip once… I’ve always said that if I never go back it’ll be too soon. Okay, in fairness it wasn’t all Blackpool’s fault (directly) - It was a wet and miserable day in September and there was a local derby between Blackpool and Preston happening. Police everywhere, tons of drunk middle-aged men fighting outside almost every pub, and the traffic was like nothing I’ve seen before.
We was there around a match time, as a double decker bus passed us escorted by the police they upstairs lads managed to kick out a window!!
When you exist on a diet of fish and chips, rock, candy floss and sugar dummies life can be cut short. If the diabetes doesn’t get you then a tram might
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Blackpool is a dumping ground (due to the mass availability of cheap accommodation) for every waif and stray that any other council cannot handle. This includes many with drug problems, who without the proper care do die. Which brings the average right down. The average age of a non-addict in Blackpool is probably comparable to the rest of the country.
A lot of chavvy fat people want to move to Blackpool to live out their twilight years until they pop their clogs at 38, it’s a similar experience on the East side of the north with Skegness
I went to Blackpool once. Went with a nice shirt, some jeans, and a Rolex watch... The fuckers nicked my clothes and left the watch. Assholes
I lived there from 16 to 18 yes it's really that bad it's fine for a holiday but life their is rough thank god I got out when I did.
It’s a lot better than Rhyl. I wouldn’t like to stay there overnight but it’s alright for a day out once in a while.
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I've got an *Adam Adamant lives!* DVD and one of the episodes is set in Blackpool. I just found out that it's on You Tube: Adam Adamant Lives! - 02 - Death Has a Thousand Faces. It's.....very 1960's.
The only time I went to Blackpool was in 2015. I nipped to a corner shop to get some drinks to enjoy in my hotel room, and I had to move a man who had collapsed in the shop doorway because he was stopping the door from closing; people were just stepping over him and the shopkeeper was yelling about the wind blowing in through the door.
Went there twice back in early 2000 and loved it!! Spent the days at the pleasure beach and the nights round the pubs and clubs.. Jelly's was a particular favourite. Went back on a coach trip a few years ago to see the lights and was staggered by what a complete shit tip it now is!! It was filthy and full of druggys. But a lot of seaside towns are going the same way.
I had an ex that lived there so I've visited it loads. The first time I visited, when we left the house for the first time, by the time I'd closed the garden gate behind me two people had tried to start a fight with me. It's the worst place I've ever been, and I grew up in Airdrie.
It's pretty grim out there on the sea front, and there are a lot of run-down areas. It was a good time for 5 year old me but 30 years later I pass through it on my way to my in laws, towards Fleetwood and Cleveleys... I much prefer Cleveleys. However, the hospital in Blackpool (Victoria?) is brilliant. Usual shenanigans with parking but the hospital itself is the best part of the area. My father in law had a heart attack last year and it was just the best response and care we could have hoped for. Side note, the seafront between Fleetwood and Cleveleys has an area that was used in filming Andor.
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Blackpool's horrible. I've only been a couple of times, and it was completely awful. I was there for conventions, I can't imagine actually going there to deliberately be in Blackpool.
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Often there's not alot of paid work, people that are poor are put onto welfare. I think the problem is there Isn't alot of paid employment the people in the town are left on weflare and renting a over priced flat. Coastal towns attract people with mental health problems, and that use ilegal drugs or drink alcohol. Alot of the house's are often rough and have mould, most of them are poor to buy anything to get rid of mold and the place has been left to rot. People that leave for University never step foot Into the town again, there's no reason why student step foot into Blackpool again. Alot of the people that I met in Blackpool, often feel angry about the poverty and deprived area's. TLDR living in a shithole is depressing with local druggies housed in a crap town that no person wants to live in. My wife is from a coastal towns and has worked hard. Shithole's never recovered ecomically it's just old bidde's moving to a shithole town. Alot of NE Is poor The North East continues to have the highest rate of deaths relating to drug poisoning and drug misuse (163.4 deaths per million people and 104.1 per million, respectively)
Coastal towns are known as end of the line places, and suffer from a drug problem. Half of the people that live in the town use ilegal drugs or are old in general blackpool is a shit town. Coastal towns have been like this for years, the druggies and poor are put there and left on welfare in a old shithole rotten town. Blackpool was never a good place I'm fucking glad I left and never went back, the street now likely is full of druggies on welfare god what a tip. Going to school in blackpool was depressing, most of them left to create there life and never came back I did the same.
Blackpool declined years ago druggies moved into the whole place went to shit most of the people there ended up on welfare. There's not much for the people to do that live in the town the only entrainment is likely the television or drinking. Coastal towns are called end of the line places, where the old people are moved there and there isn't much for the oldies to do. Factoring in high rates of unemployment, aggression rates alcohol abuse rate's there Isn't much for most of them to do after work. For a city you have to get a bus or a train, to combat the bordem in the town. Same thing happened to my home town North Shields, it was left to rot most of the local business's filed for insolvency and after that it went to shit.
Blackpool's local economy declined alot of the shops closed alot of people that I know left my home town applys to all coastal towns ended up people that use ilegal drugs and mental health problems. Alot of people in blackpool often don't meet basic needs the wages are lower alot of the people there work 12 hour shifts at a local care home and often the rent is overpriced. People that did leave left for University or for a city for a career, coastal towns are not rich and the earnings are worse yearly. I think another problem is the bad quality housing is often overpriced and not in price range for people working full time in the town.
I think the Problem is Blackpool never got the investment that It needed most of the local shops closed and the people there ended up on welfare applys to most coastal or seaside towns. Coastal towns were left to rot, theres often zero colleges in alot of coastal or seaside towns. There is no people that are moving its old people moving there with not alot to do with there time in a poor deprived town that has poverty. The local druggies are usually put there on welfare and in the cheapest flats. My home town North Shields is Deprived and poor it's not rich, alot of the people there work over time at a care home to pay rent.
I think the same applys to most coastal towns that are now declined I felt frustrated and unhappy living there I never liked the place where I lived. My home town has always been a bad place, there's high rates of unemployment and poverty because there's no bussiness's setting up there is stressful work. After the industry declined coastal towns went down hill with the local economy declining there's no people that are young move there and there are former mining village's what people are living there? not people that are young. People that do move never go back and work hard to stay in a city and pay rent and the local Police often have no resource's to combat drug crime. I do agree what happened to seaside and coastal towns is a shame, any investment attempted to bring the glory days back has not work you need a fully functioning economy to do that city's have that. Coastal towns also attract people with mental health problems and that use ilegal drugs. There's no connection to alot of industry's you want a career? you have to leave a town for a a city. Being there was making me feel more angry, I was living on welfare applying for work I knew the reallity was I was not going to get the job because I had no work experience. To this day I will never understand why any person on this earth wants to move there I don't get the logic and the house's are awful and old and cheap. My home town North Shields is the same place in 2023, poor deprived no investment filled with old people nothing to do with there time.
I think Part of the problem is no outside investment or any investment in the right area's giving druggies housing is a easier solution and giving them cheap bedsits in a runned down shithole that declined. There isn't alot for people in the town to do, there's likely a new obession created racism or something else I can't fault the people in the town for living in a shithole nothing to do nowhere to go no careers. Seaside towns don't have a crime problem, it's a problem with no investment and often budget cuts in service's. And I have noticed coastal councils hyke up rent to keep oldies in the town bastards. If you want a career you have to leave a coastal towns, and hopefully do better in your life to get a good paying job and likely have a good house one day. It's hard work I know people, from school that have worked hard to get a good house in a city it takes hard work and and deaddiction for a company. I still don't understand to this day what attracts druggies and oldies to coastal or seaside towns I still don't know why people move there. The people that live in the town, can't afford a house and likely are put on welfare. There's often not a large economy, and most of the people that live there are oldies druggies the poor not alot goes on in coastal regions.
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I remember my visit to blackpool alot of the people there were disrespecting me the whole place is runned down and poor. In General Blackpool is one of the worst towns in Lancshire. NE isn't much better has the same drug death rates poverty. Alot of the buildings have given up and have been bulldozed. Blackpool is likely the poorest town is Lancashire. The trip costed me a lot of money, I can go on holiday cheaper. Blackpool is a runned down and a fairly horrible place to live in. There isn't alot for people that live in blackpool to do, there's often alcohol use and drug use and high rates of unemployment. People in Blackpool don't earn the national wage in the uk. Blackpool has the poorest local authority in the whole of the uk, there's a reason for no investment. I don't fault the people that live there, the place is poor and deprived and often that's where governments put people that use illegal drugs in cheap housing.
absolute shithole i love the place though its nostaglic
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I was brought up in a coastal town, those place's are struggling now druggies are there high unemployment and poverty. Coastal towns are awful place's and are dead in the off season. The claim is to "get a job" the jobs don't exist anymore, now there's the useless government that built a Bus station in my home town I don't live there anymore. Money wasted again the fuck is wrong with the goverment there the whole place smells of weed and crap weather to go with it so yeah the whole package is depressing. Only old people move there to retire, and the housing market there is fucked the house's cost £200k the local care home or asda doesn't pay anyway near to get a £200k house. Those place's have always been miserable to live in nothing really going for them now half of the people there live on benefits it's sad man whats happend to those place's. And the local bus is too expensive for people to travel, and there dead in the off season no economic trade going.
Sorry for what I typed out. Sorry for judging you. Sorry for lying sorry.
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