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What is the most overrated British city you've visited?

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What is a city in the UK you have visited after hearing great things but the visit turned out to be really bad? What were the reasons?

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Entire_Pen9097@reddit

The answers saying London is insane. They obviously didn’t find the right things to do and probably wandered from Buckingham palace to the London eye via Oxford street. London is incredible no matter what way you look at it. Few places compare. Best city in the uk with Edinburgh a close second.
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csjuanpointsix@reddit

I've been various times. Unless I'm missing something, it costs a fortune to get there, a fortune to get around when there, a fortune to eat/drink everywhere, feels rough/dangerous with all the tourist scams and bike thieves all over the place. Also it was like £10 a pint when I was there last. I get to london and just want to head home. Maybe its because I don't have any friends in the 1% club but the accomodation/rent/houses I've seen and stayed at, in a few different areas were absolute dumps. We ended up getting a bus recently due to a temporary line closure and people were arguing/fighting on the bus. It just puts you on edge. Been going occasionally to see friends for the last 15 years and it's gone more down hill everytime. Most of them have now moved out to the sticks for a better life and cheaper housing. Please tell me where I should be going? I'd much rather do a city break in Europe somewhere - it feels like better value.
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Commercial_Reward_78@reddit

Come on, where did you pay £10 for a pint… The Ritz? It costs a maximum of £12.50 a day to get round London… that’s the bus/rail/tube cap. Were you cabbing it everywhere? Tourist scams only work on idiot tourists… most tourists aren’t idiots. I know London’s not for everyone, but at least be honest about why you dislike it.
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csjuanpointsix@reddit

A friend took me to various places. It definitely was not fancy and prices we on average around £10 a pint. I was only yesterday talking to a family member who told me they went out last week and the cost of a pint of lager, a bottle of water and a bag of crisps was £20. I'm not saying absolutely everywhere is like this but London is often outrageously expensive and downvoting comments doesn't change this!
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Commercial_Reward_78@reddit

I’m sorry you and your chums were charged these prices. Honestly, I drink all over the city and would expect to pay no more than £7.50 a pint in town and £5 in the suburbs. If I’m happy to go to Wetherspoons, that drops to £5.50 and £3 respectively. There’s a whole “hidden London” (hotel bars, casinos, West End clubs, tourist trap pubs etc) that most Londoners never go to… for just that reason. I take your point, though.
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Usual-Description800@reddit

You went to tourist traps and then complain about tourist traps
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csjuanpointsix@reddit

I didn't go to tourist traps or get scammed, I walked across tower bridge to get from A to B and we just really didn't feel safe. The person we were going to meet that day had to cancel plans because the previous night they got mugged and then beatup over at tobacco dock. Everything just felt sketchy.
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Entire_Pen9097@reddit

You didn’t feel safe at Tower Bridge? Jesus
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jib_reddit@reddit

If you don't like big, expensive, busy cites its not going to be your cup if tea.
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SkullDump@reddit

It doesn’t have to be expensive. One of the great things about London is there’s always so much on and a lot of which is free.
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jib_reddit@reddit

Unless you want to rent or buy housing there, or go out for food and drink, it is much more expensive than other parts of the country.
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SkullDump@reddit

Yes, as is the case with practically every capital/majpr city.
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Soukchai2012@reddit

There are so many free museums, parks, galleries, historical walks and value food experiences in London, yoi could spend weeks there exploring on a budget
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ALA02@reddit

Stand in the middle of Richmond Park and you feel about as far away from a busy city as you can get in England
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Giant_Gaystacks@reddit

Tell me you've not been to the Lake District of the Scottish Highlands without telling me...
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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

I’m not sure they meant “as far away” in the literal sense. You certainly don’t feel like you’re in a city when you’re in Richmond Park. Less tourists that the Lake District too.
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Top-Marketing1594@reddit

That's lovely, but you can't spend your life (or holiday) standing in the middle of a park.
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DoftheD@reddit

To be pedantic, the question is about being overrated not whether it’s to our personal taste. London isn’t everyone’s cup of tea (personally live here but also spend lots of time in greener parts), but it’s not overrated. Some attractions are overrated sure, but for so many other things like architecture, culture, food it is absolutely not
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Necessary_Umpire_139@reddit

Stick me in the middle of Shropshire any day of the week, don't want to vist London again anytime soon if ever.
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catfordbeerclub@reddit

Not a city though
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fizzyrhythm@reddit

No one asked, main character syndrome person. It’s a thread about cities, not about YOU and where you like to skulk about.
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cyclopsmudge@reddit

It’s an opinion thread? The guy who posted asked obviously. It’s okay for them to disagree with you, no need to take it so personally
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Sarmerbinlar@reddit

I mean the question literally asks 'you've' visited. It's not asking for objectivity
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DazzleBMoney@reddit

So where, Shrewsbury? It’s an alright place to visit I suppose, once in a lifetime maybe
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Space_Hunzo@reddit

Lot of nice walking in the Shropshire hills.
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eatseveryth1ng@reddit

Not that busy if you know where to go too
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TumbleweedDeep4878@reddit

You can't just say it's incredible. Give me some details. What can I do there that I can't do in a northern city for half the price?
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Entire_Pen9097@reddit

Let’s see: wander and explore for hours and hours and never run out of things to see, every band/musician will play there, beautifully maintained and decorated parks, excellent museums, excellent and incredibly diverse good quality food, proper lovely pubs, general vibe is good (I’m sure others would disagree but I enjoy just being on street level, perhaps outside on the street with a beer in hand as the sun sets on a warm day, everyone just finished work and meeting friends, it’s busy but a nice busy), cheap flights from one of the 4 local airports to pretty much everywhere, improving cycling infrastructure, the tube/overground system is incredible, bus routing is incredible, well supported prem and lower league teams, pretty much all sport has a home in London and grass roots access to it, Eurostar to Paris and Amsterdam.
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evelynsmee@reddit

I would happily never visit London again in my life. And I live in a city. But I can see why people like it if endless concrete jungles are their thing. Variety of arts, culture, history, sights, bars, food exist in other places, London I rate as a nice enough variety, not a unique variety.
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ALA02@reddit

London is the worlds largest urban forest by definition because it’s so green. So I have no idea where you get “concrete jungle” from.
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evelynsmee@reddit

The power of my eyes my internet friend. Also I've lived in Singapore. London has large parks and a huge expanse of suburbs with gardens that enable it to make that claim. Exposure to an actual green city - throughout the entire city - betrays it as statistical nonsense very quickly. What I mean is, you stand on a high building in London and all you see is London. Flat, endless London. Some other cities have enough of the culture tick boxes to keep life interesting, whilst looking out and seeing countryside or mountains outside it. That kind of flat, relentless cityscape is not my idea of a nice view, and the opportunities and sights of a capital city don't outweigh that for me thus making it overrated. I don't think it is a bad place. The question is where is overrated. But I appreciate that other people love that relentless cityscape vibe and all the variety offered by a large, diverse capital city and therefore view it as completely accurately rated as an incredible magical place, especially those that keep themselves to one or two areas.
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onionsofwar@reddit

Actually if you look at London from above, it really is quite green (if it's the right time of year) trees in streets, gardens, little gardens on street corners, roundabouts, parks, all sorts. It's actually surprising when you see it.
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onionsofwar@reddit

But some of the best galleries, concerts, sports, cultural events. All sorts of things for all sorts of people. How can you say you'd never visit it again? It's not endless concrete it's a real mix of architecture and building materials. Not to mention the amount of green space trumps I think all UK cities and plenty around the world. Did you get lost wandering around industrial estates? Sorry but you didn't visit properly and you should really try London again. Watch the sunset from Greenwich park, walk along the canal in little Venice, swin the docklands. There's so much variety, try it again. Forget Oxford Street and M&Ms world.
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evelynsmee@reddit

Lol you think I only went there once for a weekend? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀
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akwayah@reddit

Anyone can dislike London for any reason they want, but describing it as an _endless concrete jungle_ is objectively untrue
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tmr89@reddit

It’s just Northener opinions
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CharacterEye3775@reddit

There are reasons why London is the top answer
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unaubisque@reddit

It depends what you are comparing it to. London received more visitors each year than Istanbul, Rome, Beijing, Prague and nearly every other city in the world. In that context you can absolutely say it is overrated. Obviously it's more interesting than Birmingham or Manchester or most other UK cities, but it's rated so much higher than all of them, that it can still be more overrated.
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cyclopsmudge@reddit

I would say it kinda meets the hype honestly. I’ve been to about 50 cities on 4 continents, and the only one that has really ever compared to London was New York. To me, those two are in a class of their own and nowhere else has that same mix of everything a city should have
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Agreeable_Guard_7229@reddit

In my opinion, Vancouver and Melbourne beat London by miles
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cyclopsmudge@reddit

Never been to either so I can’t really comment, but I can definitely see Vancouver’s appeal. I think the natural beauty is probably something that London just can’t compete with. Shout out to La Paz on that front too. The city itself is cool but obviously very poor and quite dangerous, but dear god the surroundings are (quite literally) breathtaking. I’ve never seen anything like it
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outlawsmokeyscottish@reddit

Mate I don't know if it's English thing in general. But you can't stand at a bar or folk start queing behind you like I think I was gonna get a plug in my back like why the fuck are you standing at my back. Everyone one takes their drink to a seat... Up here you only do that if your in company, even then polite company you don't go sit down unless your for winching a burd or playing chess with an aulder boy. Then you say hello to them and getting asked what's your problem.... I'm Scottish that's utter fighting talk. Then I'm getting put out the pub for reminding folk what manners are. Fuck your London.
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Usual-Description800@reddit

Interesting how you are the only one with this experience, maybe you're the problem.
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outlawsmokeyscottish@reddit

I'm the most happy joviall person going I genuinely didn't get it.
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BromleyReject@reddit

You say Bannockburn, we say Culloden. Because it's not the heats that are important, it's the final.
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outlawsmokeyscottish@reddit

I say it's every war Englands ever fought. Even Culloden the Scottish were on the English side. But yous haven't won a single war or a raffle unless we were there in some form to win it for you. Useless bastards really are.
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BromleyReject@reddit

The SPL is a non-League let's face it. Leyton Orient could win it.
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outlawsmokeyscottish@reddit

If that's footy youv lost me. Best sport is rounders yous fucked it into cricket then the yanks decided to make it even more boring and call it baseball.
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outlawsmokeyscottish@reddit

Was also the same in Milton Keens like up here you don't come up behind folks back in a pub. You have manners your maw taught you this. If you need a pint first you say to the bar nah this person is first.
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mrbios@reddit

The place is lovely with tons of amazing things to do. Unfortunately the people are cunts.
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Palealedad@reddit

Everyone you met there was a c#nt to you? I wonder why that was?
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mrbios@reddit

Fine, a correction, London commuters are cunts, especially those on trains. Who to be fair, aren't londoners.
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mrrudy2shoes@reddit

London doesn’t hold a candle to Edinburgh lmao
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MagicBez@reddit

Personally I'd rate Glasgow over Edinburgh but I know that's not a popular view
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south_by_southsea@reddit

They are very different places and I'm not sure comparing them make sense - Edinburgh wins on beauty for sure but London has very few true rivals, even on a global stage, when you look at the sheer weight of its cultural/historic/artistic offering
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talligan@reddit

You just gotta dodge the feral bams throwing eggs and rocks at buses 
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My_sloth_life@reddit

Just avoid Wester Hailes and you’ll be alright.
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Low_Stress_9180@reddit

Incredibly expensive!
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maersyl@reddit

I love London and Edinburgh, both wonderful places for a couple of days, but nothing will ever beat the quiet delight and historical beauty of York, for me. Not trying to take anything away from what you’ve said. Both cities are amazing, but they’re too busy for a visit longer than maybe two or three nights for me! THAT SAID, I had an amazing walk along the canal in London back to KX in summer last year, after I walked from Marylebone to Primrose Hill because it was cooler above ground than on the tube (despite it still being silly hot) all because I wanted to buy my wife a perfume as a surprise when I got back to York. Marylebone shop didn’t have it. Primrose Hill shop did and the owner was lovely, saw me come in dripping with sweat and, after asking for this perfume, not only gave me a discount for how cute it was that I’d walked the whole way, also gave me a bottle of water! Say what you will about Londoners, I’ve only ever found them to be lovely people. Okay fuck it I love London. 
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LopsidedLoad@reddit

It’s 100% London.
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Kapika96@reddit

And this is the main reason why it's overrated! Some people are absolutely obssessed with it.
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dropthemustard@reddit

London is the best city in the world 👋🏻
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prankishink@reddit

Agree. If people know where to go there are parts of London that feel like countryside river walks, picturesque villages etc. And you don't have to go miles out. If people only go very central shops, touristy areas or busy train stations, I get their narrow viewpoint.
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MrsValentine@reddit

There are places in London that have a more villagey feel and are very pretty but let’s be real, they still stink of petrol fumes and it’s an area of a large city pretending it’s still the country. If you want countryside, there are plenty of places to get real countryside, genuine countryside. And they are not London.
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NaughtyHotDog@reddit

Lost me with the last sentence
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Spiritual_Tie3348@reddit

I'd be happy to never go London again. Edinburgh is great though.
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BeaumarchaisApu@reddit

I completely agree. Don’t live there, never have. Yet I visit at least twice a year still. One of the best cities I’ve visited in the world.
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atsevoN@reddit

London, been 5 or 6 times for different reasons but if I never visited again I would be perfectly okay with that
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Special_Turnover1961@reddit

Damn, can’t even go Heathrow then
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Successful-Range240@reddit

You can go to lovely Luton airport in the most amazing town near London called Luton
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Special_Turnover1961@reddit

Is this what they mean by British sarcasm?
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Successful-Range240@reddit

Yes darling
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atsevoN@reddit

That’s fine, plenty of airports that are closer lol
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veryordinarybloke@reddit

That's just weird.
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atsevoN@reddit

Why? There’s nothing there that is of any interest to me, I’ve been too all the museums and seen the tourist stuff. it’s too expensive and there’s too many people, it’s not for everybody
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Complex_Box_7254@reddit

I 100% guarantee you haven't been to all the museums.
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atsevoN@reddit

All the ones I wanted to go to and that have any interest to me
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InternationalRide5@reddit

All of them? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_museums\_in\_London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_London) And the 'big' museums are free admission.
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atsevoN@reddit

I guess not “all” of them but the ones I had any interest in, I have no interest in Art ones or random peoples old houses for example, not to say they’re not interesting to others but not for me
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BadBanana999@reddit

‘I’ve been to all the museums and seen the tourist stuff’ That’s probably your problem. Everywhere is pretty naff if you solely do the touristy stuff.
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atsevoN@reddit

I did the tourist stuff once which was the last time I went, I have also been for events like concerts in the O2 and Twickenham and then with my ex, her family lives in Walthamstow and we stayed in Kensington but we saw everything inbetween, I don’t find it that amazing, I didn’t say it’s bad, I just don’t think it’s as good as everybody says
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silentv0ices@reddit

Absolutely agree, be happy to never set foot in London again although York wins it for me used to be good but it's just a shite tourist trap now.
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csjuanpointsix@reddit

Go to Shambles and que up to see a ghost or wizard shop 🤣
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atsevoN@reddit

Never been I don’t think, maybe as a kid but if so I don’t remember it. Was in North Yorkshire in 2024 which is the closest I’ve been lol
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bluetooth_pizza@reddit

Bristol. Not sure if it counts since I work there (not from there and don't live there though). It's not a bad place, but really filthy and run down in many parts and pretty expensive for what it is. In terms of stuff to do it's ok but nothing special to me. It's just big enough to have all the problems but not enough that it's interesting enough to make up for it.
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evelynsmee@reddit

I live in Bristol and I agree. I like it, but it's overrated. I don't know why it keeps winning joint best place to live. The other year I read some news of a AA/RAC study and we were bottom with 88% of the roads in need of major repairs, and honestly most people's response was "where the fuck is the 12%"
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Successful-Range240@reddit

The suburban areas north of Bristol like Patchway, Filton (although technically Gloucestershire) are awful. Feels closer to Bristol than anywhere in Gloucestershire though
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bluetooth_pizza@reddit

I completely agree. Filton is ugly and desolate. Patchway, Bradley Stoke and Aztec West are just endless suburbia/office parks/roundabouts. And then the mess of roads where the M4, M5 and A38 converge.
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Affectionate-Meat552@reddit

It’s actually a great place to live and bring up kids. Safe, low crime, good schools - super convenient to get to Bristol on the Bus and London from Parkway and M4/M5 for other connections. If you actually spent time there you’d know you can get into the country try side in 5 mins and there is a nature area for walks and running.  There are loads of clubs, communities and local groups to be involved with. There is lots of new development happening near by at Cribbs including a new stadium.  I’ve lived in Manchester, Birmingham and London before Bristol/Bradley Stoke. Definitely beats London and Birmingham by miles. 
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Successful-Range240@reddit

Beating Birmingham is a very low bar. Only place in central Birmingham that could beat there is Edgbaston. London the rent is expensive. Most places in Leeds are much nicer than Bristol in my opinion
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eatseveryth1ng@reddit

Go further north and it’s lovely. Grew up in Frampton cotterell and the surrounding areas are stunning
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Darkus185@reddit

It also has one of the worst “major” airports in Europe.     Someone stuck a little terminal onto an old RAF base on top of a hill with a small country road leading past, filled it with a massive itinerary of flights, and decided to charge £8 to drop someone off.  
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Sad_Meringue7940@reddit

Better than that, it was an RAF base dedicated to practicing fog landing, chosen because it was extremely fog-prone. Then some idiot decides to stick a commercial airport there, when you had Filton with a massive runway, loads of land, and a railway running down the side.
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Darkus185@reddit

Not to mention the M32 and a junction right next door.   As a trainee pilot I salute your knowledge.  I never knew that.  It is certainly a sketchy place to land a 737.  
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fish993@reddit

I lived there for 15 years and enjoyed it, but the idea that there's this unique Bristol culture is completely overblown in my experience. The house prices are also ridiculously high - we moved to the South East because we could find significantly cheaper there
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Foshiznik23@reddit

I loved living in Redland! I’m not sure I would like to live in South Bristol mind.
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0800happydude@reddit

I live in Bristol and I sort of agree to be honest. The property prices here are obscene, I think second only to London and Bath, and our public transport is horrendous. I visited a mate of mine in Manchester and property prices are a fraction of what they are here and plus they have a tram system.
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EvidentlyChickent0wn@reddit

Where in Manchester? North maybe but anywhere decent to the south of the city centre and prices are on par with areas of London
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rockandrollmark@reddit

Bristol serves a very fine purpose. It keeps the riff-raff out of Bath (which is bloomin’ lovely by the way)
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AvidCoco@reddit

I live in Bristol and find the same. It’s great if you’re 18-23 and like nightlife but beyond that it’s not got much going for it.
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my-marbles@reddit

I agree. It's really difficult to learn your way around. Horrible ring roads everywhere. Clifton is nice I guess but I find a lot of Bristol a bit grim , ugly to look at and not particularly friendly unless you're out at raves all the time
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Sgt_major_dodgy@reddit

Has to be York for me. I didn't really go expecting much, just went for a few days with my fiance for a little break and yeah it's alright but I wasn't wowed by any means. It also feel a bit... cheap? theme park-ish? I can't really describe it beyond feeling like a tourist trap for Harry Potter fans. Don't get me wrong there's some lovely bits, we had some really good food there and there's a few good pubs/bars.
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dreamer575757@reddit

Doesn’t feel big enough to cater for the massive tourist crowds. And the prices have gone up
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Live-Condition-3123@reddit

Honestly I don’t rate Manchester that much as a city centre. I find Liverpool far better as far as North West cities go. Liverpool is easier to get around, more history, culture, better vibe and feel to it. Manchester feels kind of soulless to me and nothing about the city centre is super identifiable.
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Sgt_major_dodgy@reddit

Anecdotal but I've heard people say once there was a massive influx of people from down south moving up there it lost it's charm. Not sure how true it is but it's a tale as old as time, new people move their because they like the vibe, then make changes so it's like back home and then suddenly the vibe they moved for is gone.
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will2089@reddit

It’s not really true. I’m a born and bred Manc. Before gentrification it was a dump. You used to avoid to visit the city centre it was so rough, nor would you even want to go more than you had to because it was dilapidated. You could maybe argue there was a brief window in the 00s where it was just being gentrified but hadn’t quite made it yet so that people didn’t want to move there. It was only a few years though, not some halcyon time of Manchester having it all before it was ‘ruined’. Personally I always find the people most vocal about how Manchester was better are from satellite towns or transplants from other areas of the North
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Soukchai2012@reddit

I was in central manchester in the late 80’s-90’s and it was a fantastic city to live in. It was run down in parts compared to now, but many towns & cities were more run down back then by todays standards, so you didnt notice much. It had sooo much going for it, you could go out cheaply 7 nights a week - the music, food, clubs, markets, museums & galleries. I much preferred it to other UK cities.
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DoctorRaulDuke@reddit

Manchester is still rough - the entire route from Piccadilly to the bottom of Market Street is awful. Once you're away from that its great, but it makes a terrible first impression.
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will2089@reddit

Trust me mate, I know there are sketchy parts but it’s nothing like it was. My Grandma was the strongest woman I knew, she was from Droylsden. It’s technically in Tameside but she’d spent her whole life working in the city. She owned rental properties, businesses, was a councillor for a while and was (I guess) the First Lady when my Grandad was the mayor. She was formidable. The only time I ever saw her scared was when we had to change busses at Piccadilly Gardens (back when it was all sunken into the floor and full of druggies with no clear lines of sight) and she had to drag me across them. It was genuinely scary. Nowadays there are rough bits, always will be I think, but it’s not quite that same sense of visceral danger. Incidentally that experience is also why I don’t care about how ‘ugly’ Piccadilly is now.
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BuffaloAl@reddit

This is such a stereotypically northern response. Must be southerners
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SomeCanDance@reddit

Many likely moving due to affordability.
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EvidentlyChickent0wn@reddit

I'm from Manchester and I can say first hand that it isn't anywhere near as good as it was in the 90s and early 2000s. The recent addition of endless skyscrapers and gentrification of areas like the northern Quarter have seen a lot of new people with no connection to the history and vibe of the city centre. It's not a bad thing in and of itself. Investment is welcome and new buildings are on par with any major city but they lack the charm and character of the post industrial architecture prevalent 20 years ago. The musical history has been sold out many times over with all the "hacienda" lot and the "we do things differently" tosh. You know it's done for when politicians start getting in in the act for self promotion. No thanks!
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tmr89@reddit

Whats not to love about Crackadilly Gardens?
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ssebarnes@reddit

Yes! I'm from Lancashire and growing up we were always 'Mancs' as it was our next big city. I was raised supporting United, Joy Division, Oasis, The Smiths, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays was my culture! I really felt like I had a distinct identity as a Manc growing up. Now whenever I visit, it's a shell of it's old identity. Think Camden Town and the active punk scene before it started dropshipping everything from China and imported AI tat onto everything. I live in London now. Only place I've found that still has a soul is Brixton, but that's not without risks as more and more people move in and drown out the essence of the community.
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Complex_Box_7254@reddit

Sounds like you didn't venture much further than Piccadilly Gardens and the Arndale.
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samgf@reddit

I’ve lived in Manchester in several places and have do agree. I know the city very very well and it just feels a little… sad and standoffish
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MyNameFits123@reddit

Newcastle by far. One of the saddest major cities I’ve been to in Europe. Infrastructure falling apart, evident poverty and rowdy people.
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AlbionRemainsXIV@reddit

Derby. What a shithole.
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Immediate-Cow-6183@reddit

Birmingham. UKs second city ..my arse!!  What a run down dump. The local population are slso distinctly unwelcoming and Iwould say rude!!  The best thing there was a very large and keenly priced Chinese supermarket just outside the city centre ..but that's hardly a reason to visit what's supposed to because major city!! 
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AirlineSevere7456@reddit

Chinatown is the only reason I ever go in the city centre.
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AirlineSevere7456@reddit

Bristol. Sketchy is the word I'd use.
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JRR92@reddit

Anyone not saying Manchester in here is wrong
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spik0rwill@reddit

Bath. Didn't enjoy any of it and the high street looked very scummy.
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Sad_Meringue7940@reddit

Bath is so far up its own rear end it's in danger of coming back out of its own mouth. Full of smug, self-satisfied tossers. Hate it.
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Obvious-Water569@reddit

For me, London. There’s a lot there. Like A LOT. But for me it’s just too damn busy and hectic.
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Sea-Still5427@reddit

Manchester. How I loathe it. Always seems to be grey, damp and full of chippy people.
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BadBanana999@reddit

Grey, damp and full of chippy people could describe near enough everywhere in the UK
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Sea-Still5427@reddit

Not at all. Birmingham's lovely: airy and green.
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ssebarnes@reddit

Are you colour blind
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Sea-Still5427@reddit

The countryside around Birmingham's amazing. The midlands don't get as much attention as they should.
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Kewgirl45@reddit

The food and music scene is amazing but it’s so far up itself, angry people, crap weather and full of dangerous druggies and homelessness.
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Sea-Still5427@reddit

It's also terrible for sexual harassment if you're young and female.
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AirSorvete@reddit

Bristol is hella underwhelming. Newport and Swansea too tbh. No guesses for which one I DID like.
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catfordbeerclub@reddit

Which one?
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ThatThingInTheCorner@reddit

Manchester - I don't know why but it just feels so dirty, smelly and overcrowded. Liverpool is so much nicer (which I didn't expect)
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catfordbeerclub@reddit

That's exactly why I loved living there
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Emotional_Butterf1y@reddit

Crewe. Birth place of railways and home of the best football club. Visited it in 1985 and I still can’t get out due to the crap traffic.
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catfordbeerclub@reddit

Don't think Crewe has ever been rated. I say this as someone who was born there.
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HeartCrafty2961@reddit

Birmingham. No vibe apart from the gay quarter.
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Pentax25@reddit

Bath
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DeepCartoonist1392@reddit

London. On. rainy day all the good stuff you can do inside is sold out or heaving. On a sunny day literally every single person is in the park. No movement to do anything fun or unique. Expensice and also dangerous - I've been assaulting on trains there. I have also seen stabbings, even in nice areas. Everyone is selfish and materialistic
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Adept_Butterfly_6742@reddit

Always Liverpool for me. It’s just so dirty. 
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xtreme3xo@reddit

Manchester - has become a shell of its self unfortunately the north has been pushed out of it unfortunately. Liverpool - Great City to go around, but I’d argue that’s because it’s built more like a huge town than a City, which is part of its charm. Glasgow - Such a great City. London - it’s hard because it’s like 4 cities in one isn’t it, I don’t mind London.
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Consistent_Ad3181@reddit

Wells it's tiny! But absolutely exquisite!
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Specialist_Emu7274@reddit

Manchester. I went to UoM and had high hopes for the city. I didn’t find it particularly friendly & I am someone who talks to everyone, the friendliness was a key selling feature for me. I also found it quite high cost of living compared to what was on offer. 
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rockandrollmark@reddit

Brighton. After telling people that I found it a bit ‘Meh’ I was always met with the same response - “Oh, but did you go to The Lanes!?!” Yes, I went to The Lanes, thank you. Since wasn’t interested in secondhand jewellery it didn’t offer that much of interest. There’s nothing wrong with the place per-se, it’s just that a lot of people seem to hype it up and this is reflected in the property prices. And don’t even get me started on the misery which is the Thameslink connection.
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MagicBez@reddit

When people.say the Laines they often mean North Laine which is a totally different area full of independent shops (and barely any second hand jewellery shops that fill the Laines)
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BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit

My wife and I looked at Brighton to live at one point, because she was working there. We could afford more for our money in suburban London than we could in Brighton. It is crazy expensive.
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BuffaloAl@reddit

Yeah but at least it's not suburban london
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EducationalRat@reddit

Overrated - Bristol & Leeds Overhated - Birmingham And I would say the Food in Birmingham is better than Manchester and Leeds if you like Thai, Japanese, Chinese or Korean, spoiled with many food courts.
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AdRealistic4984@reddit

Edinburgh is quite a hollowed out tourist destination and while Scotland has a reputation for friendliness, Edinburgh’s locals certainly do fucking not
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south_by_southsea@reddit

Risking downvotes (as Reddit loves Edinburgh) but I'm inclined to agree with the overrated status especially given how expensive it has got and how filled the centre is with tourist tat. I also generally found Glasgow a lot more fun - but then maybe Edinburgh can be like that too if you live there and can be a proper part of its community.
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AdRealistic4984@reddit

It has nice areas like Stockbridge and Comely Bank to live in but you could just live in Glasgow’s West End instead honestly, don’t see many advantages
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berkleysquare@reddit

Glasgow is probably the most underrated city in UK.
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Raised_6th@reddit

I think it’s pretty highly rated these days
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endianess@reddit

Bristol. I went there after friends said how great it was. I've been there a few times and I just don't see it.
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veryordinarybloke@reddit

Brighton. Dirty and druggy, with little green space to provide relief.
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fizzyrhythm@reddit

It’s so grotty nowadays and everyone I know who lives there acts like it somehow makes them edgy and cool. 
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south_by_southsea@reddit

I also think there's not always a huge amount of things to *do* beyond shopping and eating out/going for drinks
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Glittering_Swan2205@reddit

Yes. Brighton is a shithole with a really shit beach.
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SkullDump@reddit

Brighton I’ve always referred to as Peter Pan land. It seems to be full of people who just can’t or just don’t want to grow up.
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Lordaucklandx@reddit

Brighton has an insane amount of parks, and a literal national park basically around it lol
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Mountain_Resident_81@reddit

I think ‘insane amount’ is probably a bit of an exaggeration. Living there it’s a long walk in most directions to get to one that’s not a scrub of grass unless you’re absolutely minted.
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Lordaucklandx@reddit

Okay well [here](https://wanderlog.com/list/geoCategory/1526761/best-parks-in-brighton-and-hove) is a list of 45 of them then
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BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit

I do kind of like Brighton. But Hove is nicer.
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Mountain_Resident_81@reddit

Past its prime I think. Used to feel magical, now feels like an overpriced dump in a lot of parts.
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veryordinarybloke@reddit

Tbf I've only been to and near the sea front. I expect away from there it's nicer.
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Repulsive_Dig_133@reddit

Brighton has some nice green space and views, you just have to climb some very steep hills to get to them.
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sillybillydillydally@reddit

Glasgow.
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DeadPonyta@reddit

Liverpool. The way the locals go on about it you’d think it was the modern day Garden of Eden. Sadly the reality is somewhat of a disappointment.
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BeaumarchaisApu@reddit

Absolutely none have been really bad for me, quite the opposite in that most have been far nicer and more enjoyable than expected. However, although the centre of Manchester genuinely amazed me at how modern, clean, efficient, and far ahead of any other similar cities in the UK. I thought ‘this place would be fantastic to live in’. Yet to visit it felt absolutely sterile, like any remains of soul were buried under another glass fronted tower block. Fantastic city, well down the list of places I’d go back to visit.
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BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit

I think Manchester and Birmingham both suffer from having a lot of their city centres gutted and rebuilt in the post war period. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but unfortunately took a lot of the character away. Best bits of both cities are away from the dead centre. I really like Manchester, but there are bits of the centre I hate.
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ssebarnes@reddit

I always thought the 'character' dwindling away was due to a diversifying community more than anything. In the 70s-90s Manchester/Camden scenes, they had real, living character and established communities. Their parents lived there for years, and their parents had, and their parents had, etc. These communities had some form of common-ground to establish a 'character' from. I said in another comment above, but God bless... Please protect Brixton! It's one of the only places I've been that still feels distinct, and more and more people from outside communities are moving into the neighbourhood and there's a big risk that Brixton will become just as sterilised through standardised diversification.
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BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit

With city centres you have a point, as I think what were residential areas became central business districts, essentially. London used to be different because it wasn't so centralised, but nowadays it does feel like there is do much more commercialisation and homogenisation of anywhere Central. I lived in Clerkenwell 20 years ago and there was still a local community of people who had lived there's a long while and had ties to the area. Now it is so prohibitively expensive and gentrified.
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ssebarnes@reddit

That's the word! Homogenisation! London still feels alive, but it lacks a distinct soul in many places these days. It's hard talking about it without coming across as anti-diversity, but even if you consider loads of middle-class folk moving into a working-class neighbourhood, there is going to be that quintessential barrier between what was then shared community values between the working-class. Even in my hometown of Lancaster it's notable. There isn't as strong a sense of community as there was 20 years ago, because more and more people are moving into it, and more and more of the students are international.
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Small-Orange-4954@reddit

Manchester’s definitely a city for living over visiting imo nowdays
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JRR92@reddit

I'd hate to live there tbh, like the other comment said, it's just a soulless mess of glass panel buildings with no character
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gizmostrumpet@reddit

I'm surprised when I see comments like this, every time I've been to the centre of Manchester the streets have been filthy.
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randomgirl020608@reddit

I definitely also agree with this. I’ve enjoyed most cities but when I visited Manchester 6 years ago, I was so underwhelmed. I had heard many people talk about how Manchester was better than London and of course this is subjective but it surprised me as London in my opinion has so much offer for pretty much everyone whilst I did not feel this in Manchester. The only highlight was it was November and we got to see the bee christmas lights.
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Life_Emphasis6290@reddit

Last time I visited I wouldn't call it clean either. Litter blowing everywhere. Still a great city but, like many others, a bit of a mess
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fursty_ferret@reddit

Oxford. I'm sure it's incredible if you're a student there but if you're not, it's not desperately exciting or interesting in any way.
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inside12volts@reddit

Oxford has some nice bits but is overall a shit hole.
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Bossman_Mike@reddit

Oxford at least feels like a normal place. Cambridge feels like it's the 1940s and a university with a settlement attached.
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KingKhram@reddit

I agree 100%
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MangoonianLord@reddit

Birmingham. What a shithole.
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Bossman_Mike@reddit

The city centre is actually really good these days. But admittedly you're not going too far in any direction before you encounter some real shite.
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veryordinarybloke@reddit

How can Birmingham ever be overrated? Everybody says it's a shithole. And actually they're wrong and it's underrated.
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Big-Priority-6249@reddit

Its so so overhated. Good vibes
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berkleysquare@reddit

The new bullring is actually quite nice but the rest of B'Ham,yuk.
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TheNotSpecialOne@reddit

Its more underrated then overrated.
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BuddyLegsBailey@reddit

Weird. Took the wife to a gig at the arena there, stayed in the centre, and we thought it was really nice there after having a walk around and a meal out!
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bluetooth_pizza@reddit

"Overrated" means it's popular and you don't know why. Birmingham has never been popular
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Sea-Still5427@reddit

If you live in the Midlands and don't want to schlepp to London, it's easily the best alternative, especially for shopping.  Hated it in the early 90s, went back 20 years later and it was like another country. I'd happily move there.
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bluetooth_pizza@reddit

I've only been there a couple of times, both times I thought it was an okay place and wasn't sure what all the hate was about
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bio_d@reddit

Quite an unfair assessment I say. Perhaps it’s under-rated
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The-Fifth-Elephant@reddit

The worst accent in the UK by a gigantic margin also.
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No_Top6466@reddit

The Black Country accent is worse in my opinion.
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Temporary-Crow-3186@reddit

Bristol…. “Hold my pint”
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lexington_spurs@reddit

Unfair. Except in the case of that “Raise the Colours” sh t c nt.
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Kewgirl45@reddit

Ooooh, harsh. The Victorian architecture is impressive, you can eat really well cheaply in independent food places esp. Asian food and the shopping’s pretty good. Also largely very safe and friendly.
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Catmom-101@reddit

Doesn’t overrated suggest that people think it’s good? Since when has anyone ever said Birmingham is good? It’s talked about all the time as a shithole (I’m a brummie)
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Rare-Quantity5503@reddit

I don’t think you understand the word overrated. Messi can be both overrated and the best footballer to have ever lived at the same time. Birmingham has been fairly assessed.
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Remote-Pool7787@reddit

Nobody rated Birmingham to begin with
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sharkkallis@reddit

Manchester 100%
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Helpful_Custard_7557@reddit

Northern Scotland…. A lot of places r very beautiful…where I stay not so much 🤔🙄🥴… cold ALOT of rain/dark/damp!
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NoFewSatan@reddit

Never heard of that city
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ssebarnes@reddit

What region of Scotland is it in?
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Bossman_Mike@reddit

Cambridge. Absolutely hate that place.
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DazzleBMoney@reddit

Bristol. It really isn’t that interesting unless you’re a middle class student that likes DnB.
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Space_Hunzo@reddit

I live in Cardiff and always found Bristol massively overrated when I've visited. Few nice spots around the harbour and it's handy for gigs but dang, I'm always like 'this is it?' When I'm there. Would love to see all the cool kids gentrified out of Bristol set up shop in Newport and give that place some love
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Aben_Zin@reddit

No lie, I was in Bristol once and this guy in a mask stabbed me 5 times! I woke up in hospital and found he’d nicked all my kidney stones!
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WordsUnthought@reddit

Leeds. It's deeply average.
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stopismysafeword@reddit

Possibly below average tbh, it’s a pretty depressing spot
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Voodoopulse@reddit

I don't know of any rated cities in the U.K., ask anyone from that city and they'll generally say it's a shit hole, except for us scousers who think Liverpool is boss and would just prefer the rest of you to leave us alone.
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stopismysafeword@reddit

Liverpool is boss to be fair
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My_sloth_life@reddit

I agree with Brighton. I was there a tear or so back and it definitely didn’t seem to fit the way people talked about it to be.
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Kapika96@reddit

London. People constantly rave about it. It's easily the worst city in the UK I've been to. Ok, I've only been to a handful, but nobody's going around saying x, y, and z cities are amazing, they're just saying that for London, and it really isn't. Everything there is a rip-off, the people can be rude, and I just don't like the aesthetics of it.
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RareSorbet@reddit

This question can’t really be answered. Brits are incredibly negative about their home towns. The narrative is villages are “lovely and peaceful” and cities are “grimey, loud and busy with many/some things to do and has a great vibe in the summer/Christmas.” Towns are “historical/a shithole.”
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Darkus185@reddit

But they are.   The UK has fantastic, photogenic countryside and dreadful, identikit cities that are grey, clogged with traffic and run down.  
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Bossman_Mike@reddit

Manchester. There really isn't much to _actually_ do and I didn't find the locals friendly at all, they had a "with us or against us" cliquey snobbiness and snootiness to them.
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geeered@reddit

Bradford. Yes, I know it's considered very badly. Yes, that's still overrated.
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Majestic-Repair2814@reddit

edinburgh, i was there for 5 days, and while the architecture was fairly beautiful, it wasn't the best i've seen especially compared to other cities in europe, and after the pretty views, what else was there to do really?
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Repulsive_Dig_133@reddit

Should have gone during the Festival?, there is an insane amount of stuff going on. and the population of the city doubles, people from all over the world.
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NinjaTigerB@reddit

This is a wild take. What were you doing for 5 days?
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EvidentlyChickent0wn@reddit

London. Worked there and lived out of suitcases in many nice hotels. Also lived in South London and commuted. Maybe it was me but in general I could never understand the appeal. Dirty, unkept and, busy. I found most people to be in a rush, cramped together, and generally unhappy with their lot in life. No wonder when you consider the price of housing, transport and entertainment.
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cankennykencan@reddit

Lincoln. Don't ask me why but it is
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_Jay-Garage-A-Roo_@reddit

Glasgow
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Express-Pie-6902@reddit

Glasgow must be really fecking awful if it's over rates. I've got it perhaps in my top 150 cities. Architecture holds it's own - but it stops there.
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gizmostrumpet@reddit

A lot of Manchester is so filthy. I think everyone goes so overboard in how much they praise it.
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DuntmatterReally@reddit

"Go to London, I guarantee you'll either be mugged or not appreciated. Catch the train to London, stopping at: Rejection. Disappointment. Back-stabbing Central and Shattered Dreams Parkway." Alan Partridge, 2002. Not really! I love London.
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Hefty_Tip7383@reddit

This is the best answer as it satirises the whole conversation.
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blurdyblurb@reddit

I don't want to sound grumpy or anything, but don't we get this question or similar every week?
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stinkbaybe@reddit

I found Manchester really underwhelming. It’s fine, I just couldn’t see what all the hype was about. Liverpool on the other hand I thought was great.
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jjkknncch6654@reddit

Manchester definitely
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scothed@reddit

Edinburgh was a huge disappointment
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Glittering_Habit_161@reddit

London
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MezzStipe@reddit

Birmingham
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Catmom-101@reddit

How is it overrated? everyone says it’s a shithole already, this question is for places people think are lovely but actually aren’t.
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MezzStipe@reddit

Well I haven't said it's overrated and I heard good things about parts of it and I was relatively disappointed
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BeaumarchaisApu@reddit

You have literally just answered the question “What is the most overrated British city you've visited?” with Birmingham.
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MezzStipe@reddit

I appreciate that but I've also read the remainder of OP post
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NoFewSatan@reddit

People don't know what overrated means, they think it means "I don't like it".
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Emotional-Web9064@reddit

Does anyone rate Birmingham?
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WelshBen@reddit

Definitely London. The attractions are mostly historic stuff which are fine upto a point. Relative to it's popularity as a world leading tourist hub, i'd say it's well out of proportion to the reality.
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Ivanov_94@reddit

Absurd and extremely unpopular statement.
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Entire_Pen9097@reddit

What does this mean? The opposite of this is new city like Milton Keynes. Is that good? No history just bland commerce.
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WelshBen@reddit

The OP was asking for most overrated. I don't think Milton Keynes is highly rated.
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Desperate-Drawer-572@reddit (OP)

Did you find it expensive or was it dirty?
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WelshBen@reddit

It's not particularly dirty. Some of the parks are lovely and clean, but then they are just that - parks. It's more expensive than other cities but it's really not that much different to other cities price wise if you're there as a tourist.
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Important-Plane-9922@reddit

Literally one of the best cities in the world. I say this confidently when I say you simply didn’t do it right.
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SomeCanDance@reddit

Truro
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mosh-4-jesus@reddit

Brighton. felt like my queerness was being sold back to me. also Bristol, but that was more the people I was with.
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KissMyBadSelf@reddit

"felt like my queerness was being sold back to me" - beautiful
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babybarbiexo3@reddit

manchester. was disgusting
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Shot-Performance-494@reddit

Shrewsbury
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HotRabbit999@reddit

Cambridge. If you don't have a university ID card you can't go anywhere or do anything, & you're just stuck wondering a couple of streets & drinking at expensive (& pretentious) pubs
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Christian-Metal@reddit

Alton Towers.
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theotherquantumjim@reddit

ITT - London, Manchester and Birmingham
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SampleAlternative954@reddit

London
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Typical-Algae-2952@reddit

Birmingham. It’s no longer part of England.
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Glittering-Duck4751@reddit

Birmingham It's nice and all but there's the bull ring and one street of shops and that's seemingly it
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Mother_Ad7869@reddit

Is the Mailbox are a dump now too, it was nice last time I visited? 🤔🥲
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Legitimate_Corgi_981@reddit

There's always roadworks and lane closures surrounding it. Every time I find a decent place to park the next trip I make there I find the roads are suddenly closed and I'm stuck on a new one way system. The ULEZ zone is very hard to avoid thanks to that.
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Elegant_Mind7950@reddit

Has anyone ever said Birmingham is good?
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Glittering-Duck4751@reddit

Brummies?
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FootballPublic7974@reddit

I drove past on the M6 last weekend (which I'd not done for years). The high rise city centre buildings looked good in the morning light off to my right. Good from a distance. ....Like bagpipes.
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Desperate-Drawer-572@reddit (OP)

Its rough and dirty too
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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit

Brighton. The town i'm from has basically no queer or alternative scene whatsoever so I was really excited to visit it. Turns out it's just full of trust fund babies
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Legitimate_Corgi_981@reddit

Come for the night life, stay for the sugar daddies? Always remember visiting Brighton on a work trip in the early 00s, a guy on a skateboard wiped out in front of us and needed an ambulance. The hotel we came to look at as part of our tour of south east properties someone had covered the public toilet in faeces on every single surface. Last orders was called in a pub we spent the evening in, then about 15 mins later the music channel suddenly got switched over to porn. We bid a hasty retreat.
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MacViller@reddit

Manchester. Not that it was bad, just that I'd heard it billed up as the London of the North. But when I was there I just thought "huh, it reminds me of Birmingham". Not a slight on Birmingham either, I just felt like it was spoken abound as some huge metropolis. 
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TheCookieMonsterYum@reddit

Oxford
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franki-pinks@reddit

London. Absolute shithole. Spend a weekend there and you spend ten minutes marvelling at sights and the rest of the time dodging litter and scumbags.
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Remote-Pool7787@reddit

York. Crowed and feels like a theme park
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Kewgirl45@reddit

It’s absolutely stunning with some great food
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GeminiCheese@reddit

What's wrong with crows?
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Helen-Archer@reddit

York
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Tea_Ve@reddit

Bath
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DMBear89@reddit

London . Also one of the worst capital cities I’ve visited
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Desperate-Drawer-572@reddit (OP)

Why
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Majestic-Repair2814@reddit

because your london is not my london, london is a city that you could spend 5 lifetimes in and have completely different experiences. even switching your mode of transport exposes you to completely different sides of the city.
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veryordinarybloke@reddit

Thanks for this. The ignorant chippiness about London is really tiresome.
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filthygylfi_@reddit

Melt
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Important-Plane-9922@reddit

Fucking ridiculous comment
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