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We Moved To Live In The Worst Place In England, And Here’s What It’s Like
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6 months ago we moved to Dover that was voted to be the worst place to live in England.
We never stopped taking photos of the truly terrifying things we found here and even created a Facebook page called ‘Shepherds of Dover’ to celebrate and share the horrors with you!
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The town is filled with beautiful historic buildings
And there’s the castle…
Should we mention that the Europe’s best preserved Roman lighthouse still stands here?
Our town is as beautiful at night as it is during the day
We have our own Banksy and we’re proud of it
And quirky decorations!
Even nature approves the beauty of our town
And we’re known to have THE best skies
We have a fabulous community!
And loads of events all year round
The coast is filled with treasures for us to find, such as this shipwreck from 1926
Not to mention that for centuries we’re taking the role of being the gateway to England
And those cliffs…
There’s no place as beautiful!
And we can see France!
And our green spaces are always guarded by cattle, sheep and ponies!
Our town is extremely dog friendly, they allow dogs in the castle!
And the nature around us is astonishing
Also, we know the places where we can hide from your negativity ;)
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Credit to whoever took these photos; you managed to avoid getting a single drunk smackhead in shot! Let's go over some of Dover's other treasures, speaking as a resident of 34 years: - The family of *actual* inbreeds who live near St Radigunds - The fact that around 70% of high street shops are boarded up - The town is a no go area at night because of gangs - Rampant alcoholism. I worked in the library for 4 years and would turn away abusive drunks as early as 10am - One of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the county - It's a hot spot for far right groups such as Britain First and the EDL. - As it's a port town it's crawling with drug dealers Not *one* of the pictures there shows the town centre or anywhere that would constitute Dover the town. Sticking some filtered pictures up on the internet with platitudes underneath doesn't change the fact that the town is a dump and at the very least 90% of the people there need incinerating.
Come on Sir John, lose that famous British reserve for a bit and tell us how you really feel.
Sounds like it's time to move away.
Dear John, I am only forced to believe that you are one of those people you are so passionately ranting about. On my 6 months I've been walking narrow streets day and night, high street or suburbs or forests even. Never was I EVER threatened, never seen those 'gangs' you are talking about and was never approached by a rude begger - if they talked to me, they wished me a good day. No abusive drunks either. No drug users I've seen, except for ocasional smell of weed, which is less harmful than your abusive words. Yes, the boarded shops and buildings are sad to see, but that;s not anyone's fault - please, rent it, do your business, wake this town up if you're unhappy, I know one day I will. Not sure about the far rights either, or the neo nazis, as we're foreigners and we've never heard a word against that. And the pictures of the town - plenty in my facebook page. I suggest you should go visit London or any major city where even in the best neighbourhood you are truly afraid.
You must be the TERMINATOR!
Thank you for elaborating on the situation. As someone who never before have heard of Dover's reputation I did not quite grasp the post prior to your detailed explanation.
Why are people so mad that you say 90% of the people should be incinerating. That's providing jobs in the waste disposal industry. Wait, do they think you mean incinerated? To be fair, 90% of most towns should be incinerated to either way their anger isn't justified.
He said the "people need incinerating", that is the correct grammar. "People need incinerated" does not make grammatical sense.
Would you like to add why you didn't mention London in your rant against Dover, - which had 4 - yes FOUR - knife deaths over Christmas alone. Which has had hundreds of knife deaths, moped attacks and thefts, acid attacks, gang warfare??/ It's not Dover that gone to the dogs. It's the UK. Most of it, lots of Wales -north - has escaped. But the entire UK has been destroyed by your vile politicians, who live in fancy houses in protected neighbours where they are shielded from the results of their utterly, unbelievably stupid polices. The part of Dover that was there hundreds of years ago, will still be there when you finally work out what to do with your Government sponsored low lifes!!
What? what has this got to do with Dover, this article is about Dover which is a very small town, not a huge capital city, of course there will be more crime in London, like any major city. You do not expect a small town like Dover to be so full of issues, especially when it is a gateway to our great country. The first thing many people see as they arrive from the continent to our country is a complete crap hole. Dover council should be ashamed of themselves, what are they doing with their money ... nothing as far as I can see. Perhaps just lining their own pockets. The government is also at fault for allowing such lack of investment in an area that is a first impression of our country to many. I went to Dover quite recently to catch a ferry and was completely shocked by what a dump it was, I also was going to stay in a B&B there but the prices were so high for a tiny room with no breakfast or parking, sadly I stayed at the more accessible and convenient premier inn.
Yeah but can ya get a good pizza?
Hey John McPoop: EVERY town has crappy areas, regardless of wherein the world you visit. You can choose to see the glass as half-empty and look only at the negative aspects, or you can choose to see the glass as half-full and focus on the beautiful areas, as Arnolda is doing. I will choose to continue to enjoy the lovely areas and photos being shared. Thank you, Arnolda!
Well said sir WELL FUCKING SAID!!!
I understand why there would be far right groups
oh ffs.....so many wadded panties....it's a fluff bit on bored panda not an in depth government report
I didn't know, Sir John...thanks for setting things straight !
I was going to mention the EDL / BF-FF. Love how the last picture is, " Also, we know the places where we can hide from your negativity ;)" Yes, winky face.. because they know it's a shooting bunker, and not a decent hiding place from negativity. That picture was chosen by the author for a very apt reason. Disgusting.. If you can't properly address the reasons the people are upset about the area and the decisions made, do you think shooting them is going to end said negativity? So.. very... classy there.. What it shows, is who put together .. is class A bitch..
Did you really just say that 90% of the people in Dover need to be "incinerated?" Perhaps we need a picture of you to add to this collection with the caption "Admittedly, Dover has to deal with this assat." Good grief.
I think you'll find I'm an asshat, not an assat. And I've spent 34 years watching the town disappear under a tidal wave of drunks, drug addicts, criminals, neo nazis and right wingers. If you spent less time chastising strangers on the internet and actually went and spoke to the people who live here you'd find my opinion is pretty widely shared. There's a reason Dover was voted the worst place to live in the UK. Now shush.
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Wow, someone points out you shouldn't say people need to die in comments like these, and because it's a "hyperbolic" statement, because it shouldn't be on the internet to begin with.. The person pointing it out gets downvoted? LOL. Welp, there goes the neighborhood. Yep, I get you feel passionate about the state of the town, and I get that the negativity you exhibit is *strong*. And I get that people take things too seriously, even passing creative comments such as these. But the response to pointing out that you don't actually mean to kill anyone? That... that is odd. Why so many downvotes? hahaha I'm just going to step way over here, away from the maniacs for a bit.
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You said you wanted 90% of the population of your town killed. I'm not chastising stranger-I'm pointing out that you're a maniac.
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I would just like to let you know if your saying that people need to die on the internet is not going to end well for you. It's disgusting.
It's clearly hyperbolic. You can calm down.
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You really should learn not to. Seriously.
I moved here ten years ago and love it.
Looks like a wonderful place. Loved the dog amongst the sunflowers!
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http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2017/11/02/55-arrested-following-weeks-long-gang-investigation-dover/824596001/
Piers that's the most ridiculous link possible - that's about Dover in Delaware, USA!
errrr....that's Dover in Delaware?
Sorry Jeaneke, obviously the wrong link but there was one about the problems and the measures which they had/had not taken to improve the situation as far as I remember.
Credit to whoever took these photos; you managed to avoid getting a single drunk smackhead in shot! Let's go over some of Dover's other treasures, speaking as a resident of 34 years: - The family of *actual* inbreeds who live near St Radigunds - The fact that around 70% of high street shops are boarded up - The town is a no go area at night because of gangs - Rampant alcoholism. I worked in the library for 4 years and would turn away abusive drunks as early as 10am - One of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the county - It's a hot spot for far right groups such as Britain First and the EDL. - As it's a port town it's crawling with drug dealers Not *one* of the pictures there shows the town centre or anywhere that would constitute Dover the town. Sticking some filtered pictures up on the internet with platitudes underneath doesn't change the fact that the town is a dump and at the very least 90% of the people there need incinerating.
Come on Sir John, lose that famous British reserve for a bit and tell us how you really feel.
Sounds like it's time to move away.
Dear John, I am only forced to believe that you are one of those people you are so passionately ranting about. On my 6 months I've been walking narrow streets day and night, high street or suburbs or forests even. Never was I EVER threatened, never seen those 'gangs' you are talking about and was never approached by a rude begger - if they talked to me, they wished me a good day. No abusive drunks either. No drug users I've seen, except for ocasional smell of weed, which is less harmful than your abusive words. Yes, the boarded shops and buildings are sad to see, but that;s not anyone's fault - please, rent it, do your business, wake this town up if you're unhappy, I know one day I will. Not sure about the far rights either, or the neo nazis, as we're foreigners and we've never heard a word against that. And the pictures of the town - plenty in my facebook page. I suggest you should go visit London or any major city where even in the best neighbourhood you are truly afraid.
You must be the TERMINATOR!
Thank you for elaborating on the situation. As someone who never before have heard of Dover's reputation I did not quite grasp the post prior to your detailed explanation.
Why are people so mad that you say 90% of the people should be incinerating. That's providing jobs in the waste disposal industry. Wait, do they think you mean incinerated? To be fair, 90% of most towns should be incinerated to either way their anger isn't justified.
He said the "people need incinerating", that is the correct grammar. "People need incinerated" does not make grammatical sense.
Would you like to add why you didn't mention London in your rant against Dover, - which had 4 - yes FOUR - knife deaths over Christmas alone. Which has had hundreds of knife deaths, moped attacks and thefts, acid attacks, gang warfare??/ It's not Dover that gone to the dogs. It's the UK. Most of it, lots of Wales -north - has escaped. But the entire UK has been destroyed by your vile politicians, who live in fancy houses in protected neighbours where they are shielded from the results of their utterly, unbelievably stupid polices. The part of Dover that was there hundreds of years ago, will still be there when you finally work out what to do with your Government sponsored low lifes!!
What? what has this got to do with Dover, this article is about Dover which is a very small town, not a huge capital city, of course there will be more crime in London, like any major city. You do not expect a small town like Dover to be so full of issues, especially when it is a gateway to our great country. The first thing many people see as they arrive from the continent to our country is a complete crap hole. Dover council should be ashamed of themselves, what are they doing with their money ... nothing as far as I can see. Perhaps just lining their own pockets. The government is also at fault for allowing such lack of investment in an area that is a first impression of our country to many. I went to Dover quite recently to catch a ferry and was completely shocked by what a dump it was, I also was going to stay in a B&B there but the prices were so high for a tiny room with no breakfast or parking, sadly I stayed at the more accessible and convenient premier inn.
Yeah but can ya get a good pizza?
Hey John McPoop: EVERY town has crappy areas, regardless of wherein the world you visit. You can choose to see the glass as half-empty and look only at the negative aspects, or you can choose to see the glass as half-full and focus on the beautiful areas, as Arnolda is doing. I will choose to continue to enjoy the lovely areas and photos being shared. Thank you, Arnolda!
Well said sir WELL FUCKING SAID!!!
I understand why there would be far right groups
oh ffs.....so many wadded panties....it's a fluff bit on bored panda not an in depth government report
I didn't know, Sir John...thanks for setting things straight !
I was going to mention the EDL / BF-FF. Love how the last picture is, " Also, we know the places where we can hide from your negativity ;)" Yes, winky face.. because they know it's a shooting bunker, and not a decent hiding place from negativity. That picture was chosen by the author for a very apt reason. Disgusting.. If you can't properly address the reasons the people are upset about the area and the decisions made, do you think shooting them is going to end said negativity? So.. very... classy there.. What it shows, is who put together .. is class A bitch..
Did you really just say that 90% of the people in Dover need to be "incinerated?" Perhaps we need a picture of you to add to this collection with the caption "Admittedly, Dover has to deal with this assat." Good grief.
I think you'll find I'm an asshat, not an assat. And I've spent 34 years watching the town disappear under a tidal wave of drunks, drug addicts, criminals, neo nazis and right wingers. If you spent less time chastising strangers on the internet and actually went and spoke to the people who live here you'd find my opinion is pretty widely shared. There's a reason Dover was voted the worst place to live in the UK. Now shush.
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Wow, someone points out you shouldn't say people need to die in comments like these, and because it's a "hyperbolic" statement, because it shouldn't be on the internet to begin with.. The person pointing it out gets downvoted? LOL. Welp, there goes the neighborhood. Yep, I get you feel passionate about the state of the town, and I get that the negativity you exhibit is *strong*. And I get that people take things too seriously, even passing creative comments such as these. But the response to pointing out that you don't actually mean to kill anyone? That... that is odd. Why so many downvotes? hahaha I'm just going to step way over here, away from the maniacs for a bit.
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You said you wanted 90% of the population of your town killed. I'm not chastising stranger-I'm pointing out that you're a maniac.
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I would just like to let you know if your saying that people need to die on the internet is not going to end well for you. It's disgusting.
It's clearly hyperbolic. You can calm down.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
You really should learn not to. Seriously.
I moved here ten years ago and love it.
Looks like a wonderful place. Loved the dog amongst the sunflowers!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2017/11/02/55-arrested-following-weeks-long-gang-investigation-dover/824596001/
Piers that's the most ridiculous link possible - that's about Dover in Delaware, USA!
errrr....that's Dover in Delaware?
Sorry Jeaneke, obviously the wrong link but there was one about the problems and the measures which they had/had not taken to improve the situation as far as I remember.