The Worst Things in Barnstaple, Devon*

The entirely missable and worth mentioning because of it

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The Worst Things

• Barnstaple is a cultural dessert and there is nothing here
• Home Place Farmhouse Spa at Challacombe - Wherever you chose to stay don't go there. The owner has no customer skills and often confuses treatments. She can also get defensive and offensive if you criticise any part of your stay.
• would like to send my best wishes out to the men in iraq especially chris moffatt who has recently lost a good friend out there due to a roadside bomb. look after yourself and come back safe will have a pint waiting for you on your return to shit's ville
• The town council, a bunch of old cretins doing whatever they can to stop Barnstaple reaching the 21st Century. The traffic
• townies - aka 80% of the population the rain the lack of places to go lack of decent jobs for young ppl - therefore lack of money to spend traffic peter rasteghini
• its getting too overcrowded with mouthy idiots from up country who are bringing the rep down and managing to get council properties at a click of a finger.lack of decents jobs and wages.lantern fm..our fab(says sarcasticly) local radio station..all should that be..not more blimin adverts fm.the clogged up roads and traffic probs..nightmare on fri/sat..10 times worse once summer comes and the groccles are down.
• To many back-stabbers in this town!

• NDDC - the most expensive bin men in the world
• no hokers to have cheap sex with
• No free car parks!
• fines
• traffic and the wages are poor
• I cant believe that no one has mentioned that fun packed time of year when the crime rate soars, the leisure center pool turns brown as the fair comes to town!!!!!!
• Bluprint

• Wonky pavements
• The worst thing is that I really like Barnstaple in a love-to-hate it kinda way. It's great if you can go away and come back to it and think "this really is the worst place to be ever."
• Bickington General Stores, Prices are higher than the civic centre and they don't even sell stuff you want.
• Even though Barnstaple holds everything i love, it can get a bit boring in the winter unless you have S**T loads of mates to get piss - ed with you all know who you are!
• rain
• Sitting in a crowded Euphoria waiting for comedy club to start one Tuesday evening I shocked to hear the first lines uttered by the comedian as he picked up his microphone. "Barnstaple. (slight pause) I'm sorry, but you do live in the toilet of the universe." In most other places the unfortunate comedian would have subjected to endless reams of abuse as the patriotic citizens hurled various paraphenalia at the unsuspecting entertainer. Barnstaple, however, is unlike may other towns in that the general consensus is that it's a shithole. The audience in this particular senario could barely contain their laughter at this universal truth. Perhaps the most depressing element of this little tale is that, while we all acknowledge the fact that we live in the toilet of the universe, we're quite happy to live in it all the same. Just one of those enigmatic paradoxes I'll never be able to solve.
• Traffic. Bi annual surfers in Vee dubs
• old biddys and college
• Barnstaple is full of mutants. However it is not as bad as Bideford and definitely nowhere as bad as Torrington. Y'all have fun on a friday down at 'The Shed' ya here! North Devon is like the twilight zone on mogadon, everything moves very slowly and very weirdly. Barnstaple is for life not just for christmas, handle with caution.
• Need better municipal plans especially in relation to youth activities and facilities. There should be a playground next to the public library for starters.
• Barnstaple is an appaling place to come to if you are coming in a car it is the only place in the world where the ring road goes through the town centre. The kids have got sod all to do so no wonder they are all pissed. The wages are shit and the pubs are diar. The best pub is the new inn really friendly excellent food and good beer. General opinion is come for a holiday and go home, we wish we could . It is not the same living here a shit hole.

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