The Worst Things in Dorchester, Dorset*

The entirely missable and worth mentioning because of it

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• Heroin addicts/dealers in Fordington.
• Vic Park and Fordington
• Millions of coffin dodgers that move to Dorchester to die and then forget why they came here. Nothing for the under 40's to do. Only one club left, The Firestation that robs you blind and the bouncers want to kill everyone. No Mc Donalds or simular hangouts for young people allowed thanks to Goulds and a stuffy council full of stuffy crusties. Just tea house apon tea house apon charity shops (with qualified antique dealers running them), apon Laura Ashley's and old biddies clothing shops.
• The lack of choice of schools - one science college ruled by a tyrant
• McDonald's. PLEASE BRING US BURGER KING!!
• EVERYTHING! NO JOB OPPORTUNITIES OR POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP A CAREER INBREEDING TOWN RUN BY OAP'S THAT HAVE NO CLUE AS TO WHAT THE PUBLIC NEED/WANT LESIURE CENTRE - IT'S THERE BUT IS NEVER OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
• Leaving Weymouth and having to drive through or past Dorchester.
• It only take 5 minutes to get bullied into moving there for the restof your life
• Poundbury.
• Townies that always want a fight.
• Dorchester hasnt changed in years and it shows,the people there go on about bloody thomas hardy and yet he was so embarrased by dorchester he changed the name to casterbridge in his books, so people didnt know he lived there.
• histry borin stuff
• Trinity street - in general this place is a s***hole...it needs some serious tidying up...so many taxi ranks and crappy looking shop-fronts
• The Christmas illuminations. They are notoriously stingy.
• There is a McDonalds, believe it or not, at somewhere called the Monkey's Jump, which is ok if you are driving into or out of town, but otherwise forget it. Bus services rubbish in the evenings.
• house prices, people with "second" homes, vic park, and everybody knows everybody - small town mentality
• Any hopes of having a social life or finding a decent job being dashed the minuted you walk into the place.
• where do i begin.....?
• its starting to get boring.the same spots for over a year!!!
• Every shop front that has destroyed South Street.
• Dorchester has been the same for the past 30 years. After 5.30pm it becomes a ghost town. No shops are open on Sundays, except Woolworths in the summer. This can also be a good point, but more often than not, is a tad dull. If you want a fight at chucking out time, Weymouth's your man.
• Poundbury Estate, the New Hospital
• The continuous traffic blocking the High Street instead of going round like it should.
• Everyone knows everyone. This is an exceptionally small town. Biggest employer is Tescos which pretty much sums up the town.
• The whole place is run by really dull middle-aged people who are completely out of touch (perhaps this is a universal symptom of local government) -- you lot, all of you, get a life! Prince Charles (you know, that guy who just HAS to interfere with everything, only here he has the annoying fallback of possibly having a valid excuse in that much of the area is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall).
• Good Quote: 'One may as well spend one's time in Dorchester as in any other town in England.' (quote from some 18th century writing tourist. Anyway its up in the Corn Exchange so you can check for yourself)
• Thomas Hardy
• Lack of places to eat
• Big hill
• Council there that keeps making Poole concil put traffic lights on roundabouts.
• The weekly market, which was the County farmers market (i.e.Livestock) has been downsized and no longer has the animals.
• The Army Museum is as dull as dishwater.
• All of the new Poundbury estate mentioned in the best of section ! A complete waste of space by a prince who talks to his flowers and an italian architect who thought it would be good having an italian village complete with piazzas (!) in a quiet rural county town in England.
• Tourists who wander around Maiden Castle saying "where's the castle"

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Last updated: 2010-04-16