The Worst Things in Harlow, Essex*

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• some of the roads and estates are run down and need some updating, graffti is quiet bad in places.
• Harlow has no good points and after living in Sawbridgeworth for 21 years, I never came across a single person in Harlow who is anything less than a worthless waste of life. I didn't even live in Harlow but I was so ashamed to live nearby that I had to move away! Hell-hole!
• Everything apart from the cycle network. Oh, and thanks very bloody much, Hitler, this whole "New Town" affair was ultimately your doing, must have been part of your master plan to bring the country to its knees. And the teenagers, who spend their time standing morosely outside the various "hatches" and taunting passers-by. They obviously think that they're living in a much rougher area than they do, like perhaps Kingston, Jamaica, coz dey all talk lak dis innit bruv? lak dey is 'sta's and not snot-nosed, white trash dropouts from Bishopsfield.
• ROUGH!
• Sick of the little mixed race gangs smashing up my car.. :@
• too many stabbings and too much graffiti, more immigrants coming to harlow and making the place looks like a complete shithole...
• All the queue jumping ugly slags, who insist they arrived first, when they did not. Makes me want to take up murder:)
• All the queue jumping ugly slags, who insist they arrived first, when they did not. Makes me want to take up murder:)
• Having to learn how to look after yourself, it is a very rough town and you learn how to fight quickly.
• For me, it was Winter 1974 - when I was born in Princess Alexandria hospital, the only child of parents who could not see the wisdom in moving to somewhere better. Like Beirut or Kabul, for example. Even into the sewers so that I could spend my formative years amongst the turds and the rats - anything would have been better than Harlow.
• The standard of written English found amongst residents who contribute to online guides.
• The traffic in Harlow is beyond a joke. The people who are responsible for the road infrastructure obviously don't use the roads. The roads need to have their capacity increased because in rush hour everything grinds to a halt. Instead what happens? we decide to build bus lanes everywhere. That really isn't the answer for the majority. Also the average life span of bus stops and phones boxes in harlow is about five days before some clever people decide it will be a great idea to smash them to pieces. Maybe people will say that all towns are the same but Harlow has its fair share of disfunctional youths
• asbo kids
• White vans parked all over the street so you can't get up your own front path and which leave muddy gouges out of your front lawn! People spitting in the street. Morons who think they can say whatever they like and that peopel are interested in their inane and inarticulate insults
• the stupid chavs
• The Council The Bus Service
• still being here!!!
• I don't wanna comment, cos all the things I am thinking of you get everywhere, like crime and skanky areas. HARLOW AIN"T THAT BAD!!!
• I don't wanna comment, cos all the things I am thinking of you get everywhere, like crime and skanky areas. HARLOW AIN"T THAT BAD!!!
• lots of bad peeps muggin people and beating people up. gans and stuff.
• u have to manny i think im hard ppl u get tired of having to beat them up when they start on u the fucking pussys
• The M11 leading in.
• People saying how crappy Harlow is and that every young girl has a 5 kids and lives on benefit, i certainly dont have any kids and i make my own money by working (have done since i left school). If you dont like Harlow then dont come here and if your sick of living here f**king move dont just say how shit it is do something about it you f**king twats.
• The teenage Mums - there are hundreds of them with 3 or 4 kids all by different men that give the rest of the town a bad name, oh, and cost the rest of us a fortune in Tax!!!
• Sorry, but that Essex accent was too much. The town centre is terrible. A certain bus driver on the 10 route. It seems all the good places to go are out of town and I didnt see them cos I don't have a car. Like the sculptures I'd heard about. Bad rail links to the rest of Essex. I was in Harlow in autumn/winter and I was always so bloody dark when I finished college.
• Its too close to Bishops Stortford. And Church Langley is wrong too.
• GET OUT OF HARLOW, IT IS WRONG
• The Dirty Fanny
• New giant shopping complex where water gardens used to be The steady decline in the provision of cycle lanes The gradual loss of greenery The sprawl of housing estates
• People who live outside the Town and slag it off while making use of its many facilities.
• police
• The Tubes fitted to the Swimming Pool were closed about 18 months after they were built and now just rot away.
• The worst place in the U.K. for holes in the roads, broken pavements and dog crap.
• The people have no pride in their town,or themselves. The council. The sculptures.
• the council knocking down the water gardens
• rain we do live in England
• I ahte speed bumps that arent maintained very well. When they fall apart they can bust your cars tracking
• pedro/ronald or woteva hes callin himself these days
• Snobs in general - mostly people raised in council homes, now "done good" and look down on the town, i.e. Church Langley, Sawbridgeworth, Bishops Stortford residents. They knock the people, but are happy to use the facilities.
• Harlow
• The fact that the town exists.
• Look, Harlow is full of on-the-dole losers, teenage single mums and mainly the ugliest people you will ever see, most peoples IQ is so low they probably need watering regularly. Avoid this place at all costs.
• Populated by pig-headed, thick anglo-saxons whose genes hail from the east-end of London, these people actually BELIEVE that England covers the British Isles, the most frightening thing is that the male trogs carry sperm.
• the rough areas and rough people well i s'pose the fact that its gettin a bit too londoney and every one wants to kill each other!!!
• The local scum who think they are above the law.
• The local scum who think they are above the law.
• every1 else has sed em i think
• The old people give us youths a bad name. They always say that we never respect our elders but its them who dont respect us. Dont people say that the older people should set an example.
• Harlow is just a shit hole!! if your a girl hey!! you don't need a job!" get pregnant and the council will give you a flat and money to live off!!! it's what every one else does
• The untidy hedgerows and litter, how about a big clean up, take some pride in your town
• Where to start! The people who live in Harlow are the scum of the earth, loafers, goof-offs, thugs, scally's ad scroungers! This is an understatement! In all government league tables, the average score for the pupils of the schools in Harlow is 16% a single grade A*-C. This is without the doubt one of the dumbest towns in the country. Thereis a culture of poverty in Harlow that will never be broken out or, the concil tax is unbelievably high and it all goes to pay for the scroungers and benifit cheating tramps in the town. If you have a takeaway job or something like that then you are an upper-class snob! It breaks my heart to see people who are intellegent, articulate and highly skilled go without in various parts of the UK and the government is paying these people from our money to sit on ugly, smelly, unwashed behinds all day and goof up the country. They serve no communial good and they should be deported. Even immigrants come here more capable of working than the Harlow sub-primates! It is instilled in them from a young age that they will never amount to anything and the goverment will support them. Those that try to their credit to get out of the poverty line of course leave Harlow (to go to Uni for example, there is no Uni there) and as a result to not figure in the future of the town. The college is indeed run like a business so they try to appeal to the majority with pointless primary courses like manecuring, beauty, health & fitness etc. practically no A-levels at all, because the culture does not require it. Everything that is going wrong in Halow, ney everything in Harlow, is of their own making. They are all in poverty because the are stupid, they had no reason to be stupid but they chose to be so tough.
• It used to have a Labour majority council
• the list goes on .big heroin use you name it there all so bored there all doing it....apart from me mind.
• THE PEOPLE! The only decent people are the goths, punks, skaters, 'greebos' and other outcasts.
• The people who live here. They blame the Punks for everything but it's really the Trendies going out causing all the trouble.
• Single Mums everywhere. Rude boy townies who want to fight as you don't wear correct attire, eg not trcksuits and loafers AT THE SAME TIME!
• unjellied eels
• Full of white trash.
• Harlow is like a crappy midlands town transplanted in Essex.
• The STUPID LITTLE MORONS on scooters who think they own the roads/paths and anywhere else they can "ride". The Council who are great believers in wasting others money. The idiots who think its fun to damage your car on the way home from the pub. Bring your kids here to learn all the bad language (just stand next to the mothers at the school gates)
• Some tossers in the town, it only takes a handfull to ruin it
• Everything.
• the town is full of complete mingers, Ugly capital of the world, Far to many foul mouthed single mums, hideous dress sense ("loafers", like HELLO!!)
• The Labour Council, who charge a whopping great amount of council tax for very little benefit. Oh and the idiotic fools who vote them in again and again and again - the education system is clearly rubbish as well or these people would surely have more sense.
• The local council's apathy approach to youth is still going strong for all these years, It rekindles warm memories in me to see kids getting kicks out of doing nothing constructive and having nowhere to go(my weakly funded youth centre is now a chinese community centre) So they COULD learn chinese i suppose?
• the whole place ,, demolish it and start again,,
• sorry to say this but we do get called the single mother capital!!
• Any original Harlow house that has fake elizabethan windows fitted in The Harvey Centre Church Langley - landed from out of space I think Who the hell thought it was a good idea to have the railway station away from the town centre? The Greyhound Pub - great in its day but what a mess now
• New Bus Lanes/Roadworks Harlow Council Cock up
• Rollerbladers and the Millions and Millions of trendies. Swarms of 'em.
• Too many roundabouts, you pass through once a month and there is another 'pimple' in the middle of the road. They are getting so close together now the traffic just queues from one to the next.
• I was brought up in Harlow, I moved away, I moved back. I made a BIG mistake. It has about as much class as as knitted toilet roll holder sitting on a doliy in a bathroom with a runched peach shower curtain in a house with a musical doorbell.
• That everyone knows everone and youu can't do anything without everyone knowing !
• Everybody knows everybody! there's some scummy people who have moved in to the area to take advantage of the council's leanient welfare policies. Some of the houses were designed on a 'Friday afternoon'.

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Last updated: 2011-02-14