The Worst Things in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire*

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• Needs things to do, better shops instead of charity shops and hairdressers.
• I can't express it enough... There are sooooooooo many drugs going about Leighton, especially cannabis. The dealings take place in VERY OBVIOUS SPOTS, AND ARE BY THE SAME PEOPLE EVERY TIME, yet nothing gets done about it. BEDFORDSHIRE POLICE, WHY YOU SO SHIT!?!?
• dckhds who call themselves hippy, when they've got no hair and are bitter and twisted
• Estates Like Meadow way,Oakley Green and various other areas Lots of drugs.
• reading these comments, i cant heklp wondering this; if you all hate leighton so much, why dont you just leave???
• everything. there is no potential for anyone who lives here. you go to school here and you have basically just got your self stuck in a lifestyle where you will leave at 15/16, become a single parent, have around 349068930486 children, and live in the town forever. there is nothing for teenagers, therefore they all just get drunk and cause havoc. theres nothing to do! its full of chavs, teenage mothers with screaming babies, and old people. there is no "nice area of town" because theres something bad about everywhere. the thought of the little steam train lightens the mood when you think of leighton buzzard, however if you actually take the ride on it you go through the most disgusting areas of the town. the councils attempts to improve the town fail, and we end up with millions of ramps popping up everywhere, empty plant pots (i mean, really) and no overall improvements. they really dont know what the local citizens want. everything about it is bad.
• Traffic calming measures Over eager traffic wardens Lack of a "department" store
• 5 Bells in Stanbridge
• the druggies
• The violence, yes glassing, slashings and jumpings have been a way of life my whole life here, which is over 30yrs. Nightlife does suck, wannabe tough blokes,usually 5ft or under, who always fight in groups, people who act like their poo doesn't smell, for crying out loud your're from LB, not Belgravia. Girls who's ambition is to leave school and have a baby at 15, so they can get a flat. Idiots that think Leighton Buzzard is the center of the universe.
• No car parking.
• The police's unwillingness to crack down on the obvious drug dealing places.
• The ugly shell of the burned out Railway Hotel Linslade which has blighted this gateway to the town from the railway station. The litter in the street and canal which is not always cleared up by the district council The unphased forest of traffic lights erected by Beds County Council which is choking the town with congestion.
• Local events stink the council have no idea on life in Leighton Buzzard talk to the people more I think !!!!
• most of the people that live here are chav twats or almost dead.(old buggers)
• The chavs, this really is chav central.
• There's nothing bad about the lb
• The Winter Chill, the possibility of a very short summer.
• The lack of interesting places to hang out!!
• the cube room?
• Getting lost in Linslade is easy to do when you're used to "Coast: Everything is on the Right (south)" kind of building arrangement. But it's always fun to explore.
• Everyone knows everyone, if you're from out of town stay away unless you want a kicking on the weekend.
• Going back to work in Leighton Buzzard for nine years..travelling in a grid locked town center, smelling of car and lorry fumes...But, finally the Germans got their way and shut Boss Trucks down so I managed to escape the drudgery of going back to hatefull Leighton Buzzard and all the self righteous people that live there!!!
• druggies
• Terrible for teenages and clubbers.
• Well, by the look of everyone elses postings, this part should be filled, but Leighton Buzzard is actually very nice place. People are too negative about it, yes, it has problems but what town hasn't?
• Drugs - but its everywhere
• drug users,drug users,oh yes and more drug users
• The lack of trees. The visual litter - the plethora of council signs
• LEAVING THE ASHWELL ARMS
• How is a town supposed to evolve when no matter how bad things get everyone goes around pretending everything is alright. That way nobody ever does anything to combat the growing problems of crime, corruption and general decline. There are now drug-related punch-ups going on, but the police can do nothing as they're too busy arresting motorists for being two miles an hour over the speed limit (and this actually happened recently).
• I've just read the previous comments on the vile hell hole that is Leighton Buzzard, or that's at least what it appears to be in the writers mind. I have to ask myself, is it really that bad? Perhaps you are walking around looking for trouble to whinge about. Let me ask you this, how is the town ever supposed to improve at all when local residents give an impression like this which will inevitably put off people considering moving to the area and therefore damaging the local economy. Have you never heard of looking on the bright side of life?
• The congestion, the money-grabbing leeching self-serving corrupt council with their hatred of free speech and their loathing of small businesses (they are currently using public money to do everything possible to bankrupt them all). The grotty Meadow Way, Churchill Road/Nelson Road, Planets, East Street and Richmond Road estates (don't enter them alone), the complete lack of a proper police force, the dodgy psychiatrists who get away with murder, the drug-dealers and mobs of pre-teen and teenaged louts, the multi-storey car park which is mainly used as a public toilet, the plans to put up parking fees and drive out any small businesses not already crushed by the fatcats. Oh, and don't come to live here if you want peace and quiet or if you suffer from asthma, as the town is on the main flightpath from Luton airport, they're always digging up roads and the place is full of people obsessed with house-prices who spend half their lives doing DIY, so it's basically noise, noise, noise.
• There is only one main road through the town centre and that has been totally gridlocked by the useless town council who put up council tax most Mondays, blow it all on stupid, pointless, doomed projects. The town is filled with abominable kids who run riot, not to mention gangs of yobs who think they are big men but are in fact pathetic cowards. There is a general air of apathy and small-mindedness about the town. All those nice old concrete street lights have been replaced by ugly, faceless, charmless metal ones which just make the place look untidy.
• The High Street on a Saturday night, you will get assaulted guaranteed. If do then take that as a warning and dont go back because lightning does strike twice, i'm speaking from experience! Winter, in winter Leighton Buzard becomes very sinister and it will scare the pants off you if you are walking on your own in the dark.
• All the drug addicts.
• Constant violence, glassings, slashings etc in nearly every pub at the weekends
• No nightlife unless you like getting pissed in a crap pub, nothing for teenagers, the old cronies who moan at you just for being young....
• All the people you went to school with who have never left and who now have 35 children - no family planning clinic...... Nothing to do, nothing to see. Threats of violence when drinking (seriously, the tales of glassings, punch ups and killings are all true)

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