The Worst Things in Southend, Essex*

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• I grew up in Southend and returned after university, but the crime here has driven me to look for a house elsewhere. It simply isn't safe for a single woman to walk through most areas without trouble. Coming out of work each evening and having people spit at me, follow me down the street yelling, harrassment from drunken/drugged men and gangs, trouble on public transport (a few weeks ago there was an incident with a gang of teenagers on the bus involving a knife - at 5pm in the afternoon!), having cars 'curb' me and general intimidation wherever I went. There were a few chavs and gangs making trouble back in highschool and every so often you would hear of someone being mugged, but it was a very rare occurance. These days it seems to be the normal culture here and I get to experience it first hand on a very regular basis! I spent a few years in London and never had this much trouble, despite the reputation London has. Southend is a mess as far as I'm concerned and I can't wait to leave!
• the frigging people
• Chavs.
• the fact that it is southend, which is according to morrissey "the coastal town/they forgot to close down"
• The council, new flats, graffiti, yobs, beggars, the collapsing cliffs
• The fact that we get started on non-stop by chavs and police.
• the idiots that just race about in there noisy little sewing machines

• U think uve got it bad try livin or goin out in Torquay ITS CRAP!!!!
• THE BENCH YEEEAAAAA
• The train fare home, err, the peir that is always being set alight (looks cool though). Also the 100+ Security Cameras on the high street!
• the little space between the odeon and whsmith. its where the tossers hang out
• Rudeboys, on the seafront down the high street, everywhere there starting to take over.
• being skint and getting hurt
• The chavs, which is pretty much everyone there.

• Ian Huntley and the shoeburyness area
• Too many chavs. Too many cruisers in their 1 litre Corsa's that have more wings than a box of panty-liners.
• Coop in Sutton road, its dirty, tatty and the staff have no iaed and are really slow, it sells a lot of crap who wants to buy a washing machine srom a shop like that, the leaflets are always all over the floor and there isnt ever enough tills open, im surprised how so many people use it, for them to need more than 1 till open, probably all the scum from the tower blocks near by. Finbars chippy in sutton road is dirty and slow service
• Backward homophobic inbreds that will never acheive the level of intellect to ever leave the little town.
• Rude boy's and girl's who try and sould clever and sarcastic.....*sniggers*.....trying desperatly to use their......brain cell! *bursts into hysterical laughter*
• The worst thing about Southend is not being able to appreciate it while you're there. And the litter. And speedcameras. And traffic wardens. In fact, Southend Council - do something. Southend has the potential to be the best town in East Anglia and you lot wasting money on traffic lights/ cameras/ crossings does not help.
• going out
• My friend is a senior social worker in Essex and she has advised me that Southend on Sea has the largest amount of paedophiles of any Essex town, scary
• Seymours nightclub, The Scum (Sorry sun) Rooms, Kyber Pass Indian, Shoebury Women, Orient Express, Southend Pier & the sightseeing bus
• coons
• The reputation left by the BBC's document "Towerblock Dreams". It showed the now spreading council scum (if you watched it you'll understand where i'm coming from)and the sad state of Pirate Radio gone horribly WRONG (Y2K), R.I.P Premier
• Constant block paving down the high street
• Being near scum
• RUDE BOYS RUIN ALL FUN AND COUSE PUBLICK HAVOK
• quite a few of the people. the fact that lots of benches have been taken out, so u cant even sit down. grr. um, maybe the polluted crappy beach that everyone wees in.
• Trendies all over the place, but what do you expect? Talk. Chameleon, etc. Its a shame trendies exist - its a blatent abuse of freedom of choice and speach.
• TOTS! How can anyone enjoy that bloody place!
• Well it would be nice if the council actually listened to what people wanted! Why is Southend council still looking backward to how the Kursaal used to be when other resorts are looking forward to the future and how to get business into their areas !? Also, if the council want to kerb the cruisers why not build an area when cruisers are away from the residential area but can also cruise about and show off their cars?! There is alsways a solution but I doubt that the council even care - its more likely they just want to keep the youth repressed and keep the older residents happy with more enforced laws and checks. I recently read an article from some silly old fart who is well out of touch with current lifestyle of youth. He waffled on about cruisers having discos in their cars and the age old "dangerous driving" chesnut. How old and pityful he is and how sad that rather than make useful suggestions on how to aid this situation he just jumps on the "down with cruisers" band wagon constatnly writing into the local papers where he is supported by yet more old farts on youth-hate crusade - well listen up old man - we are young - you are not - you would do well to remember that we have more energy and time and well just about everything you havent! Leave us to cruise!
• Having to watch your back 24/7 because some people are dicks
• Rudeboys, with their fucking caps and speech impediments. Oh the hatered.
• If you don't like the seafront or the boy-racers who go there then don't go to the seafront. Simple. Although, will all the scabby wannabe wangster rudeboys please, please go away? Everybody dislikes them, everybody complains but nobody does anything about them. Any ideas? Do they all come down from London on the rob? Why are they sponsored by Argos? What's with the shit tracksuits? The open jawed, knuckle dragging walk? 'Rudeboys' OUT! NOW!
• Getting pulled over by the police for cruisin' in my cow-hide rover. Palace Theatre. Speed Cameras on every road. Canvey Island. Race-tech. Diet Coke
• The STD's the slags have
• The Seafront is GROTESQUE. It is a real scene of everything bad about life. Not been down there for years. It's garish, flashing, neon horror-lights casts a sickly sheen on the straggling great unwashed at midnight. The warm, fetid smell of excrement and hitherto un-named venereal disease wafts on the air. It is total carnage. The hot stench of death and imminent humiliation is all around. Watch out for under-evolved cretins like Si' going down to the Seafront to mate with ghastly yo-yo knickered slappers who come down to this hideous hotspot on coachtrips to get som action in the back section, so to speak. ROTTEN! That is the worst thing about Southend, I think.
• Clubs, 14 year old mums in the buggy brigade (v.sad), wide boys, lack of government support, live bands.
• GRUNGERS
• the worst things in southend is all the druggys around which can get frightning. Another bad thing about Southend is when you done it once you have done it a million times.
• tring to earn a decent living legally.
• grungers
• Rude boy idiots down the seafront, all the fat Premiershi* fans who should support their local club
• ppl who do judge ya and piss u off
• the blokes, mingers or wankers- u only have a choice of the two :(
• Ok concreate the lot come to Rochford its a Market Town you know historic greener much nicer !
• It is a rudey infested shite hole
• The whole town. It's a s**t hole. 95% of the population are low-life scum trailer trash, people the rest of London doesn't want. I'm counting the days until I can get out. Don't, for your own sake, think of moving here, unless you count yourself amongst the formerly mentioned.
• grungers labelling themselfs as grungers. they r people like n e one else so y do they think they special?
• Southend achieving its yearly "Blue Flag" clean beach status, try taking a walk along the foreshore at low tide & marvel at just how the inspectorate remarkably manage to overlook the obvious untreated crap & other sewage that each tide brings.
• The asylum seekers!! I'm amazed no one has mentioned them. They talk too loud have no manners speak little or no English and generally dis-respect their hosts. An ever growing and largely unwanted population that is ruining the town. Designer wear and mobile phone courtesy of the government while some of us have to work for a living. Nuff said :-(
• TRENDIES AND SUM OF THE CRAP CLOTHES THEY WHERE
• Worst thing in Southend these days is the people im afraid to say. Alot of people in the town are very rude & southend seafront is not the place to take kids after 6.30pm Friday & Saturday nights due to the loutish & scary behaviour of those that ruin it for others. Not everyone in Southend is bad but its hard to find the good ones. But there is often alot of police around lucky enough to stop drunks & vandels. The Police work hard in Southend.
• There does not sem to be a singles club/meeting place for the people over 35 in southend on sea. I am a shy person so meeting people in pubs for me is out, if anyone knows any information regarding this issue please contact me. thank you.
• CLubs at SOuthend that play garage and the extent of trendies!
• Slip on shoes, Moshino clothes and the way that pretty much everyone there are seemingly terrified of having their own identity.
• pigeons, doom cookies n 12 yr old skaters
• Mums and Dads who scream swear words at their kids in the high street. Why are these kids always called Britney, Chelsea or Jordan?
• Southend!!!
• MOST OF SOUTHEND SEAFRONT
• Its SOuthend!
• the bench and anything within a 50 metre radius excluding virgin and mcdonalds.
• The bench outside WHSMITH
• It's generally a pretty dire place. The alternative scene is attrocious. I hate the conformers to Nu metal which is just pop music with a chunky guitar riff...well whatever makes the kiddies happy. Hate all the "garys", thats the trendies and their lycra clad girlfriends. It's beyond a joke that essex has it's own brand of tack....bottling people is also not very clever.
• Small minded arrogant arseholes who visit once and slag it off! I think you'd be better off booking yourself into a residential home for the elderly for a week! Also someone said dont make eye contact with guys who shave their heads - my brother shaves his head and he's the nicest person your ever likely to meet! I know lots of people like that and your WRONG!!!!! maybe if you actually tried talking to them instead of judging them on their appearance you might find that out for yourself!
• The bog-ugly Cockney scum infesting the streets and pubs.
• The stupid frickin "rudeboys" who think they're all that and more. They need a good slappin....or perhaps they should all be stripped down and thrown into a gas chamber (no offense to jews) YOU DISGUST ME WITH YOUR TROUSERS TUCKED INTO YOUR SOCKS AND YOUR SHITTY ATTITUDES. suprisingly i am a trendy gurl, and i think u should all be shot, this town would be a much peaceful place without u wankers. you make me want to physically throw up. SORT IT OUT. The average "rudeboy" could never pull a decent chick (like me) cos your so lame, and you know u could never pull a decent bird. its pathetic how u sit in your crappy little cars along the shitty seafront with your garage crap blarin'.
• The stupid frickin trendies and "rudeboys" who think they're all that and more!!!!! They deserve to b slapped some, sure enough they'll run off cryin! HA! They fuckin do my head in....and uhhh don't diss the alternative people in southend, cos your worse and u dont seem to see it..you are the TRUE FREAKS.
• baby goffs that inhabit the doom cookie bench stoopi
• living here!
• it sucx
• RACIST,FASCIST,NAZI C**TS
• The dickhead nova drivers along the seafront every weekend with their 100 quid souped up cars (must included rear spoiler, 2 12" subs in the boot, lowered suspension, oh and don't forget the fluffy dice in the window)
• Tots, the crap football team and the essex girl.
• Grungers, Goths, Metallers and other dirty, confused, hypocritical, pubescent types
• the millenium clock it cost £50,000 and it's a big ugly metal thing that takes up room and does jack shit !
• No skatepark anywhere close, no hip-hop shop or cheap record shops.
• Some of the indiginous population act like the missing link, to many crap pubs and the seafront is a bit tacky still the tourists like it.
• having to take a 20 minute taxi ride to a decent club, southend united taking such a nose dive, the demise of southend pier, victoria circus - need i say more?
• Piss-heads who Come down from London for the day who think they can start a fight with everyone. Canvey Island being too close
• Boy posers.
• not being able to see any good indepenednt films 'cause they're put on, on a Monday afternoon, and about then I'm in double science.
• The smell that Canvey sends to us
• A Description Of the Terry - Skinhead or french Crop - double earing - greasy spotty face - purple/lime YSL or Ralph Shirt - Argos gold jewlrey - dads old suit trousres - terry two stripe socks - kickers or classics - 12 year old girlfriend
• The worst things about Southend are the sad teenage girls that walk around in Adidas tracksuits and insist that the best thing to do on a Friday night is to go daan the sea front to pull a bloke in an xr3i with blacked out windows.
• The crap on the floor.
• The litter is everywhere ! You can't walk down the High Street without slipping on someone's Burger Bap and even if you do manage to avoid the selection of untasty morsels which litter the floor, the pigeons which seem to have an aggression which would rival Liam Gallagher's manage to leave I nice trail of white stuff running down your back !
• tots,cruisers, and the areas love of Rnb, soul, and house music
• the fighting crew
• Tourists
• people from canvey island & basildon who invade every weekend
• Southend girls school being 3 miles away from the boys school Southend boys school being in the middle of nowhere land even though its in the middle of Southend
• Southend United, a total embarasment. The whateveritis and Firkin, a clone of every other Firkin pub in the country only worse! The way the council has allowed the pier to decay. Commuting from Chalkwell station in the middle of winter when a gale is howling off the sea and the b*stards have cancelled your train.
• Grungers,gothics,skateboarders,punks,house and garage lover-boys.

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