Best & Worst Places To Live Burnley: 19th Worst

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1. I really have to disagree with your selection of Burnley in your 'Worst List.' I now live in London but Burnley was a fantastic place to grow up! And my school was the most legendary place in East Lancs (St Theodore's). Also i must say that i don't really agree with how you select the towns and cities that go in the lists. Until you live there you don't get a real feel what the place is about. Finally places such as Winchester are so upper class its unbelievable, there is no way the average British family could afford to live there, so how it can be the second best place to live, when only the 'stiff upper lip types' can afford to live there is beyond me!

   Posted by Dave Innity on 23/10/2009 13:45:34

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2. It's true to say that Burnley has a lot of rundown areas, a bad reputation for education and overall a bad reputation in the eyes of the media and the rest of the country. However, as many people would wish to believe, the town is not riot torn, or over run with chaos. Sure, it has its problems, but so do countless other towns in this country, if not most. I would never call Burnley a bad place to live, for the simple reason, it's home, it's where I grew up, and it's where all my family and most of my friends are. As another point, I have heard countless times by visitors to the town from city areas such as Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham, good comments about the beauty of the areas surrounding the town. How many major towns in England can boast such beautiful scenery, and postcard worthy views?

   Posted by ChrisS on 18/08/2009 23:05:53

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3. One the main problems in Burnley is that many of the small terraced properties have absent landlords, ie. those from other parts of the country who have bought the terraced houses cheaply but cannot regulary visit their properties. They cannot check who is living there and what state the properties are in. This is leading increasinly to the properties being trashed, left empty or used by squatters as local drug dens. This I feel this is degrading the community more than anything else, as the decent, caring people are slowly moving away to pastures new.

   Posted by sammy on 07/08/2009 17:29:32

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4. I FINK BURNELY IZ MINT IT HAS LOADS OV GRASS AND STUFF AND MY BOYFRIEND LIVES THERE IT IZ GUD N ITS FUN TO BE THERE. I LIVE IN MIDDLESBROUGH THOUGH N THATS AN EVEN BETTER PLACE TO BE COS IT IZ GUD N IT IS FUN O LIVE THERE. GO BURNLEY N BORO!!!

   Posted by Boroboy on 04/06/2009 15:49:20

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5. Chateau Monty was both educational and entertaining.

   Posted by gordon tickle on 05/02/2009 08:23:57

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6. Having lived in Burnley for over 35 years, I am sad to say that the best move I made was to move my family to South Ribble. My children have progressed rapidly with their education after failing miserably at the local state school in Burnley. We have not been victims of or witness to any crime during the three years we have lived away from the town, a very different story from the delinquency of Burnley. Our neighbours care about our community with warmth and vigour. Burnley residents are more often than not angry, negative and lacking in good quality education with little or no ambition. I return to Burnley regularly to see family and am always reminded of just how depressing and depressed the town is. I would urge anyone with a young family to consider moving away before your children become infected with the negativity and apathy that is prevalent within the Burnley residents. The only respite the children find from this cancer are drugs and alcohol. These same youngsters of the town more recently suffering the affects of an expensive government experiment, 'the super school'. Have the parents in Burnley stood up and made a fuss about this? If I did not have ties to the town, I would not have been aware of the violence and failings of Hambeldon College, shouldn't you all be standing up for your children and demanding action instead of lying down and taking this? The regeneration is occuring and whilst the odd patch of grass is appearing, the demolition is serving only to displace communities, increase the tensions and artifically drive up house prices. The one plus is that Burnley is now a more attractive place to drive through (if you are not hit by bricks from the motorway bridges)but it is not a better place to live in. Add this to the huge decreasing availbility of health care, decrease in population and a significant increase of empty housing. This reassures me still further that I made the right decision for my family. You may think that I was a 'rat deserting the sinking ship' but the news that my children were to be subjected to the certainly-not-'super school' experiment (and the realisation that Burnley was grateful for this) made my decision for me. My children are precious to me and, as a parent, I am charged with their wellbeing and development, this I take most seriously and acted accordingly.

   Posted by Lizzy B on 18/11/2008 13:27:10

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7. Compiled by southerners, one of the worst places to live in Britain. I've lived in Burnley all my life, and it definitely does not deserve to be on such a list. It is largely a friendly area, is undergoing regeneration, and anyone who believes these 'lists' are accurate for happiness and qualify of life, is simply an idiot. Where ever you look in Burnley you can see green, rich countryside which is a massive contrast to inner-city dwellers who some of whom can claim to have never seen countryside. so what houses are cheap? surely that is a good thing compared to the ridiculously high prices of the south, of which my house would be priced well into the millions, which in honesty, is disgusting.

   Posted by Andy F on 02/09/2008 13:18:03

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