Chichester in top-50 'worst places to live' list

The city placed 47th in the poll by website I Live Here

Published 9th Jan 2021
Last updated 9th Jan 2021

Chichester has ended up in the top-50 worst places to live in the UK.

A public vote ranked the city 47th on the site I Live Here, which posts spoof reviews of towns and cities.

The city was the only one in anywhere in Sussex to make the list.

An article on the I Live Here website referred to Chichester as the 'Hyacinth Bucket of the South', referencing the snobbish character from comedy Keeping Up Appearances - played by Dame Patricia Routledge, who, ironically, is from the city.

It referred to the city as having 'delusions of grandeur - it wants to be Bath, Oxford or Winchester'.

According to the site, the top 50 worst places this year are:

  1. Peterborough
  2. Huddersfield
  3. Liverpool
  4. Bradford
  5. Hull
  6. Wakefield
  7. Luton
  8. Jaywick
  9. Torquay
  10. Halifax
  11. Doncaster
  12. Keighley
  13. Castleford
  14. Barnsley
  15. Blackpool
  16. Grimsby
  17. Oldham
  18. Aylesbury
  19. Newton Abbot
  20. Wigan
  21. Swanley
  22. Andover
  23. Rochdale
  24. Slough
  25. Ipswich
  26. Sunderland
  27. Nottingham
  28. Blackburn
  29. Bolton
  30. Aldershot
  31. Middlesborough
  32. Croydon
  33. Boscombe
  34. Rotherham
  35. Accrington
  36. Stoke-on-Trent
  37. Leicester
  38. Burnley
  39. Reading
  40. Southampton
  41. York
  42. Brandon
  43. Barking & Dagenham
  44. Didcot
  45. Northampton
  46. Walsall
  47. Chichester
  48. Wolverhampton
  49. Boston
  50. Sheffield

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