I know you may be fed up with hearing about this dump, but i felt that I too, must tell the world about this disgraceful town.
Situated 28 miles from London in Buckinghamshire, you wouldn’t think this town could be such a s**thole……
But it is! The only reason the s**tty tory council/MP gets in is becuase of the surrounding posh wannabe villages, but Wycombe itself, overall is a northern labour voting industrial town somehow misplaced in bucks. Not that this is a bad thing in some respects, because it makes a change from the middle class stuck up towns in this area….. but Wycombe is just too far the other way.
There was an acurate description of Desborough given in another opinon and yes, it is a true dump, full of delapidated victorian terraces. The prostitution on Desborough Road never really gets sorted no matter how hard the council and police try, and neither do the gang fights and robbery. Still, maybe after Iceland gets ram raided another 40 times, somebody may take some action.
I’m surprised to see nobody has mentioned the Castlefield, Micklefield or Bowerdean estates yet. These places are truely rotten with many benefit claiming heroin addicts housed in them.
A particular mention should be paid to Castlefield. It appears to be the favourite place to house immigrants, and some streets are “white no-go areas”. This place is like a third world country with litter strewn streets, daily stabbings, decaying 1930′s council houses, and dumped burnt out cars on every corner (aswell as hostile gangs). The local park is covered in graffiti saying “mother f**king honkies out” and other such lovely comments. The whole estate is monitered by CCTV because the situations of drugs knives guns and racial tensions have grown out of hand, but the area still appears to have the highest crime rate in the south east, and is covered in racist graffiti and boarded up houses. There are many chavs in Castlefield, just becuase they aint English doesn’t mean they can’t be chavs! They are just as bad with their drug habits, and voilence.
Micklefield, on the other side of town is not quite as bad, and houses a friendly afro caribbean community, and less friendly white community. Both have a chavvie dress sense, however, and appear to enjoy gun crime and gang fights.
The “rudeboiz” dresscode is usually:
soveriegn rings on as many fingers as possible, have a flat-peaked cap pearched on their head at a strange angle (WHY?????) s**tty traksiuts sometimes hoodies with hoods up (presumable to disguise themselves so they can get away with the crime they are about to commit) stolen nike tn/airforce one trainers or for the posher ones baby blue timberland boots with fake evisu jeans.
Rudegalz dresscode: Slicked back gelled hair/ gelled into side ponytail, sometimes fake Von Dutch caps, the gold clowns weren’t that common here at first but now seem to be a favoured chav item, aswell as the big hoop earings with silver disco ball blobs on the end – nice! Then either tee -shirts with collars up and baggy trackies, or very low cut tops and mini skirts.
Ofcourse, “innit” is quoted at the end of every sentence, and other words are used such as “safe, bredrin, heavy, buff” etc. and a pass time is taking the piss out of educated people “cos they’re bent innit”.
The town centre is a dump aswell, and needs tarting up, and yes, the mental health patients need rounding up and keeping in one place, hopefully out of the publics way. I have experienced some problems with the tramps and mental cases including a man shouting random abuse and jumping up and down on the spot, and a woman cowering in a corner under the flyover near the octagon shopping centre, making strange barking noises at anyone who cared to pass. And yes there are quite a few attempted suicides on the High Street, (I wonder why). And my friend was mugged whilst walking along Desborough road toward the town centre in broad daylight.
Overall the place is just a large pile of crap in a valley in the middle of the Buckinghamshire chilterns, just where you would expect a nice town, why is it here????? The chav population is definetely on the increase and will soon be level with Slough’s.
Steve, Remind me where Regiate is again? Maybe you should turn your spellchecker on if you struggle to spell the place you live.
If your so fond of the north why are you living down south?
Hypocrite.
Went last night for rugby. I live in Belfast and thought HW was a complete dump. I thought I had arrived in Lahore and could not believe that this was supposed to be a quaint part of Bucks.
I am a UK citizen but did not see anyone who looked like they reside in UK from HW. Shops all run down except Eden Centre. Frankly a dump.
I would like to add that I am, and have been a resident of Beaconsfield, for many years now and will be moving house into High Wycombe this weekend, as I am impressed with it’s progress and multicultural society, friendly atmosphere and the Eden project… High Wycombe also has great history.. I shall remind you That ‘Desborough’ in past gained a very affluent liking. Hughenden manor is beautifully kept. The cheapest fuel prices in the country
Great local council and friendly residents on every level.. I wonder… Does one live in Surrey perhaps? Whom does not tolerate any but themselves? If High Wycombe is such a disappointment to you, may I suggest that you remain in your own leafy suburbs.
Although this is definitely an exaggeration. I’ve lived in desborough, castle field and now over towards micklefield. It is a s**thole. And it is definitely out of place around beaconsfield and Marlow, I dunno about gangs. But I have been stopped by groups of people and harrassed, robbed, and got into a few scraps over nothing ‘giving a funny look’ or not giving a lighter (because I didn’t have one). There are worse places but all you people defending micklefield and the like, stop kidding yourself. If you aren’t seeing the chavish dickheads around you, then you’re probably one of them.
2004 to 2012 .as agreed by the other readers your view towards high Wycombe was very untrue and 8 years later it still is
moved from h/wyc 5 yrs ago to a town in mid wiltshire. Best thing i ever did. Car insurance dropped from £480 to £160. House/contents insurance dropped from £720 to £220 p.a. See?
Bulls**t, Im white and lived in Castlefeilds, was alright.Everything you said just reinforces your narrow minded, prejudice and slightly rasist veiws.
All of a sudden all the things that are happening around the Country at large…..& the World including dreadful Chavvish fashion faux pas have been crammed into Wycombe by someone who has obviously watched far too much Little Britain & believes in its portrayals of stereotypes! This could have been anywhere & You are doing the folk of High Wycombe a huge disservice with raging platitudes & cartoon-like observational fantasies!!
this is aloud of crap…i live in mf and its nothing like your saying; the girls dont walk around like that and neither do the boys..i think you need too relook at what youve said because 3/4 is not true and this is coming from one of the teenagers their.
Well I know High Wycombe is a s**t town but everything you just said there is absolute bulls**t, there is no facts here and your just talking out of your ass. “Stabbings everyday”, where are you getting this from? The last stabbing that happened in Wycombe was months ago and EVERY street has at least one white person.
Just one of many so called facts that you’ve pulled out of your arse and splattered onto this page.
Gangs barely exist in Wycombe, there are youths who like to hang around with there friends, maybe they might be wearing hoodies because that’s what is fashionable nowadays but I bet you just assumed with your naive personality that they were the ram raiding, prostitutes (which also don’t exist) who go around stabbing people.
To be honest, you are a paranoid retard who has just generalized a load of made up bulls**t onto a whole town.
Thanks. Good to see such an honest pull no punches assessment. I was mistakenly looking at property in High Wycombe on the web thinking it may be a suitable place to invest in. This piece saved me the hassle of paying this dump a visit and wasting my time. I am certain my reaction would have been similar. Why on earth would I consider moving from Regiate to High Wycombe?
One thing, Being form the North and having lived in some very and not so very upmarket places in the South East, I think it’s wrong to portray the North as a wasteland of wrecked social housing, violent larger louts and chavs with northern accents. 1. Northern louts have far more style and self respect than southern louts 2. ‘The North’ boasts some of the most beautiful countryside, affordable yet very desireable places to live.