When i first arrived in middlesbrough, i was excited that i was moving away from home to uni, my thoughts quickly changed. Immediately as i stepped off the train i was greeted by hundreds of chavs in the station, dressed in their ‘chav uniforms’,(just be glad we can identify them!) making their little spit patterns on the floor, and generally tryin to intimidate anyone who dared walk past them.straight away the lunged at me like vultures, obviously seeing i was new student blood and asked ‘can i borra a fag n cani borra 10p for the bus to darlo’. stupidly feeling tired i retaliated with ‘well if your borrowing a cigarette when will you give it me back?’this seemed to confuse their under developed minds for a while before the abuse started. then to annoy them some more i lit my cigarette and told them ‘sorry i dont smoke anyway’.This worked wonders,as i made my escape,whilst they stood trying to figure out what i had said.Then the weekend came, by this time i had realised there were very few normal people in boro, we braced the pubs, i wa thinking itcant be that bad i was wrong, very wrong.i felt like i was featuring in pirates of the carribean, it was all very scary, it was like they could all smell that you were new to the town,so they followed behind us all night scavenging.
i soon discovered they all lived down my road also, as well as hoboes and crack heads,and every morning i was woken with screams,police, and this is true!!the armed police twice at the bottom of the road, not to mention vommiting noises and fights.
we soon decided to stay to the safeheavens of the student bars and didnt dare venture into the town at night, however the ‘chavs’ still managed to find you somehow.
NEVER go into primark on a saturday, i once went for some cheap underwear and have been scaved ever since, it is the cavettes weekly meeting place you see, and if you dare get in their way as they are runing for the tackiest most revealing disgusting top,you will be killed, by their sheer weight as they throw themselves in the isles!!
as an experiment one day, i went into the town in my tacksuits after going to the gym, it was like a different world, where all the normal peopele moved out of my way scared, and all the chavs left me alone, possibly a sign of ‘chav respect?’. i was also interested to find in middlesbrough that when chavettes get to a certain age usually 30 they swap their tracksuits for tight camel towing hipsters and a mid-rift bearing top.the way they discipline their children is by not allowing them their staple diet of mcdonalds for one day, i heard this and the child continued to be naughty, an obvious sign that the child was actually glad it didnt have to eat mcdonalds, i did feel a pang of sympathy, i have to admit!!there is also no age limit to chavs in boro, usually in other areas the chavs tend to disintergrate after the age of 20ish but you even see grandma chavs in boro with their huge rag dolls on show!the problem with boro is that it accomodates for them, there are very few decent shops to go in and the nasty cheap shops just encourage them to flock to the town center even more.
i feel sorry for anyone stuck in this place having to brave it all out, i even have felt sorry for the pigeons, who they seem to enjoy torturing, but if they ever stopped to think they would realise that pigeons are the same as them, hanging around town in flocks, flying at people, scavenging off people and eating scaps of food off the floor, carrying all kinds of disease and multiplyting by the hundred!!
Im from Pally estate in boro and proud as u can be of that fact and I reckon alot of what gives my town a bad name is f**king prissy little uni students coming here then f**king off back to there mam and dad in there big house at home saying how us “council scabs” upseet them to look at, if any of u called me a chav id drop u like an hot brick, its so offensive and i hate tat word, I love middlesborough and particularly pallister and dont intend to leave here anytime soon so you snobby cunts can f**k off back to your posh little queer c**t towns and bum each other with your own heads you daft cunts!
I think the comments are harsh. Most areas have Council estates and yes, there are some people who stay on benefits, like anywhere else in the country. However the hard truth is is that we need investment in the Boro and now the ConDems are in that will be near impossible. The thing is with most students they never see the nice part of Boro, it’s 5 miles from the coast, 5 miles from the North Yorks Moors and in between 2 great cities – Leeds and Newcastle. I have lived in Surrey, Berks and Northamptonshire and everywhere has its bad points. The trouble is most students don’t have the intelligence to go further than the town centre. Teesside Uni gave me my masters degree and has just been named University of the Year, it’s got an excellent art gallery and beautiful historic buildings like the town hall and the main library, plus beautiful parks like Stewarts Park and it’s steeped in culture. On the outskirts there’s plenty of houses over 500k to over a million but no one sees that. There is money in the Boro just not in the town centre, don’t be so short sighted.
M’boro is like a wildlife chav reserve. Why would you want to “invest” money to spoil it. All the “investment” will be gambled stolen or spent on fags. Let the town naturally breed and degrade further. Future science would need it for studies.
I also live in the Southernmost area of Middlesbrough.
Yes I agree Middlesbrough is generally a shithole over-ran by chav scum – but lets face it so is any other major town or city in the UK.
The chav scum culture is by no way localised to Middlesbrough or Teesside or even the Nort-East – it is a nationwide pandemic and theres no escaping it anywhere in 21st century England.
People try to make themselves feel better about where theyre from slating places like Middelsbrough, Hull or Liverpool but in reality the places where theyre from are likely to be just as shit in terms of the proporiton of chav scum inhabitants, violent crime and day to day abuse.
And thats the faiure of this website – every town and city in the UK is just as bad as any other and I would challenge anyone to name a city which does not suffer from the social problems brought about by low life pikey scum. If society is to change we need to accept that there is no such thing as designated ‘Chav towns’ and sort things out at a national level. People love to feel that they are superior coming from a ‘Clean town’ – but get over it your from the shithole that is 21st century England and theres nothing you can do about it.
I accept Middlesbrough is shit and alot of chav twats live here and I sometimes cringe when I bring people from other areas of the country to Middlesbrough town centre and see some of the scruffy chavs – especially in the vicinity of primark. I could write quite a long list of pubs and bars I would never go in again – and this is quite an exhaustive list including most bars except student bars.
Ive lived in a few places including North London, Merseyside and Central Manchester and I feel just as safe walking around Middlesbrough as I did in any of those places if not safer.
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i live in the southernmost area of middlesbrough, and quite frankly cannot be hassled facing the chave grind into town, why anyone with any ounce of sense and yorkshire pride would decend into this abyss of post war architectual deprived morally destitute chav hole is beyond me. think of newcastle in michael caines get carter and you start to realise what you are up against. middlesbrough used to be in yorkshire, even yorkshire does not want it, it is the la of the north east for the wrong reasons, prostitutes, chavs and council estates mentality galore, any builiding over 3 months is considered old and is ripe for demolition, id like to raze most of to the ground and have it renamed a hamlet with population 200 and ship all the scroats and chavs to newcastle, maybe i might just move! whatever you read in the press its correct! people around here think rock and roll means dole for gods sake! im off to wear my cravet and shoots some hoody tracky wearing scroats who have wandered too far south.