Where do we even start?
* Fact: Sunderland was voted the 3rd crappest city/town in Britain.
* Fact: The popualtion of Sunderland, 283,090 (And growing thanks to the many pregnant chavettes), I would say about 80% are chavs.
* Fact: Our crime is poor too, sexual offences, violent crime and theft are all on the up and are higher than the national average. (I’ve seen policemen on pedal bikes chasing chavs in stolen cars. You might not belive it but I really have seen it!)
So, there are three things you might not have known about “sunny” Sunderland, but what about other things:
Nightlife? – Well, some famous places that chavs go rave, shag and beat people up are “The New Monkey”, “Annabels” and “Lush”. These places at night time are crawling with scum. Chavs all looking to find a spare fag and a fight, while, Chavettes all shouting “he’s not worth it” at their brothers/boyfriends (I don’t know!)
Food? – There is a variety of resteraunts, which provide employment for the older chavs and the less skilled among them all. They range from McDonalds to Burger King and from KFC to Greggs, yes, we have ‘em all!
Housing? – Sunderland is infamous for their hosing estates, like Hendon and the East End, which is where only some of the murders are seen. Estates like Plains Farm, Ryhope and Thorney Close would be a welcome surprise when visiting Sunderland, but, there is an estate that takes the cake when it looks like s**t: Pennywell! Its modern day Bosnia, only with worse crime and poorer schools!
Shopping? – With the brand new Bridges open there’s loads for chavs to buy. Poundland, always could for a chav to buy a pack of permanent markers to sniff at.
Argos, for the ‘Little Miss Chav’
JJB Sports and Allsports, for the tracky bottoms and Le Coq Sportif hoodies
New Look, for the middle class slag.
FCUK, well, it might be an FCUK shop or just a knock-off shop, I can’t really tell.
Crowtree Leisure Centre, mini chavs trying to swim(or going for a wash) always good for a laugh.
There are Ca$h Converters too and even a cinima, where fart spray is always the fresh fraguence when you enter. – ITS ALL WORTH A LOOK WHEN YOU’RE A CHAV!
(And finally) Transport – Sunderland has gone through a revolution when it comes to transport, we’ve got the Metro system which runs many a person from Sunderland to our friends in Tyneside and Newcastle, but recent reports show chavs a using this place for a Happyslap or two, our local paper (The Sunderland Echo) gave us an insight into what chavs do, eg Shag and set old peoples hair on fire, chavs are apparently going to be band from using the system, ha, that’ll be the day! With our revolution complete with the transport industry in Sunderland all I can say is the Parklane Interchange, bosses said that they play classical music in order drive away the masses of chavs, has it worked? Has it hell!
And on that note, I’ll leave you with my hopes and wishes on that you’ll never visit Sunderland as long as you live.
This is actually pathetic
C0Z W3 IZ W3LL HARD AN CHAV$
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the fact you reserched this makes me LOOL
love us or hate it
i bet you live in a cardboard box mateyy
chavs? we live life how we wanna live i bet your not high class
bullied at school were you?
i can see why]
i bet your a 65 year old man single making fake fb accounts chattning up little girls
if you can have your state of mind i can have mine
chav? more like individualityy
gannn smell me feet matee
What really annoys me is the very narrow view the defenders of Sunderland take. I served as a police officer in Sunderland during the 70′s and 80′s. I would be the first to admit that there ‘were’ some great people living in the town. However, as can be seen from the ‘mostly’ illiterate comments below, times have changed. Wake up Gen ‘X’ and ‘Y’ you have mostly failed and will continue to fail, because you knew best. School, Education, The will to succeed, just passed you by. WHY!, because it was too hard. Enjoy what you have, because it is all you will ever have. Life here in New Zealand is a far cry from old Sunderland. The great thing is, you lot will never make it here. Enjoy!!!!
I’d have to sit on the fence with this one, I agree yes that Sunderland is hardly the Monaco of the North East, in fact it’s listed as one of the worst places to live in Britain. I agree that the people who wander around druing the daytime aren’t the friendliest, cleanest or most intelligent specimens of Englishmen you could wish to find. I also agree that hosuing is a big issue within the area places as mentioned beforehand are run down and delapidated and gentrification is difficult with the local econonmy being crippled since the mid 1980′s.
However, I genuinely feel that Sunderland is a city with promise. Here’s a few reasons why:
1. the refurbishment of the city centre and redevelopment of the Sunniside area which have provided the first of three stages in the Bridges shopping centre as well as having a Metro link, national bus station and a national railway link all within a 5 minute walking distance of each other.
2. Some beautiful areas within the city, Ashbrooke, Barnes, Grangetown, Ryhope, Hylton, Whitburn & Cleadon but to name a few. Yeah I’m sure al areas do have bad patches, yet the majority of houses in these areas are excellent quality with good services. Furthermore, regeneration is widespread across the city with Gentoo amongst other companies regenerating previously run down areas. Whats more the beach at Seaburn is nationally acclaimed as being clean and safe. Which is glorious in he summertime.
3. Culture within the city, the SOL, international Glass Centre, two theatres (one capable of holding West end productions), Barnes and Mowbray Park both of which have received lottery grants in their millions to update the park areas. The university is also one of the top uni’s in Egland for pharmaceutical studies. As well as a music scene that launched artists such as Maximo Park, The Futureheads, Field Music, Frankie and the Heartstrings etc. as well as hosting acts ranging from Oasis to Take That and even to bands such as Kasabian and the Kooks as they were meking it big so to speak.
4. The Nissan plant and NHS also provide a large amount of jobs with the Nissan plant having recovered from the initial economic downturn to win contracts for 2 news models of cars and also to produce the new electric cars a the plant in Sunderland.
Seriously I could go on, I’ve lived here for 18 years and it’s a good place in my opinion, not amazing I mean this is a working class area which had it’s livelihood’s taken in the days of De-nationalisation etc, and ofcourse there’s a Chav contingency, but there’s also a lot of great people. I really think people need to take a closer look at the city if they want to judge so critically.
I’m a mackem and I totally agree that it’s a culture starved, empty, grey, dull, bog brush city. I am totally ashamed to live here- I don’t want to live here and if I could afford it I’d leave. Living in Sunderland has crushed my spirit. I feel totally oppressed and defeated, it feels like I’m stuck here and there is no way out. There are some mackem’s who will argue that Sunderland isn’t so bad and that there are some nice people here (and I agree that some mackem’s are lovely natured people) but I would argue back that they are not looking at the bigger picture. Sunderland is an absolute hole and for every good person there is twenty arseholes! Everyday I see teenagers with buggies and their thirty year old mothers and they have NO CLUE how to raise their kids…It makes me so sad to see a baby wearing a sovereign ring. The other day I saw a BABY with it’s nose pierced and I was so sickened and shocked I felt like crying. Only in Sunderland eh?
The street I live on is a particularly hostile and violent. There’s been three stabbings on my street in the past year. I’ve been attacked for absolutely no reason in the past. Kids are disturbed and will do anything for attention- even negative attention is better than no attention. Poverty and lack of education is obviously the main issue here. I have no idea if there is anything the goverment can do to redevelop this troublesome city. I’m starting to think we’re too far gone. Just bulldoze this whole damn place…it’s probably for the best.
YOU HAVE REALLY ANNOYED ME WHO EVER WROTE THIS ABOUT SUNDERLAND!!!!!!!!! yes i has loads of chavs but some are really canny there is a variaty of people here and there are alot of really amazing fashionable,canny,helpful and working people there is just the odd number which give our town a bad name because if you say youve seen it yourself you msent have been for long this is NOT the crappyest place to live coz using london as a example if you ask somebody for help they will probably blank you and walk off! but up here we help people out and even comidians and people on tv have said that too!! YES THERE IS ALOT OF GREGGS BUT THERE REALLY GOOD AND THERE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!!!!! THRE IS SOME REALLY GOOD PLACE= WINTER GARDENS, THEATRE,STADIUM,SHOPPING CENTRES, LEISURE CENTRES, LUCIANOS(WHICH IS A RESTURANT AND A REALLY GOODN SO I THINK YOU SHOULD CUM 2 SUNDERLAND AGAIN AND SEE WHATS REALLY THERE.
sunderland is the best if u dont like f**k off and stop wasting ur time slagin it off
i hate the place. Born and raised here and i hate the place full of deadbeats that will never better them selfs. they have a school complex and will never grow up. twats
Sunderland why god why, and all who agree:
You are peices of scum who cant see past your knob ends (which i doubt is more than a couple of centimetres) if u dont like it move; at least the immigrants dont whinge they do summink about it.
if you cant be bothered to get off your arse and move, then get your head down and keep ur trap shut! sunlan, if you bother to look beyond the surface(like anywhere else) has good diversity, loads of punks, goths, and skins, hippies, rockers, as well as bboys, r nb ers and ravers etc, a good mix of colours, styles, and ting to do, alernative music/clothes/lifestyle shops etc, mostly all these people r a lot more intelligent than u ignorant f**kers- the fact that u havent found this diversity in sunderland is just testament that you are scared to leave your tv/lounge and look!
My advice- look before you comment. if you insist on using cheap, easy sterotypes dont put them in the public domain or u get ripped apart. and i dare you to wear your comments on your shirt on a friday night down the town.
I live there now. I want to move out when i’m older and i agree that there are a lot of chavs here but its not the worst place to live in the world. Places like London have a much worse crime rate and the queen lives there? A lot of foreign people come here because the Uni is cheap. At least do some research before you decide to slag people and the town itself off. I know a lot of really smart people, really nice ones too! I have met my fair share of chavs – yes they’re annoying but they are everywhere despite where you go. And for stuff like teenage pregnancy its the people who run sunderland who you need to blame. I got sex education in years 6 and 7 and breifly for other years! You can’t blame chavs when stuff goes wrong because at the bigger picture its the government’s fault!
Not everyday people’s hair gets ‘set alight’ and not everyday people get ‘happy slapped’. Hendon isn’t an amazing place but not everybody who is bad live there, same with ryhope and other places.
Sunderland was once a famous place, apparently very famous. My mother tells me it used to be a lovely place – you haven’t lived here all through the centuries of sunderland so how can you truly see its such a BAD place. Your points hold truth in them but to be honest i just think you are disrespectful to a town where you think 100% of scum live.
Good luck finding a partner, with that attitude you should stay single your entire life. I pity anybody who is unlucky enough to ‘fall’ for you.
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As a whole the city isn’t a lost cause, I understand the above comments as I’ve had my fair share of bad experiences, I’ve worked and managed bars in the city centre and the night-life has deteriorated. However I personally think this is only because of the financial difficulties that most businesses are in currently. Which means they cannot afford to charge prices that would provide some welcome relief from our sun-bed happy, henleys wearing, benefit thieving, sh*t tattoo canvasses that strut about like they have a bag of illegal substances inserted rectally.
What I will say is that the problems in the city centre stem from some of the neglected, under-policed and overcrowded hovels and housing estates that unfortunately are within a £1.50 bus trip to it.
The area I live in is nice, the neighbours are people you’d be happy to associate with never mind live near, and I’m not too far away from the city myself, I’d be quite happy to have a family here if it stayed this way, although mostly because of my love of the football club.
I’d say the major problem with the place is Northumbria Police, simply, they just don’t care. They’re not enforcers of the law, they’re a stop-gap against the crime and disorder becoming so serious that any real money needs to be spent on it. What people don’t understand is that scum fears authority, yeah they may mouth off and act the part in the face of weak opposition but you put enough of a show of force to them and their cowardly side will emerge.
Personally I hope things will improve as for the minute, all is not lost, but as with most things these days I fear it will only get worse.
Sunderland is a hole, I was born there, lived there till my early twenties, moved away and then stupidly moved back again.
It is full of chavs, it’s the only place I’ve ever been where being intelligent is seen as a bad thing. It has no culture, unless you count taking speed, drinking, fighting and shaggin as culture. The town centre is an embarrassment, populated by retarded, fat, ugly, useless, ignorant, inbred, nylon clad chava scum.
There are a few decent people still living in the city, but they are heavily outnumbered by the hordes of slack jawed, dribbling mongoloids that have spread out of places like Hendon, Southwick, Pennywell, Thorney and Hylton Castle.
Go out into the town centre on a saturday night and you will regularly see gangs of cowardly scum “fightin”, which really means a group of idiots ganging up on smaller groups or lone individuals and kicking them in the head when they are down. Years ago I was proud to be a maccam, these days the word maccam makes me feel so unclean I have bath in dettol and use a wire brush just to feel normal again.
Just had to say, the last comment… well here it goes… Im from Sunderland it is a s**t hole im bloody ashamed to say i live here and as soon as i turn 18 im outa here you chav slut.
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YOUR A F—— RETARD ARE YOU A ASSYLUM SEEKER YOURSELF SOUNDS LIKE IT. STOP TALKING s**t GET A LIFE
And you`r from eeerrrr Mars . iF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN WE DONT NEED SCUM LIKE YOURSELF , IN SUNDERLAND I HAVE JUST BY CHANCE CAME ON YOUR SHORT CHEAP LETTER. IF I WAS YOU I WOULD KEEP AWAY WE DREAD SCUM LIKE YOU COMEING TO OUR CITY. DONT SAY WHERE YOUR FROM ITS A SHAME
Like s**te is washington as bad as sunderland for charvs, sunderland is charv central!
Only assylum seekers move to Sunderland and they are promptly stabbed to death by the local chav army.
I remember visiting Roker lights when I was a kid and that was nearly ok, but even Blackpool had less litter and dogs**t.
If you move there now you must be crazy, its too much of a s**thole, even for chav doley giro wallers.
f**k off.
Keep the antichav faith going!
Well done, i agree with the whole piece. In Sunderland i saw the highest concentration of chavs outside of Chatham. Compare that to Newcastle where i went through Langdon Square and saw a sea of goths, i was quite impressed