Where's the biggest kip you have lived?

biko · 08-06-2011 09:47AM

I've slept on benches and under bushes, on building sites and in train stations all over the world during my rambling days,
But the worst by far was sleeping in a dirty and smelly rubbish collection room under an apartment block in Tel Aviv for a week and a bit. Next to the generator for the air conditioning.

BlueBaron · 08-06-2011 09:50AM

du want a medal or something?

MonkeyTennis · 08-06-2011 09:50AM

Hull

Its grim up north

Eve_Dublin · 08-06-2011 09:57AM

Wolverhampton.

Voted 5th worst city in the world by Lonely Planet (which is just a joke anyway).

dpe · 08-06-2011 09:58AM

almighty1 wrote: »

Thought that record belonged to Beacontree in Dagenham.

Meh, seems you're right:

wikipedia wrote:

Bransholme is widely, but mistakenly, believed to be largest council estate in Europe, a title more likely to be held by Becontree in Dagenham.
The confusion has been partly caused by the name of Bransholme being attached to a greater area than it actually should by non-residents, taking in neighbouring estates, most notably Longhill, Sutton Park and Orchard Park, and partly due to the reality that although homes on Bransholme are still largely owned by the local council, Hull City Council, there has been a substantial selling off of these to private buyers meaning that large areas are now solely privately owned.
There is often debate over whether the largest council estate outside of London is Leigh Park (in Hampshire), Wythenshawe (in Manchester) or Bransholme. Bransholme is the largest council estate in Yorkshire, with Seacroft in East Leeds coming close.

Its what I was told at the time

fryup · 08-06-2011 10:06AM

Shannon town in the 1980s, OMG what a dark dismal kip it was.

sbsquarepants · 08-06-2011 10:15AM

Kilmartin in Tallaght - Fúck me what a $hit hole, it's basically like calcutta but not as clean, packed to the rafters with a$$holes - it's as close to the poor white trash cliché as you'll ever find.

Frank Black · 08-06-2011 10:27AM

A bedsit in St. Kilda in Melbourne – prostitutes and drug-dealers in the street outside. Noticed a few cockroaches around the place so bought some bug spray not long after moving in. Was spraying it around the room and sprayed some under the fridge – about 200 cockroaches all ran out at once and started convulsing and dying around the room.
Still makes my skin crawl.
At least it was cheap.

this is arse · 08-06-2011 10:29AM

Dublin

Where's the biggest kip you have lived?

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