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Inside UK’s ‘WORST place to live’ where hit Ricky Gervais show was set and locals are desperate to leave
RESIDENTS in the town where a hit Ricky Gervais show was set have slammed it as the UK's "worst place to live".
Slough, Berkshire, was the setting for legendary sitcom The Office, but many locals are desperate to leave.
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Jackie Hughes, 68, who runs a high-street food kiosk, has watched Slough's decline over the course of his life.
He told : "They used to call this place the Golden Mile, but not any more.
"“I’m gonna retire at the end of December, I am 68. If I owned my house I would sell it and move tomorrow.
"All of this rejuvenation is gonna take 14 years, well I'm gonna be dead in 14 years."
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Cafe worker Karolina Wroblewicz said: "When I tell my friends who live in other cities that I live in Slough, they feel sorry for me.
"We could move somewhere else. Some better place but we still have the hope that more people will come here.
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"I have to tell you that I know people that want to move out from here."
The opening of the Elizabeth Line has brought hordes of Londoners to Slough in search of cheap rent.
One in five people who left the capital last year chose Slough as their destination.
But the town was still named 9th worst place to live in the whole UK this year.
Lettings manager Saqib Ali blamed surging rents on Londoners enticed by the direct Elizabeth Line service to Bond Street
In Saqib's opinion, the best thing about Slough is that it is near London, Heathrow and the M4.
It comes after residents in Gedling, Nottinghamshire were devastated after their once-thriving shopping centre became a "ghost town" covered with litter and broken paving.
The Carlton Square shopping centre was "once amazing", but locals say it has since gone rapidly downhill.
Locals in an idyllic seaside resort are fuming after it also became a backwater with empty bars and derelict shops.
Brean in Somerset is dominated by the giant Pontins Holiday Park, but this year thousands of holidaymakers will be missing.
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