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I walked around town for the first time in years today... 15:07 - Oct 15 with 8204 views

And the city is an eyesore. Let’s face it - Swansea city centre is a sh*thole.

I spend a lot of time in Bristol and Cardiff with work and they’re simply on a different planet compared to the drab, depressing city which Swansea is now.

I couldn’t get over how many shops were closed in town, and how quiet it was. And the few people who were ‘shopping’ were either drunk, high on some kind of banned substance or unemployed.

No suits or city types anywhere - just homeless, people drinking and smoking drugs.

Boarded up shops everywhere. A million Greggs, Costas and that’s about it.

The council need sacking - all of them.

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I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 10:07 - Oct 23 with 1091 views

LeonWasGod

I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 00:42 - Oct 19 by TNT
You step off the train, and yes the fairly short route to The Marina and Swansea Bay needs Welsh Government funding. Once there, the natural beauty unfolds before your very eyes.

Blindfold might be the best option for that stretch from the station! No wonder visiting fans sing 'Swansea's a sh*thole'.

But yep, the Bay and immediate surroundings are pretty special. Makes the scruffy City Centre a bit irrelevant really.

I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 21:46 - Oct 23 with 1004 views

longlostjack

Get rid of that big screen on Castle Square too.

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I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 22:56 - Oct 23 with 975 views

controversial_jack

I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 21:46 - Oct 23 by longlostjack
Get rid of that big screen on Castle Square too.

Swansea centre is just like any valleys town on a bigger scale

I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 23:12 - Oct 23 with 959 views

Humpty

I drove down to Singleton Hospital about dinner time yesterday. Sunny day and the tide was right in. Name me another city of a comparative size to Swansea that has natural beauty like that.

I'm not from Swansea BTW, though not that far away. Some people don't realize how lucky they are.

I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 09:04 - Oct 24 with 890 views

Dr_Winston

Imagine the difference this money could make if invested in Swansea or another Welsh urban area, instead of pissed down the drain in yet more subsidy for Cardiff.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-50127123

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I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 19:43 - Oct 27 with 726 views

felixstowe_jack

With the number of cranes dotted around the city centre and all the new buildings going up swansea is improving. The new delvelopements in the high street of the last 5 years are a definite improvement. Once the kingsway and orchard roadworks and landscaping are completed it will be greatly improved.

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I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 20:11 - Oct 27 with 697 views

raynor94

I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 10:07 - Oct 23 by LeonWasGod
Blindfold might be the best option for that stretch from the station! No wonder visiting fans sing 'Swansea's a sh*thole'. But yep, the Bay and immediate surroundings are pretty special. Makes the scruffy City Centre a bit irrelevant really.

I certainly don't recognize your description of High street from the Grand, it's vastly improved over the last couple of years, and once the two student accommodations are finished it will give a whole new vibe to the place

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I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 18:51 - Oct 28 with 613 views

jack2jack

The quality of the new builds is fvckin appauling.
They won't be around in 100 years time, they'll probably dissolve in the rain before then,shite.

I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 23:48 - Oct 28 with 537 views

Pegojack

I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 19:43 - Oct 27 by felixstowe_jack
With the number of cranes dotted around the city centre and all the new buildings going up swansea is improving. The new delvelopements in the high street of the last 5 years are a definite improvement. Once the kingsway and orchard roadworks and landscaping are completed it will be greatly improved.

Talking of the Kingsway, I drove along it this morning to get my old mum as close as possible to the Yorkshire BS for her to sort some financials out.
I did exactly the same thing a year ago, and it was like deja vu all over again! Absolutely feck all has changed. The road is still being torn up, workmen everywhere with pneumatic drills, those irritating red and white moulded plastic fence things all over the place.
As Denzil might say "What in SWANZEE is goyin on? Eh?"

I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 16:49 - Oct 29 with 415 views

dickythorpe

Plenty of people about shopping today in Swansea. Popped into Debenhams, m&s, Waterstones. All people on the tills i encountered were a credit and full of chat and made me feel good about my purchases.
Waterstones looked like it has a nice cafe any good?

Nipped down to Pennard Stores and had a coffee in the coffe shop. Quite busy down there, great selection of Welsh ales and spirits.

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I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 17:10 - Oct 29 with 395 views

lifelong

I walked around town for the first time in years today... on 16:49 - Oct 29 by dickythorpe

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I was also in town today, the market was busy, bought some excellent meat and veg.

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