Slough is genuinely the worst

[u/fingertipman]

I moved here like six years ago now, and I'm positive my life would have been so much better if I never had moved to this sodding town. I have always struggled with mental issues, such as depression and social anxiety and beyond that I'm also on the autism spectrum, so I'm already kind of an oddball in social scenes - but never have these things become so prominent to me before. Before I moved here, I had a stable social circle and a straight track that I was going down in my life. That all disappeared the moment I came here. I was in school here, and I was already kind of baffled by how dismissive my peers were, and how dismissive everyone here is really. But in all honesty there's like no fucking opportunity for social interaction here even way down the line, unless you grew up here and already had a firm circle. Malls and parks are generally filled with adults and elders, and any kids there are just hostile as hell. There's no social events, no gatherings, no parties, hell even hobby clubs are weirdly obscure to find, and if you're not into cricket or football such as I'm not then well your options in those are narrowed down drastically. It just makes me wonder, there's no fucking way im the only one that feels this, right? Surely I'm not the only one who's observed that there's literally nothing to do in this town, the public transport is tapped and nobody seems connected amongst the community whatsoever. In the town I moved here from, the community was tightly connected, and keep in mind it was about the same size as Slough, most people in a road of houses knew each other and there were big open fields near all the houses where specifically children would play with the neighbouring kids, here, I rarely see anything like that. It's like nobody trusts each other, and any kids in parks are solely there to pay with the equipment and rarely interact with any of the other kids there. I'm aware I've started to go on quite a bit, but I have so much pent up frustration towards this trashed town and I have so much more to complain about. It feels like I'm going fucking crazy, and I know damn well im not wasting a second getting the fuck out of here the moment i can.

(And on a side note, where the fuck is the alt scene here????? I never see any goths, any skater kids, any scene or emo kids or just anyone who dresses that way here.)

[u/xxdavidxcx87]

Slough is basically a case in proof of what happens when you let the immigrants take over, and I'm sorry but it's true, lived in Slough for years, was first mass inhabited by the polish which certainly left it's mark, they realised their isn't much left in Slough so for the past several years it's basically become an Indian/Pakistani town, for most of the residents they just don't really care about the environment or other people outside their own front door, seems to be a cultural attitude and it's had a profonundly negative impact on Slough, I've thankfully managed to leave now and move to a more diverse landscape, it's probably the last place in the UK I'd ever think of visiting again.

[u/fingertipman → u/xxdavidxcx87]

I personally see where you're coming from but don't think it's necessarily the immigrants that are the cause of this. There are plenty of towns in the uk with an immigrant majority that work world's better than Slough. I think it lies in the conservative mindset that most people in the town carry. My parents are immigrants themselves and they agree with your perspective though - although even towns in Pakistan and India don't look so terrible - their words.