
Originally Posted by ByeByeEngland:
Not sure how accurate this is though 110,000 members isn’t too shabby. My home town (now a City) of Southend doesn’t feature. It’s still a London day tripper hotspot and the seafront has come on leaps and bounds from where it was 20 years ago but the High Street is desecrated and is a no go area after 6pm unless drugs are your thing. Jaywick is on the list and rightly so. It’s scandalous how landlords there are continued to get away with things. The other way of looking at that is it concentrates a lot of low lifes in one area but amongst all that is the usual underprivileged and needy.
Aside from watching football (badly timed this trip) the closest I get to Southend is visiting my parents on the outskirts.