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    Milton Keynes hasn\u2019t been around for that long, but it\u2019s spent much of its short life getting stick for being a bit of a dump.<\/p>\n

    The town was founded in 1967 and was built on a grid system, with the planners taking their inspiration from New York City.<\/p>\n

    And according to the latest survey on I Live Here, there are plenty of worse places to live \u2013 but it\u2019s not somewhere that\u2019s often showered with love.<\/p>\n

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    Some of its residents have been back on social media to give their less-than-ringing endorsements of the place.<\/span><\/p>\n

    One X\/Twitter user posted a picture of a shopping centre in Bletchley, with the comment: \u201cThe Brunel Centre is grimmer than I remembered\u2026 There are, like, 5 shops left.\u201d It prompted the succinct reply: \u201cMilton Keynes mate, it\u2019s all gone to s**t.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Another tweet \u2013 a modern-day version of Sir John Betjamin\u2019s take on Slough \u2013 said: \u201cAs someone who lives in Milton Keynes, I am hereby giving my full support in nuking the f**k out of it with immediate effect to get rid of this s**t show. Happy to be written into lore as the saviour of the human race.\u201d<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s a view that pops up regularly. In one story on I Live Here, a resident wrote that most people\u2019s knowledge of Milton Keynes extends only as far as \u201cConcrete Cows, the gridded roads and a bought-in football team\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    The author added: \u201cThat\u2019s most people\u2019s sum knowledge about MK, and to be honest it was mine until I had the dire misfortune to think that moving here would be a viable choice. I\u2019ve been here six months and I have come to loathe the place with a fiery passion.\u201d<\/p>\n

    There\u2019s some praise for the people who live there. \u201cThe one thing I will say about the locals is that they are, for the most part, pretty friendly. I lived near Northampton for a couple of years and there is a marked difference in the attitudes of your average Northamptonian and your MK dweller. In Northampton it\u2019s a literal ant\u2019s nest of humanity, but in MK it can actually be quite surprisingly pleasant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    But as for the place as a whole, \u201cMilton Keynes IS dismal: a huge sprawling \u201cSim City\u201d of buildings that are lucky if they see 40 years\u2019 use\u201d.<\/p>\n

    The author adds: \u201cA place where you can get your car taken out by another driver because nobody knows which lane to be in on the roundabout, a place where history is erased before it has the chance to actually BE history, If only\u2026if only all places were like Milton Keynes. Thankfully they\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Even the occasional bit of praise for the Buckinghamshire town can backfire. When one X user wrote that \u201cI am where I am today because a Labour government made the decision to build Milton Keynes, a place that gave me the best start in life\u201d, one quick-witted response was: \u201cWhere you are today being: Milton Keynes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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