Some things you should know before you come to medway

Hello all,



This strangely enough is a message in a bottle that I am throwing out to the ocean of the internet in the hope it saves at least one person from making a serious mess up!

I am here to warn you that if you are contemplating moving to Medway for any reason whatsoever, seek psychiatric help. It is not a good move.

Medway consists of four main towns; Rochester is the least unpleasant, Strood being the worst. Chatham and Gillingham rub shoulders for second place in the unpleasantness stakes.

You may be thinking of moving to Medway for 3 years to study a degree at Kent university maritine or KIAD (kent institute of art and design) which has now changed its name to first UCCA and then UCA, perhaps in an attempt shake off any rumours about the horrible nature of its location. The uni itself isnt so bad, just where it is based. Believe me, if you are planning to do something with your life like get a degree you will not have much in common with the "Chatham Average".

The origins of the word chav are obscure, but one popular theory that persists is that it is a contraction of "Chatham Average".

So, why is Medway so abolutely desolately horrible? There are many reasons. The average inhabitant has no aspirations beyond, as a teenager, starting fights, eating McDonalds, weakly executed graffitti, spitting, spreading chlamydia and being racist and unpleasant to anyone who does not look like them. The average adult has luckily grown out of graffitti, but generaly persists in all of the previously mentioned activities, perhaps with some insider criminal training from their numerous times in detention.

Some people say the state of Medway is down to capitalism and the state. I disagree. Having grown up in a rough area myself, I managed to get a degree and pull myself out of it. My fun was never starting fights with strangers, or distributing BNP leaflets door to door. I think inbreeding and generations of heroin abuse have shaped this town. there is a certain roughness about the physicalappearance of many people in Medway when you walk down the highstreet of say Chatham. I cant explain it. A lot of the people here just look rough and ugly. It is unlike anywhere else I have been in this respect. I have travelled much of the UK and Europe and have yet to come across somewhere that the people have this unusual and unpleasant look. I suspect inbreeding might be the culprit.

What else is there about medway? Well, only 2 minutes walk from the university is New Road. A well known area for prostitution and drug dealing. the tired old prostitutes stagger along the street from night fall and some times afternoon. Their pimps lurk in the background. Pushers do their thing and try and push heroin and crack cocaine on passers by. Its also spitting distance from a couple of the fine schools that Medway has to offer. Cynics might say that the kids can at least find their mothers easily when they get out of school.

Across the river lays Strood. A place to avoid at all costs. Especially after dark. Gangs of idiot chav children roam the streets looking for someone by themselves to start a fight with. This is a regular occurence in most areas of Medway, with the possible exception of Rochester, where the police tend to respond rapidly to any complaints, unlike in the poorer more violent areas where they seem totake forever and are 'never there when you need them'.

Whats good about Medway? To coin a cliche, the train stations, because they lead elsewhere.

People may tell you its an up and coming town, well its had a couple of hundred years so far and hasnt done much to improve itself yet.



So in summary. This is my message to all right minded human beings. If you are planning to move to any part of the Medway towns, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT do so. Do not be tempted by the house prices. Do not be tempted by the blurb that the universities write. Seek psychiatric help if you intend to move here and do not feel comfortable living with low life junkies and thieving scum. You will be bullied for 50 pence pieces. You will be glared at in the street for not being of thier gene pool. You will not enjoy your stay.