I thought that the article contained in the link below would make a good follow - up to
EK▸ 's post.
http://www.oxfordmail.net/news/headlines/display.var.1887572.0.critic_set_to_revisit_town.phpWhen Sam Jordison wrote Crap Towns in 2003 , thousands of people living in places like Middlesbrough , Hull , Croydon , Luton and Wolverhampton told why where they lived was so bad.
The results were collected and published as a series of books.
Didcot came 20th in the rankings.
Mr Jordison , who grew up in Morecambe , is in Abingdon to promote his new book Annus Horribilis - and has agreed to revisit Didcot.
He is to be taken around the town by
MP▸ Ed Vaizey and Alison Adams , the director of Didcot First.
In Crap Towns , Mr Jordison suggested Didcot existed because of "a void - the railway junction between the London-West coast and the Oxford lines."
Ms Adams said: "When we realised the author of the Crap Towns book was coming to Abingdon for a book signing, we saw it as an ideal opportunity to have a dialogue with him."
"We want to show him how much the town has changed since the book was published a few years back."
Mr Vaizey's spokesman Dan Abernethy said: "Ed will meet the author of Crap Towns who has come to pay penance after naming Didcot as one of the 50 worst places to live."
