A TikToker has described Welwyn Garden City as "good and s***" after visiting the town for his latest video.
Content creator m.combe07, who has 110,000 followers and 6.3 million likes on the platform, posted the five-minute video yesterday as part of his "most tired area in the UK?" series.
He was immediately shocked upon his arrival at the station, entering the Howard Centre and saying: "I'm just at the station, I walk out, and I'm at the shopping centre. What?
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"These guys did not give me any time to settle down, chill out. No, you're right there."
He then went on to question the number of shops and shoppers in the Howard Centre, and question how "s***" Welwyn Garden City must be if M&S chose to relocate to Stevenage.
"If there's only this many people in the shopping centre, you can tell this area is dry. I'm just seeing shop shutters," he continued.
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"You're telling me, they shut down a shop here, to move it to Stevenage. There's no way that M&S can actually believe that Stevenage is a better place to run than here.
"This place must be s*** then."
M.combe07 was impressed by the stunning views of Howardsgate though, describing it as like "stepping into Buckingham Palace".
Crossing over the bridge into the east of the town, he described the area as "dead", before noticing Your Local Store in Bridge Road East, which has had unfortunately had letters removed with the sign reading "oral".
He also commented that Welwyn Garden City's suburbs bore a resemblence to those in America, which comes as no surprise, with founder Sir Ebenezer Howard inspired by the regeneration of Chicago when he visited in the 1870s.
Concluding his visit, the TikToker said: "As I'm coming out of Welwyn Garden City, my final thoughts are that, I can't lie, it's not tired.
"It's good and it's s*** at the same time. I don't know how it works, but it works."
And m.combe07 could be coming back to our area soon, with comments suggesting he visit Hatfield Galleria next.
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