(14 Feb 2015, 5:10 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote People from Wrekenton/Gateshead are scruffy. Worse than Cramlington, but not as bad as Chester-le-Street or Sunderland.
I think you'll find there is one specific area of CLS that is renowned for its rough people, and as a result people get the impression we are all like this...
They live in 'the avenues', the majority of them. Most of them just sleep in their own clothes for a few days before buying new ones at the market at the weekend.
There are a lot of nice areas of Chester-le-Street, such as where I live; an area many desire to live in, but people who do not live here, or come here often, will obviously not know this...