Comment by Earw0rm

You can walk out of Canary Wharf, within a mile or two you'll see much the same.

Not that the Knightsbridge set ever do.

Heck, even from Knightsbridge itself you don't have to go that far. North End Road is what, two, three miles?

I don't know of anywhere in London that has quite the profound sense of hopelessness you find in Blackpool, but a lot of it's really not great.