I worked over Park West's solitary pub (which I believe has since closed so you may never have had to suffer it) for about 9 months. That hotel really does have fantastic views of the main railway line, fields of rubble and piebald ponies picking over them and the prisons doesn't it.
Only two countries I've yet to have a good experience of are France and Canada (the French speaking bit; possibly coincidentally!)
However I've not seen enough to say I detest them - France was the usual touristic crap on a damp October evening followed by a night in some horrible suburb that...