I wouldn't be that unkind about residents. It has however always felt full of people either bored or exhausted. The former trying to leave, the latter from spending most of their daily lives elsewhere. A very transient place therefore devoid of any real character or heritage.
It still lacks a cinema and anything approaching character. Still getting a pound shop is an event in HH, a Right Jerry & Margo of a town if ever there were. Sleepy old HH....zzzzzzzzz