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It's really shit. It's an overflow town of London proper, and has no redeeming features apart from Ikea.

It's also got that milkshake place in the big shopping centre.

Also the highest rate of sexual offending in the metropolitan police district.

On the contrary, it has The Ludoquist!

I think a significant reason for Croydon featuring in jokes is that it's simply a 'funny' name.

Did you know that Peep Show was made in Croydon because the season 1 director wanted the show to have a slightly artsy European feel and thus wanted it to be set in a place with trams?

But every town, village, and hill in the UK has a funny name. Croydon must have something more.

In the larger picture, it's not specific to Croydon. People have variously picked on Milton Keynes, Slough, and others over the years.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough_(poem)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelmsford_123

2000AD had a go at Croydon too - https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/0/9116/3326...