It is still a Mecca (ballroom) for Northern workers, and will probably gain again this year from the cost of holidays abroad. Southend, which I also know quite well, is a similar bi-polar town that reverts to 'nowhere end of the line' in winter, but then gets infused by this enormous transient population of punters when the weather warms.
Maybe it's the seaside. Maybe it is my own nostalgia for Skeggie caravans and trying to grab crap with chrome claws. Maybe it's the screams from the roller coaster. But I do think there is something special that comes from living in a place like Blackpool. You can't be me, I'm taken
"In my mind..." You can't be me, I'm taken
So why not get out of it ? Most people I've met from dedicated resort towns with nowt else going on, eg blackpool or skeggie, are just dedicated pissheads. I'm not saying there are dedicated and sober people in those towns, after all I'm no beacon of sobriety so there may be some sorting going on, but.. keep to the Fen Causeway
