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  I wouldn’t read anything into this: the source (ilivehere) is a social media presence devoted to faux outrage, and the ‘results’ of the ‘survey’ were published in a tabloid devoted to faux outrage.
  
  That’s not to say that Dover doesn’t have problems. I was born here (though I left and returned, shortly to be leaving again for good - sorry folks), and I have seen the deterioration, some of which is due to social and economic trends beyond the control of local authorities, and some of which is due to the unwillingness or inability of local authorities to respond at all or more than tardily to those trends. But name almost any other town with a similar demographic and you’ll very likely see the same thing.
  
  But here’s my point: it is precisely the town’s largely working-class make-up that generates the carping, sniping and snide comments. That is, the insults are hugely class-based (and quite often racist). An insufferable and debilitating class-snobbery is at work here, and my good guess is that, even if there were no such problems with the town, the misanthropes responsible would find some other group on which to vent their spleen.

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