Can't say I'd ever heard of it, but Dover is apparently affected.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42286471
[U]Lord Adonis cited a Financial Times report in the Lords debate saying doctors in Blackpool had described "shit life syndrome".
He also said 330 children had been expelled from schools in one northern town, in addition to "hundreds excluded from school, day by day, for lower-level misbehaviour".
"For Blackpool today, read also Hull, Grimsby, large parts of the North and the Midlands, and large towns in the South, including Hastings, Dover and Folkestone," he said.[/U]
