Whatever the opinion, I am happily settled in the Leamington surrounds.
When we first moved up here, we lived in Gordon St. and back then of course there was much more of a variety of shops, I loved it. Now most, if not all of the shops I knew of including Woollies have gone, its unbelievable the changes that has happened over the years... and the big loss of course was House of Fraser, and I miss Laura Secord.. The Southern end of the town was always a bit down at heel and the busiest with through traffic, Lots of students flats developments in the lower part of town.. The Co-op has gone from Clemens st. and Costcutter taking its place and The old clothes shop Chez Rama will soon be gone too. I found them quite useful at times.

I'm not too keen on the southern end of town, but Leamington's generally a nice place: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/leamington-spa-revealed-one-uks-25648767