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My dad grew up in Ipswich (and Southwold, and Felixstowe) and I've been a few times, more so when I was much younger, but also every other week for a few years to watch the finest football team the world has ever seen. Until Roy Keane made it his mission to make them terrible.
I never got the impression that the town itself was up to much - and my dad always lived in the worst bits of it - but the countryside around it, and some of the coast, are really nice.
Felixstowe was amazing as a child - WW2 stuff, the port, fish and chips, the bumper boats thing by the beach - but I haven't been back since so it might just be like Southend but smaller and actually on the sea.