Where do you live, and is it nice?

St. Petersburg, Florida

Not a bad place to live in, at all. It's one of the fastest growing places in the U.S. lot's of people, and lots of places to go.

Beaches are nice, not the best, but they are decent, and there's lots of em. Lots of other places to to, many themeparks, DisneyWorld ya know, but who's ever heard of that one though???

Weather is great, untill those hurricanes start comeing around, but they aren't all that bad, just think of it as a very good sprinkler system. We got plent of sun if that's good for you, it doesn't get as hot as Texas will, and that's a GOOD thing.

Great universitys, University of South Florida, and University of Florida.

Great football team, or was...

And even though we're in the south, we aren't inbred hillbillys with a souther accent.

And if you like oranges we got a lot of those, for some crazy reasons, like the grow good here.

I'm sure there's a lot other good stuff, but I can't think of any right now.
 
Yep! I live in Bedfordshire in the uk! We have several universities near by. and in my town an awfull lot of pubs (Great if you are on a pub crawl not far to the next one! lol) we have a bueatiful river that runs through the town and many Canadian geese visit during the winter months.
The weather at the moment is mild for a november. and on occassions we do get snow! though it's been years since we really had a lot of it!
Bus service, well what can I say? depends which areas you live in, some are good, others aren't all they are cracked up to be. Trains we are on the main commuter line for London. (which is approx 1 1/2 hours away)
schools ain't bad.
Jobs we have a few good firms here but many people commute into London.
 
I'm English, originally from Yorkshire, now living in a place by the name of Welwyn Garden City which is without a doubt the biggest shit-hole in the world. I hate it with a passion and can't wait to move away... to anywhere... even Hull would be an improvement.
 
i live in a massive swathe of suburban cul-de-sacs in north bristol, and it's a badly designed, poorly planned, souless craphole.
 
I must say, with the fierce battle to self-proclaim his/her town as the shittiest (sp?), I demand proof. Pictures are worth 1000 words.

Lets flip the tables. Show where NOT to live. :D
 
Move to Colchester, UK.

Small towncentre situated inside the old Roman walls with a castle, quaint and historical old buildings, narrow streets, one-way traffic. A mixture of small specialist shops and chainstores all pedetrianised. A lively Arts Centre for bands, a good live theatre and a nice leisure centre with plenty going on. A country park, a zoo and only 7 miles from the nearest beach or 14 from the nearest seaside town... Lots of restaurants, fastfood outlets and things for the kids to do with plenty of green open spaces and a large central park where free kids events are held throughout the summer holidays, one of the best univerisites, a garrison, very cosmopolitan and only 50 minutes train ride from Central London. Tickets are £10 return if you fancy visiting the clubs or theatres, etc there. It's a 20 minute ride from end to end. Downside is the traffic in the morning and evening rush (crush) hours.

Oh yeah, mustn't forget the Cricket club too.
 
Mirlyn said:
I must say, with the fierce battle to self-proclaim his/her town as the shittiest (sp?), I demand proof. Pictures are worth 1000 words.

Lets flip the tables. Show where NOT to live. :D
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I have tried to find some pjotos that sum up WGC, but there are none. I found one on a trainspotter's site with our shopping centre in the background which came close as the most exciting thing is an old electric train that runs on the WAGN route to London apparently.

WGC is one of the "new towns" that sprang up in the 70's. It was designed to be a large town that had all the qualities of a garden (hence the name).

All the streets run through small wooded areas large enough to provide cover for muggers and rapists, the larger wooded areas are just big enough for people to safely dump all their unused furniture and old kitchen appliances without being seen. It was designed by teetotals so there was no provision for pubs and only a very few have been added since and because they are new have no character at all.

It is just far enough away from London to make it expensive to travel to but close enough to be ridiculously expensive to live in.

It has no character, no soul and is full of people who cannot afford to stay in Peckham.

I rest my case.
 
sorry to be a pedantic twat but wgc was a product of the early 20th century garden city movement under ebeneezer howard and was begun in the 1920s. the garden city movement had a specific ideology and intended to create a utopian vision where industry, agriculture and habitation combined to make beautiful, human scale settlements free from the cramped, polluted cities of the day.

the 1950s-1970s post war experiments had very different ideas of what constituted utopian vision and created quite different settlements.
 
tonks said:
hey...anyone ever been to philadelphia? i am thinking about moving there.
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We used to have a depot right across the Ben Franklin bridge in Camden. Camden is THE WORST slum I've ever seen. I had to drive through it a few times (always during the day) and it's bad. Real bad. The guy who ran the depot told me that it has the highest crime rate in all of New Jersey.

While it's not Philly, it's damn close. I'm sure it spills over into the city. I like Philly itself, it's a small city (compared to what I'm used to) and has a lot of history and quaint streets and buildings. I finished really early for work one day and walked around and we really couldn't find anything fun to do. I'd already been to all the historical sites (school trips) and the only thing I wanted to do was go to the US Mint. But it hasn't been fully open to visitors since 9/11.

Don't get me wrong, there's lots there if you've never been but I probably wouldn't live there. Their tourism site has a lot of nice pictures: http://www.gophila.com/photos/
 
I'd visit you Greeny but your husband probably wouldn't agree.:D

My wife has been to NY but i rarely ask her about it since she was with another guy at the time. As for me, Idaho is the farthest east i've been.

...tries to remember what he was doing in Idaho...
 
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