*shudders at the memory of 4 years living in Toxteth as a student*
Was bought up in Toxteth, there are worse places in Liverpool I assure you.
Liverpool is, as I have said many times, a good deal better than the media stereotypes would have you believe. And funnily enough, when people go and experience it for themselves, they too can vouch for this.
I used to get there every couple of weeks or so when I was a field tech, not much now though
was there last week for a rather nice japanese meal and drinks in the surrounding pubs with a customer
Junkyard – Member
i like it when I go to visit it as well. I have only been round the Albert dock area though really.
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Surounded by water, and high fences its dificult to get out.
Went round the new museum last week, lovely building, and some good exhibits, but painting it white inside, it looks so dirty now, 3 months after opening.
Centre is night and day from when I used to go there 20 years back. It was great for a night out then but it’s a lot smarter overall now. Still an enormous amount of work to do around the periphery though – the north end in particular seems as run down as ever on my occasional trips to the match. Like a lot of old ports in the UK, there seems to be confusion as how to best integrate the waterfront with the living city.
Kensington should have a preservation order of some sort slapped on it, or at least looked at for a theme park – reminiscent of a zombie apocalypse film.
Liverpool gets slagged off but everyone I know like’s the place,I’m in west lancs & having Liverpool on the doorstep is one of the plus points for living here!
Some areas do need work as other cities ..really is ever evolving once you get one area good the others suffer and vice versa still cannot believe the amount of people who litter and think it is okay …makes my blood boil
I married a scouser and I’ve lived here 10 years. There’s loads of worse places. I’ve been to many of them, including Derby. (Sorry to people who live in Derby.) Delamere’s really close and the waterfront is pretty cool.
People here don’t, in my experience, steal your wheels.
Liverpool is pish for mountain biking tbf camo. You’re an hour and a half from loads of top places, which I guess is good. But doorstep, 20 mins away stuff is really weak. Road scene is very strong though.
This is where I grew up, and i’ve still got the accent to prove it. All I ever hear from people who’ve been there is good things. It mostly seems to be people who haven’t been who say bad stuff.
The free museums, liverpool one shopping centre,the Waterfront, a new Evans cycle shop, due to open soon, the Leeds Liverpool canal, the cheap buses and trains, the Mersey Ferries,bikes travel free on the trains and ferries,The Wirral just over the water, the Mersey Tunnels(3) if you like engineering, the tram in Birkenhead, and the transport museum,the night life in Liverpool, and lots more.
As for ‘pikeys’, Liverpool probably has less travellers than most other areas of the UK, but then I guess you use the term to describe everyone you don’t like.
Reading the thread, it is evident that Klunk is repeatedly plugging away with crap stereotypes that may go down well in, say, a Berkshire pub, but are painfully tired and unfunny …. 🙄
Klunk , finger on the pulse again eh, stereotypes are created so sheep can have their minds made up for them !! i have worked in places in the UK well worse than my hometown of Liverpool
Which town or city shall I start on first
Apart from the sheets of rain, it wasn’t too bad. In fact, the bits I saw were quite pleasant.
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What were you expecting? people living in poverty? lots of boarded up windows and run down housing? Yes it’s all in Liverpool but then again it’s probably in every big city in the UK and Europe.
You probably got lucky and visited when it was raining which probably stopped the ignorant scouse people from the usual robbing and aggressive behaviour.
mixed experiences of the pool
my missus is from there and had some mates at uni there too
some amazing nights out- scousers are a friendly bunch and everyone really is a comedian
the city has improved massively since i first visited, looking past all the beatles tat the cultural side of things is awesome
however there does seem to be a certain scouse mentality, im not saying victim culture! more like the idea that its ok to screw over ‘the man’ or in some cases your mates to get what you deserve.
also have a mate whos a copper on merseyside and hes not got much good to say about certain elements of his hometown
kimbers – Member
however there does seem to be a certain scouse mentality, im not saying victim culture! more like the idea that its ok to screw over ‘the man’ or in some cases your mates to get what you deserve.
Wtf? this is not a ‘scouse’ mentality, these people exist everywhere..
kimbers – Member
also have a mate whos a copper on merseyside and hes not got much good to say about certain elements of his hometown
Again, This will be the same in all UK cities, no denying there are bad parts of liverpool, but to think its any different to any other Uk city would be strange to say the least.