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Having spent my early working years aware that my choice of career meant that my future place of abode was in the hands of luck ( about a thousand jobs nationwide and retired man's shoes for where and when ) and the random musings of appointments committees, I always tended to look around when I was in unfamiliar areas and never found a place without some redeeming features and somewhere decent to live within 10 miles. In fairness, I never seriously looked in the South East because I knew I couldn't afford the mortgage, but I have worked in or near a frighteningly large number of the towns that figure in this thread.
Middlesbrough is probably the only one where those who can do so choose to live in the next county - although that tells you more about the size of Cleveland and the proximity of North Yorkshire. Having said that I now live within 10 miles of the most deprived area in North Yorkshire and can see the road up to Dalby from my study window so deprivation is relative.
My gran used to live in Widnes - the place is horrible, and look what you could tie yourself to for 25 years in an average job - Prozac anyone?
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robhughs yes I've been to the wirral (worked in Wallasey and that was truly one of the most vile places in christendom!) If you read my post carefully, at no point did I say elly port is in, or near the wirral. I merely stated that the wirral was also full of plastic scousers.
****in wanabe scousers always get arsey, poor little diddums 🙂
****in wanabe scousers always get arsey, poor little diddums
I think somebody got a bit of a "hiding" from some "plastic scousers"?
Public service announcement: the term "plastic scousers" should really be reserved for the denizens of England's worst new town, Runcorn.
Message ends.
Not me, we always won. They never seemed to grasp the idea that if a large goup of ****s/plastic scousers jumps a small number of punks/alternatives and they stay for a punch up rather than running off it's because they know how to fight and enjoy a good kick off, but they did put a mate of mine into intesive care with a baseball bat because he had long hair and was on his own. bless 'em
I now follow a more buddist path having spent some time in a rather grim place. (no, not grimsby) 😀
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see that person of a shorter stature.....that's you that is.....on a good day, with your mum in her favorite shorts.
you know your bike.....it's a girls bike......with a basket....and pink tassles
insert other "history today" lines as required
actually I do rather like the fetching skintight shorts. Do you know where I could get a pair? they'd finish off the ss riding nichemonger image wonderfully, and I could put matching coloured beads in my beard.
Really cool cycling shorts 8)
Should be compulsory for men on all STW Forum Rides 😀
Can't be arsed to read all through this, but my vote is for Workington where I spent a night before riding C2C. Like a weird time warp into the 70s.
cinnamon_girl I was seriuos about the shorts, but I used to ride in the 80's in metallic green lycra with peacock feather print on! 😯
tazzy - you coming on the next Swinley Forest Forum Ride 😉
Your shorts sound amazing!
If this thread has been narrowed down to where we've actually lived, then Oldham for me has it. Good grief! Only lived in a mate's house there for a few weeks, but there was a brothel next door and I woke up one night, looked out of the window and saw a guy climbing through the hole where the kitchen window used to be (which he'd conveniently dumped on the patio after removing it).
Lived in Newton Heath (Manchester) too, a close second. I had a car follow me up the pavement and tried to run me down, and the local shop had more security screens and wire meshing than a border post in Soviet Russia.
I had a few pairs of tie-dye lycra leggings in the early 90s. I miss them. The rest of humanity seemed to object for some reason (might have been i chose to go commando when i wore them).
ANyway, back on topic: it's a bit depressing that there are so many contenders but I agree with whoever it was who that said most places have redeeming qualities (or somewhere nicer) in their immediate vicinity.
Cowdenbeath in the "kingdom" of Fife is a real sh*thole.
Dundee is a dump.
Bathgate / Armadale / Whitburn will never have a tourist board.
Somebody mentioned Falkirk is a dump but I'd say that Falkirk itself ain't bad but the outlying areas like Avonbridge or Langlees are a bit ruff.