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5 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

 

I was in Hull two weeks ago and it has an inaccurate reputation, certainly since the recent city of culture investment. The city centre has some great architecture and the Marina/Humber St area is really nice particularly on a sunny day. I'd also say it is a lot tidier than Newcastle city centre in terms of public realm and general upkeep at the moment. Just a shame it takes places to hit rock bottom in this country before anything gets done about it.

 

Wolverhampton on the other hand has very little about it and feels like a lesser suburb of Birmingham with no distinctive identity. Made particularly less visiting in a matchday by the way they treat away fans.

 

 

 

Agreed. Loads to appreciate in Hull city centre, even if some of the immediate outskirts are seriously grim (which you could say about Newcastle).

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TheBrownBottle

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23 minutes ago, Shak said:

Newcastle

Brighton

Bristol

London

Liverpool

Coventry

 

That's how I'd rank the cities in England I've actually been to.

 

Fairly sizeable gap between the rest of them and Coventry :lol:

I loved working in Bristol.  Was thinking of moving down there before leaving the UK.  Would likely be my preferred destination should I ever return.  Preferred it to Newcastle tbh (maybe if I hadn’t spent most of my life in Newcastle I’d feel different).

 

Tbh quite like all the places on your list - but I’d put London under Liverpool.  Unless you’re very, very wealthy, London would be a bloody awful place to live.  Would likely be top if money wasn’t an issue.

 

Coventry is a tip, mind.  

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Mahoneys Tache

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3 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I loved working in Bristol.  Was thinking of moving down there before leaving the UK.  Would likely be my preferred destination should I ever return.  Preferred it to Newcastle tbh (maybe if I hadn’t spent most of my life in Newcastle I’d feel different).

 

Tbh quite like all the places on your list - but I’d put London under Liverpool.  Unless you’re very, very wealthy, London would be a bloody awful place to live.  Would likely be top if money wasn’t an issue.

 

Coventry is a tip, mind.  

I’ve lived in Coventry 19 years. It’s not pretty but it’s not as bad as folks think. The centre suffered from the brutalist architecture thing after it got flattened in WW2 and it’s a victim of th💩therite economic policy. All the manufacturing industry is gone and it suffers from being a satellite town to Birmingham. 

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TheBrownBottle

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I’ve lived in Coventry 19 years. It’s not pretty but it’s not as bad as folks think. The centre suffered from the brutalist architecture thing after it got flattened in WW2 and it’s a victim of th💩therite economic policy. All the manufacturing industry is gone and it suffers from being a satellite town to Birmingham. 

Yeah, like I said I quite like it, but the post-WWII rebuild made the centre pretty ugly-looking.  The cathedral sums it all up tbf.  Generally though found the locals to be sound. 

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Ghandis Flip-Flop

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49 minutes ago, Coffee_Johnny said:

Regional bias acknowledged, do Wolverhampton and Hull have worse city centres than Sunderland? 

 

Nope Wolves is actually decent night out for a start, you haven’t got to travel far outside of the centre before it’s rougher than a badgers arse though

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Nope Wolves is actually decent night out for a start, you haven’t got to travel far outside of the centre before it’s rougher than a badgers arse though


Made me think about John McGinn straight away :lol: 

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Ghandis Flip-Flop

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Now if we are talking about genuinely grim places in that part of the world can I suggest Telford. Basically a few small towns they’ve tried to make a bigger conurbation by putting a shopping centre and retail parks in the middle. Tried to avoid that place like the plague while I lived down there, basically bypassing it and going to Shrewsbury instead, which is another really good night out if you’re ever in that part of the world.

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9 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I loved working in Bristol.  Was thinking of moving down there before leaving the UK.  Would likely be my preferred destination should I ever return.  Preferred it to Newcastle tbh (maybe if I hadn’t spent most of my life in Newcastle I’d feel different).

 

Tbh quite like all the places on your list - but I’d put London under Liverpool.  Unless you’re very, very wealthy, London would be a bloody awful place to live.  Would likely be top if money wasn’t an issue.

 

Coventry is a tip, mind.  

 

What constitutes sufficiently wealthy for London? I’d say most of my friends and I don’t fall into that bracket and we really enjoy living here. That includes a musician and an NHS midwife (neither of whom have family support).

 

I echo your sentiments entirely about Bristol. Wonderful place. Newcastle glorious; I’d also live in Cambridge when retired. Big amounts of time for Glasgow and Edinburgh. 
 

Don’t get any of the hype about Brighton or Manchester; both just grey and dilapidated to me. Birmingham an odd one: some outstanding and beautiful parts but lots of city centre is a write off and quite scary.

 

 

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I try to see the best in all places tbf, nature of what I do for a living. Many northern cities actually have a lot going for them they're just often hollowed out in terms of deindustrialization, unkempt due to endless public cuts and suburbanised to the point of being ghost towns (all of these factors compound each other). 

 

The genuinely worst places I've been to recently are smaller towns that are geographically isolated but aren't pretty enough to be touristy. Making my way through the 92 has taken me to Barrow-in-Furness and Grimsby in the last 12 months. If you want to see genuine 'shitholes', give them a whirl.

 

 

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Mahoneys Tache

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11 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Yeah, like I said I quite like it, but the post-WWII rebuild made the centre pretty ugly-looking.  The cathedral sums it all up tbf.  Generally though found the locals to be sound. 

It’s the post heavy industry thing. Not dissimilar to home. It’s so the least segregated city I ever lived in. 

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2 minutes ago, Theregulars said:

 

What constitutes sufficiently wealthy for London? I’d say most of my friends and I don’t fall into that bracket and we really enjoy living here. That includes a musician and an NHS midwife (neither of whom have family support).

 

I echo your sentiments entirely about Bristol. Wonderful place. Newcastle glorious; I’d also live in Cambridge when retired. Big amounts of time for Glasgow and Edinburgh. 
 

Don’t get any of the hype about Brighton or Manchester; both just grey and dilapidated to me. Birmingham an odd one: some outstanding and beautiful parts but lots of city centre is a write off and quite scary.

 

 

Tbf, probably just my own bias speaking :) - if we’re talking London (and not a commute from distant suburbia), then I’d want millions in the bank to be able to buy a decent size house near the centre.  I’m done with living in flats or apartments.  But there is always something on or something to do there - so I don’t doubt that folks will enjoy living there.

 

Manchester is a bleak city as far as I’m concerned - and lacking a true ‘centre’.  There is nothing iconic there. 
 

Agreed re Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh.  Birmingham’s jewellery  quarter etc are canny for a day out - but I also agree, it’s mostly a bit ‘nothingy’

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Stuy_O

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14 minutes ago, Rich said:

Hope everyone enjoys catching up on this thread when waking up this fine Sunday morning :lol:


Came for rumours…  instead got in depth cherry picking of the biggest shit holes in England. You take what you can at this point. 

 

 

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TheBrownBottle

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1 minute ago, Stuy_O said:


Came for rumours…  instead got in depth cherry picking of the biggest shit holes in England. You take what you can at this point. 

 

 

 

Honestly, I think it’s a matter of time before the football press starts following suit.  PSR has so completely fucked the transfer market that the hacks must be sick as fuck. 

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29 minutes ago, Rich said:

Hope everyone enjoys catching up on this thread when waking up this fine Sunday morning :lol:

Pop in to see any news with my morning pint and get a list of middle England horrors

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Just now, STM said:

Also, you need to take photos quicker because whoever you were taking a picture of has fucked off. :lol:

 

It was a photo of our new signing 

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