Check this out: http://www.idler.co.uk/html/frontsection/craptown/30_5/england.htm Not checked out many others yet, but that site has Tilbury and Basildon summed up, down to a tee... -- JackH - D.Bot (University of Speed) BOTAFOT #110 - BOTAFOF #29 - GSX750F "We might be ugly, but we don't care..."
*shrug* I've lived all over the place, not just here, but feel free to comment from a position of otherwise assumption. Here isn't by any means perfect, and if it wasn't for business and personal ties, I can think of other places I'd much rather live, but regardless, I'd sooner live here than in the parts of the scrag end of Essex that I've regularly sampled so far. -- JackH - D.Bot (University of Speed) BOTAFOT #110 - BOTAFOF #29 - GSX750F "We might be ugly, but we don't care..."
Ben Blaney wrote I think you missed the point. You are right about Islington. My mum would kill the pope to live there she would. Although to be honest I think her plans for the pope have more to do with freeing the proletariat from the yoke of what she calls "Bleedin' Big Nosed Roman Fascists," than her occupying some nice empty apartment on behalf of her fellow revolutionaries.
The key word is Wetherspoons [1] It happens at the one in Hampstead as well [1] Irony of irony, 'real' ale in an environment with all the ambiance of a pint of Arctic lite. I can not speak low enough of those shitty little pubs.
I used to live in Basildon many years ago and it sucked. I had the dubious pleasure of going there a few months ago for a server install and it appeared to suck a little more. I'm sure the locals love it anyway, bit like people with ginger kids.
Good point; maybe the goit in question had had to resort to stronger substances in order to be able to face a visit. I'm just getting over two years at college... give me a chance to break the habit of cheap beer and burger combos! -- JackH - D.Bot (University of Speed) BOTAFOT #110 - BOTAFOF #29 - GSX750F "We might be ugly, but we don't care..."
Horses for courses, innit. When you tell people who don't come from Canterbury that you live there, more often than not the reply is 'Ooh, I went there once, and it was lovely... it must be lovely living there'. Except it isn't... ok, it's not that bad either, but if you're local, there isn't an awful to do of a night except go out on the piss, eat out, flea pit cinema or theatre. There's no alternative entertainment for us oiks, such as a bowling alley or ice skating rink etc. If you're that bored, you can go pick a fight in one of a number of squaddie frequented watering holes, but that's about it unless you're willing to travel outside the immediate area. And a city, albeit a small one, with two universities and two large colleges doesn't even have a 24 hour supermarket... I suppose if you can't sell cheap lager and White Lightning after 11pm, there's not much point in opening... and yet even Whitstable and Faversham have 24 hour supermarkets, which is what gets me. I've spent way too much time in Tilbury over the years, mainly because I'm half Tilbury (which explains a lot!). It really is a shithole, with **** all to do, and with an assortment of the dregs of society, and whilst I'm sure the odd gem other than my Grandad lives there, I've yet to find them despite having spent far too long there over the years... -- JackH - D.Bot (University of Speed) BOTAFOT #110 - BOTAFOF #29 - GSX750F "We might be ugly, but we don't care..."
I worked there for 18 months and loved (most) of it. The people were great, the countryside was good, loads of fresh fruit & veg, duty free fags, booze and France were only 45 mins away. I also found the best chippie in the world - ever (Deal, opposite the bandstand). OK, the Medway wouldn't be my choice of place to live, Canterbury is a nightmare traffic wise and Sheppey is a bit of dive but if I could retire now, I'd head for Kent. Just MHO, like. Cheers!
That's your first mistake. Wetherspoons always attracts the pikeys in any town. Not unheard of in Cambridge, IME.
*waves* Actually, they're not too bad here. More studenty then pikey, IME. Oh well... it was the first time I'd be out of a night time in Basildon, and this coupled with the chap who ended up head first in a bin didn't exactly dispell any stereotypical preconceptions I had about the place. -- JackH - D.Bot (University of Speed) BOTAFOT #110 - BOTAFOF #29 - GSX750F "We might be ugly, but we don't care..."
