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Nipper99 - Member
Port Talbot
Arhh! .. of course. Port Talbot has got to be top of everybodies list.
I reckon I could and would live quite happily anywhere in Scotland except probably Edinburgh.
Outer Hebrides, Northern Isles. Nice for visiting but too introspective for permanent living, to say nothing of the transport restrictions
What about all the places too dull anonymous for anyone to despair of? Eg Wolverhampton. God that's awful because its so dull, no way would I choose that dump. Been there for training, that was bad enough
Just moved out of LDN was there for 25 years could never go back, not slagging it off as it's amazing place to live if you have reason but once you don't it's pretty shite. BTW There's loads of riding there Epping Forest starts right next to East London.
Grew up in Bolton (Horwich) whilst Rivington is ace could never go back either.
Worst:
Wolverhampton (anywhere except Tetenhall)
Grimsby/Hull/Cleethorpes
Dover
Wolverhampton is rather handily placed actually, lots of great road cycling and off roading on the doorstep and has a rich heritage in cycling and bicycle making. Even the architecture in the centre is quite nice, obviously the Mander centre is woeful. looking at it straight out of Compton. 😀
it's a lot better than somewhere like it's near neighbour Telford for example.
Compared to where I live pretty much everywhere is shit. But there's a special place in bile gland for Leyland. Laaahndan I could live with for abit, maybe mMnchester too (again), Edinburgh, maybe. Everywhere else can **** off.
Wales.
Or Basinghole / Boringstoke.
Wondering why you don't like Bristol
Bristol is actually fine (not spent much time there just a couple of days) but Bath is just down the road and would live there over Bristol. And I didn't say I didn't like Bristol 😕
Although I like visiting, most of the south east and south coast.
London is great, but for no more than a couple of days. The rest is still just too busy and rat-racey. Even the supposedly quiet country bits seem too full of people.
mooman - Member
Cardiff and most parts of Newport.
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Hang on.... So there's parts of Newport you would live in, but no where in Cardiff?
That's pretty much the opposite of what most people say.
I live in bristol and I'd like to live in bath, but the motorway access is really shit (needs for work).
North Yorkshire or Northumberland the rest of the UK is compromised (shitholes, arseholes's, shit tips,) I have genuine sympathy for any poor soul who has to live within 50 miles of London - unless your on £500k)
[quote=oldmanmtb said]unless your on £500k
Per week darlink.
Any of the commuter towns to the south of Madrid - Getafe, Móstoles, Villaverde... assuming by "your country" you mean "where you currently live".
If "your country" is the same as "your nationality" I probably wouldn't move anywhere other than London in the UK, and even that would be an effort. Don't think I could handle the crappy weather.
Slough
Large parts of Essex
Newton Heath (tried it!)
Worksop (tried that too)
Watford
Don't think I could live in any of the big English cities of London, Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool but maybe Newcastle , Glasgow or Edinburgh would be ok.
Want a bit of countryside around me, not too busy but some access to some culture if needed. Cheshire countryside works quite well for me. Much further south gets too crowded but Rutland is nice.
Slough.
100!
I wouldn't want to live anywhere outside of the south west.
Summer time here is the best place to be. Minus all the northern invaders of course.
I'd find anywhere other than London/SE to be so intolerably dull as to make life pretty unbearable - just horrid in fact!
Got pretty high standards, haven't you? Like to give us a list of what that area has that, say the South-west, lacks?
Oh, re the OP: Calne, Melksham, Trowbridge, Swindon.
Otherwise I like where I live,
Cleveland and West Yorkshire in the North of England, in fact anywhere that used to have a pit or Colliery.
****ing London. Full of ****ing ****ers
Cleveland and West Yorkshire in the North of England, in fact anywhere that used to have a pit or Colliery.
Doesn't leave you with many places.
Definitely central London. I haven't been there for any reason other than work for 20+ years, And even then it was perhaps once a year, when I had no option. Since I left my last job, I have no intention of ever returning.
Even greater London is a no go area for me unless I feel the need to visit The RAF museum, which I do every five years or so, or to go to Heathrow.
Another Scot here, I live in the borders having moved from Midlothian. There are some grim towns arounds there, Gorebridge, Easthouses etc. Don't fancy having to live there again.
I come from Ayr and would not live in Ayr.
There are some seriously grim towns in deepest darkest Ayrshire. Patna, Drongan, Dalmellington etc. Shudder.
This. I would add Muirkirk and Cumnock.
Wouldn't like to live some where that's many miles away from any decent trails e.g. London
Its easier to say where I would live tbh, traffic, pollution etc rules out the cities, grimness dirt and lack of hope rules out much of the north, grim weather the rest. knobends rules out the home counties.
Your left with the south west and east anglia, neither of which is inspiring but as good as gets for weather and less rammed with goons than most areas.
I live in Hong Kong, I would not want to live in any other part of China...ever.
Nowhere south of a line slightly north of Inverness.
Anywhere North of Cambridge
There are some obvious places like Hull, Nottingham, Birmingham etc etc but for me London central first three travel zones, happy to work/visit there but wouldn't live there again under any circumstances.
Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin
Or any other large city in China.
As another Scot, anywhere south of Perth 😀
I can see why those who don't want to live in the North it's like you say very grim.
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Anywhere East of the A34 (yuck) and north of the A4 (artic wasteland) is out of bounds to me.
Nice riding but not to live.
I can see why those who don't want to live in the North it's like you say very grim.
I'm sure people could come up with phtot or reasons why most places listed here are actually nice not really the point of the thread.
Oh I'm very sorry for posting a pic of why an area is Ok.
Being, like the OP, from Scotland, my answer would have to be...Scotland. The beautiful parts are too isolated and backward (and the midges!), the ugly parts are ugly and backward (and the midges!) and if there's anything else I never found it.
As an adopted english-dweller, I'd say...anything south of the Dales for starters, roughly speaking. With small exceptions around the Devon/Cornwall area. I wouldn't chose anything too far east either. So everything apart from the NW, or extreme SW, really.
So what makes an area undesirable is it the peeps or the architecture or the location ?
Overcrowded for me. I could live in a city as I'd expect that to be crowded but rural towns and jammed full would defeat the point for me.
Ynysarwed/Resolven just north of Neath, Wales. Went to visit Sister-in-law who lives there. Resolven Social Club had a sign on window - No Dogs and No English! Unfortunately for me I thought it was a joke!
Living in Australia now it would have to be the festering scumhole that is Port Hedland. Literally nothing good about that place.