Are you proud of your hometown? Yesterday my wife and myself walked all around Bristol docks, up one side and back the other. It's great to see many people enjoying our dock area which when I was young lad was somewhere to avoid. Many good restaurants, bars, coffee and tea shops and attractions. Had a great lunch in The Pump House at the Ashton Gate end of the docks, can recommend that to anybody.
I'm not over enamoured with my home town. Like anywhere it has it's good bits and it's shitty bits. But I'm definitely proud of the surrounding countryside. North Yorkshire is a beautiful part of the world. I am also very proud, if not more so, of my adopted home (or should I say Holme) town. The place is beautiful, with great bars, cafés, restaurants, scenery, roads, architecture, and of course friendly people. Can't see myself moving away tbh.
Nope! I live in Farnborough, a town with few redeeming features other than cheaper houses than Guildford and ease of escape (M3 and 2 railway lines), and reasonably handy for various bike kit shops. I can't envisage spending the rest of my life here, and won't miss it if/when I move away. I've lived in other places that I'd be much more proud of - Corbridge in Northumberland and Cambridge.
Bristol is a fantastic city, i love living here too. So chilled out compared to the hustle and bustle of most big cities
nope its a shit hole with closed shops, pound shops, estate agent bast ids,shoit night clubs and shoit bars, and take away food places...........bastardised by the local council.......who oddly enough moved its 4000 something staff out of the centre of the town offices that are still empty.......to a brand new singing and dancing complex ....bastids! oh and an ever expensive over run with hundreds of traffic lights shoit road infrastructure that is bedlam to get anywhere......
The problem with living somewhere nice is the tourists. I live in a nice small market town in the Peak District, we have Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall both within five minutes. But at times it can take as long as ten minutes to get through the town center, should be better after the school holidays. Steve
I grew up in Hastings so guess that's my "home town". You walk round and it really must have been something in Queen Victoria's reign. Utter poo-hole now though so wouldn't be proud of it. Every time I go back it just looks worse and worse. It could be a nice place but I just can't see a way out for the town. Those that think the south-east is prosperous should visit to get a reality check.... I now live in Eastbourne, and really like it. What a difference 20 miles makes. Nice seafront without pikey arcades, people are polite, enough restaurants/bars/pubs etc. we're inland so 5 minutes walk from the Downs, and the good roads are just round the corner. Eastbourne doesn't have the stag party, homeless or junkie problems of Brighton. Luckily people haven't updated their thoughts from 40 years ago when it was just for old people, so it is still reasonably priced and friendly. I'm planning on staying, just a shame all the decent jobs are miles away but you can't have everything.
I'm from Stroud in Gloucestershire. Loved it as a kid, hated it as a teen/early 20 something and now I've got a little older I'm back to loving the place again. Little town sat at the joining of 5 valleys. Peaceful, easy going and beautiful
My birth town (Bedford)? No, it's a festering puss hole which should be wiped from the planet. My home town (Milton Keynes)? Love it, couldn't live anywhere else in the uk.
I love Gloucestershire.......I would move there tomorrow if I didn't have to work in SE London every bloody day .......
Sadly, my hometown, Rochdale is one of the most deprived places in the country - when I was a kid, we were so poor we used to eat clay to survive. We were shitting bricks for weeks
Me and the gaffer had a great weekend at Bristol. Enjoyed the whole dock area and the town shopping. Plenty of nice restaurants. Even managed a hour in Fowlers.
got some strange place names down your way. :smile: spent 24hrs hanging around after a collage interview, remember the docks looking really good. the grave yard i slept in..not so.:Walkingdead:
