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My town summed up: Either a student or soon be leaving

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
I live in a major town on the central Southern coast of England. It seems like anyone young who lives there is either a university student or is at college and aspires to get out of the place. Perhaps to the Capital. Am I wrong? How do you feel about your town or city? Do you feel comfortable or do you have itchy feet?

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  • JsTJsT Posts: 18,268 Skive's The Limit
    Whats the relevance with relationships?

    I like both the places I live. I love Yorkshire, doubt I could live away from here permanantly.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm such a Londoner, for now. But a lot of people grow out of London, I do like being in a more rural setting. Must be my northern roots. Ah do lahke walken aht on t'moooors.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I live in a major town on the central Southern coast of England. It seems like anyone young who lives there is either a university student or is at college and aspires to get out of the place. Perhaps to the Capital. Am I wrong? How do you feel about your town or city? Do you feel comfortable or do you have itchy feet?

    Would that be Southampton?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: My town summed up: Either a student or soon be leaving Reply to Thread

    Yes, Southampton. What do you think?
    It seems some of the upmarket parts of town have a certain pretentiousness.

    If my original comment is valid then the cause is probably because London is close enough. I believe Northern cities such as Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle fair better because they are much further away and therefore can develop their own sense of identify. But reasons why I would stay in the south are: job opportunities, family and climate.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: My town summed up: Either a student or soon be leaving

    Further thoughts.
    (Why) do people define themselves by where they live? I'd prefer not to be.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Piccolo. If you're like me you'd get bored of the rural life if you had it all the time. I think what works is having some time out in a rural environment, a distraction from the city. Conversely too much time in the city can be too much. I just hate the travelling part, especially when it's on a Sunday night and you have to go back to work.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yeah, my town's shit. I've got some good friends here and all, but there's no way anyone will ever achieve anything staying here. It's an hour to the nearest city, so it's really in the middle of no-where. I'm currently saving up to move away. I'll be accepting the first job anyone offers me remotely related to the area I want to work in.

    It's quite funny though, because the local council is trying to give the impression that it's a really trendy, sophistcated place, but anyone who lives here will tell you it's anything but. I work in a cocktail bar, and we can't order anything too 'premium' because we have to remember that we're selling to people who like to think they're sophisticated and cultured, whereas in reality, they're the type of people who think that Smirnoff and Gordons are the height of taste (not to get snobby about my spirits again :p).
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yes, Southampton. What do you think?
    It seems some of the upmarket parts of town have a certain pretentiousness.

    If my original comment is valid then the cause is probably because London is close enough. I believe Northern cities such as Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle fair better because they are much further away and therefore can develop their own sense of identify. But reasons why I would stay in the south are: job opportunities, family and climate.

    Well I do agree with what you've said, I'm currently a student living near the city centre, and after my degree I'm planning on moving back into London.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The town I live is great for drinking but for anything else there's not really anything.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    the town i come from (boston) is fine if you wanna spend the rest of your life workin in a vegetable factory (not that there's anything wrong with that), even the nightlife is rubbish,for most things, you have to move away.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I grew up on the side of a mountain for the first seventeen years of my life, then in a town in North Wales for four years before I went to London to study. My town has mostly factory, bar and shop jobs going and (a lot of people say) it's pretty rough. I hated it with a passion... Some people had issues with me because I worked behind a bar and they found out I wanted to go to university... Wrexham also has a lot of racism and homophobia (m friendused to get spat at and had rocks thrown at her for being gay) and I also noticed how sexist a lot of men are.

    It did get me down... I was sick of the shit I got for not sounding typically Welsh, I got verbally and sometimes physically bullied for wearing baggy pants and a man on my estate used to drive past me several times when i was on my way to work and call me names. Lovely people in my town.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Where I'm from is very small town and their isnt that much to do, luckily I'm so close to brighton I can do a lot more socialising. I wouldn't mind moving somewhere else though as I'm getting bored and fancy a break. I think that if the other half ever decides to move back up to ths midlands, I might just go with him.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I live in Leicestershire, it's allright it's not like the best or worst place ever, couple of towns near me as well as the city center so lots of shops and pubs/bars/clubs although i think for shopping and stuff Nottingham is definatley better, but hey ho.

    I suppose i was lucky when i was growning up and stuff as there was always some way to amuse myself in my village or you could just get a 15 minute bus in to town, i've never really thought about it too much to dislike or love it here. I suppose you get bored of the same place eventually though, either that or you just grow old and don't care anymore :p
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    my town is alright for me now but it gets a lot of stick! the night life is shite but i thought it was great when i was 18. i couldn't live here forever, not enough career oppurtunities.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I live in a little village and there is nothing to do there at all.

    Its a lovely place, just nothing to do.

    The nearest town is 8 miles away and there isn't anything to do there either really.

    I want to move to a city or at least a decent town when I leave university. I don't want to go back there.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    where i come from has ok night life but thats about it, im moving back in 9 weeks but really really dont want to....

    thats more to do with not knowing anyone anymore tho rather than the town itself.

    i live in huddersfield at the moment and i love it here
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Im quite liking burnley again at the moment, ive lived here on and off for a bout 10 years now, and i cant really complain. fair enough there are some scummy parts of town but where i live is quite nice and only 5mins walk from miles and miles of countryside which is good. i also have a strong base of friends here, 10-15 of us regularly meet up during the week and weekends.

    theres also good nightlife in the town.

    cant say its my favourite place in the world but it'll do for me at the moment
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There's nothing to do where I live but it's home, my family and mates live here and there's some great scenery. So of course I like it. Wouldn't mind living in a big city some day but something tells me I'll live the rest of my days here.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well i live only about 15 minutes by bus away from Nottingham. Aint a bad place. Nice area. Things close by. Friends. Family. What else could you want.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I hate just about everything about Cornwall, as I don't have a surfy or natural bone in my body. I hate the tourism. The amount of grumpy old people. I hate the weather. I hate that theres nothing to do. I hate the coast. The people who go around shooting etc. The wealthy materialistic chavvy families who buy enormous 4x4s and act like they own the place. I hate the small-mindedness of the local towns - when I was small I used to love travelling into Liskeard as I got to go to Woolworths etc etc. Now I've seen too much of it, and everyone, from the seedy flats to the middle-class familes, seems to be stuck in a miserable rut.

    I do like the moors, though. But I don't like the way they've been turned into a tourist attraction too.
  • SkiveSkive Posts: 15,282 Skive's The Limit
    I wouldn't like to live in any city really - I like living in the stricks. I was born and lived in Southampton for years and I don't think it's that's bad. I'd prefer living there to living in London and at least it aint Pompey.
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