Non-boaty : Crap Towns

[tcm]

Re: slough

obviously, it's in the top 50, but haven't got the book with me at the moment! I'm somewhere else now (still a crap town, just a different one).

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[jonjo]

Re: Peterborough?

Where does Peterborough rank?

Awful place, it is the Swindon of East Anglia, 2 hours from any decent marina and I was unfortunate enough to find interesting employment in the town.

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[jacscarlett]

Hull

Five years ago I moved. I could have moved anywhere in the UK [and world wide probabably. I have seen a bit of it.]

I moved to Hull. Like the guy says ' it depends on the criteria' and it meets my needs fine. I wanted a secure place with a 'view of the sea' [well the Humber] but in a vibrant city centre. Well away from London and congestion but with good comunications to there. We have cheap [ £13] clean comfortable direct trains that will get you there in less than 3 hours. Of course the station and everything else you need is just around the corner.

Sailing on the Humber is challenging - 10 knot tides and sand banks everywhere but if you want to take it further the next all tide harbour is 100 miles north or south.

I put Corby at the bottom of my list but someone loves it.





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[Rowana]

Ernie

Efter me, your next!

Ahm skint the noo because o' a wee bit o bother wi' ma lan' transport an a wee bit o' plummin in the hoose. Ah'm kinda hopin' that ernie will fill up ma sporran an' ah kin start lookin' for a wee boatie o' ma ain again.

Some chunce ! !

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[jimi]

Re: Ernie

Lusten ya teuchter ye aberdonians are tae meeserley tae speculate tae accumulate. Dinnae be sic a daft loon, gang and chase thon fu' quines!

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[ParaHandy]

Re: Ernie

aye .... ah've a peecture o' them all freezing ra bollocks aff ahent ra Co-op shop window in Union St. waiting fer ra result on ra tv ... ahm wunnering if orra electrishity tae run ra contraption disnae come frae up there. thon'll dae onything fer a hand oot ..........!!

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[tcm]

Re: slough = #42 nm

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[tcm]

Re: Peterborough = #18 nm

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[zefender]

Re: Crouch End Envy

As Commodore of the Crouch End Offshore Sailing Club, I'd like to add how shocked we are to find our community listed in such a scurrilous, rogues gallery of places to live. As a haven for stars from TV soaps, wall to wall psychotherapists and the very epicentre of middle class socialism, it appears that its very popularity and charm has irritated the authors of this sad little publication, who doubtless dwell in nearby Muswell Hill, known locally as Muesli Hill. Envy is a terrible thing.

I'd like to add my own nomination however. 'Greater' Basildon, encompassing the delighfully named Pitsea and Vange. This has surely to be some way past the U-bend of worst places.

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[Rowana]

Re: Ernie

meeserley!
meeserley!

Fit are ye spikkin aboot loon? Ah'll hae ye ken ah pit a hale 10p oan ra fitba pools ilka wik ! ! Ilka wik, min' ye ! !

Hinna got onythn back yet, bit ah'm aye hopein'

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[tcm]

crouch end extract

The obsession with property; the tiny boutiques and their tiny girl staff;the kite shops; the authors; the docusoap film crews; the charity muggers who want to be actors; the minicab wars; the balding revolutionaries; the hat shops; the clock tower that thinks it's Glastonbury Tor; the ley line myth; the smirking cynics having a go at the place (gulp)

anyway, it's all there...

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[jimi]

Re: crouch end extract

Jeesis H Chreest thats no way to talk about Saltcoats

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[jimbouy]

The Link To Aylesbury gives a 404 error. Does that mean my home town won't be there when i get home from work???

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[beancounter]

Re: memories of hull

As my daughter said, when discussing possible universities - "Hull is only a vowel away from Hell"....

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[david_e]

Huddersfield has a Marina and is not in - can't believe it! Maybe property prices will start to go up after all.

(Good read, some sense of humour this guy has)

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[BlueSkyNick]

Hell is a very nice place....

.... its a small 'village' on the NW corner of Grand Cayman. It has its own Post Office so all the tourists can send their friends a card, postmarked from Hell.

It was named by the old pirates because the shore is made up of very hard pointed rocks, which is almost impossible to break and very uncomfortable to walk on.



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[Elissaar]

That Winchester is on the list is worrying, always used to think it was quite a nice place..maybe thats its problem?

Heavens signed on today for the first time and this is my third post - very worrying.

IMHO

Simon

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[beancounter]

Re: Hell is a very nice place....

presumably a little too much sun will result in you being burned in Hell......

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[jhr]

Winchester - take 2

It is quite nice, actually. No - correction - it's very nice. But.

- It is full of smug people talking about the value of their houses. (Just like Crouch End, in fact)
- Friday night in the City Centre is, indeed, "very unlike the home life of our own dear Queen"
- As JJ says, the Planning Department are a bunch of morons who appear to be determined to destroy much of the character of the city and, in particular, to roll over and play dead whenever a developer buys a large house with a beautiful, leafy garden and covers it in tacky "Executive Dwellings". They have also, infamously, just agreed to a green space, given to the people of the city as a quid pro quo for the construction of the Twyford Down M3 cutting, being turned into a Park 'n Ride area. Take my soap box away before I start foaming at the mouth......
- It's full of upper class twits in straw boaters who will no doubt end up owning the rest of us.

On the plus side, it's 35 minutes' drive to our mooring. Oh, all right, 25 minutes. Sorry, Officer.

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PS. The real reason for the vitriol is that the deputy editor of The Idler (which produced the original "Crap Towns" concept) comes from Alresford, just up the road from Winchester. It's a dead and alive kind of place and he's obviously jealous..........

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[Elissaar]

Re: Winchester - take 2

Well granted that its not far from the boat so its got something for it, Arlesford is getting rather too near Alton for my liking but I see your point about Winchester, actually for us its only 45 minutes to the boat so I guess there are some benefits....What is really disturbing is so many of us live in such crap places....maybe I should become all PC and live in a nice inner city area....

ho hum

imho
Simon

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