U.K. Living
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- detritus0
Paraselene's not wrong. If you're wanting a taste of Britain beyond London, you'd be hard-pushed to do better than Newcastle. It's quite a studenty city, so there's a polyglot of different nations, it has a lot of cultural money sloshing around (so lots of galleries, museums etc) and a definite tech streak which is good if you're a webnik. It's only the smallest jump from the real countryside (Northumberland is one of England's most unspoiled and beautiful counties, filled with castles and beaches) and Scotland. It's got good ferry and air links to the continent - and best of all - it's Northern. All that your fellow countryfolk revile in England comes from the South - all the snobbery, effetism and arrogance - they're all Southern traits*.
When I was at uni there it was voted the 8th party capital of the World in some international survey - see, it can get a bit chilly up there in Winter, so everyone goes underground to party and warm up. It's a main stop for concert tours, etc.
*damned French :P
- but then you could say that same stuff of quite a lot of northern cities - theres a whole country outside of londonkelpie
- No, you could.
I wouldn't.detritus - That failed to be funny.
I can only speak from experience. Leeds is ok too, I guess.. but that's it for me.detritus - I don't like Manchester, I loathe Liverpool, York's too middle class - any further south and we're in France.detritus
- I'd do Glasgow or Edinburgh. The latter more likely as I'm a big jessy.detritus
- aye aye, mine was more a general point - I know people who live in manchester who would say the same things...kelpie
- ...but still there seems to be a lag between how far these places have come on and the perception...kelpie
- ...both down South, and abroad. imo.kelpie