U.K. Living
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- designdecay
Best city in the U.K. to move in?
- maximillion_0
Luton
- detritus0
Define 'best'?
- designdecay0
night life and afford ability.
- Wolfboy0
Oh right, you didn't say that the first time....
Norwich
- valentim0
Southend on sea.....
- skt0
nightlife has to be ulapool. afford ability, probably london.
- coolhipNgroovy0
Plymouth!
(Plymuff to the locals)
- Raniator0
Worcester.
Yes, as in sauce.
- Jnr_Madison0
I've spent half my life in Glasgow and the other half in Edinburgh and the winner is Dundee.
- paraselene0
don't get me wrong, i'd never leave london, but if i had to for some reason, i'd go to newcastle. i really like it!
- really?? Have you been there on a Friday or Saturday night? It one of the nine cirlces of hell.Wolfboy
- i was having dinner at a pal's house, so i didn't see the outside world. i like the bridges!paraselene
- but it can't be any worse than the friday night i went to glasgow station. scary!paraselene
- At least Glasgow people will have some banter while they're mugging you.Jnr_Madison
- Edinburgh people will look down their noses while mugging you.Jnr_Madison
- ah well, they do have good bridges. I've got to go there this year cause my missus is doing the runWolfboy
- jesus girl, that wasn't even a bad one. I think it was the insane glint in my eye you were afraid of...kelpie
- skt0
you stayed in doors but you are recommending some poor sod moves to newcastle becasue you liked the bridges?
hahahaha.
- i wasn't indoors the whole time, obviously. i just wasn't out caning it in the centre of town on a weekend evening.paraselene
- okay and also he's asking on the interwebs for crying out loud.paraselene
- moth0
Oxford for greenery, London for depravity.
And for the record, there is no civilisation north of Oxford.
- Wolfboy0
Come on Moth, Cheltenam is north of Oxford and they roll cheese down a hill there - you gonna tell me that's not a kind of civilisation?
- 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
- paraselene0
^ that's what i meant by 'i like the bridges'.