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Cities - can't handle them anymore

timbott

timbott

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Came back home yesterday after a long weekend in Derby and neither me nor Ali handled the experience of being in a city centre very well at all:( I have never liked cities, certainly not the shopping centre type mayhem that most of them seem to be now, but, having lived in a small town since last september I have really lost the ability to deal with these places:o

I think I am a small town type of chap really, I like stuff on my doorstep (pub, basic shops, branch line railway station and stuff), but I also love to be able to escape easily into the 'sticks' where I can disappear. I think living in the 'sticks' would also drive me mad though:eek:

Just wondered what type of areas you lot live in, or would like to live in:)

cheers, Tim
 
Yup I live in a village, 5 mins from a busy town centre, good nightlife.. an then about 15 mins from Swansea.. Hate swansea for drinking and shopping as its too bleeding busy!

Not my cup o tea at all. As long as im close to a big town im happy :)
 
I have some friends that live in a quiet village on Anglesey and on the rare occasions that they visit me they always end up nervous wrecks by the time they get to Warrington. They just can`t handle the traffic any more.
 
here here.

I grew up in a hamlet of two houses then another two 5 mins walk down a track. This was about 30 mins from the centre and 5 mins from the edge of plymouth. I now live in a small village about 10 mins from plymouth by train. And the nearest town is 20 mins drive.

I have always dispised going into plymouth. Horrible place.
I can live with going into town and going to pubs there but i have always said no to plymouth. I know i can leave the landy in the village or in the town and it won't get vandalised or broken into. (I can leave it outside the house running / or with the keys left in it) safe in the knowledge it will not go anywhere. But I will not let it out of my sight should i go into plymouth with the landy. Sadly i don't trust anyone.
I find cities noisy, smelly, hectic and crowded places Which i hate being in.
 
Last five years I've lived in small villages - tregaron in ceredigion and now Bozeat in Northamptonshire.

As much as I like the small village community, Bozeat is far more bearable because I have the metropolis of Milton Keynes 17 miles away. I can get Tesco Direct from Wellingborough and have all the big DIY stores 4 miles away. Best of both worlds.
 
me 2.....moved from SHIRLEY west mids out here, i travel into Birmingham city centre 5 days a week( 3.30am), and come back mid morning after the rush hour has finished, i can't wait to get out the way...then now and again we go to my inlaws or sisters in SOLIHULL and has soon has we hit around the NEC, its traffic and lights and traffic.....stop/start-stop/start
,about an hours journey on a Saturday....we have our share of traffic this way, the A5 runs down the road from me, and Tamworth is about 7miles away, but the traffic ain't noway has bad as where i moved from...
 
Yup I love going home a quick walk round the corner and i'm in fields and woods. Edinburgh is a nice little city but I still miss just being able to get out to the country without having to drive or a hours cycle.
 
i live right in londons **** hole.
i hate citys , dont mind working there but i couldnt live in one again.
 
conkers said:
Yup I love going home a quick walk round the corner and i'm in fields and woods. Edinburgh is a nice little city but I still miss just being able to get out to the country without having to drive or a hours cycle.
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........you.....on a cycle........has it got 3 wheels and a bell and a bag on the back for ya school books...:D ...that i've got a see..:eek:
 
I live in a great location IMHO- on the edge of a small town in a rural area, so if I jump on my bike it's about 20 seconds and I'm in the countryside, or about 2 minutes I'm in town which has all the basic things we'd need. Shrewsbury is about 30mins away in the car or an hour on the bus, which is ideal for the occasional big shop. Also not far from some fantastic green lanes.

I used to live in Preston, Lancs. I was only young when I lived there so I guess I didn't experience it properly, but it was handy being 5 minutes in the car from the city centre. Miles away from countryside though, reckon I would hate that now, I didn't mind when I was younger. I was happy on my bike around the estate but I like to go further a field now.
 
Lived a city most of my life other then when i was in the uk. Did'nt much enjoy the sticks when i was young but have the best of both worlds now. Im 10 minutes from the centre of milton keynes and 2 minutes walk into some nice countryside along the river ouse:)

Rents have got plans to move house again so we're back in the countryside again. One of the villages outside Olney:)

At uni i try my best to escape southampton to somewhere more peaceful on the coast so i can get some surfing in:)
 
timbott said:
Just wondered what type of areas you lot live in, or would like to live in:)
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I reside at present in Manchester and Lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University, Britain's largest single site University and one of Europe's largest it houses 35,655 students and at certain times it is a madhouse
I live about three miles away from MMU in a South Manchester Suburb. I must admit that I tolerate the noise of the city, but that it does drive me to distraction. I am however, very lucky, in so much that I also have a cottage retreat in Gwynedd, tucked away between Beddgelert and Nantmor. I try and spend as much time as I am able staying there.
Of the two addresses I much prefer the sedateness of the one in Wales. I am hoping to relocate to Bangor University this spring and I have to say I am looking forward very much to living in the cottage permanently.

 
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Rents have got plans to move house again so we're back in the countryside again. One of the villages outside Olney:)
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Whereabouts? I'm about three miles north of Olney. I'm planning the opposite, a move to Newport Pagnell, once SWMBO has got a job in MK.
 
but there are towns and towns and country and country. You can get stuck in the wrong type of the right thing.
I visit other towns sometimes and wonder how they survive without a BIG B&Q, no Wicks, no Maplins, only one supermarket and normal sized at that.

Then in the country you can be on the north side of a hill rather than in a south aspect valley and so on.

Someone above mentioned Plymouth, a hughely different city from Exeter in the same county. The country experience of our members in Scotland is a far cry from those in Sussex.
 
Oh dear, oh dear, none of you would like where I live and I guess I don't actually love it myself, but........

I've lived here for more than thirty years, just round the corner for something like twenty and always in London. I can handle the traffic, in fact I can handle the traffic anywhere. I've hacked up French drivers in Paris who would have mullahed most provincial city drivers. A New York cab driver once tried to put a serious move on me because I was driving an obvious rental - poor man, still suffering culture shock probably.

However, I have been a Scout for the thickest end of fifty years and that fact alone, has ensured that I have spent a lot of time in, under and floating around some of the most beautiful country in the world - never mind just Britain. Add to that my God Mother has always lived in Sussex (first Heathfield, then Hailsham) and we used to spend three or four weeks with her during the long summer holidays.

Now, being back in a Land Rover, I have spent time driving through some really lovely countryside and meeting some really nice and interesting people. I can live with what I've got.

Roger.
 
Roger you would have been proud of me, last week I drove a far too long Iveco summat or other "band bus" from Glasgee right into shoreditch (skillfully avoiding the C charge) and back again even though some plank dropped a load of nitric acid on rthe M6. I now have fully fledged hero status with the band Maybe cus no one died during the blowout at the top of shap fell and I could change a wheel on a vehicle much to the amazement of the muppets I was transporting all voluntary of course.;)
 
I live miles and miles for nowhere
round trip to Aberdeen 120 miles the journey on the bus is 21/4 hours hour in the car
nearest supermarket is 40 miles B&Q Aberdeen, nearest hospital 30 miles!
still I couldn't move,
SWMBO was wanting me to move to the outskirts of Aberdeen but is slowly swinging around to the idea of living in a rural area keeps hinting on moving up.
 
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