Interesting Times

[sarcaustik]

Following the ten day rollercoaster of court-then-Whitby-then-eddie777's-operation, I was hoping for the chance to catch up with useful things like sleep over the weekend. Needless to say, that was wishful thinking. Saturday's trip to Scarborough didn't go entirely according to plan. I walked in on a bit of a psychodrama chez WWINOLJ, and waking up (or

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[clotilde]

I am opposed to marriage anywhere but would cohabit in Widnes if required to do so.

[blue_condition]

Don't tell work that - they'll have you managing a branch at Runcorn Shopping City Halton Leas - so good they renamed it ;P

[clotilde]

I would only move to Widnes for True Love. And while I rather enjoy my job, I don't think that qualifies.

[blue_condition]

There are many anonymous urban turds in the North West, but from most of them you can be on the M6 or M62 in a few minutes and somewhere else within half an hour.

What's far worse than being stuck in urban hell is being stuck in Straw Dogs country with a bunch of alcoholic inbreds. Anywhere to the South or West of Bristol might as well be nuked now.

[sarcaustik]

Anywhere to the South or West of Bristol might as well be nuked now.

Three words. Weston. Super. Mare.

Not super at all.

[blue_condition]

This is about Runcorn, but they must've been coming from Widnes

[steer]

Oooh.. you are just being deliberately anti-lancastrian. Lancaster itself is beautiful.

[blue_condition]

There's really precious little difference between the East Lancs mill towns and the West Yorks ones, although (IMHO) the West Yorks ones are a bit prettier. Most of them have a few bits of good 19th century architecture, it's really all down to how the decay has been managed and Yorkshire seems a little better than that.

[inulro]

I have spent so much time travelling between Leeds & Manchester over the years, I can tell whether I'm in Yorkshire or Lancashire just by the style of the terrace houses.

I tend to prefer Yorkshire, because (at least when I lived there) it was very easy to get on a bus from the crappy bits and in very little time be wandering about some lovely moors (you have to like moors to think that's a good thing, but I do. so there)

[blue_condition]

I guess the back-to-back is slightly more prevalent in Lancashire, but larger-scale architecture is pretty similar!

[urbancannibal]

Thank you for including Chatham, legendary home of the chav, to whom it was dire enough to give its name. I don't claim to have visited every horrible town in the country, let alone on the planet, but I'm still convinced there can't be anywhere worse than Chatham. I'd happily live in Widnes to avoid having to go back to Chatham.