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[HD Adam]

Great Yarmouth - It isn't really

[The Boy Lard]

The one that a lot of people say about Wellington, NZ

"Wellington - you can't beat it on a good day"

[anonymous-user]

Port Stanley - one big happy family.

[rufmeister]

Milton Keynes - Dons 4 Manchester Utd 0

[SeeFive]

Crossflow Kid said:

That's my point though. No one "in" Basingstoke actually works. They just waft around Festival Place, apparently waiting for something to happen until their next benny.

This type of crap irritates me beyond belief being a resident of the outskirts of Basingstoke and travelling a lot with my job.

At least there IS a Festival Place. Try other towns for equivalent facilities, shops, sports, good employment opportunities for a wide range of abilities, road and rail connections and all sorts of other stuff and you will find that there are many places with a lot less to offer. All my neighbours hold down good jobs, earning decent salaries and making a good local, integrated and friendly community.

Sure it has it's problems like any other town of its size, but I would suggest that living on the southern outskirts, there is peace to live, good neighbours and enough to do within a few miles away for most age groups including good hooning opportunities in some excellent lanes. Try some of the well-thought-of leafy areas of Surrey and Sussex if you really want to see boredom with aloof neighbours and crap facilities.

Still, I guess the aged and regurgitated popular comedian culture carries Basingstoke's reputation forward. Having brought up 4 kids here, I am glad we left Surrey.

"Basingstoke! Thank God for 1980s comedians, it keeps those with their heads up their arse in other areas."

Edited by SeeFive on Friday 29th August 10:20

[HereBeMonsters]

clonmult said:

Crossflow Kid said:

clonmult said:

Don said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Basingstoke - It's where Jeremey Clarkson drove a Fiesta round a shopping mall y'know.
Nothing else remotely interesting has ever happened here

Basingstoke. Leave now. Save yourselves. It's too late for me...

Basingstoke. Its not as stty as Bracknell.

EFA.

...and then some.

Basingstoke: You've come off the M3 too soon for Winchester.

Bracknell really is worse. I've worked there for years.

My brother in law has recently moved back from teaching in New Zealand, to become a financial analyst for a company in Bracknell. Where did he choose to live? Basingstoke.

Still, that's not as bad as some friends of my in-laws who retired from Basingstoke to live in....







....Andover.

I swear to God.

[Mr Tom]

Chard, Somerset - the home if powered flight (and charity shops) and where everyone makes vacuum cleaners.

[anonymous-user]

SeeFive said:

Crossflow Kid said:

That's my point though. No one "in" Basingstoke actually works. They just waft around Festival Place, apparently waiting for something to happen until their next benny.

This type of crap irritates me beyond belief being a resident of the outskirts of Basingstoke and travelling a lot with my job.

At least there IS a Festival Place. Try other towns for equivalent facilities, shops, sports, good employment opportunities for a wide range of abilities, road and rail connections and all sorts of other stuff and you will find that there are many places with a lot less to offer. All my neighbours hold down good jobs, earning decent salaries and making a good local, integrated and friendly community.

Sure it has it's problems like any other town of its size, but I would suggest that living on the southern outskirts, there is peace to live, good neighbours and enough to do within a few miles away for most age groups including good hooning opportunities in some excellent lanes. Try some of the well-thought-of leafy areas of Surrey and Sussex if you really want to see boredom with aloof neighbours and crap facilities.

Still, I guess the aged and regurgitated popular comedian culture carries Basingstoke's reputation forward. Having brought up 4 kids here, I am glad we left Surrey.

"Basingstoke! Thank God for 1980s comedians, it keeps those with their heads up there arse in other areas."

Wow. D'you want a sit down and a glass of water?
I happen to live on the Southern outskirts (through neccesity mind, not choice) and it is utterly st. An utterly st faded-to-grey characterless nothingness of a suburb.
So, apart from all the amazing employment opportunies (beyond job sharing in Tesco or acting as a "Stockroom operative" in Debenhams) what is there in Basingstoke?
Give me its one defining signature feature.
"Come to Basingstoke and see the.....the ermm....err...the ring road?"
I wouldn't argue it's near some nice places, Goodwood is a classic drive away and Loomies is ok, but that's slightly different from actually being a nice place.
Iraq is quite close to Turkey.

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 29th August 10:29

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 29th August 10:32

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 29th August 10:38

[TinyCappo]

HereBeMonsters said:

clonmult said:

Crossflow Kid said:

clonmult said:

Don said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Basingstoke - It's where Jeremey Clarkson drove a Fiesta round a shopping mall y'know.
Nothing else remotely interesting has ever happened here

Basingstoke. Leave now. Save yourselves. It's too late for me...

Basingstoke. Its not as stty as Bracknell.

EFA.

...and then some.

Basingstoke: You've come off the M3 too soon for Winchester.

Bracknell really is worse. I've worked there for years.

My brother in law has recently moved back from teaching in New Zealand, to become a financial analyst for a company in Bracknell. Where did he choose to live? Basingstoke.

Still, that's not as bad as some friends of my in-laws who retired from Basingstoke to live in....







....Andover.

I swear to God.

Bit of a step sideways bit more garrison.

Basingrad. Is only some Russian tanks away from being Donetsk! I would rather live in Bury Park on the outsirts of Lutonistan with the worlds EDL tattooed on my forehead.

Popley.........needs biohazard signs! The only place where you are made to feel more welcome by the pie-keys than the locals!

[Urban Sports]

Rainhill, the perfect place for train spotters who want to bury their family under the kitchen floor.

[Thankyou4calling]

Oxshott is really nice.

[evenflow]

Cheltenham - You don't have to have red trousers, but it helps.

[Mr SFJ]

Bristol - The hospital is crap, the roads resemble swiss cheese and everybody smells. Roundabout is 100yrds away.

Edited by Mr SFJ on Friday 29th August 11:09

[SeeFive]

Crossflow Kid said:

Wow. D'you want a sit down and a glass of water?
I happen to live on the Southern outskirts (through neccesity mind, not choice) and it is utterly st. An utterly st faded-to-grey characterless nothingness of a suburb.
So, apart from all the amazing employment opportunies (beyond job sharing in Tesco or acting as a "Stockroom operative" in Debenhams) what is there is the Basingstoke?
Give me it's one defining signature feature.
I wouldn't argue it's near some nice places, but that's slightly different from actually being a nice place.
Iraq is quite close to Turkey.

Thanks, but I have had some sleep and breakfast and am energised for the day already.

Sorry to hear about your choice of neighbourhood. You really should try to spend the same money for a property in other areas and see what it looks,like around your perimeter. Not wishing to plan your life for you, but You really should get out more from your particular "grey st hole" as you describe it and experience what the town and wider area has to offer. Sitting indoors with a glass of water watching Jeremy Clarkson hooning fiestas around Festival Place is a very boring life. Try some of the brilliant shops, sports and leisure facilities in the town, surrounding area, or the countryside around the area. I don't know what you look for in life, but I am sure if you tell me, you are ideally situated to find it locally or have some excellent and reasonably traffic free ways to get to it.

Mundane jobs only? Have you not looked at the opportunity on the many business parks, with many professional people doing good things and making a really good lifestyle for themselves outside of their brick box? You have a very narrow view of the area if you feel that supermarket work is all that is available. Let's look at Sony, Fujitsu Seimens, as just two companies you missed as opposed to Debenhams and Tesco.

Everybody would look for a different type of defining feature. It's one defining signature feature to me is the variety offered by the area and opportunity to bring up a family in a peaceful, safe environment who have no reason to say "there is nothing to do". Only a fool with absolutely no life drive and imagination would ignore the potential and variety the town and surrounding area provides compared to similar towns in the UK.

I have lived in Four houses on the southern outskirts since the late 80s, originally moving from the Surrey Sussex borders. The reason I moved here was that I could see that there was nothing for my young kids in the dying areas I lived at the time, with cinemas turning to bingo halls, sports facilities and recreation areas getting ruined and failing and few decent beaches within any kind of traffic-free range. This place had everything a growing family could need, including connections for quality beaches and countryside, and in my opinion has gone from strength to strength.

I admit I do not currently work here but have done and would love to again. I work in Paddington Central (though rarely have to be there as I travel to all sorts of st holes around the UK) and it takes me an hour and a quarter door to door. Or I can be on the beach Bournemouth by a choice of lanes or motorways inside an hour, or at the boat in Port Solent in 45 mins... Sure the town and local area has enough for a growing family, but it is well located for work commuting and things that not all towns can have on their doorstep - such as a good coastline.

Jobless scum? We regularly get together with 8 immediate neighbours, attending quality functions, local pubs (walking distance), restaurants, events, go camping and all sorts of things that we dream up. A terrible neighbourhood could not nurture such friendships and opportunity. These are good people with a diverse range of life goals and interests and drive to enjoy their time on this planet.

Sometimes I despair at how people cannot open their eyes and see what is on offer. They just trot out the same old Kevin and Perry-esque "booooring" crap like my kids would have done at 15 if we had not moved to this area.

[anonymous-user]

Crossflow Kid said:

I happen to live on the Southern outskirts

SeeFive said:

Sorry to hear about your choice of neighbourhood.

SeeFive then said:

I have lived in Four houses on the southern outskirts since the late 80s,

SeeFive said:

Or I can be on the beach Bournemouth by a choice of lanes or motorways inside an hour

And that's a plus point is it?....

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 29th August 11:14

[The Beaver King]

SeeFive said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Wow. D'you want a sit down and a glass of water?
I happen to live on the Southern outskirts (through neccesity mind, not choice) and it is utterly st. An utterly st faded-to-grey characterless nothingness of a suburb.
So, apart from all the amazing employment opportunies (beyond job sharing in Tesco or acting as a "Stockroom operative" in Debenhams) what is there is the Basingstoke?
Give me it's one defining signature feature.
I wouldn't argue it's near some nice places, but that's slightly different from actually being a nice place.
Iraq is quite close to Turkey.

Thanks, but I have had some sleep and breakfast and am energised for the day already.

Sorry to hear about your choice of neighbourhood. You really should try to spend the same money for a property in other areas and see what it looks,like around your perimeter. Not wishing to plan your life for you, but You really should get out more from your particular "grey st hole" as you describe it and experience what the town and wider area has to offer. Sitting indoors with a glass of water watching Jeremy Clarkson hooning fiestas around Festival Place is a very boring life. Try some of the brilliant shops, sports and leisure facilities in the town, surrounding area, or the countryside around the area. I don't know what you look for in life, but I am sure if you tell me, you are ideally situated to find it locally or have some excellent and reasonably traffic free ways to get to it.

Mundane jobs only? Have you not looked at the opportunity on the many business parks, with many professional people doing good things and making a really good lifestyle for themselves outside of their brick box? You have a very narrow view of the area if you feel that supermarket work is all that is available. Let's look at Sony, Fujitsu Seimens, as just two companies you missed as opposed to Debenhams and Tesco.

Everybody would look for a different type of defining feature. It's one defining signature feature to me is the variety offered by the area and opportunity to bring up a family in a peaceful, safe environment who have no reason to say "there is nothing to do". Only a fool with absolutely no life drive and imagination would ignore the potential and variety the town and surrounding area provides compared to similar towns in the UK.

I have lived in Four houses on the southern outskirts since the late 80s, originally moving from the Surrey Sussex borders. The reason I moved here was that I could see that there was nothing for my young kids in the dying areas I lived at the time, with cinemas turning to bingo halls, sports facilities and recreation areas getting ruined and failing and few decent beaches within any kind of traffic-free range. This place had everything a growing family could need, including connections for quality beaches and countryside, and in my opinion has gone from strength to strength.

I admit I do not currently work here but have done and would love to again. I work in Paddington Central (though rarely have to be there as I travel to all sorts of st holes around the UK) and it takes me an hour and a quarter door to door. Or I can be on the beach Bournemouth by a choice of lanes or motorways inside an hour, or at the boat in Port Solent in 45 mins... Sure the town and local area has enough for a growing family, but it is well located for work commuting and things that not all towns can have on their doorstep - such as a good coastline.

Jobless scum? We regularly get together with 8 immediate neighbours, attending quality functions, local pubs (walking distance), restaurants, events, go camping and all sorts of things that we dream up. A terrible neighbourhood could not nurture such friendships and opportunity. These are good people with a diverse range of life goals and interests and drive to enjoy their time on this planet.

Sometimes I despair at how people cannot open their eyes and see what is on offer. They just trot out the same old Kevin and Perry-esque "booooring" crap like my kids would have done at 15 if we had not moved to this area.

[SeeFive]

Crossflow Kid said:

All good places to live. Good, safe family environment with well rounded, imaginative people to integrate and enjoy life with locally and wider. You weren't the quiet guy at number 33 who sat in his house all the time and cut his grass with eye protection over his spectacles were you?;)

Seriously though, it is what you make it locally and there are good connections to things that such a town could not possibly provide.

[anonymous-user]

SeeFive said:

Try some of the brilliant shops

Debenhams
Next
M&S
BHS
Top Shop
Tesco
New Look
Argos
Boots
Jessops
H&M
JJB Sports
Ann Summers
Gap
HMV
Blacks

Not forgetting the totally unique can't-be-had-anywhere-else dining experince of:
Wagamamas
Giraffe
Ask
La Tasca
Nandos
Costa x 4
Starbucks x 2
Greggs
Burger King
Pizza Hut
Pizza Express
McD's

Yes, as "brilliant" as any other town.

[SilverSixer]

I'm with SeeFive. I know I made a TIC comment about Reading, but I fell similarly about the town as he does about Basingstoke. Great place to live, never a dull moment. Although I'm fortunate enough to live in one of the most prestigious bits, I probably wouldn't feel the same if I lived next door to MaccyD's on Oxford Road.

[GreatGranny]

TheGreatSoprendo said:

Brighton - straight people live here too.

or

Brighton - just because it's "cool", doesn't mean all you buggers have to descend upon us every time the sun comes out.

Brighton - THE most pretentious place on earth :-)