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[kowalski655]

Well,it seems the sign SHOULD read:

Basingstoke
Its a bit like Marmite

[SeeFive]

Crossflow Kid said:

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

Edited by Crossflow Kid on Friday 29th August 11:14

There you have it. So stereotypical, so little imagination.

Going to the main beach in Bournemouth on a hot summers weekend will get you into the crowds. Just outside Bournemouth is far less crowded. You really do need to look around for what you specifically need from life - if that is a more tranquil beach with more space. Bournemouth is not the only place with a good beach within easy reach, just an example if what is out there for you.

And Bournemouth is still a lot more like what I would need than many of the stony, equally packed beaches an hour from where I used to live.

"Always look on the briiiiiight side of life" whistle....

[The Beaver King]

While SeeFive may have gotten a little 'passionate', I respect his feelings towards his town.

Redditch (my town) has a reputation as being crap and a poor Birmingham overspill. Most of the locals are quick to run it down and generally bad-mouth the place.

Having lived in a few different places over the years (Linconshire, South Shields, Cambridge); I actually think Redditch is quite nice. It has its bad areas, but it is very green, has a good road network, a decent shopping centre, is sat between the shopping delights of Birmingham and the quaint countryside of Stratford-upon-Avon.

It actually has quite a lot going for it and is growing quickly.

[Matt Sketch]

Seeing that Camberley has already been covered, i'll go for a previous home town..

Swaffham – Where sisters are sexy!

[clonmult]

TinyCappo said:

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!

At least Popley has had some of the scummier areas ripped down and had new, slightly less offensive housing built; cycling around carpenters down on the edge of popley is huge fun. Now Buckskin on the other hand ... with the flooding a few months back, it was literally turned into a st hole ...

My old home town Blackpool - my tagline would be "Blackpool, thank fk I got out when I did".

[anonymous-user]

SeeFive said:

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.

Yes, yes, I get it that you love th eplace.
But I said I live in the Southern outskirts, you then said "Sorry about your choice of neighbourhood" or words to that effect, but then admitted to living there yourself, four times in fact.
Or were you being ironic and I simply missed it, being the narrow minded, blinkered, stay-at-home fool that I am?

You like it.
I don't.
It's a free country.

[SeeFive]

Crossflow Kid said:

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.

Yup, that is festival place... Need something. Different. Been to Viables craft centre lately? Or any of the farm shops locally? Or any of the more quaint little places around the area? What is it that you need Perry? "It's just so unfair !!!" Isn't it, just like any other town...

Fancy coming to the parachute place later, or the ice rink, or either of the pools, or pitch and putt, or full golf at one of the many coursed? Or we could hit. Country pub, or if you would,prefer, weather spoons? Then maybe we could jog it off around any of the athletic centres around the area, or a walk alongside the basingstoke canal at Odiham. Or maybe a bike ride through the Candovers?

Actually, can't do that as I need to finish a bit of work and then I have to get prepped for the invasion of the neighbours this weekend. It's our wedding anniversary and they all want to get together to celebrate with a lot of booze and a BBQ when we gat back from the Bournemouth airshow. Looks like a good weekend, I am glad we have some supermarkets locally to stock up.

Enjoy your weekend too.

[anonymous-user]

SeeFive said:

Going to the main beach in Bournemouth on a hot summers weekend will get you into the crowds. Just outside Bournemouth is far less crowded.

"Just outside Bournemouth" isn't Bournemouth, is it?
Just like "not far from Basingstoke" isn't Basingstoke.

[clonmult]

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 their arse in other areas."

Edited by SeeFive on Friday 29th August 10:20

It is a fairly typical modern relatively quiet town with prety good transport links to London, south coast, midlands, etc. Lot of redevelopment work planned for the town center (top of town has some huge work in the early planning stages). Night life isn't that good these days, but I guess that now makes it more "family friendly".

Biggest problem for Basingstoke is our MP, Maria Miller.

[SeeFive]

Crossflow Kid said:

Yes, yes, I get it that you love th eplace.
But I said I live in the Southern outskirts, you then said "Sorry about your choice of neighbourhood" or words to that effect, but then admitted to living there yourself, four times in fact.
Or were you being ironic and I simply missed it, being the narrow minded, blinkered, stay-at-home fool that I am?

You like it.
I don't.
It's a free country.

No irony, it is a good place and we have been very lucky with good neighbours I guess in all of the four houses we have lived in. With the odd exception, but everyone is different as you say.

[anonymous-user]

SeeFive said:

Or any of the more quaint little places around the area?

There you go again.
I know
How about:
Basingstoke: It's quite close to some nice places.

[Kenty]

Boston - come and visit the Baltic states.

[anonymous-user]

And folks....Don't be fooled by the "parachuting place".
It's one of those indoor vertical wind tunnels that only impress people who are too scared to do the real thing.
Why go there when one of the UK's largest REAL parachute centres is less than an hour away from Basingstoke at Weston-on-the-Green?

[SeeFive]

Crossflow Kid said:

"Just outside Bournemouth" isn't Bournemouth, is it?
Just like "not far from Basingstoke" isn't Basingstoke.

Actually it is. As we walk along, you see the sign saying welcome to Poole. Coming the other way it says welcome to Bournemouth. If you like quiet beaches you really should give it a try.

Just as my house is classified as being in Basingstoke, sure not the town but the edge of the sprawl.

I really need to do some work. Will pop back later to give you a boost.

[SeeFive]

Crossflow Kid said:

And folks....Don't be fooled by the "parachuting place".
It's one of those indoor vertical wind tunnels that only impress people who are too scared to do the real thing.
Why go there when one of the UK's largest REAL parachute centres is less than an hour away from Basingstoke at Weston-on-the-Green?

Well, it is an option for something to do not offered in many similar towns. I prefer Headcorn personally. Hope they do a snow dome at some stage... It would save me travelling to the alps every weekend.

Edited by SeeFive on Friday 29th August 11:49

[anonymous-user]

SeeFive said:

Crossflow Kid said:

"Just outside Bournemouth" isn't Bournemouth, is it?
Just like "not far from Basingstoke" isn't Basingstoke.

Actually it is. As we walk along, you see the sign saying welcome to Poole.

That's fking Poole then isn't it?!
Ye gods man.

[anonymous-user]

SeeFive said:

It would save me travelling to the alps every weekend.

I thought you were maxed out with all the local attractions?
I smell a rat.

[SeeFive]

Crossflow Kid said:

SeeFive said:

Crossflow Kid said:

"Just outside Bournemouth" isn't Bournemouth, is it?
Just like "not far from Basingstoke" isn't Basingstoke.

Actually it is. As we walk along, you see the sign saying welcome to Poole.

That's fking Poole then isn't it?!
Ye gods man.

Not if you sit the Bournemouth side of the sign. Try to keep up.

[clonmult]

SeeFive said:

Crossflow Kid said:

And folks....Don't be fooled by the "parachuting place".
It's one of those indoor vertical wind tunnels that only impress people who are too scared to do the real thing.
Why go there when one of the UK's largest REAL parachute centres is less than an hour away from Basingstoke at Weston-on-the-Green?

Well, it is an option for something to do not offered in many similarly towns. Hope they do a snow dome at some stage... It would save me travelling to the alps every weekend.

They do (apparently) have a ski simulator at the parachuting place; and to be honest for a kids party its likely to be more practical than throwing them out of a plane.

The best free running academy is in Basingstoke. Something that I intend to take my son to when he gets a little older. And just down the road from that we have a rather tidy indoor karting circuit.

[bingybongy]

Derby - not as crap as you'd think.