How big is where you live?

How big is where you live?

Poll: How big is where you live?

Total Members Polled: 730

London/inside the M25: 10%
Major city (approx 500k upwards): 9%
Large Town to Moderate City (100k-500k): 12%
Moderate to Large Town (20k - 100k): 16%
Large Village/Small town (5k - 20k): 25%
The arse end of nowhere!!: 28%
Author
Discussion

Shoukie

383 posts

182 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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11 houses, one post box & sod all else in 'my' rural North Yorkshire hamlet, it's bliss!

Integroo

11,574 posts

84 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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Edinburger said:
No such thing as Greater Edinburgh or Greater Glasgow - you either live in Edinburgh or you live in Glasgow or you don't.

70% of Scots live in the central belt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_the_United_Kingdom

Edinburgh - 782,000
Glasgow - 1,395,000

Tango13

8,395 posts

175 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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It's supposedly a town but the population is a fraction over 2000 so in really just a small village.

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area

7,015 posts

188 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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I live in a village of 2000. Having lived in suburbia for 40 years beforehand I enjoy the peace and quiet and I like seeing the same people around all the time, there’s a sense of community here that you don’t get in bigger places.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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2 houses in my post code.
4 in the same area.

leggly

1,780 posts

210 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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Around 300 people live in our village.

oddball1313

1,178 posts

122 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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About 670 in my village (halfway between Oakham and Stamford)

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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RVVUNM said:
Bristol (Outskirts) Fab city.
It has its plus points. Hopefully we'll still be able to drive into it when they finally finish the roadworks.

juice

8,508 posts

281 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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Grahamdub said:
It has its plus points. Hopefully we'll still be able to drive into it when they finally finish the roadworks.
Our office is in City Point, have had 18 months of that st round Temple Meads....Just 9 months to go (oh my ribs....)

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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technodup said:
Edinburger said:
No such thing as Greater Edinburgh or Greater Glasgow - you either live in Edinburgh or you live in Glasgow or you don't.
You'd better let Nicola know then, because either she's confused or you are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Glasgow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Register_Off...

FWIW I'm in Glasgow. Actual Glasgow, although naturally also Greater Glasgow as well. Even though it doesn't exist.
Billy Connolly said:
Drumchapel is a housing estate just outside Glasgow. Well, it's in Glasgow, but just outside civilisation

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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Take a guess...


anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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juice said:
Our office is in City Point, have had 18 months of that st round Temple Meads....Just 9 months to go (oh my ribs....)
Ours is by St Mary Redcliffe so not much better.

Benbay001

5,794 posts

156 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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otolith said:
Take a guess...

Considering I live in the center of Southampton and get less than that yet my dad lives in (as classed by this threads definitions) "The arse end of nowhere" yet gets more than that.... you could be anywhere.

Shuvi McTupya

24,460 posts

246 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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Shoukie said:
11 houses, one post box & sod all else in 'my' rural North Yorkshire hamlet, it's bliss!
A post box? Show off!

The nearest post box to me is about 4 miles away frown

There are probably about a dozen houses within a quarter mile or so of me though so rush hour can be a nightmare.

Benbay001

5,794 posts

156 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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There is definitely a category missing from this thread.

The village I grew up in is about average for a village, so I checked the population and it has just over 1000 people.

Friends of mine truly live in the arse end of nowhere and other than a few other houses you would have to drive for 10 mins to reach the nearest shop.

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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Benbay001 said:
Considering I live in the center of Southampton and get less than that yet my dad lives in (as classed by this threads definitions) "The arse end of nowhere" yet gets more than that.... you could be anywhere.
Really? And that's the fastest you can get? That's fibre to the cabinet, and then 2km of copper to the house.

john2443

6,325 posts

210 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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Should people who live in Birmingham answer Major City or Arse end of nowhere? redface

PositronicRay

26,957 posts

182 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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Looking @ the poll it looks like London and Roseland haven't been able to vote yet. Still stuck on the Friday commute I'll be bound.

bobtail4x4

3,701 posts

108 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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Shoukie said:
11 houses, one post box & sod all else in 'my' rural North Yorkshire hamlet, it's bliss!
10 houses, (one unoccupied) no postbox, no streetlights, love it.

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Friday 11th January 2019
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john2443 said:
Should people who live in Birmingham answer Major City or Arse end of nowhere? redface
That's not the arse end of nowhere.

It's the arse end of somewhere.