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Just out of interest.

(Obviously not applicable if you were born here)

born and bred

Raised and left.  Sorry.  Still feels like home though.

i don't live there and probably never will.

i hope that was enlightening for you

My dad works here

Lived there in the mid eighties until '92. Moved to Swindon because of work and left for the same reason.

Never have lived there. Malmesbury ('74-'89), Chippenham (90-92), Burgess Hill ('93-dunno)

ฺBorn, bred and then buggered off.

Born here, moved away & came back mainly due to finances & plenty of space at parents house!!!

Dad got a posting to RAF Lyneham in the early 1980s, and then ended up buying a house in the nearest big town.

Exactly the same as me!

Does it count if I moved to Swindon from Purton? Probably not.

I didn't I moved away in 2001.

My family moved here because of the Railway Works in 1835 from Shrewton.

lived in old town for a bit when I worked there, but pretty much always lived in Wokingham. Reading should be my local team  :cry:

My family moved here when I was ickle. Dad worked in London but we have family both west and east of Swindon, seemed like a good compromise.

Dear God no wouldn't dreaming of living anywhere near Swindon...  far too backward.  Lived in Hereford for a year and that was the same.... 

Lived in Chippenham as a boy before moving to the bright lights of the Saaaf East.  Now in Crawley, probably til I retire!

Crawley is full of pikeys

Crawley's lovely...  good links - Brighton/London half hour a way, Bluewater not much further, excellent shopping facilities, decent nightlife, tons of employment - before the recession enjoyed negative unemployment for a while...







But yes it's full of pikeys...maybe that's why I feel at home, being from Chippenscum?!

The lure of the big city (and I got a job here)

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
and heaven knows I'm miserable now
stupid ex-job
though I'd rather be jobless than move towards the South-east again!

Oh and Ciren is my hometown, so we are quite close to my mum and sister which mean they can see the kids more (and babysit) than when we were in Basingstoke.

Born here, moved to Ashburton (a very little town in Devon between Exeter and Plymouth) in 1997 and moved back up here in 2004 to be nearer the family.

Crawley's a shithole.

Crawley is too near me for my liking. I can think of no redeeming features bar it's handy if you are a plane spotter.

No one needs an excuse to leave Basingstoke, Batch.

Near to Sutton?!  It's miles away!  Crawley's a wonderous place FACT!

I know it is, but it's still too near ;)

I could have ended up as a Reading fan as well.  (Shudder.)  Dad's side of the family have been Reading for generations while Mum's side come from north Hampshire, where we live now.  My Dad even tells a story where a cousin took him to see a game at Elm Park in the 1950s - and he thinks it was against Swindon - where he practically froze to death in the wind & rain on an open terrace.  He hated every second and never went back.

I'm just glad the sun wasn't shining that day.  Both brothers, a sister and I all now Town supporters, but it could have been so different.

Try being born there!

Anyone calling Swindon a shit hole has clearly never been to Basingstoke. I worked there in the late 90's commuting every day - the shit road that takes you there is a warning of what's to come. The town centre was shit and there was only one night club, the people I worked with said it was safest to take a knife with you if you went there.

Most of the stories you hear about night clubs are bollocks anyway.

Brunel used to get slammed for being a problem hot spot, but the only trouble I ever witnessed was when that bloke and that bouncer fell down the stairs and everyone wasn't allowed to leave.

Anyone who says that about Basingstoke clearly hasn't been there since the late 90's!  They knocked most of the Town Centre down and put up a nice modern arcade (Festival place) with a cinema and eaty places at one end.  Oh, and a new club (RIP Martines)!

It ain't exactly bluewater, but it takes the piss out of Swindon it terms of lack of shabbyness. Annoying because if Basingstoke managed it so should have Swindon, and then some!

Still at Swindon is better than Slough! That should be on the 'city limits' signpost - "Swindon, better than Slough!".

i saw loads of trouble in brunel or outside.one time the bouncers took a right beating off a load of black guys.that is the only time i've seen bouncers on the receiving end.they took a right fucking hammering that night.
i got ejected for fighting in there when i was in the wrong place at the wrong time,and some bloke tried smashing a milk crate over my head outside.
another time i saw a bloke throw a toilet at the doors(i kid you not)

Ah yes Martines, used to be one of my haunts, along with the Brunel and  The Target In Reading, Brunel was easily the best of the 3.

I suspect you went in a different era to me. If I've guessed your age right, you'd have thought all that ecstacy would have stopped the fighting, no? :)

Last time I was there they were just about to start demolishing the town centre. To be fair the work they'd done up till then looked pretty good but I never got to see the finished article.

fridays were the rave nights a trouble free generally. saturdays were the drinking ones back then.most of the trouble was on the saturdays for sure

you are right though, the old town centre was a complete shit hole!

Aha makes more sense.

I've probably missed a load of incidents anyway, I was always dancing with girls and probably making a tit of myself.

Slough Town center pisses all over swindons

"Swindon - not even as good as Slough". That's depressing.

To be fair the rest of swindon looks like paradise from the rest of slough. Thats always been the issue with swindon though - A decent town let down buy a rubbish middle

Swindon puts Slough to shame.....the people down the road in Windsor are thinking of building a wall.

Never have lived in Swindon, and probably never will.

Not posh enough for you?

Born and bred here. My parents moved here in the 50's as part of the London overspill. It was Swindon or Basignstoke - I struck gold. From living in a slum flat in London, my dad was offerred a job as a labourer and one of the new houses in Park South - with garden. As a family, we owe Swindon a lot.

Similar to you Chalkie, my parents moved to Bracknell New Town in the 50's. It was an ace place when I was little - a one horse town. Just one new housing estate. Cricket pitch behind Woolies, loads of fields, original buildings etc. It was well fucked by the time I got into my teens. I suppose the same could be said of Swindon with the 70's/80's destruction of the old new town. I was glad to leave, it is a horrible, horrible town now.

Anyhow, it looks like I am the only person on the poll who moved here because of house prices. Interesting. What I do know that is I have lived here for 23 years and I love the place. When I say that there is nowhere else in the country that I would rather live, I really mean it.

An oasis in a sea of green.

I've become the 2nd person on the poll to move here because of house prices.  Grew up in Hungerford and after going back to my parents after uni, got a job at Vodafone HQ and decided to buy a place in a big town which was commutable to Newbury.  Looked at Reading, Southampton, Oxford, Bristol - but for my money I could get a bedsit in those places as opose to the 2 bed flat I eventually ended up buying in Swindon! 

And it was 5 mins walk from the CG - double bonus!!  :D

Why are you called Derby then?

Very good, but the truth is other than the football and (to a lesser degree) speedway teams I haven't got any links to the Town.

Will hopefully return to Wiltshire someday, but I doubt it will be to Swindon.

And for what it's worth, there's nowt posh about Peterborough ;)

Moved here, lived here, Moving out at the weekend, and moving to ibiza in May.

Reason, Job in what I want to do, and the weather!

I better work out this STFC world thingy on OS

It's actually much better now, seems to work for me when I've been working away.

stfcplayer works fine for me as well when i've used it abroad.

Ive never actually used it Si, but saturdays is a day when i work from home :), so its on!

Have you got a residency out there then?

Crack?

Never lived in Swindon, probably never will.  Have spent three nights ever in Swindon.  I only come for the football.  Glory hunter.

I've never lived in Swindon.

I've done West Ashton, Warminster (x3), Melksham, Westbury, Calne and briefly Yatton Keynell along with Fallingbostel, Catterick Garrison, Plymouth, Durham and Newcastle outside of the county.

relocated here with the ex working for Smiths - could not have bought a place as big in Hillingdon so prices were good. Swindon is no more shit than any other shit hole - I may move to the country in a few years though - won't go far.

Never lived in Swindon.

Have lived in Maidstone, Lightwater, Nailsea, Brizzle, Burnham on Crouch, Kingham and Chipping Norton.

Jetsetter!

Yeah i got a job working for Pacha on the day to day running side of things

Born in Swindon, moved to Toronto and moved back!

Born in Swindon...and been here ever since !!!

Born in Swindon, brought up in Northampton, Moved to Derby, Moved to Swindon, Moving out!!

Ive been about a bit soapy tit wank

I moved to Swindon for one reason only - it is more convenient to watch the greatest team the world has ever seen. I recommend all Town fans do it.

I would willingly sell my house and all its contents to keep Phil Smith at the County Ground.

cockjockey

I'd suggest a small amount of perspective might not go amiss.

When I signed up for this forum I was at uni there - haven't got round to changing it yet!!