Is Bristol a nicer place to live than Swindon?

[Honkytonk]

What kind of indian restaurants shuts at half 8 in the evening?!?

They've got to catch the cats at some point.

[Batch]

What kind of indian restaurants shuts at half 8 in the evening?!?

Don't know, a shit one?  I can't see the word Chard without mentally prefixing it with 'At Cricket St Thomas near'.. Stupid 80's TV bombardment advertising

[Samdy Gray]

My grandparents used to take me to Cricket St Thomas frequently as a youngster. Used to love Crinkley Bottom.

It's all abandoned now

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/other-sites/74353-blobbyland-cricket-st-thomas.html

[pumbaa]

What kind of indian restaurants shuts at half 8 in the evening?!?

One that would never serve you!

[Ginginho]

My grandparents used to take me to Cricket St Thomas frequently as a youngster. Used to love Crinkley Bottom.

It's all abandoned now

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/other-sites/74353-blobbyland-cricket-st-thomas.html

That looks ace, like a Blobby version of Pripyat.

[Honkytonk]

My grandparents used to take me to Cricket St Thomas frequently as a youngster. Used to love Crinkley Bottom.

It's all abandoned now

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/other-sites/74353-blobbyland-cricket-st-thomas.html

Still remember going there as a kid. I never could quite fathom why it existed in the first place, was mr Blobby/Noel's House Party really all that popular? I do remember watching it as a kid, but it never seemed particularly attraction-worthy.

[Dostoyevsky]

Berlin, Swindon, Colchester, Leicester and Shrewsbury (many, many years) as a youngster. Bangor (North Wales) at Uni which was awful, followed by stints in Bristol, Madrid, Bournemouth (lovely place) and now Calne.

I didn't get on with anyone anywhere, beginning to think it's me and not them. Too much pointing the accusing finger at others and time I manned up to the fact i'm not a very likeable person. I've had to move around quite a bit because I felt a rising tide against me. Best just to start afresh.

I've always fancied the idea of living on the Cornish coast, somewhere like St Mawes, St Ives or Fowey.

Back to the initial question.

 I lived on Frederick Place in Clifton, just off Park Street, for 4 months and helped run the Total Petrol Station by the famous suspension bridge on Avon Gorge. The fuel station has now been replaced with luxury flats. The place genuinely does have a "village" feel and although very swanky the folk were not stuck up. The ghetto of St Pauls is somewhere I was warned not to walk through as a white person.  For the heck of it one evening I drove through the notorious area and witnessed assemblages of people on nearly every corner. It was overtly threatening. Hoods up,  stuff changing hands, all manner of gesticulations and glaring eyes. Not to be recommended.

The students were very cliquey and had a malodorous sense of superiority. Undoubtedly the architcechure is great but with dark undertones. Remember, this was a place built upon slavery. However, there are some shocking examples of 70s concrete utilitarian buildings that give the city centre a feeling of incongruence. A river running through a town or city undoubtedly favours a place, gives it a sense of hubbub, and they'd done a good job of energising the Canalside, though I think the 3D Cinema had become something of a white elephant.

 Much as I love Swindon, the rich Great Western Railway history apart, we are mundane at best. Ask Mark LeMarr or Julian Clarey. Actually don't, they're both cunts. Still, we are certainly no Slough, Crawley, Telford, Skelmersdale or Cumberlaund, despite TV's efforts to bracket it us into such soulless comparison with.

[leefer]

Berlin, Swindon, Colchester, Leicester and Shrewsbury (many, many years) as a youngster. Bangor (North Wales) at Uni which was awful, followed by stints in Bristol, Madrid, Bournemouth (lovely place) and now Calne.

I didn't get on with anyone anywhere, beginning to think it's me and not them. Too much pointing the accusing finger at others and time I manned up to the fact i'm not a very likeable person. I've had to move around quite a bit because I felt a rising tide against me. Best just to start afresh.

I've always fancied the idea of living on the Cornish coast, somewhere like St Mawes, St Ives or Fowey.

Back to the initial question.

 I lived on Frederick Place in Clifton, just off Park Street, for 4 months and helped run the Total Petrol Station by the famous suspension bridge on Avon Gorge. The fuel station has now been replaced with luxury flats. The place genuinely does have a "village" feel and although very swanky the folk were not stuck up. The ghetto of St Pauls is somewhere I was warned not to walk through as a white person.  For the heck of it one evening I drove through the notorious area and witnessed assemblages of people on nearly every corner. It was overtly threatening. Hoods up,  stuff changing hands, all manner of gesticulations and glaring eyes. Not to be recommended.

The students were very cliquey and had a malodorous sense of superiority. Undoubtedly the architcechure is great but with dark undertones. Remember, this was a place built upon slavery. However, there are some shocking examples of 70s concrete utilitarian buildings that give the city centre a feeling of incongruence. A river running through a town or city undoubtedly favours a place, gives it a sense of hubbub, and they'd done a good job of energising the Canalside, though I think the 3D Cinema had become something of a white elephant.

 Much as I love Swindon, the rich Great Western Railway history apart, we are mundane at best. Ask Mark LeMarr or Julian Clarey. Actually don't, they're both cunts. Still, we are certainly no Slough, Crawley, Telford, Skelmersdale or Cumberlaund, despite TV's efforts to bracket it us into such soulless comparison with.

Good post .

[walcot red]

Swindon's not a bad place to live really, it has its faults as do many other places. It's close enough so you can visit bristol or london on a day out.

[jayohaitchenn]

Have any of you lot left Swindon to live elsewhere and inexplicably missed it despite living somewhere unquestionably better?

Yes. I lived in Bristol for about 6 months, tried to like it there but I just couldn't. I guess I'm just a small town boyyyy... livin' in a lonely world.

[Honkytonk]

Good post .

This is a weird moment.

Dossy is now a valued TEF'er.

[Dostoyevsky]

I recently holidayed in Guernsey and thought what  lovely place it would be to live. I understand in the news headlines today that they are chasing these tax places/ crown dependencies for unpaid money. I am a cursed fucker. Beautiful island all the same and the people I met are certainly not rich buggers. Take people as you find them:




ALL HATE SHREWSBURY FC. LOVE SWINDON

[Batch]

Still remember going there as a kid. I never could quite fathom why it existed in the first place, was mr Blobby/Noel's House Party really all that popular? I do remember watching it as a kid, but it never seemed particularly attraction-worthy.

It was pretty popular for a year or two. Not sure it warranted a theme park though.

In any case I mat be wrong but I thought the bloody annoying adverts I referred to per-dated Blobby. Was there something there before that they took over?

[Honkytonk]

It was pretty popular for a year or two. Not sure it warranted a theme park though.

In any case I mat be wrong but I thought the bloody annoying adverts I referred to per-dated Blobby. Was there something there before that they took over?

I was referring to crinkley bottom, but the safari park/country house side of it was a bit like Longleat from what I remember. Old stately home, African animals in the grounds. Drive about in your car. Get it taken to pieces by the monkeys.

[Joycie]

Yes. It is.

People who are saying it isn't are getting confused between building a tolerance for Swindon and actually liking Swindon.