Yeah holyhead is worse. On a good day on the 55 (which to be fair is a really good road) i could do holyhead - chester in 50-60 minsScarim Coral said:
The good thing is that holyhead has more pubs per capita than any other place ive been in my life
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The good thing is that holyhead has more pubs per capita than any other place ive been in my life
Im from glasgow where pyjamas outside, having a fag whilst pregnant is accepted. To be fair at least she has the decency to smoke outsideThe Artificially Prolonged said:I'm from Liverpool myself. Proud home of ear bleeding accents, eye bleeding shell suits, 210% the country's unemployed and the birthplace of the pyjamas as acceptable outside attire movement. Though we did do up the place recently so on the plus side it doesn't look as dank as some other places in the UK any more.
I do feel some pride for this place, it is my home after all. Though I wouldn't be English if I wasn't just a little self-deprecating about where I live
Seattle myself. Can't really complain, because Seattle is awesome. It's like New York except people are friendlier, the air smells better, and the crime rate is lower. Plus, Monorail. Monorails are the next best thing to maglev trains.
Only thing I hate is the weather. Friggin' rain all the damn time. ALL. THE. TIME. Also, ever since Ichiro joined the local baseball team, Japanese culture has been leaking/fusing into the local culture. Well, more so than usual, I remember the occasional Torii gate in the outlying parks as a child, but now everywhere I go there's Washington cultural icons grafted on to ones from China/Japan. I just wish we'd inherit some of that awesome cyberpunk-ish architecture too.
Only thing I hate is the weather. Friggin' rain all the damn time. ALL. THE. TIME. Also, ever since Ichiro joined the local baseball team, Japanese culture has been leaking/fusing into the local culture. Well, more so than usual, I remember the occasional Torii gate in the outlying parks as a child, but now everywhere I go there's Washington cultural icons grafted on to ones from China/Japan. I just wish we'd inherit some of that awesome cyberpunk-ish architecture too.
I'm from Leeds, but I can't really say I have any pride for the place where I am originally from. I lived in Nottingham for a time to attend university and I loved living there, but I think its because of the friends I made when I was at university, many of which I am still in contact with, and many of them still live in or around Nottingham so I go there most weekends. In Leeds however, other than my family and one of my best friends who lives in Manchester (which is about an hours drive away from Leeds) I don't really have anybody here to hang out with. However, I can't really say that I have any pride for Nottingham, only that I am happier there. I believe George Carlin summed up national/civic pride quite well:
Still makes me laugh to this day.
Still makes me laugh to this day.
My Dad was in the Navy when I was growing up so we moved around a bit, but even still he managed to somehow stay in the same general area for almost 10 straight years until I was 13. So most of my childhood was spent in a medium-sized town called Rockport, Texas. It's about a half hour to 45 minutes from the nearest bigger city, Corpus Christi, for reference. It's a nice place, but I can't say I ever care to go back. That part of my life was a long time ago and almost all of my friends from there have left. My parents live in Corpus now, which is about as close as I ever plan to get. There's just no reason to go there. Plus it's a beach town, and I'm no fan of the beach. Still, I have fond memories of my time there.
I've never been to Hull so i can't say, the town i live in has houses and shops in it... there's really not alot of pride here, but at the same time not alot of bad stuff either, just rowdy weekend teenagers from middle class families thinking they're the sh**.
Rickmansworth, England. It's a very pleasant place although it's located between two junctions of Europes' biggest carpark, the M25.
"Ricky's" claims to fame include being an early Roman farming community, being mentioned in the Domesday book, being a place where William Penn once lived (A person who founded the province of Pennsylvania and among other things, had his ideas regarding his "Frame of Government" and the idea of an amendable constitution were looked upon and utilised by Benjamin Frankin and the founding fathers). His former home is now a local museum. Settlers from Rickmansworth and Chorleywood founded the town of Burlington.
There are a few places now dedicated to his legacy here, including a leisure centre that was opened by Chris Barrie. The Grand Union canal goes right through it, too.
Oh, and Rickmansworth was mentioned by Douglas Adams' in Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
"Ricky's" claims to fame include being an early Roman farming community, being mentioned in the Domesday book, being a place where William Penn once lived (A person who founded the province of Pennsylvania and among other things, had his ideas regarding his "Frame of Government" and the idea of an amendable constitution were looked upon and utilised by Benjamin Frankin and the founding fathers). His former home is now a local museum. Settlers from Rickmansworth and Chorleywood founded the town of Burlington.
There are a few places now dedicated to his legacy here, including a leisure centre that was opened by Chris Barrie. The Grand Union canal goes right through it, too.
Oh, and Rickmansworth was mentioned by Douglas Adams' in Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
For the love of God, don't walk down East Hastings, Vancouver.LetalisK said:
Not without a taser, anyhow.
OT: Edmonton, AB born and raised. I love it here, and I don't even know why. As in, I seriously can't articulate it.
Huh.
I'm from a suburb just outside Chicago, Illinois in the US. It's a town called Antioch. It was fine, I suppose. Don't have much pride for it, but I don't have much pride for these sorts of things (hometown, home team, local food, that sort of thing). Just a place, and a team to me. Again, not bad, pretty decent, but no strong feelings really.
There is no such thing as pride in city or town in Britain, every town and city can be summed with the word shithole. The only thing we can say as a positive is "well at least it's not as bad as *insert other British town*".Demon ID said:
Not to say we don't have anywhere good in the country, we have some beautiful fields, valleys, old castles and mountains. But they are beautiful specifically because humans don't actually live there, as we tend to fuck the place up.
I live in South East London and as you can guess ... shithole.
Welp, there was this [http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/series-129/episode-1 ]. Yeah.
"In 2010 Telford police allowed cameras to start filming what was to become one of the biggest child sex abuse cases in the UK.
The investigation, Operation Chalice, eventually encompassed over 100 victims, and around 200 suspected perpetrators."
Parts of it aren't too bad, but it's mostly a shitehole. At least it's not as bad as Wolverhampton.
"In 2010 Telford police allowed cameras to start filming what was to become one of the biggest child sex abuse cases in the UK.
The investigation, Operation Chalice, eventually encompassed over 100 victims, and around 200 suspected perpetrators."
Parts of it aren't too bad, but it's mostly a shitehole. At least it's not as bad as Wolverhampton.
I'm from Surat in India, also known as the city where the industries grow fast. We're also here for our excellent food, which you'll be hard pressed to find anywhere else. =)
I was raised in Corona, California in the U.S. it must be nice since I now live in Riverside, the town right next to it. Corona has always been pretty nice and big, you'll find lots of different areas of interest, suburbs, industrial areas, a nice downtown, hills everywhere. Do I have pride in the city? Not really, I like the city, but it's nothing special compared to other southern California cities, and I prefer Riverside at the moment.
I'm from a tiny suburb in Ohio where the easiest recognizable city is close to an hour away (Cleveland). My lack of pride in my city is pretty... well lets just say I'm not just going to college out of state because they have my major. The place is close minded as hell and the people just ugh... do not even get me started. Fortunately for me I have a car and this is my last full summer in the place unless I find a co-op nearby in later summers. Yay hate for the hometown.
Buffalo, NY. A city that has been dying for over a century. About the only aspects to take pride in is that we have a lot of old expensive architecture from turn of the 20th century (also we have a wide variance of good food). Funny enough, it is because we are so poor that this architecture has been preserved as we never had the money to update.
But no, the people of my homecity do not have pride in their home. We joke all the time that you can only do two things in Buffalo, eat and leave. We recommend people to NOT move here.
Oh, and our sports teams have never won a single championship.
But no, the people of my homecity do not have pride in their home. We joke all the time that you can only do two things in Buffalo, eat and leave. We recommend people to NOT move here.
Oh, and our sports teams have never won a single championship.
The sad part is that I haven't even been there, only heard stories. And I want to move to the North West(I guess just West for Canada). Add in that I feel Canada is quite a bit better than where I live and boom, irrational love of Vancouver.lacktheknack said:
Well I have zero pride in my hometown. It used to be a nice place to grow up, until they built a University smack dab in the middle of it. I remember watching everything start to rise like a flood of shit. Saw rape, crime, theft sky rocket after the my town started to cater towards college students. You started to see bars popping up all over the place. I guess you need to pour more booze down their throats while they are walking around looking for crap to do. I remember having a fantasy one time about just running them over with my car. Have them scatter in all directions like roaches with backpacks on.
Well, my home town (Peterborough, On.) played a large roll in the filming of the film Jumper... That's not really something that I can defend... I'm so sorry. On the upside we've recently seen an upswing in our downtown including great restaurants and interesting shops, not that any of that makes up for Jumper... They even used my high-school... Please make the memories go away.
I happened to be born in a town (Aberystwyth) that we then moved away from when I was about 2, then moved around Wales multiple times before settling in my current small west-Wales town when I was about 10, so I don't really have any nostalgia for a town I don't remember. I've been there multiple times, and know it well, but no as a birthplace. Its just another Welsh town.
I think we have some pride in our town. We'll all criticize it, but resent it when anybody else does.
We're notable for our abandoned psychiatric center that closed down in '96. And amazingly, the middle school was built directly next to the psychiatric center grounds. So, that's fun. I think the majority of my generation has done a bit of urban exploration in there.
I've also heard it said that we used to have the world record for the most bars per capita. We still have just as many bars as we used to, but the population grew quite a bit.
Also a good number of creative types have come out of the town. The most well known being two of the founding members of Dream Theater, and the current drummer of Dillinger Escape Plan.
Unfortunately we also have a fairly high rate of suicide and death of young people. There was a bit of a heroin epidemic for a bit, but kids seem to be mostly done with that after a high schooler ODed.
So, it's a bit of a mixed bag.
We're notable for our abandoned psychiatric center that closed down in '96. And amazingly, the middle school was built directly next to the psychiatric center grounds. So, that's fun. I think the majority of my generation has done a bit of urban exploration in there.
I've also heard it said that we used to have the world record for the most bars per capita. We still have just as many bars as we used to, but the population grew quite a bit.
Also a good number of creative types have come out of the town. The most well known being two of the founding members of Dream Theater, and the current drummer of Dillinger Escape Plan.
Unfortunately we also have a fairly high rate of suicide and death of young people. There was a bit of a heroin epidemic for a bit, but kids seem to be mostly done with that after a high schooler ODed.
So, it's a bit of a mixed bag.