RE: How much do you love the town you live in?
July 6, 2016 at 1:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2016 at 1:40 pm by Regina.)
"This isn't a very good place to live and I hope to relocate some day."
Birmingham, UK (and I feel this way about The UK in general outside London). Birmingham is not a fast-paced city where you can get around quickly, nor does it have any historical character or heritage... apart from some run-down warehouses. Lovely.
I get a lot of shit for saying this but since it's the thread I'll be blunt; I find British culture very bland and tasteless. I consistently feel that way, from the big shit like obnoxious "chav culture" and our general lack of social skills, to the trivial stuff like the lack of fashion sense and shit food. And the weather is shit. I hate the cold, I hate rain, and when the sun finally does come out for the 6 weeks a year it makes an appearance, it's that gross sticky humid heat.
That's how I feel.
Also wherever I eventually land, I'll never live in the suburbs again if I can avoid it. The suburbs are the worst of both worlds in my opinion, far from the vibrance and life of the city, but still in a built-up concrete jungle where the outdoorsy activities and atmosphere of the country aren't there.
Rant done.
Birmingham, UK (and I feel this way about The UK in general outside London). Birmingham is not a fast-paced city where you can get around quickly, nor does it have any historical character or heritage... apart from some run-down warehouses. Lovely.
I get a lot of shit for saying this but since it's the thread I'll be blunt; I find British culture very bland and tasteless. I consistently feel that way, from the big shit like obnoxious "chav culture" and our general lack of social skills, to the trivial stuff like the lack of fashion sense and shit food. And the weather is shit. I hate the cold, I hate rain, and when the sun finally does come out for the 6 weeks a year it makes an appearance, it's that gross sticky humid heat.
That's how I feel.
Also wherever I eventually land, I'll never live in the suburbs again if I can avoid it. The suburbs are the worst of both worlds in my opinion, far from the vibrance and life of the city, but still in a built-up concrete jungle where the outdoorsy activities and atmosphere of the country aren't there.
Rant done.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
