How much do you love the town you live in?

[thesummerqueen]

I'd like an option saying "this is the best place to live FOR ME" or something along that line - I'm sure there are many amazing places to live. This one just suits me very, very well.

But I'm being pedantic.

[Whateverist]

I'd like an option saying "this is the best place to live FOR ME" or something along that line - I'm sure there are many amazing places to live. This one just suits me very, very well.

But I'm being pedantic.

Yeah, for you is sort of what it's all about.  Still I've had the sense in the past that you'd pull up stakes and head for europe given the right circumstances.

I've never been to Charlotte but given the number of my religious relatives who have moved to North Carolina (sorry about that) I think it wouldn't suit me in at least that regard.  Likewise with the humidity assuming it is anything like it was in Maryland, outside of DC.  Likewise with the heat, I'm a fragile flower.  For that matter while an occasional snow sounds romantic it is also inconvenient and would limit what I can grow.  (I'm not that good a gardener really, the location has to meet me more than half way.)  All my cousins rave about their buying power there.  "Living large" they call it.  I'd rather be a little frugal in balmy coastal California though.

But to each his own and I'm happy you have this bond with where you live.  In French "connaitre= to know" is reserved for people and places.  Everything else gets "savior".  I like to think that because both are not completely, finally knowable.  You can know a person very well but they can always surprise you or even themselves.  Only places are also like that.

[The Valkyrie]

Currently I'd set a nuke off in it if I could.

[paulpablo]

Well I'm from a small working class northern town in the uk.
Where I live has been subject to a few documentaries, I think some for drunk violence, racial violence (both whites attacking Pakistanis and Pakistanis attacking white people) and teen pregnancy. I've heard it was once the worst town in Europe for teen pregnancy and was the most unfriendly town in the uk in some sort of poll and was in the news for having the worst roads in England.

But I wouldn't even have to have been born into a different town to have experienced a different lifestyle, there's millionaire mansions and very good schools in my town, it's just that I've always lived in relatively bad crime rate areas and gone to bad schools.

I think there's a good middle ground. You don't want to be born into such a bad place that you become one of the monsters you live around, some brain dead chav/criminal, who's seriously disturbed.
But personally I'm glad I've been toughened up a bit, to an extent.

As for what the other guy from the uk was saying about fashion sense, I think a little bit of chav fashion isn't even that bad. I've got addidas gazelles aswell as vans and dc shoes. I never wear gold though or baseball caps, I try and wear jeans over track suits unless I'm going to the gym.

[Whateverist]

"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.

I'm attracted to Britain in a number of ways, but mostly as a place to visit and a culture that has produced more than a few things I like .. literature, gardens, Wallace and Gromit, music, Masterpiece theatre, tea, cheese, history.  My one trip through Birmingham was necessitated by a visit to the garden of friends in the suburb of Wassail.  That prejudices me in favor but I know I wouldn't want to move there.

Speaking of Wallace and Gromit, I would really love to see our Rob do a Wallace imitation, perhaps this bit:  https://youtu.be/C7rzSslub6U

[Alex K]

Heidelberg is pretty sweet...

[Whateverist]

Well I'm from a small working class northern town in the uk .. in the news for having the worst roads in England. 

I'd forgotten about the roads.  Where else does anyone think it a good plan to have twenty foot high hedges pruned plush to the side of a roadway which is inadequately wide for modern vehicles to begin with?  Definitely a big negative.  There is a time and a place for quaint, and roadway safety isn't one of them.

[account_inactive]

Heidelberg is pretty sweet...

Definitely on my to visit list.

[Whateverist]

Heidelberg is pretty sweet...

Germany and Spain are at the top of my list of must see destinations.  My wife travels internationally a lot more than I.  We shall see.  Any gardens you'd say are must see around Heidelberg?

[Alex K]

Heidelberg is pretty sweet...

Germany and Spain are at the top of my list of must see destinations.  My wife travels internationally a lot more than I.  We shall see.  Any gardens you'd say are must see around Heidelberg?

Yes, for one you need to walk up the Philosophenweg in the hills opposite of the old town - there are some small gardens and parks and views across the river onto the castle. I don't know if the garden stuff by itself will impress a connaisseur like you, but the combined package is nice.