The English Midlands?
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BrianH
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Where I come from it's a sleep.
Ok,
To make the question clearer....
I am aware of someone who will soon be moving to the area due to work reasons. A close friend of said person has intimated that it is not the most pleasant, exciting or indeed clean place to live with particular reference to Birmingham and any of the places encompassed in the Black Country.
I'm writing this from Wolverhampton and am amazed by what a backwater it is. Is there anywhere pleasant in this general region??
To make the question clearer....
I am aware of someone who will soon be moving to the area due to work reasons. A close friend of said person has intimated that it is not the most pleasant, exciting or indeed clean place to live with particular reference to Birmingham and any of the places encompassed in the Black Country.
I'm writing this from Wolverhampton and am amazed by what a backwater it is. Is there anywhere pleasant in this general region??
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Ardross
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Go to Stourbridge and beyond to Worcestershire .
Irish Stamp
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Worcester's nice and so is Warwick, alternatively Shrewsbury and Telford to the West aren't too bad either
Euronymous
Senior Jockey
The Burnley/Accrington/Blackburn area of Lancashire is far worse.
jft2005
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I used to live near their to Ovverbruv, ina village calle Clayton about 15-20mins from hanley. lovely little place.
Nope, kip would be Irish slang for a tip.....
I've heard mixed reports about Birmingham. However, I know of one prominent international footballer who joined a club in the area a couple of years ago. His agent decided that in a cab on the way to the ground in question, he would sit directly facing his player and engage in heavy conversation so he would not be inclined to take a look at the surrounding area.
I've heard Warwick is ok.
I've heard mixed reports about Birmingham. However, I know of one prominent international footballer who joined a club in the area a couple of years ago. His agent decided that in a cab on the way to the ground in question, he would sit directly facing his player and engage in heavy conversation so he would not be inclined to take a look at the surrounding area.
I've heard Warwick is ok.
Leamington's probably better, but to be honest it reads like a roll call for the dispossed
Soke, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Coventry, Northampton, Derby, Leicester et al
Nottingham has merit i believe.
The Midlands is a strange region though. It's devoid of characteristics and as such is probably a victim of its sense of central compromise. There's little distinguishing about it, nothing that announces you're approaching it, nor leaving it. The scenary doesn't change, neither does the local built environment. Its a bit of a crossroads you seem to unavoidably have to travel through, invariably on the way to somewhere else. It has little by way of disticnt identity. It's cities are functional rather than charismatic, its people similarly, are neither one thing or another. It's not without its regional tensions, but I'm not as convinced they're as ingrained as they are in the Midlands, as they are elsewhere. It's never really generated any 'populist' movement that I can immediately think of, it's basically there. It's contribution however, by way of the cradle of the industrial revolution, has gone around the globe.
I tended to regard it as something of a globule of a region. It's borders seem particularly undefined and maluable depending on prevailing circumstances. It's sense of identity is also amorphic. I've never really been able to put my finger on it. Where does it start? where does it finish?
Are Derby and Nottingham Midlands cities?. Is Lincoln a Midlands cathedral? Is Cheltenham in the Midlands? or is it in the West Country? Oxford for that matter? Peterborugh and Ludlow? I've heard them all adopted and denied at various times
Soke, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Coventry, Northampton, Derby, Leicester et al
Nottingham has merit i believe.
The Midlands is a strange region though. It's devoid of characteristics and as such is probably a victim of its sense of central compromise. There's little distinguishing about it, nothing that announces you're approaching it, nor leaving it. The scenary doesn't change, neither does the local built environment. Its a bit of a crossroads you seem to unavoidably have to travel through, invariably on the way to somewhere else. It has little by way of disticnt identity. It's cities are functional rather than charismatic, its people similarly, are neither one thing or another. It's not without its regional tensions, but I'm not as convinced they're as ingrained as they are in the Midlands, as they are elsewhere. It's never really generated any 'populist' movement that I can immediately think of, it's basically there. It's contribution however, by way of the cradle of the industrial revolution, has gone around the globe.
I tended to regard it as something of a globule of a region. It's borders seem particularly undefined and maluable depending on prevailing circumstances. It's sense of identity is also amorphic. I've never really been able to put my finger on it. Where does it start? where does it finish?
Are Derby and Nottingham Midlands cities?. Is Lincoln a Midlands cathedral? Is Cheltenham in the Midlands? or is it in the West Country? Oxford for that matter? Peterborugh and Ludlow? I've heard them all adopted and denied at various times
Euronymous
Senior Jockey
It`s gotta be said, some of the threads on General Chit Chat are just fucking mind numbing.
I spent a few days in the Midlands last week and foud it quite charming [Kenilworth and Warwick esp, and I've also enjoyed times in and around Nottingham, Leicester, Loughborough, Newark etc etc]
I think like most places, it pays to keep out of the large towns and the cities, and to enjoy the smaller towns & villages - which as in most parts of the country are lovely
Personally I think almost anything beats being a single lady of a certain age living in East Angular
Euronymous - how right you are
I think like most places, it pays to keep out of the large towns and the cities, and to enjoy the smaller towns & villages - which as in most parts of the country are lovely
Personally I think almost anything beats being a single lady of a certain age living in East Angular
Euronymous - how right you are