by Victor Meldrew »
05 Jan 2020 11:52
From Despair To Where? Liverpool and Manchester have fantastic public transport networks and certainly being by the coast means Liverpool doesn't get as cold. Liverpool and Manchester are thriving economically. Having lived in both, I prefer Liverpool because the people are nicer but they're both fantastic cities.
Well done FDTW for once again educating some of these tossers on the merits of life away from the South-East.
Having lived away from Reading for so much longer than the first 24 years of my life I see Reading as the ugly girlfriend-I love her but nobody else can see the attraction.
A town that only has the Forbury Gardens and the Abbey ruins (add in the jail if you like) as areas that have not been destroyed just to make the town one big traffic jam really doesn't appear attractive from the outside.
Modern office buildings?
Yeah, great.
Not only is it an unhealthy area to live with the notorious Thames Valley mist and fog it is characterless-there are a couple of rivers but unlike coastal towns there is no magic of an open sea.
So do kid yourselves that the Thames Valley with over-population is wonderful because.................................….well it's not far from London and is so much better than the Midlands or North because...………………………………………………
A shame that St P had to rough it by mixing on a bus with the proletariat talking in a funny way as they travelled "dayn tayn" but maybe they are happy with their lot and are proud of their tower known far and wide whereas they perceive Reading as a non-descript Southern town a bit bigger than but just as ugly as a Slough or a Milton Keynes or ,dare I say, a Swindon.
Reading I love you but I can fully understand why others don't.