AIBU...to feel sad that my kids might be banned from watching a 2018 World Cup game in their home town?

[everydayinMK]

Should my kids be discriminated against in terms of not being allowed to watch a World Cup 2018 game in their home city, all because of an issue that arose more than twenty years before they were born?

Mike Rowbottom wrote a great article: "Milton Keynes seems an unlikely 2018 World Cup venue until you go there".
(www.insideworldfootball.biz)

And you can read it here:

www.insideworldfootball.biz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7532:mike-r owbottom-milton-keynes-seems-an-unlikely-2018-world-cup-venue-unitl-you-go-there&catid=74:insidewrit e

Then read what the other posters had to say about it at the foot of his article.

What are your thoughts?

I don't give a fuck either.

I live in Dudley, if Dudley hosted the world cup in 2018 I'd move.

Also I think the OP is being unreasonable.

I actually laughed when I heard people saying mk might be a world cup venue. Why on earth would they hold it in a place that not even people that live in the same county have any desire to visit?

OP: your kids will be able to go and see loads of the matches in London. I fail to see how not hosting them in some provincial backwater disadvantages anyone, much less discriminates against them.

It's not that bad in MK monkeyfeathers!

It's better than a lot of places I've lived!

It is that bad. I've been here for more than 18 months now and I truly hate the place. It's just awful. Sure, it looks all nicely presented and has every chain store/restaurant etc imaginable but that only makes it all the mord soul destroyingly terrible.

How dull.

I assumed from the OP that all residents of MK under 18 were going to be under house arrest for the duration of the tournament to prevent anti-social behaviour or something. It's not a bad idea.

dicrimination
my arse

I've been here for about 7 years monkeyfeathers.

I married a local so I'm stuck here now but I do really like it. There is loads of stuff to do with children for example...

Seeing as AIBU can bring out the worst in MN I think everyone has been rather polite so far .

The OP seems to have disappeared though.

Very dull and quite bizarre thread .

I came back to see if the OP replied...

It was an incredibly boring topic. The only reason it got this many replies was down to the completely inappropriate use of the word "discrimination".

Hopefully the OP took TrillianAstra's advice and "got a grip"

GoldnSnitch: I really don't think there's loads of stuff to do with or without children in mk. Not stuff I want to do anyway. I moved here for my job (because my boss lied about what counts as 'commuting' distance) and then poor DP had to move here as well. I then found out that people in my work routinely count places as 'close' as Bristol, Brighton or Manchester as being within 'commuting distance' of mk.

We both loathe the place and can't wait to leave. So does DS1 and DS2 is a baby so he doesn't care. We need to wait until he gets a job to move elswhere though, because we don't want to move somewhere (change DS1's school etc) and then have to move again for his work. I hate commuting (did it for a year previously) but not as much as I hate living in mk. I want to live in a real city and not have to drive everywhere.

Each to their own I guess.

I do feel bad that poor wee DS2 will have to put Milton Keynes down as his place of birth forever.

Thanks for all the posts and taking the time out to read the article. Who knew there'd be so many replies to read through and so many informed opinions.

Job's a good 'un MNs.

Lovin' your work - keep it up!

I suppose it is easier when you're not working as a lot of the stuff to do is on during the day. DS and I can find something to do most days.

Get in touch with the pre-school learning alliance, they'll send you a booklet full of stuff to do. The library for example runs weekend childrens groups for working parents and there are walks round the local parks that the Parks trust do... The library have art workshops for younger kids on at weekends too.

What sort of stuff do you want to do? I might know of something...

My DH and my DS and in a few weeks my DD will all have Milton Keynes as thier place of birth. It's not the worst place in the country to live. My vote for that award goes to Southampton!

No problem everydayinMK, it's all part of the service