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To Be Slightly Smug That I Live in Belfast

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Tee2072 · 08/01/2010 14:22

and therefore have had one day of not that much snow?

No panic buying here. No lack of grit (isn't grit just dirt and some salt? How hard could it be to get more?!?!). No school closures.

Just very very cold and very very sunny.

I know its a stupid thing to be smug about, but we are usually the ginger haired step children of the UK, so its nice to not be having a tough time right now.

Oh and we have juicy scandal with First Minister's Wife, MP Iris Robinson, and her now 21 (19 during the affair) year old lover...

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upafrozenhill · 08/01/2010 17:33

Tee.... I didn't kknow there was a limit to chats on a thead either!!
Good job you didn't ask where you could get a picture frame from like some one did last week!!!!

thedollyridesout · 08/01/2010 17:46

But Belfast would look beautiful in the snow. Especially the Cave Hill and Black Mountain.

I love Belfast.

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Tee2072 · 08/01/2010 18:12

I missed that one upafrozenhill!

Do you know, thedollyridesout, I never leave City Centre now that I am on Maternity Leave and haven't even looked to see if there is snow up there! There probably is!

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PlumBumMum · 08/01/2010 18:27

Well thedollyridesout if indeed tee left the city centre she would find Belfast covered in Snow
my dcs have had 2 snow days this week, I live on top af said mountain

Tee how is your little ds doing I'm sure he's not so little any more, my dn is a little bruiser

MaggieMnaSneachta · 08/01/2010 18:30

i'm sick of the snow, children's schools shut til the 14th which is reeeeedcikyouliss. i am so annoyed. I might take the train to belfast. I bet it's still running. snow or no snow.

my screen name means snow woman and I am tired of it now.

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Tee2072 · 08/01/2010 18:52

PlumBumMum he's 7 months on Monday! How time flies!!

And now I have to get him to bed.

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fattybumbum · 08/01/2010 19:55

Aww, now I am homesick. I live in manc but am Norn Irish (from Hillsborough originally).

TheYearOfTheCat · 08/01/2010 20:50

Another smug from Belfast here. My other name is 'Disgusted by hypocrisy from Belfast'. Honestly, if you had tried to fabricate a scandal, you couldn't have done a better job!

expatinscotland · 08/01/2010 20:55

I live in Western Scotland and we haven't had snow since before Xmas.

Been to Belfast and to each his own but sorry, but I can't say I'd ever feel smug if I had to live there.

shoofly · 08/01/2010 21:00

its pretty cold and snowy in Newtownabbey too and we usually get very little snow! (at least down here on the lough shore) I do think you are NBU to be smug about being in Belfast and completely get where you are coming from! My poor mum, on top of a hill in Fermanagh, isn't enjoying it too much though

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Tee2072 · 08/01/2010 21:09

No kidding, Theyearofthecat. Both Eastenders and Corrie writers are mad they didn't think of it first!

Been to Belfast lately expatinscotland? Say in the last 3 years? Its really a lovely little city. And I love living here.

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Tee2072 · 08/01/2010 21:10

Oh, and I'm an ExPatInBelfast, BTW. US citizen here.

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expatinscotland · 08/01/2010 21:13

Yes, yes, I have, Tee.

It's a nice place. Just wouldn't care to live there is all.

I mean, I used to live in Edinburgh. I found that far more beautiful. Wouldn't ever use the term 'smug' to describe how nice it was to live there, though. It isn't seen as a good thing, in general, smugness.

Loved it, loved being there (my husband and elder two children are from there) but for some it's probably 'meh' or any number of things.

Places are different things to different people.

We live in an absolutely gorgeous part of the Scottish Highlands, our views are a panorama of the Trossachs, but there's no real reason to be smug about it.

expatinscotland · 08/01/2010 21:14

I'm a dual national now.

PlumBumMum · 08/01/2010 21:16

explainscotland except for its history of the troubles Belfast & Northern Ireland is a beautiful place,
as Tee said Belfast has changed hugely in the last few years, yes there are bad bits but surely every city has those

PlumBumMum · 08/01/2010 21:17

oh and except for the rain, the weather is the only thing I hate about living here!

expatinscotland · 08/01/2010 21:18

No one's saying it's ugly.

Just don't see where being 'smug' about living there comes into it.

Proud, well, sure. Good.

But smug's a rather loaded term.

It's not an ugly place, just not some place some would find an attractive place to live, anymore than some would care to live in London or Newcastle or Edinburgh, for that matter.

I adore Edinburgh, but where I worked (university) plenty of folks couldn't get out fast enough (too dirty, too cold, too dark, etc.).

paulaplumpbottom · 08/01/2010 21:19

We have snow but I live on the outskirts in South Belfast. Was in Belfast today and couldn't get over that there was no snow at all.

expatinscotland · 08/01/2010 21:21

No snow here.

Or ice.

VERY cold.

But no snow or ice.

paulaplumpbottom · 08/01/2010 21:21

Tee I too am an American and Belfast and I love it. Northern Ireland is a beautiful place to live. Belfast has an interesting and lively nightlife and the Mournes and the sea aren't far away. The people are lovely.

FlyingMonkey · 08/01/2010 21:26

I'm not sure I'd be so smug about living somewhere where sectarian violence is rising again. I'd like to leave NI but unfortunately that's not an option at the moment.

petisa · 08/01/2010 22:48

It's still a lot safer for the average person than many other UK cities. you can avoid the sectarian crap, though it is there when you switch on the telly. I think Belfast is a fab city.

wubblybubbly · 08/01/2010 23:48

Quite frankly I'm pig sick of the snow. Can't get the car out of the street, can't get to see my mother, who has recently had a knee replacement and has been basically housebound and alone for over a week, poor DS due to start nursery school, cancelled two days in a row, very disappointed and confused little boy.

It's lovely for a day or two, 3 weeks solid is no fun at all.

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Tee2072 · 09/01/2010 07:37

Okay, first of all, I am not smug about living in Belfast. I was being smug about having no snow because I lived in Belfast while most of the UK has been snowed in for days.

Also, of course, not something to be smug about, but it was a joke people.

I swear, people wander into AIBU and lose all sense of humour.

And I feel safer at 2am walking home from a pub half drunk in Belfast than I ever did in San Francisco when I lived there.

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Tee2072 · 09/01/2010 09:06

And now its snowing, so there goes all my smugness anyway.

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