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When you were growing up, did you think your town/village/city was great? If so, where is it?

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Gem13 · 27/02/2006 19:47

Following on from the Somerset/Wiltshire thread, I'm interested in where people enjoyed their childhood or teenage years.

We're planning on moving and obvioulsy looking at places for us and the children. I've always thought a village school looks lovely but a friend hated hers and her children live in a city and attend a big infants.

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expatinscotland · 27/02/2006 19:51

No, I thought it sucked. It was too damn hot. So I left for good as soon as possible.

spidermama · 27/02/2006 19:52

Everyone who I've met who grew up in Brighton says they loved it.

Flossam · 27/02/2006 19:57

Not as a young child but as a teenager I loved my town. But I think that was more to do with the close friendships I had with a lovely bunch of people perhaps more than the actual area. All the people who lived in the villages were envious about us towneys, taxi's driving home etc and being able to stroll into town or round to other's people's houses. Probably the best years, pre children, of my life. Smile

7up · 27/02/2006 20:12

i loved living in my village and going to the village school and i still live here and my ds and neices go to the same school. i think you either love villages or hate em

tamum · 27/02/2006 20:14

How about Castle Cary? Wink I have to say, having been to several primary schools, I greatly preferred the bigger more urban ones, but that's probably not very statistically significant!

Orinoco · 27/02/2006 22:07

As I child I lived in a place called Arnold in Nottinghamshire. I thought it was wonderful.

I've since discovered that not only is Nottingham the drugs and/or guns capital of the world, but Arnold is the place where Marion Bates was murdered in her jewellery shop!

So I wouldn't bother!

Crackle · 27/02/2006 22:23

I grew up in Frome and had a fab childhood. The schools were nice and there was always stuff going on when I was a teenager. I do remember a large amount of teenage house parties - well, sort of remember them. I guess we all made our own fun.

Frome was always reported on the local news as 'unemployment black-spot' and my mum said that it was called that to deter people from finding out what a nice town it was.:)

MummyPig · 27/02/2006 22:29

Well I grew up in Birmingham and I still think it's great. Not as big and unfriendly as London but still with absolutely loads going on, good public transport system, lots of green spaces. I know it gets a bad press but I would be happy to bring up my kids there. If dp wasn't from the South East I might have already moved back to Birmingham or somewhere in the Midlands.

WideAwake · 27/02/2006 22:31

Village of Kinghorn in the Kindom Of Fife, wow what a place.....

lexiemum · 27/02/2006 22:43

loved my town when I grew up - was still relatively small but wouldn't want to be there now that it has city status.

I fell in love with the town I moved to at 18, when left home and returned there to work after uni, married and set up home.

jamiesam · 27/02/2006 22:47

ah, dear old Leeds. Nowhere else quite the same somehow. But Leeds isn't the same either - not half so sleepy as when I was a child - it's a proper big city now Grin.

Also, not quite in the Arnold, Nottingham stakes, but I didn't realise as a child that I lived next to one of the roughest estates (and primary school was on the estate). Don't think I'd live there now.

Mytwopenceworth · 27/02/2006 22:49

hell no. if the uk was a person, my home town would be a pus filled boil on its anal sphincter.

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