what's it like where you live?

[rattleskuttle]

i'd like to imagine moving somewhere. please tell me about where you live.
this is where i live:
jersey
mild british weather, fields and hedgerows, beautiful beaches, good schools, very low crime rate
high population density, bog standard house costs £400,000, reasonable house costs £550,000, 3 bed house rent is £1,500 per month, loaf of bread costs £1.20. main industry is international finance, no unemployment. bit of a problem with alcoholism and binge drinking. very conservative. expensive to leave (on a plane). mostly english people here with jersey families, portuguese and polish and some kenyans. language is english but use of french apparent, eg in road names.
can be about 10 years behind the times.

Bib - I work in Tameside!! At Hyde.

Where are you??!!

NOtanotter.... wish I could afford to move back Ilkely... I was born in what used to be St Winifred's Nursing home... A hotel now I believe.

UQD - I know it from the Snake Pass end? Hathersage, into Holmsfield and onto Dronsfield...??

Bib - we are takin' Vegas!!

Nights out there are .....wild??!!

Whilst at art college I went out with a guy from Hebden Bridge. I remember it being a very beautiful place and always imagined if I stayed in England then that's where I'd probably like to live

flats the moon! expensive ones - half the town is floored for half a million pound two bed flats!

We're not too far off the end of the Snake. Near Rivelin Valley.

If, reading your other thread and "time off"..fancy a meet up?? Would be good for me!

UQD - Sheffield, also known as the largest village in the country, according to the tourist board adverts I remember.
You're making me jealous much as I love this place I'd move back to Sheffield at the drop of a hat if I could.

I can't believe either that I'm only 35 miles away from Sheffield but still have to get Henderson's imported.

TnOg - HB, is yes lovely, and VERY Guardian land!!

yes, well I'm more Irish Independant, which is possibly why I didn't stay

Notanotter... flats? really? I should be entitled to one on the grounds I was born there surely!

I must have a drive by on Sunday when I go up there.

TnOgu - is it Wicklow??

MrM - I am over-committed at the moment (friends I've not seen for ages, plus father's illness) but maybe remind me again. I'm getting a "weekend off" in London next week for the first time in ages!

Is what Wicklow???

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Ok. Will do. Will tug your sleeve another time.

MrMariella - Aww I was trying to be all coy about where I lived. Yep, I'm in 'vegas. I've had 1 typical night out in 'vegas, it was enough. Now we tend to haunt places like the Buffet Bar or Q.
Yes, a time-off meet up would be good, can I bring blokey

Sorry, yes the flats are ridiculous prices, but you can get a nice 2-3 bedroomed terraced or semi for under £100,000 in an area which aren't crime hotspots.

UQD - Ahh you're on the good side of the city, only about 10 minutes away from my parents and even closer to my brother.

TnOgu - Yes!

and Margret Atwood too. A fave of mine!. Shifted my thinking about things years ago. The Handmaids Tale??

Gahh getting totally confused with cross posts... bedtime me thinks.

bilb - I drive through alot of days..down by the station, past Tesco, up to Glossop. In fact this evening!

Meet up would be good..plus blokey!!

Margaret Atwood had a very profound effect on me when I first read her books

[badly constructed sentence, sorry.Bit tired]

and as usual had too much to drink

it stops me thinking

Hmm..her and "woman on the edge of time"..by....Marge Piercey!

This was late 80's, and re-shuffled thinking about alot of things. Never gotten into Angela Carter. Not sure why, but she was a fave of many at the time...