Post subject: Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:09 am
Sal Paradise
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Joined: Feb 27 2002 Posts: 18060 Location: On the road
I live in Bradford and I would concur it is an awful city to live in these days.
The roads are full of uninsured morons who have no consideration for other road users nor any driving skills - its bl00dy dangerous to say the least. Education is amongst the worst in Britain - the town centre is a sad reflection of a once prosperous city. The soccer team has to virtually give away its season tickets to sell them. Social integration is negligible with districts divided up by ethnicity in the main.
Bradford has nothing to recommend it at all
Your job is to say to yourself on a job interview does the hiring manager likes me or not. If you aren't a particular manager's cup of tea, you haven't failed -- you've dodged a bullet.
Post subject: Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:07 pm
King Street Cat
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Joined: Mar 25 2010 Posts: 4648 Location: BD23
I had to scratch my head when I saw that transport links were considered a factor. Living in the centre of Wakefield I can be on the A1 in around 20 minutes, and the M1 and M62 in around 10 minutes. I can get on a train at Westgate, one of Wakefield's 2 railway stations, and be in Leeds in 15 minutes, Sheffield in 20 minutes, York in 40 minutes and London in 2 hours. Compare this to the backwards nature of Oxfordshire, where I spent a long weekend this Summer, and Wakefield looks like a commuter's dream!
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Post subject: Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 3:29 pm
LyndsayGill
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King Street Cat wrote:I had to scratch my head when I saw that transport links were considered a factor. Living in the centre of Wakefield I can be on the A1 in around 20 minutes, and the M1 and M62 in around 10 minutes. I can get on a train at Westgate, one of Wakefield's 2 railway stations, and be in Leeds in 15 minutes, Sheffield in 20 minutes, York in 40 minutes and London in 2 hours. Compare this to the backwards nature of Oxfordshire, where I spent a long weekend this Summer, and Wakefield looks like a commuter's dream!
Yes, but you forgot that other than the Cotswolds nowhere north of the 18th hole on Potters Bar golf course is worth bothering about. Things are far superior in the south, so they assume.
I live in Wakefield (WF4) and spent my working life driving around the country to various jobs and I've been to a lot worse places in may opinion, Bracknell, Slough, Dagenham, Romford. Strangely enough all in the south.
The mind is like a parachute. If it's not open it won't work. - Frank Zappa
Post subject: Re: Best and Worst place to live in UK
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 4:39 pm
Ferocious Aardvark
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Joined: Feb 17 2002 Posts: 28357 Location: MACS0647-JD
Sal Paradise wrote:I live in Bradford and I would concur it is an awful city to live in these days.
The roads are full of uninsured morons who have no consideration for other road users nor any driving skills - its bl00dy dangerous to say the least. Education is amongst the worst in Britain - the town centre is a sad reflection of a once prosperous city. The soccer team has to virtually give away its season tickets to sell them. Social integration is negligible with districts divided up by ethnicity in the main.
Bradford has nothing to recommend it at all
Awww, got a sore head have we? Take more water with it next time, you won't wake up so grumpy!
But, you only get one life. If you really feel that way, WTF are you doing here? Only a fool or a masochist would deliberately choose to remain in what they thought was that bad of a place
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