Your home town

[gricerboy]

The recent credit crunch seems to have wiped out most of the bad changes brought on by the boom; it’s now my home town again.

Brisbane?

[Fred Bloggs]

My home town of 40+ years is a sad place now. It was a prosperous semi rural town in the northwest of england and nearly everyone worked in the chemicals industry. That has now gone and so has the prosperity. The chemical industry pensioners are dying off now and so is the town's prosperity. It is now a town where the biggest employer is a supermarket warehouse and most of the people working there are poles. The local natives of course will not work 12 hour night shifts for minimum wage in a cold store. All the high street pubs bar one have closed. In the evening the town centre is now dead. I am serioulsy considering moving our family away as I cannot see where my next job (or any job in fact) is going to come from anymore in the northwest. We were banking on nuclear new build creating jobs at the likes of AMEC, Rolls Royce etc... But I do not know of a single contractor working on new build work. I now work down near London and I think it is my only chance of staying in work to carry on doing this. Sad, but true.

[OwlHoot]

Wimbledon, up the hill. Pretty much unchanged from 40 years ago, although a bit more yuppified on the High Street.

[Lockhouse]

I was born and grew up in East London. Go back? There's nothing to go back to.

[SupremeSpod]

tulip hole. Glad I left. Folks moved away to the countryside too.

WMMS

My Dad said "I've spent 30 years policing the bastards, the last thing I'm going to do is retire amongst them!". Harsh but true.

[lukemg]

Endless grief from gf about moving to her home village - Royston Vasey without the excitement, 'but I know everyone', yeah but 'everyone' not using it as a commuter village is a gene-pool challenged dullard desperate to share the slightest detail of their tedious existence.
Been pushing the 'got to stay in reasonable distance of contracting locations' for years to stay somewhere most people would love to move to.
Her solution - how about a perm job ? how about not until they come to take the house ...

[Platypus]

Endless grief from gf about moving to her home village - Royston Vasey without the excitement, 'but I know everyone', yeah but 'everyone' not using it as a commuter village is a gene-pool challenged dullard desperate to share the slightest detail of their tedious existence.
Been pushing the 'got to stay in reasonable distance of contracting locations' for years to stay somewhere most people would love to move to.
Her solution - how about a perm job ? how about not until they come to take the house ...

Sounds like she should be your ex-gf

[h2oalex]

I think the beasite Boys said it best:
"a nice place to visit but a better place to rob"
originally from Kwebeck (French part of Canadia) and will never live there again

[norrahe]

Sounds like she should be your ex-gf

I agree, what about compromise?

Had a mate whose girlfriend insisted he move 300 miles north and leave his career and flat that he owned to live in a rented house with her.
She was a temp and lived with her parents so had no ties to speak of, her reason for not compromising SHE didn't want to leave her friends.

[minestrone]

I live a couple of miles away from where I grew up. I am about 300 yards from streets where houses start at a million and 300 yards the other way tower blocks are filled with junkies. It's a mixed bag and really depends on your street.