Woking

[Brian Potter]

They landed on Horsell Common, they did!
On Horsell Common, the aliens landed!

Those were the days...

The likes of Blair scared them off, doubt we'll see 'em again

[sasguru]

Another waste of time thread. Bloke goes to a crappy part of a town. Because he's a dunce he makes a generalisation that all parts of it are crap.
This is a failing that people outside London and Northerners generally make.
When I go to Birmingham or Manchester or Sheffield or Glasgow, I don't generally assume that all the slummy red-brick back-to-back terraces and the chavs that occupy them are necessarily representative.

[Doggy Styles]

Did you know that War of the Worlds was set in Woking?

Hi Gricer!

There is something ironic about Martians coming all that way just to destroy Woking, but dying because it was even worse than they thought.

[Platypus]

I have.

Me too.

I wasn't impressed.

[ZARDOZ]

Another waste of time thread. Bloke goes to a crappy part of a town. Because he's a dunce he makes a generalisation that all parts of it are crap.
This is a failing that people outside London and Northerners generally make.
When I go to Birmingham or Manchester or Sheffield or Glasgow, I don't generally assume that all the slummy red-brick back-to-back terraces and the chavs that occupy them are necessarily representative.

Someone hit a raw nerve

[fullyautomatix]

I went for an interview there last year. Seemed like quite a nice area, surprisingly considering where it's located, and I even spotted a Formula One team. But then I didn't go into the town centre.

Yeah, Mclaren are based in Woking and have a factory there. Plenty of .NET gigs open up there.

Been to Woking a few times, didnt get mugged, was I lucky ?

[sasguru]

Someone hit a raw nerve

Not really - I'm just tired of stupid statements like "London's crap" or "Surrey's crap". Or "Anything's crap" that's not homogenous in any way, shape or form.
It speaks of a particular kind of denseness.

[ZARDOZ]

Apparently the happiest place to live is Eastbourne followed by Harrogate, Orkney, then Stockport (assuming they mean the SK postcode rather than the town itself)

Britain's Happiest Towns

[Troll]

Not really - I'm just tired of stupid statements like "London's crap" or "Surrey's crap". Or "Anything's crap" that's not homogenous in any way, shape or form.
It speaks of a particular kind of denseness.

You really are Mr Thick from Thickington (or is it actually Woking that you escaped the delights of Wandsworth to?)- to recap the original post was

First time I've visited - bit of a s*ithole for Surrey .. thought it would be more affluent being so close to Lannndon

If it is now your home town,then sorry you may have made a bit of a mistake

[sasguru]

You really are Mr Thick from Thickington (or is it actually Woking that you escaped the delights of Wandsworth to?)- to recap the original post was
If it is now your home town,then sorry you may have made a bit of a mistake

It's not my home town no, and I don't know it very well, but I'll venture there might be as nice, leafy and affluent areas in Woking as where I live now.

Oh look here's a quite nice property in a nice area half a mile from the station

HTH, dunce.