Reply to: Best place to live 2007

[Bagpuss]

The only true way to find the best places to live is to live there. It's no good looking at some Government adjusted health/education stats, or corrupted police figures to decide where is good or not. Some of the places they have listed as being 'the worst' are quite good places to live e.g. Nottingham

some listed as the best are dull as ditchwater (see last year's winner Horsham)

It seemed everywhere they listed as a great place to live with low crime was an old peoples open prison, what a wonderfull vibrant place that would be for anyone under 60. I'm surprised Eastbourne didn't win.

[TheFaQQer]

Chan

Pollok

And once home to the largest Tesco in Scotland. There's a claim to fame.

It was the sight of all the graffiti outside the building proclaiming "Up the INLA" and "F*** the Polis" which topped it all off.

[Sockpuppet]

This is the "best" place to live its the "best place we can think of and still justify based on our own warped perceptions of the best place to live".

No doubt some C4 exec has a BTL portfolio in Edinburgh that he needs to ramp the value up on.

[Chantho]

You're not wrong there. I worked in Cowglen, near Pollock for a year.

Never again.

Chan

Pollok

[Hevra]

That's because nobody wants to get to anywhere in Redditch anyway.

As Microsoft would say, "This behaviour is by design."

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Or as Blizzard would say, 'Working as intended.'

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Hevra

[NickFitz]

You can't actually get anywhere IN redditch once you're on the ring road.

That's because nobody wants to get to anywhere in Redditch anyway.

As Microsoft would say, "This behaviour is by design."

[shaunbhoy]

You'd think so wouldn't you. Yet I've lived down south all of my 35+ years, sometimes in dodgy parts of London, got tulip faced and staggered home out of my head at all hours and never been a victim of crime or witnessed it (apart from some football hooligans fighting - and they were from the north).

Perhaps it's me committing all the crime when I'm tulipfaced.

Let's be honest sg, most muggers would take one look at your dishevelled appearance and either offer you money for a can or two of Special Brew, or at the very least let you amble harmlessly by. You would need to go on one of those makeover programmes just to be allowed to sell the Big Issue!!

[sasguru]

So it's crime crime crime everywhere down south by the sounds of it. Hence why Auld reekie came out top!

You'd think so wouldn't you. Yet I've lived down south all of my 35+ years, sometimes in dodgy parts of London, got tulip faced and staggered home out of my head at all hours and never been a victim of crime or witnessed it (apart from some football hooligans fighting - and they were from the north).

Perhaps it's me committing all the crime when I'm tulipfaced.

[scooterscot]

So it's crime crime crime everywhere down south by the sounds of it. Hence why Auld reekie came out top!

[Nicky G]

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[TheFaQQer]

There is absolutely nowhere like Glasgow.

You're not wrong there. I worked in Cowglen, near Pollock for a year.

Never again.

[lexington_spurs]

Embra? Sod that (and I speak as a Scot).

Live somewhere like Glasgow - much better!

There is absolutely nowhere like Glasgow.

[TheFaQQer]

No - you're thinking of Redditch. You can't actually get anywhere IN redditch once you're on the ring road.

I was born in Coventry and still have family there and I CAN actually find my way around without resorting to sat-nav.

No - I got stuck on the Coventry ring road when I was working at Marconi. Three months later, I finally managed to get off at the exit and never looked back.

[KathyWoolfe]

Coventry????

Get on the ring road and you'll be there forever, or until you crash.

No - you're thinking of Redditch. You can't actually get anywhere IN redditch once you're on the ring road.

I was born in Coventry and still have family there and I CAN actually find my way around without resorting to sat-nav.

[KathyWoolfe]

Solihull?

Solihull's a nice enough place but its really just a posh area of Birmingham