Well basically what it says. I have to move to england next year for work most likely,not sure what city to look at. Was wondering what peoples opinion on Englands Cities are for moving to?
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Well basically what it says. I have to move to england next year for work most likely,not sure what city to look at. Was wondering what peoples opinion on Englands Cities are for moving to?
I had eleven cracking years in Birmingham. Can't recommend it highly enough. :) Like a big collection of villages stuck together. Loads of Irish from north and south and from all colours of the spectrum. Familiar enough to feel at home and big enough to lose yourself. Lovely.
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We had a thread on this about a year ago.
I'd recommend Newcastle. About the size of Belfast, so very easy to get around. The people are great craic and very friendly, the nightlife is great, the wimmin are gorgeous, and it's the cheapest big city you'll find in the country. Plus - it's not so over-run with Irish that you wont be a relative novelty, and the accent goes down a treat
Couldn't recommend it highly enough.
None ..they are all crap
That's a judgement based on extensive experience of living in each and every one, I assume. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by thejollyrodger
Rodg, there's an old Confucian saying that you'd be wise to heed in this instance: "if you have nothing to say, say nothing".
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Dublin.;)
London - it's got everything.
Manchester would be my second choice.
Technically Reading is a city but in truth it's only a town.
Really enjoyed living there though.
Wrong Peadar... it's not a city, I'm afraid. Reading is a town within a borough although, in fairness, it is the largest urban sub-area in England not to hold city status.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading%2C_Berkshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_st...United_Kingdom
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Brighton is a lovely city, I loved living there, and could see me moving back there, but it's expensive, and work can be a bit of a problem so might not be what your looking for. London isn't that bad really :)
I stand corrected. What confused me was when Reading went for City status. Now that I think back on it, I remember that bid being unsuccessful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
Have to agree with PP on Birmingham. Absolute cracking city, full of Irish which is always good! Bit of advice for ya, don't live in Wolverhampton, for the love of god don't do it!
I have a few friends who moved to Bristol and they absolutely love it.
I have been there myself a few times and have really enjoyed it.
On a slight aside , Going to Liverpool for a little post exam break in June .Anybody got any recommendations / tips?
yeah have been looking really closely at Bristol, Liverpool and Manchester. All got cheap flights to and from Belfast.
I Hate Mingerland
You'll enjoy Liverpool! Foot.ie member, JoeSemi is the man to brief you on the city. From what I can remember, Concert Square is the area to go out in. Its a hive of activity! The drink and food in Liverpool is reasonably cheap also. JoeSemi brought us to a great restaurant called Ceaser's Palace. The food was top notch and very cheap in comparison to Ireland.Quote:
Originally Posted by gustavo
My one major piece of advice is stay well clear of Room 126 in the Dolby Hotel. The bed isn't in the best of shape.:D
Dassa - I know Manchester and Bristol very well (Liverpool less so, though I have been there a few times) and can assure that neither are a patch on Newcastle. I'm up in Manchester next weekend, for example, and spent 6 years living 12 miles away from Bristol in Bath. My girlfriend at the time was living and working in Bristol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dassa
I'll guarantee you that the vast majority of people suggesting various cities to you simply don't know Newcastle, and the majority will not even have been there once. Conversely, you'll find that people like myself who know Newcastle are invariably familiar with the other big cities in England (on the basis that if you've made it to Newcastle, you're highly likely to have made it to the others as well) and we'd still recommend Geordieland to you above all the others.
There's also cheap flights to Belfast from the Toon, so no reason in the world why you shouldn't be considering it as well. :)
erm from a personal point of view, and im a very personalable and socialable person!! but london is very hard if you dont know or have anyone over here, you find that you dont really go out at the weekends with your work crowd as they all lead their own lives etc. just something to remember
Have to say thats a difficult question.It comes down to personal choice and two places stood out for we. Chester (more town than city) and Portsmouth. Enjoyed both and having family in Portsmouth it was the the place I felt most at home.Apart from the City Ground in Nottingham the football ground I was most made welcome at was Fratton Park, they couldn't do enough for me.That didnt go down to well at St Mary's in Southampton which was a city I least liked. In terms of a place to live I couldn't see myself wanting to live anywhere other than Yorkshire, had a great time there and since scenery is important to me it had it all.Genuinely warm people. Couldn't get enough of the weather in Portsmouth mind.
Brendan
As dcfcsteve mentions, Newcastle is an excellent city, the people are very friendly, standard of living is cheaper than most of the other cities, beer is cheaper and there are cheap flights home. I lived there for two years.
I now live in London and there is no comparison. Much of London is dirty and many parts of it are quite dangerous. There are some good bars and clubs around especially in central London but you need to have a big bank balance to go along with it, and lastly if you want to buy a house in any decent part of London, forget it.
sitting in liverpool at the moment.
great place
id recommend it
would like to visit newca-sell too though
Bristol is good. Easy connections to other places (you can get a coach to London for as little as £3), the advertised journey time of 2 hours 20 minutes to London Victoria is actually true, got there three minutes early in March. Cheap flights from Dublin. Bristol City are improving - gates up to 15,000, Rovers are good craic. Pubs are good. Big student population gives the place variety. Bus drivers there are the rudest I've met, though.
Newcastle people are probably amongst the friendliest in England. The only problem is that Tyneside is miles from anywhere, apart from Wearside! (and that the early Ryanair flight from Dublin,which I'm using next month, is at 0625 and gets into Newcastle before anything is open).
London is not as expensive as Dublin - got a half decent bottle of red wine in a wine bar on the Embankment for £11.
If you haven't experienced a very big city before, then you'd enjoy London for a while. Otherwise, I wouldnt recommend it at all.
It's the weirdest large city I know. It's more a collection of numerous villages, towns and suburbs than a proper single city.
When everyone first moves here they head into the centre of town loads. After a while, they realise that central London is actually sh!t, over-priced, stupidly busy, and full of 18 year olds, so you invariably gravitate more towards going out in your local area over time - or the local areas that your friends live in. Next thing you know is you rarely actually leave your local area - in which case you may as well be living in a small town like Chippenham or Crawley, as much as Europe's biggest city.
This phenomena is common to most people I know in London. The exceptions are those who either like to feel like a Mr Big in outrageously expensive bars/clubs (the type that will charge you a tenner for a vodka red bull, and then add an additional 14% service charge on for paying with a card) or people who are into their serious clubbing.
Give London a miss.
Don't give London a miss!!It's a brilliant place spent 4 years in the place and loved evey minute of it. It has everything.
I lived with an old uncle and aunt in Kew for three years - Kew Gardens at the end of the road, Chiswick on the opposite bank, Brentford football ground an easy walk away. I thought it was London, they said they lived in Richmond and talked about going into London, which they rarely did.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
There's a lovely little spot called X in the city, check it out! bring plenty of £10 notes with ya!Quote:
Originally Posted by gustavo
The biggest City Ive ever lived in is Belfast so I think london for a culchie:) like me would scare the absolute sh.t out of me.
That's not my experience. In fact I'd say the opposite was true. People don't mind driving to work in other big cities and so can't drink after work. Nobody drives to work in Central London so they often go out. I'm not from London but wouldn't live anywhere else now, never get bored of it, it's fantastic.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Have you noticed how many posts mention how friendly English people are in various parts of the country? Nice to see attitudes changing. I've had mostly positive experiences living and working with English people. Made some good friends along the way.
Part of why I love London so much is that it gives you the belief that you can achieve anything!
I think if you can get used to and live in London, it gives you the belief that you can do it anywhere. I had an extremely bad start to life here, but I hung in there, stayed positive and kept plugging away and now I can safely say im going to be here for a while. its a tough city to get used to, but when you do its great. if you think meeting people is going to be a problem when you move to a new town here, id thoroughly recommend getting a bar job. (outskirts rather than city though) People take to you being Irish and you meet loads of people that way too. But easier to get on with people from the outskirts rather than the city centre though....Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
Where did they say that? They said that the people in english cities are friendly, but sure aren't the cities now all full of foreigners ;) And don’t we all stick together :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
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Originally Posted by Dassa
Canterbury.
Kent is a nice place to live and it's not that far from London. Within easy reach you also have Dover (ferry port) and Ashford Intl for Eurostar services to Brussels and Paris
"Come to Canterbury - it's easy to get away from..." :DQuote:
Originally Posted by londonirish17
Reminds me of the tourism slogan they did for Birmingham about a decade ago : "Come to Birmingham - and visit Warwick". An admission that there was no other reason on god's earth for tourists to go to Birmingham....
Didnt make much of Leeds but its supposed to be nice, its a Yorkshire thing. Is it the only place currently that has an Irish centre?.On the other hand I liked, strangely enough Sheffield. Its something that has always come across on documentaries on the place but there is a great spirit about the place and I kinda felt that. Again I liked Yorkshire and everything to do with Yorkshire. Nottingham city centre is pretty nice and Nottingham/Mansfield has a large Irish population though because I was on my own for the time I was there I didnt get out after the games at the City Ground.I did get out in Derby mind and actually really enjoyed it.I believe I went out in the town centre but It wasnt much but i enjoyed my night out with the sheeps**aggers as Forest supporters refer to them as (The Rams and an abundance of the wolly feckers). I didnt like Gloucestershire or Worcestershire and having been to Cheltenham found it a place you would least likely find welcoming of the entire population of Ireland for one week. The kinda place where you might consider moving to with a bit of money to spare. Lovely countryside there though.
Brendan
Derby is the place in England where I spent most time, usually on holidays and stuff, my gran lived there and obviously my mam's from there, I like it, London's great too, but to live there???
Do you mean Irish Centre, as in a building ? If so - there's feckin loads of them across England. Newcastle, Liverpool, Coventry parts of Manchester, Camden, Hammersmith - and that's just the ones that I know. Look at the back of the Irish Post and you'll see how many there are. Leeds doesn't have a particularly strong Irish heritage as a town, so can't see why you might think they would have an Irish Centre, bit nowhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harpsbear
If you mean a physical Irish area - like an Oirish version of Chinatown - the only city I know that planned to introduce one was Birmingham. Not sure if they ever got it to actually happen though.
when I go over would like to pick a small club to follow maybe a team below conferance keep up my tradition of watching sh.te football:)
I'd recommend AFC Wimbledon - though that would invariably necessitate you living on the sh!tty edges of London :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dassa
There's always FC United of Manc if you make it to the North West.
If you go to the North-east, I'd recommend either Blyth Spartans or Gateshead.
If you end up in the West Country, I'd suggest Bath City.
If you end-up in the Midlands - unlucky.......! :p
There's Nigel Clough's Burton Albion at the Pirelli Stadium!!Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
If your in Portsmouth theres Havant and Waterlooville F.C
Brendan
you have never obviouslly been to most big cities in america then!!Quote:
It's the weirdest large city I know. It's more a collection of numerous villages, towns and suburbs than a proper single city.