Best English city to live and work in?

**anto eile** · 08/05/2006, 11:47 AM

sitting in liverpool at the moment.
great place
id recommend it
would like to visit newca-sell too though

**REVIP** · 08/05/2006, 11:56 AM

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.

**dcfcsteve** · 08/05/2006, 12:14 PM

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.

**rebs23** · 08/05/2006, 12:25 PM

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.

**REVIP** · 08/05/2006, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

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.

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.

**aido_b** · 08/05/2006, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

On a slight aside , Going to Liverpool for a little post exam break in June .Anybody got any recommendations / tips?

There's a lovely little spot called X in the city, check it out! bring plenty of �10 notes with ya!

**Dassa** · 08/05/2006, 1:42 PM

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.

**Hither green** · 08/05/2006, 1:46 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

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

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.

**Peadar** · 08/05/2006, 1:53 PM

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!

**Pauro 76** · 08/05/2006, 2:06 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

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....

**Hither green** · 08/05/2006, 2:39 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

Have you noticed how many posts mention how friendly English people are in various parts of the country? Nice to see attitudes changing.

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

**londonirish17** · 08/05/2006, 3:13 PM

Originally Posted by Dassa

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?

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

**dcfcsteve** · 08/05/2006, 4:07 PM

Originally Posted by londonirish17

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..."

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....

**Mad Moose** · 08/05/2006, 4:39 PM

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

**Drumcondra Red** · 08/05/2006, 4:50 PM

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???

**dcfcsteve** · 08/05/2006, 9:22 PM

Originally Posted by Harpsbear

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?.

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.

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.

**Dassa** · 08/05/2006, 10:17 PM

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

**dcfcsteve** · 08/05/2006, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by Dassa

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

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.......!