Best English city to live and work in?

**aido_b** · 09/05/2006, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

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.......!

And ya couldn't have told me that last year!

**Plastic Paddy** · 09/05/2006, 11:56 AM

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

Try this site for size. All you want to know about English pyramid football from steps 3 to 5. http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/

PP

**Plastic Paddy** · 09/05/2006, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by aido_b

And ya couldn't have told me that last year!

Don't mind him Aido. If it's non-league football you want there are plenty of clubs in and just outside Birmingham.

Tamworth - Conference (at least for the moment pending an appeal against relegation by Altrincham)
Kidderminster Harriers - Conference
Stafford Rangers - just promoted to Conference
Nuneaton Borough - Conference North
Moor Green (south Birmingham) - Conference North
Redditch United - Conference North

No need to go on any further, I presume...

PP

**Don Vito** · 09/05/2006, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by REVIP

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.

Can vouch for the Red Army's progress, decent atmosphere at Ashton Gate these days and really should be in the Championship next year. Also been to Bath numerous occasions on business and it really is a beautiful city, not too big either and you are never far away from the countryside in it.

**Stuttgart88** · 09/05/2006, 12:40 PM

Personally I love London & am surprised by how "child friendly" it is (for my kids, not me!). Sure, parts of it are crap & dangerous, and I hate the West End but there are so many interesting places and always things to do. Green space everywhere.

It's been mentioned above, but Bath is truly beautiful and is really quite small & intimate. Architecture there is stunning - the Royal Crescent is breathtaking.

Also, mentioned above is Brighton which isn't as picturesque but is a fun town with a good quality of life.

My wife was in college in Leeds and loved it.

**dcfcsteve** · 09/05/2006, 1:12 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

you have never obviouslly been to most big cities in america then!!

I haven't been to most big cities in America, but I did use to live in New York City and in various cities in Florida !

New York feels much more integrated than London does, for example. Sure - you've got lots of little neighbourhoods all over Manhatten, for example, but they all still feel part and parcel of Manhatten and New York.

London literally grew out of lots of little towns and villages that joined-up, which is not true of the vast majority of cities in the US. Even ones where it is true, like Boston, still feel much more coherent. There really is a sense of separation between the centre of London and the areas from Zone 2/3 outwards - particularly when you live south of the Thames.

And let's face it - there's a reason why most people get out of London when they reach a certain age. It's fun for a few years when you're young, and that's it.

**rebs23** · 09/05/2006, 2:32 PM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

And let's face it - there's a reason why most people get out of London when they reach a certain age. It's fun for a few years when you're young, and that's it.

Definitely true but if you are planning to go to any English City for a few years when you're young(ish) then it just has to be London.

**paul_oshea** · 09/05/2006, 2:48 PM

There really is a sense of separation between the centre of London and the areas from Zone 2/3 outwards - particularly when you live south of the Thames.

ya thats a fair point I suppose, I was basing it mainly on chicago, boston and new york which is made up of loads of dif "cities"/areas.

i would say north of the thames more so, anywhere round clapham victoria all those areas are very sorta cosmo london and considered london really. but places like finchley, wood green, palmers green are relaly their own distinct areas.

btw did you use to?

**Strabane_Harp** · 09/05/2006, 3:17 PM

Originally Posted by aido_b

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

and the drinks arent too badly priced for such an establishment

if ye do end up in liverpool, do not live in Kensington no matter what

**liam88** · 09/05/2006, 5:22 PM

From my limited adn youthful experience

You can do anything at anytime in London; there is always football, rugby, protests, parties, ralelys, aprades, festivals you can get a meal for �100 or �1the underground system is actually very good and you can meet people of all cultures.

I grew up in Guildford which is really a large town goign for city status -it has Cathedral, University etc. Good community feel but still good nightlife. Easy to get to London (45 mins and a tenner for a travelcard) or down to the south coast (45 mins the other way), you can walk from the South Downs to the center in about 15 mins and you can easily get to cofnerence football in Woking and Aldershot. also has the best Ice Hockey team ever (the Flames). Not v. multi-cultural though and otuside the center is v Conservative.

Reading is also a class place; bigger than Guildford, close enoguh to London but a ver decent town in its own right-good nightlife, sport, culture etc. deffinatley worth a look

Hull (where I am moving in Septemebr) is also excellent. Worse rep than it deserves, not a massive city but big enough to get lost in. Has sports, nightlife etc. and is also near to York and the Docks.

By the way Steve is there a city that you haven't dated a girl from?

**REVIP** · 09/05/2006, 5:49 PM

Originally Posted by liam88

Hull (where I am moving in Septemebr) is also excellent. Worse rep than it deserves, not a massive city but big enough to get lost in. Has sports, nightlife etc. and is also near to York and the Docks.

Liam,

Hull topped a poll for British towns in 2003. It was covered by the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3158298.stm

**dcfcsteve** · 10/05/2006, 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by liam88

Hull (where I am moving in Septemebr) is also excellent. Worse rep than it deserves, not a massive city but big enough to get lost in. Has sports, nightlife etc. and is also near to York and the Docks.

Hull is surprisingly big ! When you take in the size of the city prooper (i.e. not just the city's administrative borders) it's something like the 5th biggest in England. It's the one place that's even more isolated than Newcastle though. When you're in Hull all you've got is Grimsby and the North Sea for company....!

Originally Posted by liam88

By the way Steve is there a city that you haven't dated a girl from?

Liam - when you're as old as I am and been as single for as long as I have (I really struggled to recount when my last relationship was to someone today..

), you get to whorr yourself around a fair few parts of the country. Two years in an apparent position of influence at University also helped.....

) I haven't dated anyone from Hull - though my best mate in England is marrying one and I'm Best Man at the wedding if that counts vicariously...?

**placid casual** · 10/05/2006, 11:59 AM

dunno if it counts as a city but for area the nicest place in the colonial backwater has to be cornwall. nice people,great cider and beautifull scenery.

**pete** · 10/05/2006, 1:27 PM

Anyone know much about Sheffield? Brother might have opportunity to live there but not heard great things.

**aido_b** · 10/05/2006, 1:50 PM

Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy

Don't mind him Aido. If it's non-league football you want there are plenty of clubs in and just outside Birmingham.

Tamworth - Conference (at least for the moment pending an appeal against relegation by Altrincham)
Kidderminster Harriers - Conference
Stafford Rangers - just promoted to Conference
Nuneaton Borough - Conference North
Moor Green (south Birmingham) - Conference North
Redditch United - Conference North

No need to go on any further, I presume...

PP

PP I'm afraid that I'm now Wolves through and through!

**dcfcsteve** · 10/05/2006, 3:06 PM

Originally Posted by placid casual

dunno if it counts as a city but for area the nicest place in the colonial backwater has to be cornwall. nice people,great cider and beautifull scenery.

Err - no. It's a County. What part of that didn't ya know....?

It's one of the very few English counties to not even contain any cities ! Oo-arrrrrrr....!

**anto1208** · 10/05/2006, 3:10 PM

anywhere up north is class very friendly people nutters but funny , liverpool is really nice now they have done massive amounts of work to it for the city of culture 08 , it will be the best shopping city in europe by then ,plus 2 prem clubs next door to each other , and its a small enough city ive walked from one side to the other in under an hour .

**Mad Moose** · 10/05/2006, 5:35 PM

Originally Posted by pete

Anyone know much about Sheffield? Brother might have opportunity to live there but not heard great things.

Hard to know Pete.Certainly not the most asthetically pleasing city and its very much a city of contrasts. I found the 'likely to be Sheffield Utd fans' people friendly and warming. Football is a great leveller you see. I was made very welcome at Bramall Lane.On the other hand the well hidden and poorly sign posted Hillsborough end was the well to do part of town.Even the accents were different. I say poorly sign posted in reference to the home of Sheffield Wednesday. I always go on my instinct and I liked Sheffield in a funny old way.Difference in a couple of days and nights mind to a few months or years.

Brendan

**Plastic Paddy** · 10/05/2006, 5:46 PM

Originally Posted by aido_b

PP I'm afraid that I'm now Wolves through and through!

I wonder, with Glenn Hoddle continuing in charge, whether you'll soon enough get that non-eague club to support!

PP

**liam88** · 10/05/2006, 7:19 PM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

Err - no. It's a County. What part of that didn't ya know....?

A county??? A COUNTY????

Cornwall is a NATION supressed by the English and intergrated into their country!!

Rydhsys rag Kernow lemmyn!!!

Pah! "a county" he says!!!

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