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Do you like where you live?; Residents of Merseyside need not answer
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Gladstone Small	26th July 2010 - 05:17 PM Post #46
Give me Choco Liebniz Posts: 3,322 Group: Moderators Member #91 Joined: August 2008	To be honest, the heat would probably be the clincher for me anyway before the spiders. Always fancied living in Alaska but only because I'm dumb enough to think that Northern Exposure was an accurate representation of life in the region



Al Watson	26th July 2010 - 07:22 PM Post #47
Regular Member Posts: 1,908 Group: Members Member #138 Joined: January 2009	JSB 22nd July 2010 - 04:09 PM Where I am in Chesterfield, folks are always moaning about how crap it is round here. Ungrateful fuckers, it's lovely in these parts, and probably not anywhere near as chav-ridden as other places. These bastards need to know the grass ain't greener. I visited a mate of mine in Birkenhead a couple of years back, and it was like a third world country there. I drove through Chesterfield last week on my way to Matlock, and although Chesterfield isn't particularly exciting it's not bad. I quite like living in Sheffield too. In the area I live it's about a 10 minute drive to Derbyshire which is lovely, and the Peak District makes up about a third of Sheffield. Sheffield also supposedly has more trees per person than any other city in Europe. Might be bollocks for all I know but it's very green for such a large city. Decent shopping, plenty to do, good live music venues. Having said that I feel no loyalty or great desire to stick around and will gladly move pretty much anywhere that I can get a job after I graduate in September.



L G Ramon	27th July 2010 - 12:31 AM Post #48
Junior Member Posts: 592 Group: Members Member #129 Joined: October 2008	You do get spiders around but they're mostly harmless, the big scary ones won't hurt you. One of the little ones has bitten my Mum a few times and caused her leg to swell up but that's only because she has bad reactions to any type of insect bite. I've been bitten a few times by various things but never got more than a little heat lump type thing. You can buy little things like those Glade air-fresherners that keep the creppy crawlies out of your house and they work really well. Once you see a few of the fellows (and it's not like they're all over the place) you get over it, can't spend your life on the look out for them. Saying that I was drying my balls once and noticed one on the towel, shit myself then. You get used to the heat pretty sharish, so much so that when it's below 10 in the morning and nights you really feel it, I'm a right little wuss now. The Summer's awesome though, you just get to do so much that I wouldn't have done at home like sitting on the hill at Adelaide Oval watching the cricket, got my Ashes tickets booked for December (I'd never even been to anything other than villiage Cricket at home) and the local Cricket and Football teams play just in front of my house so it's quite nice to go down with a few beers and sit on the banking. If you like Sport then you'd be spoilt here as they have every American and English sport at some level and plenty o' local wrasslin' too.



Gladstone Small	27th July 2010 - 10:15 AM Post #49
Give me Choco Liebniz Posts: 3,322 Group: Moderators Member #91 Joined: August 2008	I'll tell you what, LG Ramon and Handsome Dead should be employed by the tourist boards of Australia and America - they've done far more persuading that I'd want to live in those places than anything else that I can remember.



Log Scott Wood	27th July 2010 - 01:02 PM Post #50
Danny Dyer enthusiast Posts: 1,509 Group: Members Member #31 Joined: July 2008	No thanks! Edited by Log Scott Wood, 27th July 2010 - 01:02 PM.



L G Ramon	28th July 2010 - 04:17 AM Post #51
Junior Member Posts: 592 Group: Members Member #129 Joined: October 2008	That's actually a babies hand. Speaking of America, I've been to Florida and it was very nice and the rest but the difference between classes is quite shocking, race based too. I'd love to go back to the USA to live for a year or two (near the Canada border, so I can pop over) either that or do a Stephen Fry-esque tour seeing as I basically want to visit everywhere due to TV brainwashing.



Log Scott Wood	28th July 2010 - 04:20 AM Post #52
Danny Dyer enthusiast Posts: 1,509 Group: Members Member #31 Joined: July 2008	L G Ramon 28th July 2010 - 04:17 AM That's actually a babies hand. A babies hand covered in hair! Don't try and dodge the fact that Australia is full of creepy crawlies and convicts. And it's completely bereft of culture, hence this 'fusion' bollocks that so called Aussie chefs are masters of.



L G Ramon	28th July 2010 - 04:36 AM Post #53
Junior Member Posts: 592 Group: Members Member #129 Joined: October 2008	South Australia is the only Australian state that was free settled actually. The famous Australian BBQ is a myth, they give you one BEEF sausage in a slice of normal bread. Madness, give my chinese chicken and burgers any day. They also BBQ eggs.



Gladstone Small	28th July 2010 - 09:22 AM Post #54
Give me Choco Liebniz Posts: 3,322 Group: Moderators Member #91 Joined: August 2008	L G Ramon 28th July 2010 - 04:36 AM They also BBQ eggs. Eh? How does that work then? I can't get my mind round that at 9.20 in the morning.



Log Scott Wood	28th July 2010 - 01:02 PM Post #55
Danny Dyer enthusiast Posts: 1,509 Group: Members Member #31 Joined: July 2008	On a skewer I imagine, like a kebab.



L G Ramon	29th July 2010 - 12:26 AM Post #56
Junior Member Posts: 592 Group: Members Member #129 Joined: October 2008	Nah like on a flat metal surface which they put atop of the grill, most Australian BBQs (which are massive) have a grill and then other bits for other stuff (I don't know the proper names because I don't cook). When we first moved into our current house the electricity company had turned off the electric (even though it was only a day after the other family moved out) and it took them about 4 days to put it back on so we bought a BBQ simply so we could boil the kettle and used to drive up to the shopping centre so we could eat under lights haha.



ButchReedMark	29th July 2010 - 03:13 AM Post #57
You're Fuckin' Out! Posts: 3,426 Group: Moderators Member #7 Joined: July 2008	They do that in Burger vans anyway! It's a fucking hot plate, you daft fucker. Stop being dick.



Gladstone Small	29th July 2010 - 09:23 AM Post #58
Give me Choco Liebniz Posts: 3,322 Group: Moderators Member #91 Joined: August 2008	I was imagine it all running through the holes into the charcoal. I really don't know what's wrong with me sometimes.



Harry	29th July 2010 - 09:45 AM Post #59
Top Poster Posts: 4,852 Group: Members Member #12 Joined: July 2008	I love living in Scotland, but not so much in the central belt.



L G Ramon	30th July 2010 - 12:41 AM Post #60
Junior Member Posts: 592 Group: Members Member #129 Joined: October 2008	Setting Sun 29th July 2010 - 09:23 AM I was imagine it all running through the holes into the charcoal. I really don't know what's wrong with me sometimes. Or they use the griddle thing. My cooking is limited to put frozen shit in the oven/microwave, grill and frying chips.



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