If only we had a decent tea room and football team

[EdgeleyRob]

We'd be top of the list.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2299640/The-happiest-place-Britain-Harrogate-Residents-North-Yorkshire-town-satisfied-live.html

[Alain Maréchal]

Do remember that this survey is conducted by those paragons of truthfulness, Estate Agents.


From "Sullivan's Travels" by Preston Sturgess:

" they know what they like in Pittsburgh"

"if they knew what they liked in Pittsburgh, they wouldn't want to live in Pittsburgh!"

[Flosshilde]

We'd be top of the list.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...fied-live.html

I think the Turkish Baths are pretty good, too, although I haven't been to them. I have been to Betty's though

Not bothered about the football team.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

hmmm just what the country needs ... a decent football team and the return of Joe Lyons ....

[vinteuil]

hmmm just what the country needs ... a decent football team and the return of Joe Lyons ....

... the present-day equivalent to the ancient Romans' way of placating the plebs - "panem et circenses" - bread and circuses

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Highest rate of Porn downloading in the UK, too!

[teamsaint]

Highest rate of Porn downloading in the UK, too!

I didn't know that.
Should you?

anyway, Stockport sounds nice.

[EdgeleyRob]

I didn't know that.
Should you?

anyway, Stockport sounds nice.

Yep ts,just need a tea room and we'd be champions.
Landan must be a miserable place

[MrGongGong]

I think the Turkish Baths are pretty good, too, although I haven't been to them. I have been to Betty's though

I have and they are excellent
best ones i've been to outside of Budapest

[teamsaint]

I didn't know that.
Should you?

anyway, Stockport sounds nice.

well as everybody knows, London is a mad crazy place. No wonder they all move to Salisbury with the express intention of making us suffer on property prices like they had to......

Cheadle is nice, as i recall, also.

[scottycelt]

...anyway, Stockport sounds nice.

Needless to say it's one of the most pot-ugly places I've ever encountered ... and I did work there for a few months. In the pot-ugly stakes it is probably just pipped by Hartlepool and Greenock.

However the natives tend to be friendlier than their Mancunian neighbours and it is actually a very interesting town to shop, still boasting private little outlets where one can often find useful accessories which one might struggle to find in a large city. Physical fitness and strong footwear is essential, however, as one can experience almost vertical gradients in the process. It has an admirable little brewery in the centre of town and the Town Hall itself is one of the most civilised classical music venues in the country where one can down a pint and munch a pork/horse pie to stop one falling asleep to the sound of Brahms. Only the Italians do it better.

Alas the football team remains a huge problem but I can assure Edgeley Rob that this is not a huge problem confined only to Stockport. Indeed whole countries appear to be infected with the very same disease. On the brighter side, only a few miles up the rail-line at Wilmslow, one can now hardly move for tea-rooms and coffee-shops, though ER may need a full wallet and find the inhabitants there rather more "Vinteuilian" in outlook.

All in all Edgeley Rob is extremely fortunate and I'm not surprised he is so happy ...
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[Flosshilde]

private little outlets where one can often find useful accessories

:raised eyebrows:

the football team remains a huge problem ... whole countries appear to be infected with the very same disease.

I wonder which country you might be thinking of

[Beef Oven]

well as everybody knows, London is a mad crazy place. No wonder they all move to Salisbury with the express intention of making us suffer on property prices like they had to......

Cheadle is nice, as i recall, also.

Those are not my intentions

[teamsaint]

Those are not my intentions

Yeah right. Wasn't thinking of you, but a pattern is a pattern !!
Anyway, my gaff is available at the right price...cut out the agents and everybody wins..........

[EdgeleyRob]

Needless to say it's one of the most pot-ugly places I've ever encountered ... and I did work there for a few months. In the pot-ugly stakes it is probably just pipped by Hartlepool and Greenock.
However the natives tend to be friendlier than their Mancunian neighbours and it is actually a very interesting town to shop, still boasting private little outlets where one can often find useful accessories which one might struggle to find in a large city. Physical fitness and strong footwear is essential, however, as one can experience almost vertical gradients in the process. It has an admirable little brewery in the centre of town and the Town Hall itself is one of the most civilised classical music venues in the country where one can down a pint and munch a pork/horse pie to stop one falling asleep to the sound of Brahms. Only the Italians do it better.

Alas the football team remains a huge problem but I can assure Edgeley Rob that this is not a huge problem confined only to Stockport. Indeed whole countries appear to be infected with the very same disease. On the brighter side, only a few miles up the rail-line at Wilmslow, one can now hardly move for tea-rooms and coffee-shops, though ER may need a full wallet and find the inhabitants there rather more "Vinteuilian" in outlook.

All in all Edgeley Rob is extremely fortunate and I'm not surprised he is so happy ...
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Sabit harsh