neither do I
and I don't think London is shit in the slightest, although there isn't enough money in the world to persuade me to move back there - but I have a massive problem with anyone who dismisses the entire rest of the UK as "shit" because they happen to live in London.

Which was the counterpoint being played up there.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:55, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

Oh I know, I was playing devil's advocate as much as you were.
The Lake District is just about my favourite place in the world. I thnk Manchester is a great City, Northumbria is gorgeous and even Wales is OK, I suppose...
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 10:09, Reply)

What's particularly interesting is that people get so aggressively defensive
of where they live, as if a criticism of their town is a direct slight on them and their choices. When most people live where they do entirely through some combination of chance and circumstance and wouldn't bat an eyelid over moving if circumstances forced it. It's very odd.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 10:15, Reply)