It's the only city where I'd live in Britain
Everywhere else seems so parochial after living in the capital.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:33, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Manchester ent bad,

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:35, Reply)

It's in the North and is therefore not in consideration, anyway
I'm allergic to poverty, it brings me out in hives.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:38, Reply)

Quite so.
Fucking pigeon-fancying cunts.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:42, Reply)

I'll set my dogs on you, you southern oik.
And whippets have very sharp teeth.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 21 May 2010, 9:48, Reply)

mine doesn't, she's rubbish

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 21 May 2010, 10:04, Reply)

You feed her too much. Every other day keeps 'em mean.

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 21 May 2010, 10:34, Reply)

People are being so mean to me today!

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:42, Reply)

It's not you, it's all Northern people

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:42, Reply)

I'm Northern.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:43, Reply)

in city terms
exeter couldn't be less like london. it'd seem like a medium sized town to most londoners.

which is why partly why I like it. There aren't A roads and flyovers everywhere like Bristol and places like that. It takes me less than 10 minutes to drive to the countryside. 20 minutes and I'm on Dartmoor or at the beach.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:36, Reply)

These are all good things
the down side is that you are about five hours from anywhere interesting. Five hours on one crappy motorway.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:37, Reply)

that is true
the M5 wouldn't be so bad if they'd surfaced it properly. it's a complete fucker to drive on in the rain because of ridiculous amounts of surface water and spray.

I'm ok with it being far from anywhere for the most part. Most of my family is down here, and I still see all my good friends from school. It's a bit shit for gigs, that's the worst thing.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:39, Reply)

I couldn't live if I didn't go and see as many gigs as I do.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:41, Reply)

That was actually my main reason for going to University in Manchester
I didn't want to live in London, but most bands also play in Manchester.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:42, Reply)

I do see a fair amount
the local music scene down here is really quite good (excluding my band cos we're dreadful, but no one has noticed yet), and we do get the odd excellent band playing.

not so much mainstream stuff, but then Bristol doesn't get much of that either. It seems that big bands just don't come to the south west.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:44, Reply)

Your own band doesn't count.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:45, Reply)

I said excluding my band you spastic

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 May 2010, 9:55, Reply)

Your own band doesn't count.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 May 2010, 10:30, Reply)