If you're ever up for running the country, you've got my vote...
...but for now you can have a click.

15 years. Fifteen fucking years I lived in that shithole. Everything you've said there is absolutely spot on.

For some reason I was content to stay there and work in the area after leaving school (though obviously not in the town itself, no jobs etc), despite hating the place with a vengeance since my early teens. It was only when I was in my 20s that I decided to go to uni as a way out of there.

They say there's a curse - if you're born there, you'll die there. Even if you get out, it'll draw you back in. My dad was born there, moved away for years but went back... now he's over 70 and not in great health, he won't be leaving. Luckily, I was born elsewhere and only moved there as a kid, so hopefully that doesn't apply to me.
( Dave McF wrote some words on, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 17:30, Reply)