I'm guessing you lived in Cross Heath, or thereabouts, then.
Newcastle is very strange like that.

I never really understood the high-end-car levels in the town. Having been brought up in the Westlands, I could sort of understand a lot of Volvo or Saab-driving types - the Westlands is where all the teachers, solicitors and doctors live. But that's not the Lamborghini crowd. I have no idea where they congregate.

Nor do I understand what kind of person buys one of those flats by the Bearpit Roundabout. Who'd pay £100k or more for something so small and badly-put-together when you can get a proper house with garden and walls not made of papier-mache for not much more? Well, who apart from the Lamborgini crowd.

But quite how they make their money beats me.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 14:16, 2 replies)

Until I read this
I thought "what's he talking about, my brother lives in N-u-L and it's not that bad."

My brother is a teacher and lives in Westlands. QED.
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 15:10, closed)

Indeed
it was Cross Heath. We would always drive past the prestige car club near the Morrisons - how a place like that can stay open there just beggars belief.
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 15:14, closed)