Welwyn Garden City
My goodness!

Having seen Hatfield mentions 4 times already I thought that I would tell you about my fair town which I grew up in, WGC which is neighbour's with Hatfield. Welwyn is a nice place but is really only suited for 2 types of people - people with kids and old people. So great if you are bringing up children or retired but not so great if your ambition in life is not to add to the population.
I moved away some years ago and return every 6 months or so as my family demand the pleasure of my company and every time I go back, it hasn't changed. Apart from the Shredded Wheat factory and Tesco's head office, there really isn't any decent employment (unless you want to work in a shop).
WGC has no major supermarket except for an over priced Sainsbury's. If you want cheap food you have to travel to Hatfield for Tesco or ASDA. Neither are assessable with out a car as they are on the outskirts of the town and you wouldn't risk going on the bus.
It is 23 miles from London meaning that a lot of professionals live there and commute, causing the house prices to be massive. If you want to get a council flat then you have to have a kid, I was told this by the housing officer, nice huh?
There is lots of young single mums, when I visit the town centre I do happen to see all the skummy girls I went to school with normally with 2 or 3 kids (considering that I am 26 now 3 is quite a small number).
Anyway, welwyn town centre has 3 pubs, The Cork which was called the Cork and Cask, (had a huge refit then burnt down so they had to do it again, ) It is overpriced but because of that it isn't so bad to go into.

The Doctors Tonic (renamed something else but no-one ever uses the new name) full of the chav skum.
And then the Fountain, which apparently has a 'night club' above it (more like a stab club) frequented by the local gypsy groups so if you want to come out alive then just don't bother to go in.

There is no nightclub, you would have to go to stevenage for the delights of the leisure park. If you have a car then great, no worries! It has a huge car park but if you have to get the train then don't expect to get home after 12pm on sat as it shuts. So you have the choice of going home early or spending £20+ on a taxi home, (wgc is 20 miles from stevenage). There used to be the 'squash club' which was interesting to say the least. It was walking distance from my house but you had to be either really really drunk or bloody stupid to go there after the pubs shut. It's nick name was the sticky floor club (need I say more?) but the building it was in was sold and now houses are there.
wgc is a relatively quiet and safe place to live, walking down the main road at close to midnight the other week there was no one around and strangely 2pm on a Tuesday seems to turn it in to a ghost road as well.

I got so bored of WGC that I decided to move to London, living on the Isle of Dogs (nice) and in Leyton (bad). Leyton was not a nice place to live, having to walk past the crack users sitting on park benches at night and feeling very unsafe due to the fact that white people are the minority there. The road I lived on had a pub at one end and the Layton Orient football club at the other end so on match day you didn't venture out the door in case you got caught up with the hooligans. Walking past the local 'Massage parlour' was funny though as it never shut and you would see all sorts of men heading in there for a 'massage with perks'.

I then moved to Liverpool and I've been here 2 years next month. I will say that I am more scared to walk outside at night here then I ever was in Leyton, or London in general for that fact! I am still getting used to the scouse accent and I do find it hard to understand people. A scouser could be saying the nicest thing possible but due to the fact that the accent is so harsh I always think that they are being nasty. Sometimes I have to get my boyfriend to translate for me (he's from Liverpool but the posh side so he has has a slight lilt).
Liverpool is rather amusing to a southerner like myself, I will never forget the amusement and shock to see most of the women in asda wearing their pj's even though it was the middle of the day.I thought it was bad in the supermarkets but then I've seen girls on the high street in them shopping. My friend came to visit from Amsterdam and we had to go to ASDA and I told her about the pj brigade and I was upset when we didn't see any of them. If they arn't in their pj's then they are in velour tracksuits with their hair in those stupidly big curlers. Also Liverpool only seems to have 3 kinds of shops, tanning salons, hair dressers and pound shops.

Then you have all the chav scum boys who's uniform consists of black trackies and those stupid hats made famous by the chav scum group 'n-dubs'. What I don't understand is they need for them to walk around with their hands down their pants, do they think that their dicks are going to fall off if they let go?

To be fair everyone moans about their home town but hates it when an outsider does the same. WGC is fine and Liverpool is an experience but it doesn't even match up to my house mates home town which is Londonderry. Enough said really.
(Soaps Roller derbying your way since, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 15:20, 11 replies)

leyton
I live in wanstead, next to Leyton (lovely place too, cant believe its so close to such a cesspit).

At the moment I'm unemployed and forced to go to a New Deal centre not far from the football ground. I'm constantly surrounded by gangster wanabies with their arses hanging out their trousers and stinking of white lightening.

I hate the place. The other morning I ended up having a screaming arguement with a woman at the bus stop who told me the smoke from my rollups was aggravating her and that I was ignorant for smoking at a bus stop. After pointing out I wasnt actually at the bus stop, merely within a few metres of it, that it wasnt technically illegal for me to smoke near a bus stop and that she'd actually walked over & stood by my side so she could complain (and and and that if she'd just asked me nicely I'd have put the damn thing out), she went completely apeshit and said she was going to stab me.

Nice place
(EvilMeister, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 15:55, closed)

Employment in WGC?
Errrmm, what about Xerox and Roche? Both good payers and hundreds of employees?

I spent 5 years there, 3 living in WGC (agree with all your other comments) and 2 (sane) years in Hitchin, which was quite nice.
(morse, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 17:31, closed)

I didn't include Xerox
as I did the most boring job of my life there testing photocopier testing and I forgot Roche.
(Soaps Roller derbying your way since, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 9:48, closed)

Racist much?

"feeling very unsafe due to the fact that white people are the minority there."

Because clearly crime is only committed by the darkies.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 17:40, closed)

although her execution maybe lacking...
It is the sort of place where u get people who try to intimidate you if they think your a soft touch.

Only the other day whilst on lunch I was walking down the street in broad daylight and a gang 'of dem darkies' tried to give me abuse on the street.
I just laughed and carried on about my business (I used to live in jamaica so it takes alot more than that to get me worried). Seeing how nunplussed I was they then carried on with wotever it is they do.
But I can see how a mere slip of a lil white girl might feel a tad intimidated.
(EvilMeister, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 19:21, closed)

When I said that white people are the minority
I meant that a lot of muslins, coloured people and foreign people live there, I think that you are a little racist by immediately thinking that I meant coloured people.
(Soaps Roller derbying your way since, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 9:45, closed)

Having
lived in Liverpool my entire life I'm still struggling to work out where you mean by the posh side?

Chester?
(ste_mc_efc, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 20:10, closed)

allerton
thats what he calls it anyway
(Soaps Roller derbying your way since, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 9:46, closed)

Welwyn Garden City!?
What next, a essay on the mean streets of St Albans and Harpenden
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sat 31 Oct 2009, 20:17, closed)

Having worked there whilst a student
I can observe but one thing of the place, beyond its overwhelming blandness... the Shredded Wheat factory makes it smell of piss.

Piss.
( Moey, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 11:56, closed)

that made me giggle

(Soaps Roller derbying your way since, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 9:47, closed)