Leeds is shit. Unless you moved here for the office work or commute.
It has aspirations to be London and has decided the way to go is up, and architecturally and socially is expressing that as quickly as the council can sell off the land and chuck off the locals.

As such you end up with an area where there is no heart, where there is only sky-high glass and metal, with walls, cameras and spikes that only those higher educated folks from out of town could possibly qualify to park behind or afford to live in, shopping complexes with guards on the entrances and exits making sure only the elite are allowed in, and a whole bunch of poorer folks who were brought up in the area left to look at it and wish they could touch it without being arrested.

Chavs and thieving scally scum are rife here and I really aren't surprised, if you don't have the money or the higher class, you are NOTHING in Leeds, and thanks to the high rises, can't even see the sun mid-summer unless you live in the highest apartments that get the rooftop gardens.

It's London without the wages, higher benefits or born-into class system, you have to bring that money and class IN to to live comfortably and be welcome here, and if you're born anywhere locally, that ain't you, you get to clean the streets for minimum wage, and at £10 in and £4 a pint, a night out is FAR too 'exclusive' for you, you get to stay at home, drink Stella and plot your revenge.

Blade Runner in the centre of Yorkshire without the cool umbrellas or sex-bots. Avoid if you can.
( ..wil, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 17:24, 26 replies)

Well said, I can't stand the place.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 17:45, closed)

Where are you from??
Well then??
(TROLLING AWAY living under a post ironic bridge, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 22:06, closed)

Barnsley (more precisely, Wombwell.)
It's not pretty, and it's not glamorous, but nor does it try so hard to be something it's really not. Also, it's not had its identity obliterated by a cabal of suited southern wankers who are only there because couldn't hack it in London, as the long post down there astutely pointed out.

Every time I set foot in Leeds city centre, I feel as if I'm going to be arrested for not being well-dressed or well-spoken enough.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 23:46, closed)

£10 to get in and £4 a pint?
You're going to the wrong places.
Also most of my friends from Leeds were born there. I don't remember any one of them being too skint to stand a round. Yes I was there for the work mainly because someone was needed to go there for a year whilst the weather centre was closing down in order for the guys who'd settled there to sort out their moves and new postings. The fact is though I'm still working class scum from the slums.
So as for your poor folks, well the same is true of povvos anywhere in Britain, they had free education, they have no-one to blame but themselves for not taking advantage of it.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sat 31 Oct 2009, 19:18, closed)

It's changed a lot recently.
The centre's got flashy skyscrapers and wanky bars all over the place and more porsh types than you can shake a stick at. Whereas the east and south side is still Beirut with pound shops, like it has been for the last 30 years.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 20:28, closed)

Ah, fair enough then Woodsie.
I've not been back in a while.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sat 31 Oct 2009, 21:10, closed)

leeds
Bollocks my good man, I was born and bred and can afford to park wherever i choose In this good city!!

Yes it is the business capital of the north and in becoming so may have alienated 95% of it's population..

Might I point out that security guards are a national phenomena and not exclusive to harvey nicks on Briggate..

I was born here but am not particularly bothered about looking nor touching even though I work in the city centre in a well paid job despite having never graduated... hmmm

Chavs and scum are as rife here as any other urban area in the UK such as London, Birmingham, etc. etc "just add the name of your home town here!"


However whilst swilling our cheaper beer substitutes and plotting revenge we have devised a catchy marketing scheme aimed primarily at the university students and southern migrant wankers sorry workers, named 'Welcome to Leeds.... now fuck off'

Bold I know but possibly direct enough for the middle class fuckwits that cannot make it in the big smoke nor indeed pronounce the name of it correctly (Landon) and feel the need to assuage thier inadequacies by asserting themselves somehow on the lesser folk o'the north to feel superior..

If London and the south is so wonderful, Might I make a suggestion?

FUCK OFF BACK YOU SOUTHERN CUNTS!!

As for the developments which reach ever skywards, the land upon which they are built is of an industrial or 'grey' designation and at no point were poverty striken Leeds peasents kicked off.. this is 21C Britain after all not Dickension England circa 1800...(or London)

As for your alleged class, does bragging about your earnings and the sad night lifestyle choices you so obviously enjoy account to bieng classy..

PS Cheers for the blade runner comment.. the NHS building on Quarry hill is known parochially as 'The Flash Gorden' building...

Or the 'KREMLIN' dependant upon ones political persuasion......

So to reiterate..
You sir are not qualified to slag Leeds off, I however am, I am also qualified to slag off parasitic wankers such as yourselves who do not earn enough to survive Darn sarf.. but are slightly bitter and twisted about it and feel they need save face by attacking the very place they make a living.. If it is so very bad then do us all a favour and fuck off!!

Thank you!!
(TROLLING AWAY living under a post ironic bridge, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 21:47, closed)

Bravo sir, Bravo


Leeds is fantastic...Born here, went away for a while and came back.

Best city ever.
( Larry Death Anger Pain Fear Aggression, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 22:06, closed)

It gets me that...
...cities which strive to improve (like Leeds) are suddenly "trying to be something they are not".

Nothing wrong with Leeds at all, it's a lively and comfortable place to be.
(Super Jet Shoes, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 16:50, closed)

Well lets put it this way,
I'm a lot better qualified to do that than you are to slag off me, seeing as I live there and you have never met me.

Cunt.
( ..wil, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 9:52, closed)

SO WHAT
I probably wouldn't be able to understand you... and quite frankly wouldn'd want to meet you, I've had my fill of arseholes ready to shit on Leeds whilst rather strangely living there and working there... dunno but if I'm not happy with somewhere I tend to do one... move so to speak somewhere else more to my taste..
If you can't afford to move I'll help you for free..

Cheer up kid, it's grim oop noorth!!

P.S. you are still a cunt, I only need to read your post bout Leeds to suss that out!
(TROLLING AWAY living under a post ironic bridge, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 21:08, closed)

DID I SAY YOU WERE A CUNT?
Just checking!! can you understand this in a Leeds accent?
(TROLLING AWAY living under a post ironic bridge, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 22:04, closed)

i love it when...
...peeple argue on the internet.

So much so that i mis-spelled 'people' in order to ensure a constant flow of replies:-)
(OTT, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 9:08, closed)

Gentrification is a wonderful thing
?
(dxg, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:39, closed)

Too many roads!
Ive driven in and around Leeds a good few times recently... The roads are like spaghetti and once I ended up in a place that really did look like Beirut with pound shops like somebody else mentioned above.

Whats with all the roads? I don't get it.
(SillyMoo, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 14:25, closed)

Roads...
... facilitate a quick and hasty exit. Or entry, depending on whether you love or hate a place.
(Mr Bryn, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 17:04, closed)

Beirut
That'll be anywhere 5 mins outside of the city centre!!
(TROLLING AWAY living under a post ironic bridge, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 21:10, closed)

£4 a pint?
You've clearly never been to the Angel Inn. Leeds is like London, but with a soul.
(Seasider, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 16:57, closed)

I've been away 8 years
spent my 20s in leeds and it has soul so I'm moving back in a few months and in the mean time i've lived in London, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussel and Antwerp

But yeah it's all about the Angel. Viva Leeds
(Logovend is doing arts and farts!, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 23:17, closed)

I have indeed and a nice cheap pub it is, reminds me very much of the York Arms, probably due to sharing the same beer supplier,
I was thinking more of the nightclubs, not that I personally have any aspirations to get into them but I imagine many a chav would if they could afford to.
( ..wil, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 9:55, closed)

Imagination
I Imagine your still a cunt!!
(TROLLING AWAY living under a post ironic bridge, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 21:11, closed)

Really??
Where exactly in Leeds have you been? £4 pints and shopping centres that only let in the elite? Leeds is largely students and chavs for a start. No it's not London but it does have a few of the benefits without the ridiculous prices, lack of work and travel times
(ignoramusaurus, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 11:43, closed)

Leeds is full of slack student lasses!
How can you possibly dislike that??
( Schweaty Minge I spunked in your tea! Taste it and see! D:, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 12:06, closed)

And as part of this...
Took out the city's best Italian restaurant and stuck it in the basement of a multi-storey carpark, killing its charm & soul in the process.

Still love the city though - my wife was a student there and I've worked there twice now. Shame about BiBis, is all :-(
(MartinB9999, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 12:55, closed)

That's a shame...
Not been back for a while, but it used to be my favourite English city.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 18:03, closed)

Leeds rocks
Leeds has changed almost beyond recognition, If any of yous are young enough to remember in the 80's Thatcher's lot devised a scheme whereby towns and cities would invest money to promote themselves in a positive manner to attract government funding grants, those that were successful were duly granted money which led to investment and incentives for big businesses, Leeds was successful and sold some of it's soul for the right to house a good few national organisations head offices such as NHS to name but one,

The changes wrought by this are not however all bad since in 1986 merely walking in the city centre on a Friday night round about the city square area could earn you a glassing and a trip to A+E for stitching up, It has become a more civilised and pleasent place, attracting as it does approx 50,000 university students per year and the revenue they bring...

Lots of really cool venues such as the Duchess of york and queens hall have gone has have some really nice bars and restaurants, but such is progress..

so unless you have a real historical perspective on the city you are not qualified to say shite all about it

so not all bad despite out of towners casting aspersions!

I thank you.. goodnight
(TROLLING AWAY living under a post ironic bridge, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 21:23, closed)