£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, 1 reply)

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)