[\PJ/]

Do you like your area by area i mean where you live is it clean quite or is it a hell hole and is your council doing what is best for the community.

[Retroman]

I live by the sea, nextdoor to Brighton...
Which means im not living in a typical quiet seaside town, but one that's filled with foreign tourists and foreign coaches full of school children/ college students. Mainly the japanese funnily enough, who seem to have some kind of fascination with the area.

[Im still persuing my dream of finding an english speaking japanese girl who I can chat up lol.]

There's no litter, barely any crime so it would seem, lots of normal people, with a few emo's dotted about the place and barely any chavs. Some would think of it as a paradise I suppose.

However, im originally from a very common town up north named Burnley, so im typically used to the exact opposite. Chavs everywhere, drunks, fights, crime, dodgy people and litter as far as the eye can see.

Best place ive ever lived was Surrey, near Epsom. The most expensive property area in England at the time [maybe still.] with lots of well off people, which makes all the adults rather stuck up/boring. But all the younger people are decent and I lived right next to the major train line and station...which meant easy trips all over the South East, from London to Brighton. So you couldn't complain for lack of a nightlife/things to do.

Only problem I have with living down south is they're potentially a lot more rude/unsociable.

Back in Burnley I literally knew everyone for miles, not because I was immensely popular but just because it was such a close community. Everyone was ten times more friendly.

Down south I haven't even gotten to know my nextdoor neighbours, and often fall into situations such as me stepping out into the road with a red light on, some idiot ignoring the red light and almost running me over, then HIM deciding to shout at me for being in the way.

Ive also suffered much patronising, namely at a University interview from a uni professor who talked down to me, in my opinion, due to my accent. Also people dismissing me for jobs because of my voice, or saying im uncapable of handling telephone calls because im not immensely posh.

[Shaun]

I live in a really popular town for tourists...but the majority of Torquay is a shithole. Lots of unemployment and drug use. Crime is quite low though... and there are only a few chavs

Overall, I like my hometown

[Captain.Remy]

I live in the second city of France, Marseille, in the south. I love it, we have some beautiful islands, the sea, the beach, the sun all year long (it rains 7-8 days a year).
Of course there are the rich and the poor areas but both are clean and respected.
I enjoy where I live, my area is deffo really cool, in the middle of the city with the metro just in front of the building so it's easier.

[Ann]

well my area is quiet and i live right facing an old peoples home so i have to mind the loud music plus i have lived here for 17 years now and i do love it too

[xDramatick]

I live on a council estate =/
It's not awful, but it's quite bad?

Mostly populated with chavs, gangs and junkies, I live on the front, so I don't see a lot of this thankfully. For example, a famous gang on my estate chased this guy out of a pub on the estate, and shot/stabbed him like.. just around the corner from my flat =/ We heard it and everything [couldn't see it because there's another block of flats in the way] and armed policeman were knocking on doors and everything, it was REALLY scary. Not to mention the boy that got the sentence for it lives on the floor below me in our flats o.0

Things have calmed down a little. I won't walk through our estate alone because I KNOW I'll get some sorta comment. I'm pretty much the outcasted teen on here, since I'm what they'd class as 'grungie', 'emo' etc? Plus I'm kinda gay, which although no-one can prove, it kinda shows sometimes? =/

There are some nice people though, like the guy that lives opposite? He's really sweet *cough*andkindahotandkindamarried*cough*, but he's been there for me when I've needed someone and my parents ain't been around? So at the moment, things are kinda calm, but like I said, I don't see much of it since I live in the front.

[~Kizwiz~]

I live in a kinda nice area of Leeds, its got some great schools and the people are nice. There are some area's like any city where there is poverty and high crime but its a nice city to live in.

However, we're looking to move closer to my family who live in Rutland (where????) Its the smallest county in the UK and its where I grew up. It beautiful and has everything that you could ask for if you want a nice stable place to bring up the family. Excellent school a wonderful community and of course the biggest bonus..... family..... and the prospect of babysitters

[Loukas]

well people try and beat this

HACKNEY!!

the worst place to live in 2006 aparently but i guess its not as bad as people think...

i live in stoke newington its quite a posh part of london we have a forest lol well its a graveyard that is HUGE but its a nature park now leona lewis went to my school and amy winehouse shot her video back to black in that graveyard/nature park l0l

so its not that bad lol

[~Kizwiz~]

Originally posted by Shaun
I live in a really popular town for tourists...but the majority of Torquay is a shithole. Lots of unemployment and drug use. Crime is quite low though... and there are only a few chavs

Overall, I like my hometown

I used to live in St.Ives in Cornwall and it was the same there, in the summer is was buzzing..... too many people over populating the town and then in winter it was dead.... a ghost town. But there was nothing to do for the locals but drink, gamble and take drugs. My mum thankfully saw what could happen to her children if we didnt move away because my sister and I were coming to the age where we could have both been dragged into drink and drugs. So we moved back to Rutland

[Ann]

DT you live in the same area as my cousin and she loves it there too

[Loukas]

Originally posted by Ann
DT you live in the same area as my cousin and she loves it there too

cool WOW SMALL WORLD

[001steven]

Edmonton North London... Craphole but hey i been living here for 17 years since i was born dont wanna stay in the UK wanna move to either Austrailier or america

[Loukas]

COOL my cousin lives there

and i go there every week because of ikea

[supernoodles!]

Originally posted by kizwiz

I used to live in St.Ives in Cornwall and it was the same there, in the summer is was buzzing..... too many people over populating the town and then in winter it was dead.... a ghost town. But there was nothing to do for the locals but drink, gamble and take drugs. My mum thankfully saw what could happen to her children if we didnt move away because my sister and I were coming to the age where we could have both been dragged into drink and drugs. So we moved back to Rutland

I LOVE S.T Ives.I went there on holiday when I was about 10 and I loved it.It was better than being abroad.It sounds corny but i remember walking along this cliff one evening and the sea was sooooooo blue,like bright blue,Ive never seen it so blue it was like I was actually abroad.On the north east coast its just grey permanatly lol

[supernoodles!]

I live in a town called shildon which is in Co.Durham,which is in the north east.If you dont already know.Its about a half our drive to newcastle city centre (thats if you dont get stuck in traffic!).I hate my town!!!Its full of old people and trains.(We have this huge train museum that opened a few years back which apparantly gets tourists from all ovetr the world)Anyway its soooooooooooooo boring,I can not wait to move.Some parts of the town are quite rough,like theres a big council estate and a couple of other 'notorious' streets which are full of druggies,convicts etc.Oh and theres also ALOT of chavs,but emo`s seem to eb taking over too!
I guess you could say I like in the 'nice' end of the town but I still hate living here

[Siouxsie]

cannnot wack the north east newcastle sunderland great cities