Rundown town centres

stony said:
It did even less for Heywood and Midd. Worst thing that ever happened to the town was the day Rochdale took over. You find many people in Heywood who are old enough to remember when we had our own council with any love for Rochdale.
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The day Rochdale took over? Yer mean the day Rochdale kow-towed to Middleton and Heywood!! Jeez, Stony! Manchester gets shot of Langley and Middleton dump Langley on Rochdale! Rochdale was the once archetypal urban district that made Didsbury look like a slum - until Middleton and Monkey Town got on board!
 
The Silver Surfer said:
It could've very easily been Bury on the list.
I hated the town centre and its crappy market for years. Its my nearest town but I always said I'm from Whitefield (which is south Bury).

But fair enough what the council did on the The Rock over 5 years ago, turning it into a shopping, living and entertainment space could almost be described as visionary. Where others have drowned, Bury has thrived.
Its got great transport links and colleges and i'd much rather go there now than the Trafford Center to shop or watch a movie.
I'd still go to Manchester for a night out but my nights out are declining with age anyway now.

But yeah, I'm quite proud of the place now.
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Shhhhush! You bellend, don't let our secret out and have every scrote moving into Bury.
 
Como Cat said:
....because you are supporting a local business, or supporting a business that employs local people. Because that business will probably pay the correct tax to our government. Because your purchase won't be clogging up the streets (even assuming you don't send it back) whilst a 'self-employed' delivery driver attempts to meet his/her targets. Because sometimes its good to get off your arse and get out of the house. Because if no one supports their local shops we'll end up with streets of opticians, chain stores, fried chicken shops and estate agents or rows of shuttered up units like that photo from Bristol.

Admittedly, I would not go to Ashton to do any shopping.
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The last half dozen items I bought online almost certainly were not available in local shops. I'm talking collectible badges, merchandise and an obscure CD.

Staff still need to be employed to pick orders and post them out.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
The day Rochdale took over? Yer mean the day Rochdale kow-towed to Middleton and Heywood!! Jeez, Stony! Manchester gets shot of Langley and Middleton dump Langley on Rochdale! Rochdale was the once archetypal urban district that made Didsbury look like a slum - until Middleton and Monkey Town got on board!
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Kow towed? Wow, I never really looked at it from the Rochdale side, but I can tell you not a single person in Heywood wanted to become a part of the Borough of Rochdale, we were doing just fine on our own. Heywood was a great little town until Rochdale started to shove all its shit there, and by that I mean all the scruffy cunts it didn't want in Rochdale they shoved in Heywood or Midd. Not to mention the disparity in what was spent in Rochdale compared to what Heywood got. You even stole the town silver and it has never been seen since.
 
The biggest downfall of high street shopping is The Internet. No doubt.

I only buy food from stores.
Everything else its Amazon as an example I could buy 200 400mg Multivitamin Tabs from Holland & Barrett for £5

Or on Amazon buy 200 1000mg Multivitamin Tabs for the same price.
More than Double the strength and it takes away the time and hassle of going into the shop, paying for parking and so on.

There are ethical arguments against Amazon such as the way in which apparently their staff are treated and also the fuel emissions from delivering our stuff everywhere.

Why pay more for less when I can just use my smartphone and buy exactly what I want?

The internet will never replace my food shop however.
I just like the ability to inspect the food I'm buying, if I fancy a certain type of food on that day I can rush out and get it (and not pay parking at supermarkets)
 
Wait until the drones start dropping our purchases in our back gardens. Delivery drivers will be a thing of the past. All this stuff delivered straight to the door, drive throughs, no wonder half the country is obese. Every fucker sat on their fat arses looking at a screen, no talking, no walking . We're going to end up back in the caves mumbling shit and eating raw meat!
 
Chippy_boy said:
Bristol.

People have this lovely image of Bristol with Clifton suspension bridge gracefully spanning the avon gorge, and the lovely victorian houses in Clifton and Clifton Village. Picture postcard. Lovely.

The reality is the whole City is pretty much a shit hole with individual districts vying for being the shittest:

Hartcliffe - not safe at night. Or the daytime.
Lawrence Weston - makes Harlem look like Martha's Vinyard
Southmead - make sure you have a gun on you
Lockleaze - I'd rather live in Strangeways. Most of the residents used to.
St. Pauls - up and coming. From the very bottom
Bedminster - "bohemian". AKA "a total shithole"
Patchway - cheapest drugs in town
Easton - Average life expectancy, 26
St. Werbergs - Handy if you fancy a shag for £20

I can go on and on. The whole place is an utter dump.
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The £20 shag sounds quite reasonable.
 
yeseye said:
Wait until the drones start dropping our purchases in our back gardens. Delivery drivers will be a thing of the past. All this stuff delivered straight to the door, drive throughs, no wonder half the country is obese. Every fucker sat on their fat arses looking at a screen, no talking, no walking . We're going to end up back in the caves mumbling shit and eating raw meat!
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Hahaha ooh shit, I'm laughing but you aren't far from the truth pal.

The human race will be replaced by advanced robots which don't die and constantly consume, never get obese and so on.

Robots buying goods from other robots which are controlled by a very small minority of humans which will still be on this earth but have the ability to programme the bots so they don't harm them.
 
I went to Gillingham a few years ago (when Benarbia backheeled it to the Goat). The town centre there would take some beating. A riot of concrete, track suits, bull terriers and gingerness. All of the Medway towns are dire. The name Rochester conjures up images of Dickins, but it's just like Gillingham. Further North, Luton is another complete toilet
 
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Chippy_boy said:
My point about Bristol is that virtually the entire city needs bulldozing. Most towns have the posh areas, the OK areas and the run-down areas. Bristol has 1 posh area and 39 run-down areas. It's thousands of acres of meh. And yet, bizarrely, when I say I live in Bristol, peoples' eyes light up and they say "ooo, isn't Bristol lovely". It's like some Orwellian big brother/emperor's new clothes thing going on. I feel like saying, "have you BEEN to Hartcliff"??? Chernobyl is nicer.
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My sister used to live in Horfield. That had some prize specimens in it as well. I only went to the pub there the once!
 
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