Moving out of London

Need to get my Dad one last Christmas present

I dun left London 18 months ago. Everyone in Cambridgeshire is obsessed by gypsies not getting on their bleak local recreation ground.

Zing!

Turns out it’s from 2016 when this sort of thing was totally fine 🙄

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Pretty common I'm afraid, a lot of trade companies do it

Cambridgeshire can be a bit bleak. Bedfordshire's worse though. I have family in that part of the world and always find it faintly depressing to visit. Something about the geography. Miles of flat featureless nothing much except identikit housing estates and ugly agricultural sheds. I'm sure bits of it are lovely but every time I venture up the A1 that way I end up longing for a landmark of some kind.

I don't know if this will make sense but I find that whole home counties area lacking a sense of place. It's not on a coast, it's not in the mountains, valleys or on a great river and it doesn't have any defining geological features to speak of. No cities or identifiable culture. I always feel a bit lost there.

At least in East Kent, rough as it undoubtedly is in places, I can locate myself in relation to the estuary or the coast and there's tangible history in the docks, the river, the orchards and hops. Out Bedfordshire way I always just feel like i'm a bit nowhere. Gives me the willies.

Haha! Fuckenell. Southern Cranes. Oh dear Clive.

^^Countyist

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/24/small-town-life-regeneration

one last Christmas present

Thats a bit bleak :(

Those Southern Cranes calendars used to turn up at the workshop when I worked for Brighton Council!

Used to be hung up in the sofa area.

Excellent stuff, look forward to the next episode.

Another option: Get a load of non-white mates and organise a piss-up. In a racist pub. See what happens. You could do it under the guise of a Sunday league or 5-a-side team kinda thing.

https://medium.com/@downfromtown/down-from-london-14a7baafb713

I enjoyed that, ta.

Good read that. Seems to ignore though, as a lot of these pieces do, that the choice is not just London or the sticks (with the latter often meaning still commuting to London). Lots of other cities are cheaper and easier than London but still exciting and modern and cool. I can confirm that Bristol, for example, has all of 'diversity, energy, sushi'.

Why did you make me read this? Send me your address for the invoice.

Wish me luck. I’m going in.

Update?...

bo0hoo

@Fatberg Wot, no golliwogs?

Yes we need to know if this has been resolved yet @Fatberg

I really enjoyed the first episode, just read it to my other half actually and we agreed it's very well written.

Speaking of being resolved yet @Skülly - no worries about the headphones, they live at work now and finally I have decent headphones at work (BYOHP).

...too late, assimilated already

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How is the commute from Oxfordshire?

How the fuck is that not a police matter?

When Robert Relf advertised his house for sale with a sign in front which said 'No coloureds need apply' in Leamington Spa in 1976 he was jailed under the race relations act. I'm pretty sure that wasn't a civil action. How is this any different?

There's a gift shop in the old Adelaide arcade that has a gollywog in the window. I couldn't believe it!

Well the point I was trying to make is apart from few oasis like Bristol, Brighton etc. 'moving out of London' is a white privilege.