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  • I grew up there and spent most of that time planning to escape. When I did it was to the furthest away university I could get into, then I moved to London and I would never ever go back.
    Nothing traumatic happened, it's just an insular, small-minded ugly shithole.

  • it's just an insular, small-minded ugly shithole

    yeah, that's pretty much what my wife said last time we went there. i was trying to peddle "it's not that bad".

    failed.

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