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I loved growing up there 20 years ago, it's just that the place has changed beyond all recognition since I left and I'm bitter because my 'home' isn't how I remembered it.
Kind of like when you bump into the 'hot girl' from school and find that, at 30, she's got more kids than teeth and thinks that pajamas are suitable attire for a trip to Tesco.
I will always be grateful for growing up with Mousehold Heath literally across the street from my house. I will, conversely, always be ungrateful for the fact that this meant I was in the catchment area for The Blyth-Jex School For Petty Criminals.
It is, but it serves a purpose. It keeps all of the hair-gel/shiny shirt posse in one place and those of us with less, er... 'Loaded'-esque tastes can choose to simply avoid the place. That and Prince Of Wales Road. I seem to remember reading a statistic a few years back that claimed that 80% of all violent crime in Norwich took place on that one street between the hours of 11pm-3am on Friday and Saturday nights.