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What cities do you Barbelonians live in?

 
  

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GogMickGog
15:51 / 08.10.07

*bump*

Currently reside in a village in the Surrey badlands, right on the far edge of the green belt. Lang walks, real ale, clay shoots and morris men provide the only bloodless entertainment.

We don't take kindly to strangers in these parts...
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
17:24 / 08.10.07
I too live in Surrey, above a quiete little pub that has been featured, more than once, on Sky's series Road/Street Wars.
 
 
Spaniel
17:30 / 08.10.07
Where is Surrey?
 
 
Olulabelle
17:33 / 08.10.07
Directly underneath London, one county above you.
 
 
jentacular dreams
17:38 / 08.10.07
It's that place between Gatwick and Heathrow. The bit of the North Downs that isn't in Hampshire or Kent.
 
 
Spaniel
17:41 / 08.10.07
"IN" I meant "IN"

Bloomin' typo nonsense
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
17:52 / 08.10.07
I live in Guildford, which is nice, has a really low crime rate and all.
 
 
Olulabelle
18:31 / 08.10.07
I would imagine Guildford has a low crime rate due to the large amount of staggeringly rich people who live there. There is no need to be robbin' people's mobile phones if you've got the cash to buy one. Plus also, where would the criminals hide in Guildford? They'd be instantly spotted wading through the sea of green wellies.
 
 
Bear
18:41 / 08.10.07
I live in Buenos Aires, the Paris of South America! Very nice. Tomatoes are expensive however. I think there was another Barbelither in Argentina but they didn't hang around. I guess my nearest person would be DM right?
 
 
Olulabelle
19:33 / 08.10.07
Hahahahahaha.
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
20:18 / 08.10.07
I would imagine Guildford has a low crime rate due to the large amount of staggeringly rich people who live there. There is no need to be robbin' people's mobile phones if you've got the cash to buy one. Plus also, where would the criminals hide in Guildford? They'd be instantly spotted wading through the sea of green wellies.

Have you even been to Guildford? It might not be Compton, but it's not Enid Blyton either.
 
 
Olulabelle
20:38 / 08.10.07
Yes I have, lots of times. I think it's pretty typical Surrey. And that's not even peeking down the Godalming road. There lies the way of five car garages and personal golf courses.
 
 
Dead Megatron
21:12 / 08.10.07
I think there was another Barbelither in Argentina but they didn't hang around. I guess my nearest person would be DM right?

Finally, I have become a geographical reference point. Success, at last!!

I live in São Paulo, wildest metropolis of the Southern Hemisphere. A giant, gray, behemoth of steel and concrete, founded by the jesuit priests, fed with the blood and sweat of a thousand ethnical groups, which, including the 20 plus sattelite municipalities around it and physically unseparable from it, add up to more than 20 million souls (and a few thousand soulless creeps), crazy little(?) place where the Devil himself anf Ahura-Mazda get together every other Thursday for happy-hour and midnite soccer games, where you can find anything (and I mean, ANYTHING) that is your heart's desire, though sometimes a bit pricey! The largest Japanese city outside Japan. Home of many mosques, temples, churches, buddhist monasteries, a semi-invisible zoroastrian enclave (or so I hear), and lots of crazy street preachers. Largest labirinth of the planet, bar maybe Mexico-City. Magickal hub and financial center of South America, with all the good and bad things that come with it. New York mixed with Cairo and Bejing and Rome, with very little long term urban planning. A place you can love and hate, fear and long for, all at once.

It does strange things to your mind, too.
 
 
astrojax69
02:03 / 09.10.07
i grew up in guildford! - sadly, it was a hoony western suburb of sydney, orstrylya.

i now reside in sunny canberra, the nation's proud capital city, and have just clocked up twenty years; indeed in the last week or so.

that almost makes me a local now.


you've become geographically significant, dm. well done! have a beer for me.
 
 
This Sunday
02:13 / 09.10.07
Currently in Los Angeles, California. I tell myself it's by choice and highly temporary
. I am not designed for cities, clearly, as I walk everywhere, prefer walking on grass and dirt, and am easily distracted by birds, rain on pavement, and sounds of accidents and traumatic events two blocks off. I do find that five a.m. orange glow they call a skyline sentiment-inducing though.
 
 
Jot Evil Rules During Weddings
04:19 / 09.10.07
I lived in New York City, which needs no explanation, for 18 years and now I live in Washington DC, the nation's capital. While some people before me in this thread have said they live in the most segregated city in the US I would like to disagree with them. I live in the most segregated city in the US, and ironically it is the capital of the US

DC is divided into 4 sections, northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest. Northwest is where all the white people live and where most of the governmental buildings are. The other three sections are majority black. When you go on a tour of DC, you see the nice, rich, white part of the city, which is northwest. You do not see the very poor, very run down, black part of the city.
 
 
GogMickGog
09:47 / 09.10.07
"IN" I meant "IN"

If we want to get all specific, I'm 'in' a wee village named Frensham. It's sandy and green and with the Scarecrow festival already been and gone, the social calender looks a little bleak from here til' July.

Though villagey in the utmost, it's only a few miles from the nearest town, meaning that a late night walk back from the station becomes a little like that scene in Naked Gun where Frank paces the pavement until it's pavement no more...

Elsewise, Guildford's no ghetto but it ain't exactly Primrose Hill, chum. Belabour all the 'rich white folks' cliches as much as you like but I'd put the social spectrum closer to dead centre in those parts. It's all very much the same as you'll find across the highstreet nation.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
09:51 / 09.10.07
Re: the Guildford-isn't-that-posh thing--is anyone else hearing "I'm not middle-class! My granddad was a coalman!"?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:05 / 09.10.07
It might not be Compton, but it's not Enid Blyton either.

Perhaps one could compromise.

Richmal Compton?
 
 
Spaniel
10:17 / 09.10.07
I know Frensham. Half my family lives near Farnham.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:25 / 09.10.07
Frensham School is a lot tougher than you'd think. It's like the ghetto.

Incidentally, the London Borough of Westminster, in which Primrose Hill resides, is statistically hella more ghetto than Guildford, with 34.4 cases of violence against the person per 1,000 of population agin Guildford's 14.
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
10:26 / 09.10.07
It might not be Compton

Actually, there's a Compton just down the road. When I was 18 I had to drive through it everyday for work, and would sing NWA's "Straight outta Compton". Ahhhh, to be young again.

"I'm not middle-class! My granddad was a coalman!"?

He was in the printer's union, actually. And I grew up in a council house, which is basically the english equivelant of the projects. But that was Blackwater, I moved to Guildford to live above the pub.

I'm not middle-class, though I did go to art college in Farnham. Bah! The truth is out! I've been living a lie.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:48 / 09.10.07
Blackwater is in the district of Hart - 10.7 cases per 1,000 of violence against the person. That's Tiggywinkle territory.

I live in Baltimore, in the low-rises.
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
10:58 / 09.10.07
*Hangs head in shame*

I guess I've lived a pretty charmed life, in some nice areas.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:06 / 09.10.07
Hey, everywhere has its good areas and bad areas. Good block, bad block. I mean, that shit where the shorter of the porter's daughters dipped her hand in the deadly waters?

That shit was cold, yo. Seen some bad stuff in West Baltimore, but I ain't seen nothing like that.
 
 
Dark side of the Moonfrog1
11:53 / 09.10.07
I'm from Tunbridge Wells, and, obviously, i'm quite disgusted with all of you.
 
 
Spaniel
12:04 / 09.10.07
Bobosso's Dad was a coal miner for a number of years. We have had many an argument about her class status - she likes to insist that she is working class, I like to insist that that's an irritating claim to a strange brand of British authenticity.

Have we got any threads on that topic? We must do, surely?
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
12:14 / 09.10.07
Do it Boboss - I want you to start a "Goddammit I'm working class!" thread!
 
 
Saturn's nod
12:33 / 09.10.07
I've been wanting to read what people have to say on something near to 'what does class mean?' for ages, please will someone get it started? I think a new thread might be great fun.
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
14:30 / 09.10.07
I'm in London, sarf of the river, near Brixton. Love it here. I'm originally from Scotland, west Edinburgh to be precise.

And my Dad sold photocopiers. But I did go to a state school. And accrued enormous debt to get a degree.
 
 
Ex
14:36 / 09.10.07
Bobosso's Dad was a coal miner for a number of years. We have had many an argument about her class status - she likes to insist that she is working class, I like to insist that that's an irritating claim to a strange brand of British authenticity.

Carolyn K. Steedman (in Landscape for a Good Woman which has much cool stuff about British class) writes about the cachet of certain professions for people from less-than-affluent backgrounds, and coal-miner is precisely the one she mentions for chaps.

I'm not sure I want to provide you with more ammunition to poke your partner, though.
 
 
teleute
14:39 / 09.10.07
I live in Whitley Bay eight miles out of Newcastle, in North East England. One day soon we will hopefully be annexed by Scotland and leave our England shackles behind, being embraced by their far more enlightened Parliamentary system and greater tax distrubution from dear old Whitehall. And they're nicer to the old folks.

Whitley itself is a great place to live, so long as you don't buy a house in the puking zone that runs through the middle of it.
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
15:20 / 09.10.07
I'm in Dover and both of my grandfathers were coal-miners.
 
 
Ron Stoppable
15:27 / 09.10.07
I'm from the North-East, live in South London and come from hardy stock.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:35 / 09.10.07
What, a reddleman and the vain wife of a schoolteacher returned from Paris?
 
  

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