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What part of the UK are you from.

View Poll Results: What part of the UK are you from
South West
28
11.62%
Wales
10
4.15%
North West (Includes Manchester Lpool Carlisle)
37
15.35%
Scotland
30
12.45%
North East (all of Geordie land, down through to York)
14
5.81%
Ireland.... (Can we include both without upsetting anyone yet?)
9
3.73%
Midlands (including East Anglia saves me 9 options )
44
18.26%
South East, London, Home counties, Essex Kent etc
69
28.63%
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What part of the UK are you from.

Old Nov 5th 2007, 11:17 pm
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Default Re: What part of the UK are you from.

Originally Posted by johnnyyt
Bournemouth, Dorset.

South Coast UK in the middle not south west or south east.

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West of Gloucester or East..... I draw the line at Fred West Territory


Wonder why I've not met many people from the South East ? The polls on here reflect the Density of the country, but not my personal experience, or of people that I talk to in the UK. I now wonder if I were to go on to a similar board to the one I use based in the UK, I would get people as happy with their lot as the Londoners/SEast seem to be. A fair few on the CPFC BBS have tried Aussie and gone back and knock the place rotten. I put it down to Australia not being able to meet their affluent expectations, or indeed the median average wage in London and surrounds of circa 40,000 quid. Which equated in my mind of Australia being less of an attraction to people from this region than others ?
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Default Re: What part of the UK are you from.

Originally Posted by paul30
Leeds (west Yorkshire). No yorkshire in the poll whats with that.

Apologies I only went with 8 poll choices on purpose. So your lumped in with the Mancs and Scousers I'm afraid Do you think that most people where you come from are happy with their lot. Leeds gets quite a good rap from most these days, as being a decent place to live, by people in the UK that like the UK I mean ?

Its the people from East Anglia that have the most to complain about in my opinion
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Old Nov 5th 2007, 11:22 pm
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Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
Apologies I only went with 8 poll choices on purpose. So your lumped in with the Mancs and Scousers I'm afraid Do you think that most people where you come from are happy with their lot. Leeds gets quite a good rap from most these days, as being a decent place to live, by people in the UK that like the UK I mean ?

Its the people from East Anglia that have the most to complain about in my opinion


You can't 'lump' us white roses in with the reds ffs
Wakefield West Yorkshire for us.

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Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
West of Gloucester or East..... I draw the line at Fred West Territory


Wonder why I've not met many people from the South East ? The polls on here reflect the Density of the country, but not my personal experience, or of people that I talk to in the UK. I now wonder if I were to go on to a similar board to the one I use based in the UK, I would get people as happy with their lot as the Londoners/SEast seem to be. A fair few on the CPFC BBS have tried Aussie and gone back and knock the place rotten. I put it down to Australia not being able to meet their affluent expectations, or indeed the median average wage in London and surrounds of circa 40,000 quid. Which equated in my mind of Australia being less of an attraction to people from this region than others ?

we moved from Kent... affluent? not us... OH was on a crap wage compared to what he'd have been on if we'd moved to the midlands but I didnt want to live near Birmingham... there is a lot of talk about how the south east is a rich area etc etc etc but I think it's as much a myth as all Aussies enjoy bbqing a shrimp on the beach whilst supping Fosters and wearing a cork hat!
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Default Re: What part of the UK are you from.

Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
Apologies I only went with 8 poll choices on purpose. So your lumped in with the Mancs and Scousers I'm afraid Do you think that most people where you come from are happy with their lot. Leeds gets quite a good rap from most these days, as being a decent place to live, by people in the UK that like the UK I mean ?

Its the people from East Anglia that have the most to complain about in my opinion
Aye it's not a bad place (at least it was when it was on the right side o' the pennines) but like everywhere it's got it's probs
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Glaaawster as it's shouted from the 'shed' at Gloucester's Kingsholm rugby ground!
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Default Re: What part of the UK are you from.

Originally Posted by loz
You can't 'lump' us white roses in with the reds ffs
Wakefield West Yorkshire for us.

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Default Re: What part of the UK are you from.

I voted Wales as that's where I was born. However I spent all my UK working life in London. So for the purpose of your poll I probably should have said South East.

Just FYI most of the poms I meet are from the SE.

I meet quite a lot of Scots too.
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Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
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aye big whoops now you'll have to write out a hundred times. I must not insult those lovely yorkshire folk
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Originally Posted by bridie
we moved from Kent... affluent? not us... OH was on a crap wage compared to what he'd have been on if we'd moved to the midlands but I didnt want to live near Birmingham... there is a lot of talk about how the south east is a rich area etc etc etc but I think it's as much a myth as all Aussies enjoy bbqing a shrimp on the beach whilst supping Fosters and wearing a cork hat!

It's been a long while since I moved, but when I lived there, Kent used to have a lot of transport depots, around Gravesend and Dartford etc. I think a lot of that Infrastructure moved to Mkeynes, which seems to have prospered quite well. My Brother in fact works for one of those Mkeynes transport Companies, driving his 40' truck into London every night for citylink or similar for circa 32,000 quid per annum, his wife works in a good job as well.

A lot of people from Kent commute to London, which must make it hard for people that work locally in relation to house prices.
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Default Re: What part of the UK are you from.

Originally Posted by Streaks
although I voted SW, we are actually from a town 10miles south of Bristol on the West coast.
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Default Re: What part of the UK are you from.

Originally Posted by ozzieeagle

A lot of people from Kent commute to London, which must make it hard for people that work locally in relation to house prices.
Yes, that was part of the problem. We lived right down on the south coast (Hythe) about 16 miles from Ashford where they had the International Station to France and Belgium and were putting in the high speed rail link from London - so a heck of a lot of awful shoebox houses going up everywhere and prices getting silly for those on local rather than London money.
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Wales....

Most British accents I hear are Southerners.
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Default Re: What part of the UK are you from.

Originally Posted by paul30
Leeds (west Yorkshire). No yorkshire in the poll whats with that.
Where's Yorkshire?
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Originally Posted by TiddlyPom
Where's Yorkshire?
aparently it's just moved over to lancashire
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