el_richo

Dude, you need to remove that chip on your shoulder (or at least make it sweeter with some ketchup).

I live in London (with a very strong yorkshire accent and free from toff induced injuries) and am certainly no toff nor affluent yet i walk to the end of my street and see rowers on the thames every day. I drive for a short while and i'm seeing excellent countryside scenery not dissimilar to the pictures in the nicey nicey thread. I'm 5 minutes from Hampton Court Palace, the Deer Parks, 30 mins from Windsor Castle, etc etc and it's very picturesque.

The cottage in the picture would be valued depending on area so could range from low to high 6 figures i'd have thought.

Maybe you're used to deprived areas but where i was brought up in Yorkshire (near York) we certainly didn't have a lot of cash for a fancy life yet we certainly had the natural beauty it offered to immerse ourselves in.

Yes there are good and bad areas in the UK but i would be very confident in saying that the majority % of the UK is very nice to look at.

You may also want to write on the threads depicting Canada as being beautiful and scenic because there are also very deprived and crappy areas there too.

BristolUK

TTR

hobbitess

Ya wad bee a sanddancer bonny lad!!!

Spoken from North of The River I add.

Oink

I thought it was a nice picture and quite frankly not bad for a council house.

seaham gal

Me too - we moved from Seaham to South Kensington....culture shock to say the least!

rae

fair points. boasting and self delusion personally.

i fully accept i have bags of chips on both shoulders, this being pointed out does not bother me that much, i know, unfortunately they remain with me come what may. they have arrived there after seeing years of injustice, for those without the means, title, or connections, to avoid what was coming their way, its this that i find galling, especially when, in my opinion, england is portrayed in the manner some have replied to on here.

this is backed up when people post that this kind of life is available to all, and 90% of the UK is like this??!! are you serious, have you ever visited inner city manchester, liverpool, birmingham, bristol, plymouth? makes me laugh as you confirm exactly what i am going on about without even realising it. to some this is england, and they portray it as such. it is not, its a very small part accessible to the privileged few.

give me an example of a bin man living in a detached cottage by a river and i'll wind my neck in.

the original photos of the home are what i was referring to, my apologies if this was not clear, its states in the post attached to them, this is the sisters house, not just a random picture/tourist spot.

below for the person who can find a substantial detached thatched roof cottage in its own grounds next to a river in heart of the english countryside for 250,000 pounds, i couldn't.


http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...86.html?locati

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...35.html?locati

mardyarse

Oh thank you so much I haven't laughed this much in ages I thank you so much for your brilliant replies and pictures of real life in the UK one which the average Canadian doesn't see and can never understand why we moved here in the first place.

Absolutely brilliant and thank you. Must go now as I've taped my Coronation Street and my chicken tikka is going cold. Did you see what Jeremy Clarkson said about "ex pats". Says he from his 1.5 million GB pounds mansion in Stow on the wold ha!

Tr1boy

You need to move to Oz. They have a serious salinity problem and with those massive chips on your shoulders it would be a great way to use up the salt.

It is my sister's house, and it's worth is nobody's business on here. Speculate to your hearts content. I put the pictures up because they I thought fellow MBTTUKers would like them. There are several of that house on there, and if bothered to do a search on my other posts before you went into default working class man this is all I'll ever be, woe is me mode, you would have seen I have put up all sorts of pics. The cathedral is there because I live in Wells, Somerset.

Here's a pic you'll enjoy:

It is of the back garden at Xmas of the house I grew up in. Hey guess what, it's an ex council house in an ordinary street in Wells, Somt. My Dad worked in a brush factory years ago and my Mum packed cheese for a living. Now because my parents don't have chips on their shoulders, they encouraged us to be the best we can be, and my sister works for a prominent law firm and I do very well in my chosen profession. We achieved this without going to uni because my parents could not afford it. I've been lucky enough to live in 4 countries and have seen more of the world than I ever thought possible. It has never ocurred to me to restrict my vision to the grime that undoubtdly exists in the UK and every other country I've lived in.

I posted a picture of my sister's dog's 7 puppies a while back, perhaps I should have posted a pile of dog sh!t instead for a bit of 'realism'. The bad points of the UK don't need highlighting as the Godzoners, haters and media do a good enough job of that. I prefer to live my life with a different view of my country, and seeing how it's my life and all, I'll make my choices on how I view things.

Here's another pic, it's of the moat that surrounds the Bishop's Palace next to Wells Cathedral. This is 'the other end' of town that we could never afford to live in, but does that stop me from admiring its beauty? of course not.

I'll sign off now as I don't want to keep you from ironing your hair shirt and feeding the whippets.

DaveLovesDee

If you post pictures, people will comment on them. If you want fellow MBTTUK-ers to see them then maybe you'd have been better off posting it in that forum, instead of in the Canada forum.

Why should people have to search through your other posts before responding?

BristolUK

Hmmm....inner city Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham.....and Wells.
Yes, that's a fair comparison.

Tr1boy

Not following your logic at all there. I didn't post the original pics in this forum. Benny the Binman was obviously looking in MBTTUK (not sure why).

I'm not saying he had to do a search, but it's clear he didn't as he's fired a wobbler based on a couple of doxzens of pics I've put up without any forethought at all.

I welcome comments on any of my pics as do all posters I'm sure. Just seems a bit odd to pick on my pics for quasi poliotical left wing rant, that's all.

lisag8070

pic # 3 is actually a corner shop (with a Drs surgery next to it) just down the road from where I used to live in Swinton, Manchester..and of course all the rest are piccies of Manchester and Salford....nuff said..

Tr1boy

Visited, well I lived in inner city Bristol for a few years, does that count? Totterdown, to be precise. Let me know if I'm qualified to comment any further champ.

Read was was written again. I was acussed of having a privelidged life, and whilst a council house in Wells, might be exactly cardboard city, it's long long way from the kind of lifestyle Benny is suggesting that I grew in. Anyway, it's picture, look, don't look, wring your hands, enjoy, whatever.

BristolUK

I read a post by Rae who spoke generally of injustice and people without means and he mentioned inner city areas. I didn't see anything saying you had any great advantages. You responded as if a council house in Wells was comparable. Coming from Bristol I know that as well as the inner city areas, there are the not so inner city areas like Easton and Barton Hill and the sprawling, deprived, high unemployment, drug-ridden council estates like Hartcliffe, Southmead, Knowle, Lawrence Weston.

Come from the 'wrong' part of Bristol and move onto one of those estates and you're in for a life of harrassment.

A council house in Wells just isn't the same.

Totterdown eh? Small world. Me too...from 1984 to 2004.

While a long way from posh it's also a long way from 'inner city' too. The area "coming up" and becoming trendy with the consequent rises in property values is what gave me the equity to buy properties here and live in early retirement.

Tr1boy

Perhaps you missed this bit?