Grayling

Don't want to be too pedantic but Oxford and St.Albans are cities...not towns

G

uk+kiwi

To be honest that's what I first thought but since they were listed in a book of towns I thought I must be incorrect. What a totally crap book.

Grayling

Sounds like it

G

snowbunny

Okay....

I wanna see the list of TOP places to live.

Bob

Saying Oxford is a town will make Swindon happy because they have been trying to get city status for donkies of years now

snowbunny

What is so up with this city vs town thing? Is it cathedral-spire envy? I mean they are rather large and phallic.

Bob

more than that...but it's part of it, that and population, jobs, uni's etc etc....and Swindon, big rival and there shite footie team, pains me to say are doing much better than Oxford, are called town, so be amusing if they ever got the upgrade

cupranod

Milton Keynes is a great place to live if it's facilities and modernity you are seeking.
Apart from that,it's about the most unfriendly,soulless place I have ever lived;the people there are so ignorant it is untrue.

I think some of the larger towns in Cornwall are great to live in,but it all depends what you are looking for as far as work opportunities,cost of living et al.

I do agree that Hull is a shit hole though,as is Slough.

snowbunny

Yes, I keep hearing that Cornwall is nice.

I personally loved the village of Belper, Derbyshire, where my ancestors lived.

Horses for courses.

BAY

Up The Robins !

You reds

Bob

evil

Geordie George

Didcot is very dull. And has a lot wrong with it - my overriding memory of that place is of cooling towers.

I think Oxford made the list by virtue of its one way system, which was clearly designed by a town planner with a grudge and an over-developed sense of malice.

Didn't rate Oxford as a city, but its surrounding villages (well, towns) were lovely. Fab place to spend an afternoon in a pub's beer garden

Bob

I'll give you those cooling towers makes lovely cloud formations though *lol*

And Oxford made that list because of the housing cost, well the isn't a job problem, nor a crime problem, certainly nothing major...but that one way system is a tad shite, but once figured out ain't so bad...but a mare on parking in the city centre....on the plus, good bus service and loads of pubs, all within walking distance, can't knock that

Crispyuk88

This is a bit from the book on Oxford & why it made it in here.

"The beauty, prosperity and inspirational intellectual atmosphere of Oxford make it the most appealing of all English cities. Unfortunately, they come at the expense of dumping most of the poorer sections of the community in large, desperate estates."

- Beautiful, thriving town center.
- Working class forced to live miles from the town in bad 'ghetto' estates. This is why the town center is so nice, at the working class' expense.
- Badly behaved kids, committing atrocious crimes: Tormenting mental people, lighting fire to bins, graphetti, joy riding, stole, pick pocketed etc

Basically, the bit they have explaining why Oxford made it there, is some bloke that grew up in a shithole estate and is moaning about kids growing up having no futures.

Population: 134,248
Unemployment: 2.2%
Violent Crimes (per year): 13.2 (per 1,000)
% achieving GCSE's A-C: 98% -----> that’s high! Almost a contradiction don't you think?
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mr mover

well if thats the case my Birth place has the biggest Phallic symbol in the country............ mm