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| gracie |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 10:23:46
I currently live in Essex which, for anyone who doesn't live in England, is a horridly boring place to live. It's also full of Chavs and i just feel like it has nothing to offer me.
I've lived here all my live and now i'm working (as opposed to being a piss poor student) i feel that it's time for a change and i'm trying to decide where to move to. My boyfirend works in London but it's too expensive. I like the idea of Brighton but i'm undecided.
So help me out, think of somewhere i cool i could live.I'm open to all options.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 10:12:27
Well this is the coolest place that I have ever lived. Our apartment was in the block with the brown roof, just to the left of the camera on the tripod. It was right on the beach. It was great to walk out onto the balcony every morning and check out the surf, watch the sunrise.
The phonebooth in the centre of the picture is the one I used to call home from before we got a phone at home. The sea is where I used to surf all the time. Seeing this has made me miss it again. Damn. The town is called Avoca Beach and it's about an hour and a half north of Sydney in Australia.
Help me! He keeps making me post!
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| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 04:12:31
er...that was about brighton by the way!
God forbid I exude confidence and enjoy sex |
| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 04:11:54
well, Stay away at all costs from Moulsecomb and WhiteHawk. Not great idea to live really central either, might sound good, but only so if youre a student who doesnt mind people pissing up against your front door, having sex out side your window and usual city noises...
Five Ways, Seven Dials, and Preston Park area are all pretty good places to live. Withing walking distance of city centre, but still quite quiet.
Hanover and Kemp Town are also nice areas, more central than the above, but still not in the bits you dont wanna be in.
God forbid I exude confidence and enjoy sex |
| n/a |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 01:21:59
Good choice, Porto is very beautiful in the summer, in fact it´s beautiful the whole year!
No peito dos desafinados
Também bate um coração
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| astrology |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 01:19:01
i live in Sevilla, nice place but hel`'s kitchen from june to september... think i will move to porto those months
I'm a pistolero, i'm not shakin in my boots
I'm the ruler of this moon, if u move I shoots
the bad thing about talkin to inanimate things starts when they start complainin bout it |
| hWolsky |
Posted - 11/16/2004 : 19:19:15
Forget the third-world please.
Paris, Paris...
Zai Zhong Guo, you wenti... tebie...
HW |
| Stuart |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 21:54:49
Beijings a cool place if you are looking for a relaxed lifestyle
This is a high class bureau de change, not some Punch & Judy show on the seafront at Margate! |
| Crispy Water |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 17:47:23
I vote for Edmonton and its river valley too, but I'm sure there are thousands of places I'd find just wonderful. For the time being, though, screw everyone else - Edmonton beats you.
Nothing is ever something. |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 15:45:07
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Thats Edmonton, Alberta: new home of Canada's largest Ikea.
"You ever seen a man say goodbye to a shoe?"
"Yes, once..."
Oh you know it then ;)
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Godfather of nothing, ancesters of none.
Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
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| n/a |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 14:15:02
Portista mas não muito a sério!
It´s a shame to don´t know Porto...this is such a small country, Lisbon is very beautiful too, I go there sometimes.
Didn´t you went to see Frank there? Last year?
Estranho escrever em inglês para um português!
No peito dos desafinados
Também bate um coração
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| velvety |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 14:06:03
quote:
Originally posted by rita
Astrology, did you really loved Porto? You said so many places where I spend so many time in my youth times...Campanhã, Bomfim...I love that city, so beautiful! And that girl,did you find her again?
No peito dos desafinados
Também bate um coração
Ah, Rita, uma Portista então? ;)
I've only seen Porto for brief moments, while passing through it, which is kind of embarassing, I'll visit soon hopefully.
I love living in Lisbon, very bright place to live in.
Funny you mention Santiago de Compostela, I went there this year for the "Jubilee". Beatiful city. |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 13:22:23
Thats Edmonton, North London: new home of Europe's largest Ikea.
"You ever seen a man say goodbye to a shoe?"
"Yes, once..." |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 12:29:34
Edmonton has the largest amount of greenspace out of all cities in North America. Our river valley kicks ass!
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Godfather of nothing, ancesters of none.
Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
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| astrology |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 07:05:06
i only ha ve to look for her inside me. sometimes she plays hyde and jeckyll seek.but do not mind i will be there this winter
I'm a pistolero, i'm not shakin in my boots
I'm the ruler of this moon, if u move I shoots
the bad thing about talkin to inanimate things starts when they start complainin bout it |
| n/a |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 06:04:23
Astrology, did you really loved Porto? You said so many places where I spend so many time in my youth times...Campanhã, Bomfim...I love that city, so beautiful! And that girl,did you find her again?
No peito dos desafinados
Também bate um coração
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| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 05:55:14
i would choose a UE mediteranean country if i where you. italy, spain, greece or portugal are all excellent choices for one reason or another. i've visited some northern countries like iceland and finland and tho' they are beautiful to visit i can't understand how can humans live there. the weather sucks, it's always cold and you can forget about a day in the beach. that's just me tho'.
 join the cult of errol\and you can have a beer\without having to quit smoking
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| astrology |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 05:49:23
one belongs where he/she/it once loved.. a true love of..anyone else
parsley sage, marihuana.. and some coke in Tijuana
I'm a pistolero, i'm not shakin in my boots
I'm the ruler of this moon, if u move I shoots
the bad thing about talkin to inanimate things starts when they start complainin bout it |
| astrology |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 05:28:20
lovely rita
i was exiled in Porto five months and i love it, also met a Rita, lovely girl with pretty blue also sad eyes, y found her telemovel..
I managed to get bed and food paid by CAISS and wrote an article in el jornal de Bonfim bout the Madrid massacre
passed thru Lisbon with saudade of the gal of my life... went to see her street, Rua dos cavaleiros, as i was a cavaleiro myself and stopped to chat with a cantoneiro for a while..saw the crosses at the tube and felt a viriato/makisard in sostiene Pereira..
shape...lembrin bout a night 17 years ago when i crossed the tejo in a full moon night to sleep in barreiro.. I love portugal as I feel a Portuguese sailor..
and I was reborn there also..a satori in Campanha and the saudade e eterna...in a foggy morning in the Bonfim cementery...
Granada is also a cool place to live, as Vigo, with his Hitlers jugend boy scouts ( true blue there were a camping club of that stuff in Vigo) and the sunsets i watched from my window, sun burnin behind the Cies island.. where i was arrested once...
Alcala de henares , where Cervantes was born.. Santiago de Compostela with its bearded woman living behind the Physics Campus where i slept my hangoverS.
Puerto de Santa Maria, Cadiz.. Porto's mirror in the southern side of heaven where i saw the Columbia space shuttle land in Rota..
zaragoza...where i was born.. Calatayud .. where my breed come from and where your Constitutional Court boss dropped dead when he realizaed who really the Dharma Bum wanderin in Porto and smokin xarros really was...
Drownin in the sea of the Bagazos...the Sargazzos is near the Messina strait
I'm a pistolero, i'm not shakin in my boots
I'm the ruler of this moon, if u move I shoots
Truth is out There, but Mulder cannot find G-Gal's G-point.
erection is no poltergeist, even if its Majestic |
| Newo |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 04:19:43
quote:
VoVat Posted - 11/14/2004 : 16:25:30
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The Land of Oz sounds like it would be a pretty cool place to live, if, you know, it were real.
You mean Osiris?
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Moving from the clown to the jester will mean moving from similar to same, from alike to identical, from comparable to analogous. Though applied differently, the colours used on one can be used on another, and a couple of changes of costume will rapidly transform the jester into a clown and the clown into a jester. Strictly speaking, they almost duplicate each other as regards clothes and function, the only difference between them, from a social point of view, is that clowns do not usually visit the palaces of kings. |
| broken part |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 18:15:48
quote:
Originally posted by Monsieur
Seriously, I was also thinking about going to see the Pixies in Reykjavik, but I didn't want to go alone, and my friends found it too expensive (it was).
Iceland is the only nordic country I haven't been to, and I wish I could visit someday. I've been told it is very beautiful, and I am in love with nordic landscapes.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust
I am seriously considering seeing Pixies in Iceland (if that happens). This year I went to Ljubljana and Amsterdam to see them just because I missed out on Brixton. It turned out that combining my loves of travelling and Pixies was an amaizing idea. Even if the place doesn't come up to expectations (they did anyway) there will still be a high point.
If you don't want to go alone you'd be wellcome to tag along with me. I found out this cheap nordic airline flying into Reykjavik from London for about £60. You could grab a train or Easyjet to London and it would still probably cost less than Airfrance to Iceland. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 17:09:09
Years ago I was in Brighton and London... I liked London better because it was bigger and had more shows and more going on in general. But you are right, it is more expensive.
I think some other cool places are Chicago,Barcelona, Melbourne, NYC, San Fran, Boston, Toronto, Madison, WI, Bloomington, IN, Venice, Rome, Minneapolis and San Diego
Places I haven't been that seem cool, Upper Northwest of US and Vancouver, Austin, anywhere warm and tropical...
http://www.campervanbeethoven.com/gearstolen/ |
| VoVat |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 16:25:30
The Land of Oz sounds like it would be a pretty cool place to live, if, you know, it were real.
"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan |
| Monsieur |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 15:48:02
Seriously, I was also thinking about going to see the Pixies in Reykjavik, but I didn't want to go alone, and my friends found it too expensive (it was).
Iceland is the only nordic country I haven't been to, and I wish I could visit someday. I've been told it is very beautiful, and I am in love with nordic landscapes.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
| Monsieur |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 15:43:51
Fuck Iceland, let's all go to Finland, that's where Santa lives!!!
I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
| broken part |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 15:28:02
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
I've always wondered about Reykjavik. Anybody been there? Should I keep fantasizing about living there?
 I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank
Hey! That's my fantasy! This year I found out too late about the Pixies Reykjavik gig to go. I wasn't sold out but the plane ticket would have been too expensive. If they're playing there next year I'll definately go.
And that correct link is www.chavscum.co.uk |
| kathryn |
Posted - 11/13/2004 : 08:27:32
I've always wondered about Reykjavik. Anybody been there? Should I keep fantasizing about living there?
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| Newo |
Posted - 11/13/2004 : 08:09:34
The last time I took acid my flatmate, who was not partaking, made me hold a funeral for her goldfish. It was quite harrowing, my head swarming out in a million directions and me digging a tiny grave with a butter knife.
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Moving from the clown to the jester will mean moving from similar to same, from alike to identical, from comparable to analogous. Though applied differently, the colours used on one can be used on another, and a couple of changes of costume will rapidly transform the jester into a clown and the clown into a jester. Strictly speaking, they almost duplicate each other as regards clothes and function, the only difference between them, from a social point of view, is that clowns do not usually visit the palaces of kings. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 16:17:41
I wanna live on an abstract plain.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| n/a |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 15:26:06
I got dosed with acid once, spent a couple of hours
convinced I was in a giant hamster wheel and
dutifully ran on the spot for a while
Frank Black ate my hamster |
| floop |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 14:17:07
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
I've done that and enjoyed it (the library, not the acid, never touched that stuff).
But I couldn't imagine actually living in the otherwise enchanting Big Sur.
Plus, I have never been to a beach where I have walked by so many people having sex. That's not always a plus, you know.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank
i've never done acid either (just mushrooms). but, you were asking for suggestions of things to do...
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| notkimdeal |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 13:05:54
I have to agree with Greg and Carolynanna - Victoria is paradise. We had a very hot, dry summer this year, and I'd take the rain over snow any day. Wind comes with the ocean, it's all good. Not so good for live music, though Pixies did take the trouble to hop over to the island (Greg, I'm still eternally grateful)....
However, having also lived in London and Montreal, I'd go back to either place. Long time fantasy to move to France... I hear the south of France is being bought up by the Brits and Canadians anyway. |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 11:53:59
quote:
Originally posted by greg
Lets see...
Yep. I live in Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Did I mention that as far as Canada goes it rarely, if ever snows here?
www.bettieserveert.com
It is beautiful there.
But it does rain a whole helluva lot, and its windy quite often too.
(Not stupid windy like southern Alberta though)
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Godfather of nothing, ancesters of none.
Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
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| n/a |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 11:43:26
quote:
Originally posted by Newo
I just finished Richard Brautigan´s Confederate General In Big Sur (well you´d read it over a lunchbreak) and I´m in the middle of Kerouac´s Big Sur, sounds like a very cool place.
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Moving from the clown to the jester will mean moving from similar to same, from alike to identical, from comparable to analogous. Though applied differently, the colours used on one can be used on another, and a couple of changes of costume will rapidly transform the jester into a clown and the clown into a jester. Strictly speaking, they almost duplicate each other as regards clothes and function, the only difference between them, from a social point of view, is that clowns do not usually visit the palaces of kings.
Loved the Brautigan, hated the Kerouac
Frank Black ate my hamster |
| Newo |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 10:31:15
Gracie, don't go to any of the British Isles. They are extremely dark places. If you're kind and warm and you live in one of them it is a clerical error.
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Moving from the clown to the jester will mean moving from similar to same, from alike to identical, from comparable to analogous. Though applied differently, the colours used on one can be used on another, and a couple of changes of costume will rapidly transform the jester into a clown and the clown into a jester. Strictly speaking, they almost duplicate each other as regards clothes and function, the only difference between them, from a social point of view, is that clowns do not usually visit the palaces of kings. |
| gracie |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 09:49:23
[quote]Originally posted by GypsyDeath
Gracie, definately come to Brighton.
I used to live fairly close to essex, and felt the same as you, but im so much happier now in brighton, theres always something to do, somewhere to go, everyones so nice, loads of good music places, and like minded people.
COme to brighton.
Thanks for all the great suggestions guys.
I am coming down on the side of Brighton. It'll be a pain to move outside of England as i'll have to do a law conversion course and i am pretty lazy.
Are there any particular areas of Brighton that you can suggest Gypsy?, or at least tell me the areas to avoid at all costs. |
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