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Poll Question: What's your favourite English city?
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I'm sure I've missed a few... But these are the ones I've visited and are probably the key cities in England For any of you who've either had a holiday here or live here like me, which is you're favourite?

Personally for me, it's Bristol. Quality music scene and a very beautiful city in places. BIG as well, lot's to do.
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I agree - Bristol is a great city; laid back, cosmopolitan, great music, friendly people

Personally though, either Cambridge or York would be my all time favorite, historic, great real ale pubs, friendly people, picturesque...

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

I agree - Bristol is a great city; laid back, cosmopolitan, great music, friendly people

Personally though, either Cambridge or York would be my all time favorite, historic, great real ale pubs, friendly people, picturesque...


Though I am not British, I have visited about half of those cities, and would agree on Cambridge - really nice place, though I remember having to pay a lot of attention to bikes when walking in the centreWink. Never been to Bristol, unfortunately - and I'm afraid I'm not likely to, in the short term at least
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Northampton isn't a City. Geek
 
Picked Leicester from the list, but if York, Winchester or St. Albans had been listed I would have selected one of those.
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

I have visited about half of those cities, and would agree on Cambridge - really nice place, though I remember having to pay a lot of attention to bikes when walking in the centreWink


That's true of a lot of university cities, but if you're going to be run down by a cyclist, it's more than likely to happen in Cambridge


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I agree, something should be done about those cyclists. All they do is slow down the traffic. The same goes for pedestrians. People who can't afford a car should stay off the streets.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

I agree, something should be done about those cyclists. All they do is slow down the traffic. The same goes for pedestrians. People who can't afford a car should stay off the streets.


Actually, I could afford a car, but choose not to have oneLOL - as odd as it may sound.
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

I agree, something should be done about those cyclists. All they do is slow down the traffic. The same goes for pedestrians. People who can't afford a car should stay off the streets.


Actually, I could afford a car, but choose not to have oneLOL - as odd as it may sound.

The same for me, actually. Except that I can't afford a car or drive one. Embarrassed (I've got a licence though. Approve)


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You missed Liverpool off the list - my birthplace, and as a true Liverpudlian* I feel quite affronted!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

You missed Liverpool off the list - my birthplace, and as a true Liverpudlian* I feel quite affronted!

I think you were the one who missed it.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

You missed Liverpool off the list - my birthplace, and as a true Liverpudlian* I feel quite affronted!

I think you were the one who missed it.
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Leeds. My dear old dad was from Leeds. Defected to Canada in the 50s. I like going to London because you can be an ant. Haven't been for about a decade. 
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I don't think Cambridge is a city is it? More a university town?

Anyway, I should've included York, my mistake. And yeah, Northampton isn't a city, my bad Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:


Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

I agree, something should be done about those cyclists. All they do is slow down the traffic. The same goes for pedestrians. People who can't afford a car should stay off the streets.
Actually, I could afford a car, but choose not to have oneLOL - as odd as it may sound.



Not odd at all! I work 23 Klms far from home, so i can't do otherwise but
from Friday evening to Monday morning i don't move the car at all! also, I HATE DRIVING!

however, after last raise in gas tax (now it's up to 1.5 euto per litre, i'm beginning to think to become a commuter even if it takes me 2 hours to return home!
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My wife and I love the northeast of England in general... Durham, Bamburgh, Warkworth, Alnwick etc. York is our favourite and most visited, in spite of the fact that (I believe) there still exists an ancient law that entitles a native Yorkshireman to shoot Scotsmen with the longbow LOL    
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Full list of English Cities:
 
Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Coventry, Derby, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Kingston upon Hull, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Liverpool, (City of) London, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Preston, Ripon, Salford, Salisbury, Sheffield, Southampton, St Albans, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Truro, Wakefield, Wells, Westminster, Winchester, Wolverhampton, Worcester, York.
 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

You missed Liverpool off the list - my birthplace, and as a true Liverpudlian* I feel quite affronted!

I think you were the one who missed it.
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It was probably swiped by one of those thieving Scousers when I was on here earlier Embarrassed.
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Been to Liverpool and saw the "Four Lads Who Shook the World" ,  been to Newcastle where it really rocks,  Leicester i got lost in, Southampton everybody is boarding the ferry out of there, Birmingham was always cold and raining when i went there, and Bristol i only visited twice - a life changing disaster on the first visit, two weeks spent in Bristol Royal Infirmary, the second my car overheated and blew a hose, but they are lovely people!
 
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LONDON
 
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What? England has cities now? Rowdy upstarts...
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...and some of them are nearly as small as US cities Wink
 
did you know the smallest (by population) city in England is London.
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