where you live

[P156KWJ]

Another thread about 'us' in a bit more detail, tell us all about where you live, what you think of it, and perhaps a bit of history?

Hometown: Nottingham
What I think of it: Whilst most people stereotype it as being full of guns and knife crime, (even though I take the **** with that sometimes!), it's actually not a bad place to live. I live about 3 miles out of the very centre, which is still densely built up. My school has about 1400 pupils. Ironically, even though Robin Hood is an internationally known ledgend, I don't know much about the history surrounding the topic at all!
My local stations: Netherfield, Carlton
Other random facts: Nottingham has a fleet of 15 Bombardier trams, Nottingham station has annoying auto announcements, we have a really good bus company

 

[Coxster]

I'll let some other people do the talking.

Gurgy:
"My first time to the UK was last year. Me and my girlfriend travelled from Australia and stayed in Farmborough with extended family. A 'nice place' as described by my dad, who was there about 20 years ago... It wasnt a nice place, a cesspool of human filth is better description."

y2pc:
"Farnborough is a small little town in the commuter belt region of Hampshire which is absolutely full of families that work in the neighbouring chav meccas of basingstoke, camberley or bracknell, plus an overspill of squaddies that must have got lost from Aldershot. One of the main reasons there is such a high chav-count in Farnborough is because there is absolutely nothing to do. Little charver scum like to congregate in the doorways to late opening newsagents and off licences like Dillons, One Stop and Alldays and love to only give you the smallest of spaces to squeeze past if you try and go in. Of course you have to keep your head down cos a millesecond of eye contact could lead to either a cry of "whatchoo lookin at?" or "buy me some fags mate innit" - your best bet is to wait until they are texting and then dive in (or just not go to any of the pikeyish shops in the first place).

Farnborough Town Centre is currently undergoing "regeneration" - which means half of it is shut and boarded up and theres about 25% of it thats new and white while the remainder is still brown, 70's, and chavvy. Local chav stores include a new extended JJB (with the biggest baseball cap selection in town), Argos, Claires Accessories for the chavette -and some curious farnborough-specific Chavstores such as Jean Jean, which is basically one of those ropey knock off denim stores selling Lee Jeans off the back of a lorry and black chavster jeans liek those old "Spliffy" and "Eclipse" brands, kind of like a market stall in a shop if you get what I mean. Another favoured chav hangout in the Town Centre is Woolworths where younger chavs like to steal pick n mix and all the chavette 16 yr old mothers like to show their kids a bunch of toys and then shout that they cant have them and generally causing a scene (do chavs not feel any embarrassment? why are they always shouting at each other, and why do they seem to revel in all the people watching them as they scream "Kylie!" at the tops of their chavvy mockney voices?) Farnborough Town Centre is also trying to deal with the threat of Camberley, guildford, Reading and Basingstoke shopping centres having more shops than them by filling the remaining shop units with either pikeyish pound stores for the larger, older, rounder chavs, and mobile phone shops like Orange, O2, and the Carphone Warehouse to keep up with the high demand for chavs trading in the phones they've nicked off people the night before so they can aspire to the latest "bling" nokia, or perhaps head back to the elizabeth duke section of Argos to get that new Sovereign or what looks like a large thick rope plated in cheap gold paint.

When they reach 17, the older brothers of the little pikey chavsters that fill up the town centre like to take their 1st cars that their parents have paid for (if their spoilt its modded, but normally its a fiesta popular 1.1 with a hole in the exhaust) and all park at Farnborough Gate - which is a "retail park" which is in reality a large car park with a Currys, Comet, Halfords, a couple of carpet or curtain warehouses, and of course the chav homing beacon - the golden arches of a drive thru "maccy d's" innit. Here they like to buy a small shake cos they only have 79p in their adidas trackies and generally sit on their cars, glare at the people that come to actually eat some food and try and do lame handbrake turns or "donuts" around the car park and generally pull out in front of people around the main roundabout where you drive in and out. Because they had been overrunning the entire car park the powers that be decided to put big gates in to keep the chavs close to McDonalds, but concentrating them arundthe entrance just makes it a much less inviting place to go - I always suggest you park as far away from the pikey scum as possible or you may come back to a key scratched car, run in, get your food, and get it home to eat - no need to sit amongst the scum, and if you use the drive through you'll have to somehow master getting your food and driving off without looking at any of the scumbags who are deliberately getting in your way. (on that side of things - what is about the chavs and walkign out in front of cars - especially the little turds that walk out in front of you and then go really slowly - the only good that can come of this is if i get one of the smaller ones to **** themselves by speeding up, or if my brother is in the car as he likes to shout things like "hey its the blazing squad" at little groups of chavsters.)

So in conclusion I hope I've put you off coming to the horrible little shanty town that is Farnborough - to be honest I'm surprised it wasnt on here already."

 

[Gizmogle]

Oh you're kidding me!

Also from chavtowns:


On first glance - Buxton is a jewel set in the Peak District where obviously middle class folks go about their business squeezing out 2.4 kids, helping out on the PTA and worrying about upgrading the company Mondeo to an Audi A4 by catching the bosses eye on whatever no-mark and irrelevent project they happen to be working on this week - it's a 'par for the course' commuter town.

Only it's not and if you look a little closer.......

The tradition of the CHAV and it's related social underclass connotations go back for hundred's of years - because that's how long many of the local families have resided here never daring to leave Buxton's warm embrace breeding with each other to drain an ever decreasing genealogical pool. The Buxton CHAV is a creature who likes to hang around the Pavillion Gardens car park after 2000h drinking WKD. This ****e inhabits the recently opened KFC where they find all the sustinance their emaciated bodies require honestly believing that a FANTA contains all the vitamin C they require. They also have an ALDI from where they can purchase whatever it is this vile underclass reqiire for sustinance.

In the evenings - the older ones like to frequent the 'Cheese' where they can beat the crap out of the recently arrived dregs of the UCAS system who study at the local campus of Derby University - they can be found in the Spicy Kitchen at turning out time where the ubiquitous tra of donner meat and chips can be purchased without taking too much out of the job seekers allowance/family allowance/income support.

Where do these miscreants come from? Well - on the edge of town is a festering/weeping sore known as Fairfield AKA Scumville. No-one of taste of self respect lives here by choice yet the local morons see it as a badge of honour and they breed with one another to ensure the area is re-populated with first/second/third generation pond scum. The Police won't even patrol there even though they know all the criminality in Buxton occurs up there - they would rather park a mile or two up the A6 to catch 'speeding' TAX PAYING commuters on their way home from a hard day in the office - thus one can argue the Police assist in the perpetuation of the Buxton Chav myth.

Benefit claiming Buxton ****e like to drive constantly from upper Buxton to lower Buxton day and night in various souped up untaxed and uninsured bangers listening to loud dance music in between attempting to impregnate 14 year old females they pick up on the Market Place or the aforementioned car park at the Gardens.


I live in Fairfield It's not as bas as they make out, I swear.

 

[christopher]

Hometown: Nottingham
What I think of it: Craphole
My local stations: Romford, Emerson Park
Other random facts: Romford has shops

 

[laseandre]

Hometown: Dumbarton
What I think of it: Infested with neds/chavs, not that big, shops quite good though.
Local Stations: Dumbarton Central/East, Dalreoch
Random Facts: Basically everyone in Dumbarton is a ned/chav.

 

[BJMorley]

Hometown: Derby
What I Think of It: Normanton - Immagrants run it, tell us to **** (they can call us racist); Sinfin - From what I heard a Sh***hole; Oakwood - Middle Class, better that Chad; Chaddesden & Breadsall Hilltop - Run by Chavs in the CLF gang, they think they're hard bnut are scared of the police, grassers and poncers; Derby - Complete waste of space; Mackworth, Mickleover, Littleover, New Zealand, California - Not much difference 50:50 Immagrant : Chav population; Spondon - Better than all of them put together - they have their own station!!!
Local Station: Derby Midland
Random Facts: Derby had to stations, Midland and Friargate; Micklover, Chaddesden, Breadsall and Sinfin had Railway stations; Derby's New Quad is a pile of ****e, and no one in Derby wants it - but the apes in the council think we do!! But the magistrate's court across the road has more space, but we need to spoil the view with a glass time bomb!!!
Brandon

 

[mrcheek]

Hometown: Weston-super-Mare

What I think of it: Ill let my boss' words at last week's press conference sum it up:
"The pier is Weston, and Weston is the pier". Not a whole lot left here now.
and yeah, its full of chavscum (where isnt these days), but at least we have Hobbits, the most wonderful alternative/metal/indie/goth club that you could possibly dream of having in a town of only 70,000 people. Ive been here 34 years. it isnt all that bad really. Ive seen plenty of worse places.

My local stations: Weston-super-Mare, Weston Milton, Worle

Other random facts: Some famous people have come from Weston. Including Jeffrey Archer, Jill Dando and John Cleese.

 

[P156KWJ]

My local area used to be run by a family which moved out in the early 00s to Crewe, they were so bad that when they left the whole area considered having a street party to celebrate but it's calmed down a lot now, it's fairly quiet (apart from the trains!)

Sir jesse Boot had a small herb shop on Beastmarket Hill in Nottingham, which started off the whole Boot's the chemist.
We have what is said to be the oldest inn in the world (Ye olde trip to Jerusalem) underneath Nottingham Castle in Brewhouse Yard. Nottingham's newest pub is the Stratford Haven in West Bridgford, which used to be a pet shop

 

[Ascot]

Hometown: Birmingham
What I think of it: Bloody Great
My local stations: New St, Snow Hill, Moor St, Coleshill Parkway, Stechford, Lea Hall, Marston Green, Chester Road, Olton, Solihull, Marston Green, International, Water Orton, Perry Barr.

 

[jonb]

Hometown: Brentwood, Essex, UK

What I think of it: Good town, transport links to the outer villages (Where I live) could be better

Local Stations: Ingatestone, Shenfield, Brentwood

Now the word from Chavtowns:

"If you are ever driving down the A12 and you hear on the radio that there is congestion prior to the M25 junction, you may choose to divert off the A12 at the previous junction and unknowingly find yourself in the Monaco of the Chavs. This 'pricipallity' houses the royal family of the Chavs and the chav elite. Most Chavs dream of owning a mansion in this corner of Essex and those who have stolen enough to do so, have adourned the outside of their over extended 3 bed semis with bootiful block paved driveways (preferably with his and hers Initials) and fantanstic rendered dropped walls with gold tipped black railings and electric gates (again with his or hers initial or housename i.e Dunroamin', Checkmate, South Fork, Tara etc etc). Security is a big priority for the Chav Elite cos being dodgy they have loads of geezers after them, so two concrete golden eagles stand guard either side of the gates in order to scare off any fellow chavs who dare think of comming in to nick anything or blow them away with a shooter. The insides are donned with wall to wall fluer-de-lys and laminate flooring is a must. Brown leather sofas are popular along with anything else that they buy for their palaces at the Chavs John Lewis' (IKEA to you and me). Princess Chav drives either a Peugeot 206 CC or Ford Street Ka in order to get her to Bluewater(Considered better than Lakeside by the Chav Elite cos its abroad) and back or the local solarium. Prince Chav drives a chelsea tractor (4 x 4 that has never left the road) to take him dog racing or the municipal golf course. When you drive thru the town centre itself take your time to admire the many Chav drinking establishments in which 5ft balding prince chav can take his 14 stone princess and show off to the masses his council tartan and her LV cap and bag which matches their sofa. They also go out for slap up two for a fiver meals in these drinking establishment prior to the Kebab, McD's and fight (with each other) on the way home. Brentwood is the apitamany of Chavs with Cash, If its a deal, knocked off or of an unknown source then its SOLD!. They also pop over to North Weald Sunday market to pick up more chav patterned clothing or sports clothes. To conclude, your better off staying on the A12 in the heavy traffic in order to avoid this chavsville!"

 

[me123]

Hometown: Coatbridge, AKA Little Ireland
What I think: Coatbridge is an absolute dump and is pretty much full to the brim with human scum. I hate to say it, but it's true. The only reason people could possibly have to move here is the fantastic travel connections into Glasgow and elsewhere, and the property market here boomed for the last few years.
Transport:

• Coatbridge Sunnyside and Blairhill stations are on the North Clyde Line, running to Airdrie, Glasgow, Balloch, Dumbarton and Helensburgh. There will also be a fast and frequent service to Edinburgh in a few years time.
• Coatbridge Central station provides a poor but sufficient hourly service to Motherwell and (s)Cumbernauld, providing a rather decent service to Edinburgh from both stations (albeit with transfers). There's an infrequent Argyle line service, which would provide a good commuter link to Hamilton if strengthened. Whifflet is also servied by these trains.
• Whifflet is the terminus of the Whifflet line (oddly enough) which also calls at Kirkwood (my local station) and Bargeddie (for lesjordans). Services run to Glasgow Central and, for four Sundays a year, to Shotts.

Odd facts

• About 70% of people here consider themselves to be Irish, although have never been to Ireland
• The Orange Walks are opposed by "Dundyvan Residents Against Sectarian Marches" and, whilst I agree with their point, I would agree much more if they weren't wearing celtic tops and flying Irish flags...
• I want to leave as I feel safer in Glasgow than I do here. And that's saying something...
• I recently saw a man dressed in full cowboy attire, carrying what appeared to be a real shotgun.
• Wear blue here, and you're dead. Includes jeans.

 

[EE Type 3]

Hometown: Shrewsbury

What I think of it: Nice place, apart from the chavs and the crap public transport.

Odd facts:
IT'S NOT IN WALES LIAM!!
It's got alot of historical interest
It floods ALOT
It's quite a rural town

Chavtowns says:

When you first walk around Shrewsbury you wouldn't think it was a chav town, and compared to some other places I've been it's not that bad, but make no mistake, they're here and they're probably standing at the Argos jewelry counter right now eyeing up some gold signet ring.

Chav hot spots in Shrewsbury:

Outside McDonald's - They've been hanging round outside there as long as I can remember. I have no idea why chavs congregate outside McDonalds (or Maccy D's as they like to call it), it's just one of those facts of life.

The Bus Stop - They can be seen crawling all over here, usually harrasing some old lady for the extra 20p then need for the bus ride home to Monkmoore, Harlescott or Telford Estate.

Liquid - I suppose it is possible to have fun here, even when your shoes are stuck to the floor, but you have to admit that it's 50% chav at the best of times.

Flares - I don't even go in there because it's gayer than a naked-man-pyramid but I hear it's where chavs go when they get to 30.

Wilkinson's - That who area is infested by 30 somethings called Sharon. Wtf.

Any sports shop - The usual magnet to chavs, go into any sports shop and you'll find them looking at the caps to find one they can wear at some crazy 90 degree angle to their head.

 

[Aureol]

"A simple hop, step and a jump into the county of Derbyshire and you will stumble across the tragically run down town of Alfreton.

Although a tiny town, the chav population outweighs the normal population by about 3-1. As ever there is a paaaaahnd shop in the vicinity and more quality clothing outlets than your eyes will believe, with couture such as Johnny J's and Bon Marché, who would want to take the risk and shop elsewhere?

Although there is no Maccas there is a **** off Wilkos with a pick and mix selection, that seems to attract the younger chavs like wasps. Vulgar language will most certainly be heard in this area, as Trace attempts to break the vice-like grip of her young chavlings, who are pocketting the gob-stoppers and liquorice laces.

General meeting places for the teen chavs is the area by the bus-station, where they can dream of the day that they will be able to scrape together the bus fare to visit other places. Loud conversations about "weak birds" and the gentle sound of the flicking of pages of "Max Power" are the norm.

Chavettes tend to favour the area by Boots and Superdrug, as they can loudly discuss losing their virginity, with maximum impact. Luckily there is also a Greggs wannabe pie shop, where the larger girls can stock up on artery clogging pasties and where buggy access is at its best.


Ironically, Alfreton has many banks and building societies, i suspect these are just a pipe-dream or are only used for business purposes, and/or money laundering. Customer service is a foreign concept, as is actually getting the correct change during transactions....but complain at your own risk!

Back in the day Alfreton used to be a bustling little town, ideal for fetching a fresh loaf or a link of sauages from the butchers. Now i would only enter this town in order to go elsewhere, or if i wanted a cheap laugh!

Nowadays, the pubs start up a roaring trade at 11am for the unemployed, and are brimming by 3! The hidous perms of my youth have been replaced by slap-backs, so tight that it brings a tear to the eye. The uniform is the usual sports wear, with rip-offs readily available at the market.....it is not uncommon to see larger ladies sport "Von-Bitch" or "Pussy Sport" fitted T-shirts under their adidas puffa jackets. The gents "keep it real" with terrible dental hygiene, Adidas, Nike and Ben Shermans. All year round, the male chavs of Alfreton will feel the need to go coatless, maybe this is a sign of their masculinity? Needless to say it's not us normal people in our nice coats that look like tits when it is lashing it down on a November's day.

If you're ever in the region....this is a must-see town, a real delight, if you like that sort of thing...."

 

[Jordy]

Wear blue here, and you're dead. Includes jeans.

Just as well I didn't leave Coatbridge Central station last week then :neutral:

 

[me123]

The service there is so infrequent that the chavs (we call them neds) would rather take a bus or drive, but that's one of the few places you're safe.

 

[rail-britain]

Hometown: Coatbridge, AKA Little Ireland

You just have to drive through the area, then realise how pathetically sectarian the east end of Glasgow still is
Pub doors that are either green or blue, Union flags draped over buildings, and road signs to the local RC schools and churches; what were we thinking!

Hometown: Cumbernauld, since 2004
What I think: Compared to living in Glasgow city centre, quiet and well laid out, except the town centre!
Transport: I moved to Cumbernauld for the ease of access to all routes, and this has saved me between 30 and 60 minutes in travelling time each day
The train service is excellent to Glasgow, with a half hourly service from Cumbernauld, a rather erratic hourly service to Motherwell, and further half hourly service to Glasgow or Edinburgh from Croy (also in Cumbernauld)
However, peak time access to/from the car park at Croy is awful, and there have been signs up for the improvement since 2005
Other home city : Given a choice, I'd move back to Aberdeen; cold, dry, and quiet