>>3345
purple now claims the manifesto was always intended to be ironic, which amuses me greatly.

>>3348

It was written in an ironic tone but we all knew he meant it. And supported it.

The hoi polloi have ruined this place. It used to be a cosy old man pub with a dog and a fireplace, now it's a wetherspoons full of students and I'm just huddled in the one 'nice' banquette giving funny looks to all the European haircuts.

>>3349
Simmer down lad, pretty sure it's your round and there's a 2-for-1 on voddy red bulls.

>>3349
>European haircuts
What?

>>3351
Just a brit off the top.

Southmead reporting

South glos fag - reporting in - meet up ?

>>3253
Black and White cafe? You got a pair of ripped trousers for the fedman to compensate?

You all speak shite

26/m/BS1 Looking for a drink and a few games of pool with someone to talk shite witth.

Can you take me to the milkshake shop near the Cathedral, I asked my mate if he wanted to go the other week and he said it was "sort of for children". ;_;

Well what are you looking to do?

I strongly recommend checking out Garden Lane Cafe for breakfast if you love a good fry up. If you do anything do this.

This time of year it will be pretty quiet (student town) but if you're looking for fanny the standard routine is drinks at Off the Wall followed by either Rosies or Cruise, don't worry the locals are a very friendly sort. Rosies is the better option but you inevitably end up on the top floor sweating your arse off to RnB and the entry fee is a joke.

On your way home keep in mind the police are extremely strict on public urination, do not piss while you are inside the walls of the city due to its historical significance.

>>3331

>do not piss while you are inside the walls of the city due to its historical significance.

But if you piss off the top of the walls they will make you mayor for twenty-four hours.

Sounds about right. I remember going to one in Phoenix and it was like being in a dimly lit school cafeteria.

>>3257

I imagine Australians think the same thing when they come here and go to a Walkabout.

>>3259
What's that?

>>3260
An "Aussie" pub chain around the UK.

>>3258

if you come back to Phoenix try hitting up the craft beer bars. They're mostly fantastic.

Arizona Wilderness in Gilbert is the best really.

>>3315

You sound like a fanny.

>>3315

I bet you are fun at parties.

>>3318
Careful, lad. That knee might hurt someone.

Chester looks traditionally nice, trees, rivers and classical British architecture. Got some great views, but it's basically a big town. One of those cities that is a city by technicality rather than population. The whole cathedral thing.

You'll meet a lot of middle class softies here, nice people and all, but they treat weed like it's heroin, bitch about one another a lot, generally they can come across as a bit snobbish.

I've lived in both the "bad" areas of Chester, and they've been better than any place I've lived previously.

Expensive as shit though. And there's the student masses as well.

>>3322
All of our cities are cities by technicality. There's no such thing as a city by population in the UK. Lots of big places haven't been made cities, and lots of small places have, even in recent years.

>>3227
Being more central is of no use to me since I'm working outside London, I just want to be connected so I can go for a pint with people I know from time to time without having to crash at a mate's house just because I wanted two pints. It just worries me how all rents in the area in and around London in that neck of the woods are ~£500/month.

>>3229
£500 per month is pretty reasonable for London, not sure what you were expecting really.

http://media.timeout.com/images/102882214/image.jpg (attaching link because image is too large to post here apparently).

Does everybody in London live in tiny rooms in house shares?

>>3271
Not everyone. If you're okay with being a few zones out, you can live in a medium room in a shared house.

>>3272

Some people also live in shared bedrooms, sheds, sheds in people's living rooms, lock-up garages, cargo containers, derelict petrol stations, brothels, bail hostels, biffa bins, cardboard boxes and shop doorways.

I've heard rumours of people who have their own flat, but I'm starting to believe that it's just an urban myth.

If you wanted to move to Cornwall why would you live in a town?

>>3265
It's where the job is. They're probably getting council grants or EU money or something.

>>3266
You could get a place on the outskirts, as it's quite the shithole or at least has a long reputation of being one.

I stayed there for a few days many years ago. Seemed alright. Plenty of bars iirc.

I think Aphex Twin is from there.

Cornish lad here.

Redruth is kind of shitty, definitely not the nicest town in Cornwall by any stretch (Penzance, Truro and St Ives are all fine, the latter is touristy in summer) but absolutely nowhere near as bad as nearby Camborne, there is something incredibly depressing about that shithole.

>>3251

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgVoYONg8cE

>>3245
Well I'm in a London tech job and sorry to say that isn't my experience, unless non-London tech jobs pay less than minimum wage. Not that it's bad mind, and most companies do pay a premium for London-based employees.

>>3246
There are jobs that pay that much more, but they're mostly shit. They pay silly money because they have to. Chances are if someone in London is advertising a dev job at £100k, either they need a highly specialised skill (as in there are about five people still alive that can do it) or they have to pay people that much to work for them. Guess which is more likely.

Gay in Brighton here.

Honestly it's a very hard city to move to. Just about manageable 7 years ago, but now...if It were me I'd be looking at somewhere like Manchester or Birmingham instead. I could go on and on about how everything decent about Brighton died years ago, but I'll stop.

Your best bet for employment is call centers (through various shady employment agencies) and your best bet for housing is a house-share through friends. There is a gay housing Facebook group "Brighton Homes for Queers", but good luck with that group if you eat meat or don't practice yoga.

>>3248

>Honestly it's a very hard city to move to.

Nice in your end o gaylad.

Former Brighton lad here. Firstly the place sucks nowadays. Secondly, there is fuck all good work.

You want a place in Hanover. You want a job with Amex - especially if you can get in their travel section, that pays actual money, and while shift work, is fun. You might want to ensure you can speak a foreign language.

Aside from that, The Park Crescent used to be a cracking pub, although working out how to find it is always fun.

Avoid Whitehawk and Moulsecoombe like the fucking plague. Hanover can still offer small but not unreasonably (for Brighton) priced accommodation.

It really is a "graduate call center graveyard". Carer work does not need driving, public transport is good.

You will find yourself living in penury and surrounded by drugs and hipsters. Bristol might be a better move, TBH.

Or Berlin.

>>1254
Went for an interview there. It was shit. Like, abysmally shit.

Also I'm in Wakey

>>1019
I'm here

>>3110

Ex TU, ex borofag here.

Get out while you can. I made a few posts in this thread before, get out of Boro as soon as you can.

>>3110

Ex TU, ex borofag here.

Get out while you can. I made a few posts in this thread before, get out of Boro as soon as you can.

At uni in durham but used to live just outside the meadowwell, can't get much more of a contrast tbh

>>3210
Homoland here, BN2.

>>3204
ABBA reunion.

>>3205
Try and check out the museum while you're there.

>>3204

I imagine he's hoping to pork some emo bird he met on WoW.

>>3204
I'm hoping to go wilderness hiking with an old friend who happens to live there.

>>3207
THE DREAM

Skegness bisects the north and south, everyone knows that. If you say it's Sheffield, then somehow Mansfield is Southerm.

>>3176
I think the Yorkshire Troubles could easily become a thing you know. Once we're out of Europe the country could easily factionalise like this.

>>3188
If the north in general seceded then us southerners and aspiring southerners would be rolling in cash.

Deus vult.

>>3186
I'm also a cantab and I'd definitely consider it southern. Mostly because half the student population is from the home-counties or London and the other half are from China. It's like a little peninsula of southern-ness into a dark and strange land.

Harrogate on the other hand is the south's northern embassy.

>>3190
You're a native or one of the students?

Students are like a big migrant population, its like claiming Birmingham is actually part of the subcontinent, totally justified.

I'm a native Cantabrigian and it just doesn't strike me as having anything to do with the South aside from being well off and English. None of East Anglia really does.

>>3169

Wait, are you questioning his Englishness, or the validity of being "English" as a concept altogether?

>>3171 he just seems to believe that being "English" is a bonus for an employer abroad. It's not. I would rather hire a luxembourgois who can speak 3 languages with my customers/tourists.

>>3172

But what about if he was "French"? or "German"? Do either of these "nationalities" have more appeal?

>>3173 Business doesn't care. If you are a spotty man who will make more profit than others you are welcome to get a job. Market is the most anti racist, anti patriot. Profit above politics. Always.

I'm in a similar situation, except I have most of July and August between graduating and starting work where I will be doing fuck-all. Might as well go somewhere interesting (read: not the UK) with my time if I can. What I do and for how long depends very much on what my bank balance looks like by the time I graduate, but sustaining myself on a casual bar gig could be an attractive option. Anyone have any experience of this, in Europe or otherwise?