Get your shoulder chips here !

Manchester. Toilet of the north. Just that nt

 

If only everyone were as good as thee

as morally upstanding, living in Derbyshire, always reight..

 

RE: If only everyone were as good as thee

Irony overload.

 

really?

windy.

 

You saying someone else is 'always reight'

Loving it.

 

pfft

I'm often wrong but far from alone in that.

 

RE: pfft

Gi'oer wi thi.

 

allreight then

I'll move to Hathersage or somewhere more salubrious like salford or moss side....

 

RE: allreight then

Hathersage is so lower middle class. Tsk.

 

The trouble with Barnsley the town is that a lot of er, upwardly mobile types will always choose to leave and advance their careersin places offeringbigger salaries and more opportunities. This leaves behind a disproportionate amount of rough.</p>

The same kind of issue that the football club has faced.</p>

 

RE: However

kieran av a word!

 

Fvcking hell thats quiet poetic from you you must be either pissed or suffering from sun stroke

 

Surely Bradford? nt

 

He's got a point

I'll always have a soft spot for Barnsley but when you take the tarn-glasses off and look at it from an outside view the town itself has nothing going for it: boarded up shops, poundlands everywhere and nothing particularly attractive or distinctive about the place. It's a parochial dump.

That said some of the villages and countryside on the outskirts of Barnsley are really quite nice. There's a few rough places but nowhere that's anything like as rough as inner city Manchester and places like that.

 

my arse

its no worse (nor better) than 95% of large towns or cities in the country.

Apart from being in the middle of fantastic countryside.

Any road up its a all a bit rich coming from someone from Manchester which is in the large part is only distinctive insofar as it is a much larger shitehole than Barnsley.

 

RE: my arse

Manchester is also a shithole and has huge areas that are a hundred times worse than Barnsley, I won't dispute that and am not a Manc lad anyway so not going to burn at the stake for it either.

That said Manchester has plenty of nice places too, a great city centre and is very cosmopolitan. It's pointless to compare it to Tarn because they're so different in size.

Barnsley is like so many other poor northern towns, and they're all pretty similar: Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Donny, Rotherham, Oldham, Burnley, Rochdale, Bolton, Wigan, Blackpool etc etc. They've all lost their old industries and have never really recovered and have struggled to reinvent themselves.

They're all run down with above average unemployment and crime, and below average educational achievement and incomes. People generally move away from these places and not to them and so there's a bit of brain drain which also impacts negatively on the town and its image. It'll take more than hosting live boxing at the Metrodome, Ian Macmillan, and a new-look bus station for Barnsley to shake off its image.

 

in a nutshell

image not reality.

I know plenty of very well educated people who live here having returned from "better places" where they received there university education. I know a couple who have fecked off elsewhere in a desire to see the world.

I have lived briefly elsewhere and whilst it did have its appeal I was happy to return.