Yes - England's North-West. The greatest place on Earth!!! Maybe not the sunniest, or the richest, or the most hip... But the most creative, most hard-working and most humourous place in the world.

http://www.englandsnorthwest.com/

I'm very proud to live here.

Well Cheshire is the best out of the bunch.. its posher and classier.. and THE place to live

I lived in Manchester for a couple of years, in the late 90's and I studied Art in Cumbria in '89









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I love Manchester City Centre but it's so small. And flat. I don't think that any building (besides the C.I.S. Building) is over six stories. It's very provincial for a city. I still get lost around there though.

I went to Liverpool on Friday because a friend had to go to the passport office and I was amazed at all the development going on there. It's still got that shabby look, but now it's more of a shabby-chic vibe.

Justin1972UK said:

But the shopping in Manchester is great, and unlike London everythin g is there and you dont need to hop on a tube to go from one area to the next

I still say Newcastle is much nicer and the shopping there is THE BEST

I've never been to Newcastle, but I went to Leeds once. I don't visit the East-Coast very often. Maybe once a year. I have friends in Scarborough.

Anyway - my home town of Bolton is officially the friendliest place in Britain. Just Google, "the friendliest people in Britain" and you'll see the results.

Justin1972UK said:

yeah and prolly someone from Bolton wrote that

Do you see Lisa around Bolton much these days?

REDBABY said:

It was a scientific study!

Lisa who?

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Justin1972UK said:

Lisa Stansfield, shes a Bolton chick isnt she?

anyway you need to get JD in on this thread..

where is he?

REDBABY said:

Lisa Stansfield is from Rochdale - not far away I suppose.

Yes - where is J.D.?

You do see the usual Boltonian suspects from time-to-time - Vernon Kay, Sara Cox, Peter Kay etcetera... In fact, Peter Kay seems omnipresent at times, like a Krusty The Clown character...

Sara Cox's family live in my village and when she visits, she drinks in one of the roughest pubs around here. Her mother belongs to the local Conservative Club and is in there quite a lot.

Justin1972UK said:

ahhh my bad..

I used to work in Royton.. and Shaw

REDBABY said:

Oh. A friend moved from Bolton to Shaw and it's really up-in-the-hills, isn't it? I couldn't live anywhere like that again. I once lived in Egerton and there was nothing there but fields and sheep. It was like living in an episode of Emmerdale Farm but without the lesbian vets and plane crashes. I was amazed at the whiteness of Shaw. You know you're in a vanilla community when all the shopkeepers are white. It freaked me out a bit.

There's quite a few Orgers in the North-West.

Justin1972UK said:

But the people there are NOT friendly

Cos in Royton they have a town clock, and the clock has four faces, one facing north, another south, east and west

and the ppl in Royton hate the Shaw people sooo much that they made the clock face, facing Shaw really tiny, so the Shaw people living on that big hill, cannot see the time anymore..

Talk about petty

REDBABY said:

That's so funny!

There's not much about Shaw on the Wikipedia, confirming my suspicions that it's an extremely boring place... http://en.wikipedia.org/w...Manchester

There's quite a bit on Bolton though... http://en.wikipedia.org/w...borough%29

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Interesting Bolton fact - it's a hotbed of media piracy...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/h...038663.stm

Fantastic music from England's North-West!



































...and loads and loads of others.

Mick Hucknall does my nut in.
Ive been to Manchester...had a great time.
Ive been to Sillith too.

muirdo said:

Just Googled... Sillith is near the hilariously-named Wigton. I've been to Wigton a few times.

Justin1972UK said:

ive been to Wigton too.
And Aspatria i had to laugh when we were in Aspatria and saw "The Aspatria Clinic"
it sounds like some kind of tropical disease.

muirdo said:

I've never heard of the place! Ramsbottom is another stupid place-name, isn't it?