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Dialects, Accents and Poverty Stricken.

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RonnieTodger

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As you i've tried to split this from the Stadium thread - 

 

But I took this one maybe a few more that I shouldn't have so apologies if one of them is yours like this opening post but it needed to be done.

 

 

 

 

On 01/06/2021 at 13:27, Raw Dykes said:

I think it's probably a long shot, but I'm hoping Leicester gets an ice hockey team to play at the possible new arena. I would absolutely love that.

This would be great, especially with Nottingham and Coventry having teams. It's literally the only sport that Leicester lacks.

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An Sionnach

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10 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

It is the only thing Nottingham has on us imo, a very nice area around the water.

Trams are a plus. Poverty is a minus.

peach0000

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45 minutes ago, Cadno'r Cymoedd said:

You don't think areas of Nottingham are poor then? 

I think that was the point. There’s been studies in the past that has Nottingham as having the highest level of poverty of any city in the UK. It’s also really dangerous compared to most other cities with a really high murder and violent crime rate. The place is just not nice and no amount of arenas and nice waterside areas will make up for that.

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Cadno'r Cymoedd

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2 hours ago, peach0000 said:

I think that was the point. There’s been studies in the past that has Nottingham as having the highest level of poverty of any city in the UK. It’s also really dangerous compared to most other cities with a really high murder and violent crime rate. The place is just not nice and no amount of arenas and nice waterside areas will make up for that.

Fair point. I misread it. 

Dr The Singh

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2 hours ago, peach0000 said:

I think that was the point. There’s been studies in the past that has Nottingham as having the highest level of poverty of any city in the UK. It’s also really dangerous compared to most other cities with a really high murder and violent crime rate. The place is just not nice and no amount of arenas and nice waterside areas will make up for that.

I've lived in both, 4 areas of Leicester and 3 in Nottingham.  I've found Nottingham to be cleaner, safer and has way better transport links and leisure facilities and restaurant & bars as a city.  

 

Even though majority of my friends and family live in Leicester, as a family man, I've decided Nottingham is a better city for my kids.

peach0000

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6 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

I've lived in both, 4 areas of Leicester and 3 in Nottingham.  I've found Nottingham to be cleaner, safer and has way better transport links and leisure facilities and restaurant & bars as a city.  

 

Even though majority of my friends and family live in Leicester, as a family man, I've decided Nottingham is a better city for my kids.

Fair enough. Both cities will have good and bad parts. But the bad parts of Nottingham are a lot worse than anything you’ll find in Leicester. Every time I read a study about deprivation levels in cities I’m always surprised just how bad Nottingham comes off. I will say that Nottingham has better transport and bars etc but I don’t even think that is a major positive for them. I’ve lived in quite a few cities and that’s pretty standard for a city the size of Nottingham or Leicester. Leicester is unusually bad in that regard rather than nottingham being good. 

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UHDrive

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3 hours ago, peach0000 said:

I think that was the point. There’s been studies in the past that has Nottingham as having the highest level of poverty of any city in the UK. It’s also really dangerous compared to most other cities with a really high murder and violent crime rate. The place is just not nice and no amount of arenas and nice waterside areas will make up for that.

Studies don't lie! There was only one place I ever felt comfortable in Nottingham and that was after driving through and into the city centre car park and unlocking the auto lock in the car. 

 

I've never lived in Nottinghamshire. 

 

Speaking from experience I got attacked twice in Nottingham doing my job as an architect surveying in Radcliffe and North Notts City. A guy hit me with a baseball bat after I wouldn't give me my camera (I ran off - without the camera) and the other guy I ran him off onto my bonnet as him and his mate boxed me in when I'd parked up. It doesn't stop their though and the villages and towns in North Notts are rife with poverty especially the old mining towns where they offload council housing tenants. 

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HybridFox

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7 hours ago, RonnieTodger said:

This would be great, especially with Nottingham and Coventry having teams. It's literally the only sport that Leicester lacks.

Maybe we can be called the Ice Kings ;)

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Sly

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8 hours ago, UHDrive said:

Studies don't lie! There was only one place I ever felt comfortable in Nottingham and that was after driving through and into the city centre car park and unlocking the auto lock in the car. 

 

I've never lived in Nottinghamshire. 

 

Speaking from experience I got attacked twice in Nottingham doing my job as an architect surveying in Radcliffe and North Notts City. A guy hit me with a baseball bat after I wouldn't give me my camera (I ran off - without the camera) and the other guy I ran him off onto my bonnet as him and his mate boxed me in when I'd parked up. It doesn't stop their though and the villages and towns in North Notts are rife with poverty especially the old mining towns where they offload council housing tenants. 

Wowzers, I work in construction and I’m in out of all the major Midlands cities on regular basis. I’ve never experienced anything like this. 
 

Personally I think in and around Nottingham, it had better transport links, restaurants etc.
 

How Leicester is developing, it will will surpass it. The council just need to be realistic and sort the awful toad network out. We should have had trams, trains including the Ivanhoe link working years ago. 
 

Derby is stale. 
 

Birmingham …… don’t get me started. 

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WarehamFox

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2 hours ago, Sly said:

Wowzers, I work in construction and I’m in out of all the major Midlands cities on regular basis. I’ve never experienced anything like this. 
 

Personally I think in and around Nottingham, it had better transport links, restaurants etc.
 

How Leicester is developing, it will will surpass it. The council just need to be realistic and sort the awful toad network out. We should have had trams, trains including the Ivanhoe link working years ago. 
 

Derby is stale. 
 

Birmingham …… don’t get me started. 

Got to agree about the toad network, truly awful :cool:

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2 hours ago, Sly said:

Wowzers, I work in construction and I’m in out of all the major Midlands cities on regular basis. I’ve never experienced anything like this. 
 

Personally I think in and around Nottingham, it had better transport links, restaurants etc.
 

How Leicester is developing, it will will surpass it. The council just need to be realistic and sort the awful toad network out. We should have had trams, trains including the Ivanhoe link working years ago. 
 

Derby is stale. 
 

Birmingham …… don’t get me started. 

is especially bad around Frog Island.....:ph34r:

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fox_up_north

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I've lived different parts of the East Mids and there are good and bad areas. Was always in Nottingham for gigs in my late teens to early 20s. It definitely is rough there but it's not a patch on Birmingham, which is a complete dump. I absolutely would not go there unless I had to. 

foxile5

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Birmingham is the worst city in the Midlands by a mile. Filthy. Horrible people in excess of other places. Largely ugly. Expensive. Villa. 

 

Absolute rat hole. 

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6 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

Birmingham is the worst city in the Midlands by a mile. Filthy. Horrible people in excess of other places. Largely ugly. Expensive. Villa. 

 

Absolute rat hole. 

Ever been to Stoke? That's a grim hellhole too.

 

 

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foxile5

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7 minutes ago, Gravel said:

Ever been to Stoke? That's a grim hellhole too.

 

 

The fact Birmingham is bigger and uglier does it for me. 

 

Stoke is the only place where they hide the motorway to protect the drivers from seeing the city. 

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TrentFox

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21 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

The fact Birmingham is bigger and uglier does it for me. 

 

Stoke is the only place where they hide the motorway to protect the drivers from seeing the city. 

Sure I once read that Queen Victoria, when she went through Newcastle on the way to Balmoral, used to insist that the train blinds were lowered so that she didn’t have to look at it. 

FOXYTALK

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13 hours ago, UHDrive said:

Studies don't lie! There was only one place I ever felt comfortable in Nottingham and that was after driving through and into the city centre car park and unlocking the auto lock in the car. 

 

I've never lived in Nottinghamshire. 

 

Speaking from experience I got attacked twice in Nottingham doing my job as an architect surveying in Radcliffe and North Notts City. A guy hit me with a baseball bat after I wouldn't give me my camera (I ran off - without the camera) and the other guy I ran him off onto my bonnet as him and his mate boxed me in when I'd parked up. It doesn't stop their though and the villages and towns in North Notts are rife with poverty especially the old mining towns where they offload council housing tenants. 

Bit of a sweeping statement regarding Nottinghamshire. Considering you never lived there. North Notts is actually quite pleasant. 

Langston

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Aren't Nottingham and Birmingham just par for the course, really? Some lovely spots, some not so lovely. Leicester is fine but certainly not the utopia some people seem to think.

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