Milton keynes: shite or good?

[Moctezuma]

Our city centre:

 

 

There can't be many greener cities in the country

 

Is this a place or a 60's town planners wet dream?

 

I always find places that are laid out in the advent-of-the-automobile age irritating because you have to walk sodding miles to get anywhere.

[Moctezuma]

Though it does look nice and green to be fair I live in the area of the country with the least green space (kills me inside everyday).

[Bjornebye]

It's a shit hole

[cloggypop]

It's a shit hole

There's no way they are called that

[Fowlers God]

I live 10 miles outside and I call it "going up the city centre" if we do venture.

 

Nothing wrong for MK if looking for a decent meal and or shopping. Some good walks too around the lakes.

[lifetime fan]

Been in MK for just about a month now - ended up in Two Mile Ash. Not explored at all, but it seems like a normal town to me. No worse, or better, than Swindon (where I lived for many years).

 

In fact, that's a lie, anywhere is better than Swindon!

Gloucester?

[lifetime fan]

What was that bar you sent us to Rem?

 

Good food and views over the canal.

 

Was a great place.

[stringvest]

It's like a low budget Truman Show set.

[Remmie]

What was that bar you sent us to Rem?

 

Good food and views over the canal.

 

Was a great place.

The Navigation Inn, not too far from where our balloon ride set off

[Remmie]

It's a shit hole

Yeah all those trees and fields. Fucking disgusting

[lifetime fan]

It's not the sort of place I'd want to live but I could never be a snob about where people live.

 

The area where I grew up career options were joyriding or smack.

[lifetime fan]

The Navigation Inn, not too far from where our balloon ride set off

We had a great meal there, weather was great and we sat outside with a glass of wine.

 

Pity you both couldn't have joined us.

[RJ Fan club]

I've got no dog in this fight, but you can't compare MK with Runcorn.

 

The mutant quota of MK is much much much lower and it doesn't stink of shit.

 

There you have my professional opinion.

[RedKnight]

Nothing more tedious than people calling other places in the UK 'shit'. Like visiting fans that sing that Liverpool is a shithole.

[Bjornebye]

Nothing more tedious than people calling other places in the UK 'shit'. Like visiting fans that sing that Liverpool is a shithole.

Yeah but Milton Keynes is a shit hole.

[mattyq]

I don't know enough about MK to have an opinion either way

Not a fan of Buckinghamshire , though

Some real shit hole towns with property prices off the scale...Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield etc. The M40 round there is a parking lot and the natives are a curious mix of Harry Enfield Cockney boy wannabes and Yokel backwater Incester village bumpkins

Lovely countryside in and around the Chilterns, though

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I don't know enough about MK to have an opinion either way

Not a fan of Buckinghamshire , though

Some real shit hole towns with property prices off the scale...Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield etc. The M40 round there is a parking lot and the natives are a curious mix of Harry Enfield Cockney boy wannabes and Yokel backwater Incester village bumpkins

Lovely countryside in and around the Chilterns, though

 

I had the misfortune to spend a whole week there, full of fucking bell ends. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Being a city is a quite strange concept in this country, you bid for the status and for some reason it supposed to be important. Liverpool wasn't a city until 1880 and beat Sheffield, Birmingham, Nottingham, Hull and Leeds to this strange elevated status.

 

Officially we aren't a city but everyone here calls it one, something to do with the Queen visiting it and Cathedrals or something equally tedious though even if we were a city I'm not sure what's to be gained.

Liverpool has been in existence since the early 11 hundreds,maybe not as a city way back then,but it cannot even be mentioned in the same sentence as Milton Keynes. Direct your ire elsewhere Mr Remmington. Runcorn is a massive shithole lived in by many of us who never made the decision to live here and dont have the means to go elsewhere either.

[Juniper]

Gloucester?

Gloucester's actually not that bad these days, especially the work they have done around the docks.

 

A lot better than Swindon, all day. That place is just....weird.

[bigbak]

I haven't  been there for years, but I thought it was quite decent.  I did live in Thetford at the time, so anywhere would seem good.

 

It's easy to get lost on the grid system as it's a bit featureless, but also easy to recover as there are so many roundabouts.

Commutable to London so easy to use a job here as a stepping stone.

[lifetime fan]

Gloucester's actually not that bad these days, especially the work they have done around the docks.

 

A lot better than Swindon, all day. That place is just....weird.

Can't remember the name of the area in Gloucester but it's full of bail hostels.

 

Horrible shithole.

[Juniper]

Can't remember the name of the area in Gloucester but it's full of bail hostels.

 

Horrible shithole.

No idea what area you're on about there.

[mattyq]

Can't remember the name of the area in Gloucester but it's full of bail hostels.

 

Horrible shithole.

I lived in Gloucester for a year in the 90s...enjoyed it

Quedgeley isn't great

[Ezekiel 25:17]

My Uncle Eddie once called it, and probably still does 'Milford Keyes', I'm not sure how this affects the debate, I just wanted it out there.

[stringvest]

I'm waiting for Mark to pop in and sum this one up.