How awesome is your home town???
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I was brought up in a village called Highley, outside of Bridgnorth in Shropshire. It was great for growing up because your mates lived on the same street as you; you were entertained through the childhood years. However, the kids go their separate ways come 18, and it's just a place you come back to, to see your parents. Good for retirement age though as it's quiet and in the countryside. Oh, and having a car is ESSENTIAL, so yeah no good if you're too disabled to drive like me and you want to hang out in the pub with 20s / 30-something mates twice a week.
Not lived there for a "few" years now, but this is my home (Market) Town, where I grew up :
Where's this?? Looks like norton high street?
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Not too far from me, and infinitely nicer (apart from the crap shops).
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bah my home town is about as awesome as nailing my scrotum to a chair.
Yeah Santa Barbara is ok I guess
I grew up in Palos Verdes!
I couldn't find a good shot of PV, this is more of a shot FROM PV
I reckon you're down there looking back up 
Close, but no cigar
Its Stokesley - TS9
Ahh not a bad guess considering
I actually like stokesley, used to go to the Angel tea rooms all the time
Down the road
Incredible! You're a lucky guy. Yet to get to a TT but I will in the next couple of years hopefully.
Location: Coventry
Full of terrible rapid build post war architecture, with a terrible 60's town centre design, constrained from growth by a ugly ring road that is almost too narrow for purpose.
Now officially boasting the worst primary schools in the UK, and our secondary schools aren't much better. Chav culture is endemic across much of the youth populous. Different areas of the city are increasingly racially segregated
Once it was the second biggest car producer in the world, now we have a single JLR plant and a recently bankrupt taxi maker.
Our new hospital was built over budget using the PFI scam, on a flood plane. From day 1 the basement floors were flooding, and doors didn't fit there frames properly. At best maintenance will be expensive, at worst there will be a disaster
Repeatedly overlooked by central government as support for the west Midlands goes to areas in Birmingham. HS2 means there won't be any train upgrades in the foreseeable future.
Our football stadium was designed when we were premier league, and is now far too big for a league 1 side, in fact the stadium itself is quite profitable but isn't owned by the club. Until very recently the crowds were too small to make a profit on per game
On the plus side...
Coventry uni is now top 30 though and improving, Warwick uni is top 5 UK and soon to be top 50 global. However Warwick students and staff mostly disassociate themselves with Coventry and live in the much nicer Leamington instead.
Our central location (furthest away from the coast out of all uk cities) means that we are getting a growing number of national headquarters, most recently national grid.
Full of terrible rapid build post war architecture, with a terrible 60's town centre design, constrained from growth by a ugly ring road that is almost too narrow for purpose.
Now officially boasting the worst primary schools in the UK, and our secondary schools aren't much better. Chav culture is endemic across much of the youth populous. Different areas of the city are increasingly racially segregated
Once it was the second biggest car producer in the world, now we have a single JLR plant and a recently bankrupt taxi maker.
Our new hospital was built over budget using the PFI scam, on a flood plane. From day 1 the basement floors were flooding, and doors didn't fit there frames properly. At best maintenance will be expensive, at worst there will be a disaster
Repeatedly overlooked by central government as support for the west Midlands goes to areas in Birmingham. HS2 means there won't be any train upgrades in the foreseeable future.
Our football stadium was designed when we were premier league, and is now far too big for a league 1 side, in fact the stadium itself is quite profitable but isn't owned by the club. Until very recently the crowds were too small to make a profit on per game
On the plus side...
Coventry uni is now top 30 though and improving, Warwick uni is top 5 UK and soon to be top 50 global. However Warwick students and staff mostly disassociate themselves with Coventry and live in the much nicer Leamington instead.
Our central location (furthest away from the coast out of all uk cities) means that we are getting a growing number of national headquarters, most recently national grid.
Ahh not a bad guess considering
I actually like stokesley, used to go to the Angel tea rooms all the time
Ha ha, not bad at all
Its not a bad place at all and my parents still live there and the outlaws in Kirkby (just outside Broughton) so go back quite regularly
Angel Tea Rooms
I like the Richo (though I have been too Highfield Road as well), good steep banking, good view, shame its out of town by that tesco, Highfield road was better to get to.
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Tyseley. That's all I have to say. :O