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Jimbo:
Teamnickos - I do hope I have a way with words - I'm a writer!
Dianne - We saw how much care and love Tony gave you when we were all together in Nafsika.

Tony started this with his bleak but honest descriptions of the encroaching buildings, car parks, and the hope to escape to something else.

As one of the original writers of EastEnders I sometimes wonder why people want to watch extreme urban gloom. Maybe you can explain?

The lovely thing about this forum is that we can chat about how crap winter is, and how nice it will be next year in the sun.

rilo57:
 Life is what you make of it, we all work hard for what we get and looking at most of the posts we all tend to put our spare cash into travel and holidays.All wanting to just escape , be it for a long weekend or a week or two.
Jimbo, at the moment Belgium is awash with pumpkin soup,its the most popular in the winter, every garden grows them ,and for venison you cant go wrong.Its now the wild season here, so you get a good choice, boar, venison, duck, pheasant etc and all at good prices.

Jules:
From the back of my house you can see the green hills of the Peak District now aglow with colours of Autumn leaves. It is indeed an ideal setting to wash away the gloom of the damp miserable weather we have had of late. You would never guess that the beautiful area I live in was only a mile away or so from the horiffic murders of the 2 policewomen recently and also 40 odd years ago the Moors murders. Things like that happening so close by bring home to you how glad you are to be able to close your doors and windows and just relax in the cosy comfort of your own four walls. You can just get on with your own daily tasks and maybe have a few drinks and watch a bit of tv. During the cold Autumn and Winter months we don't see much of the neighbours but we do revel in each others cosy comfort.

In an hour or so we are venturing out for a meal and a drink in the village and maybe have a chat with anyone we may know. It's great to live in a small viilage and it does have lots of merits. The 2 incidences I have mentioned probably could happen in any place in our country but are so random and we certainly wouldn't let anything like it spoil our lives. We just feel so glad to have each other.

tonyco1:
Some of you may be thinking why do you stay there, maybe you should have moved earlier???
One word - Convenience......
Linda until last year was working for World Duty Free, running the mystery customer program for all UK airports with a WDF (or subsidery) outlet.
She does not, (never did) drive. So the ability to jump on a bus for a 5 min ride to work (or walk), was a priority.
Where we live, 6 bus routes pass the front door, tube (Metro) stations in either direction.
For me doing shifts, I can drive to work (the 9 mile trip to my office via the M4), in 12 minutes off peak times (45 in traffic, but that is rare).
Grand-children 10-12 mins away by bus, and Linda now looks after them now.
Plus - - - my house is fully re-furbished with every thing as we like it - an oasis of comfort and calm when the door is shut, nice sunny private garden in summer.

That is why I will wait until nearer my retirement before moving... but for sure... the area has gone down & I would not move anywhere else locally...
also it's still a low crime area, (in spite of some of the new-world residents) and as we are not under a flight path, surprisingly quiet....
But yes I envy those of you with the sort of views we would love to have ......  soon though!!!

I have 11 more Night shift weeks to do, or 19 more pay days and then freedom!! 
Now it doesn't seem so long!! LOL

Andy7:
Great thread and most of us can identify with Tony's thoughts, I grew up in east Birmingham in the 70's and then it was an area of nice semi detached houses, well kept gardens and generally healthy families.

Now it is an awful place where the houses are run down having been turned into flats, the streets flow with litter and crime rates are high, its so depressing seeing such a nice area go down the toilet.

I moved to Cumbria 20 years ago and glad I did, its not perfect by any means and social problems still exist but Penrith is a nice town surrounded by hills and mountains and even on a grey day (of which there are many) there is always something nice to look at and lift the spirits.

I visit London frequently stopping in a hotel near Heathrow Airport before travelling into the Capital, I will never get used to how busy it is and I always think the best thing about London is the M4 out of it!

Dont worry Tony when you sell your house in London you will be able to buy a mansion anywhere else.

Andy

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