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Where do you live?
« on: October 21, 2013, 07:12:01 PM »
I like seeing new and interesting places so tell me where you live, what's there, and show me the sights. I'll start off.

I live in Kingston Upon Hull in Yorkshire, England. I've never ever heard it called its full name though. We drop the H too and pronouce it "Ull". In the second world war we were the second most bombed city after London and 95% of houses were destroyed or damaged. About half a million people live in and around Hull, we have villages all around us that are kinda part of the city now. We sit on two rivers and we're only a short drive from the North Sea.

We have lots to see here, tons of museums and sights.

We have the Humber Bridge, until recently it was the longest something bridge in the world.


The guy that abolished slavery in Britain - William Wilberforce was from Hull and his house is now a museum.

We have a place called "The Deep". It's the worlds only submarinum apparently. It's full of huge fishtanks with sharks and all sorts in them.


Other museums include:
The Hull and East Riding museum which has Britains oldest surviving prehistoric logboat.
Ferens art gallery
Hull Maritime Museum
The Arctic Corsair. An old fishing boat from the days Hull was a thriving fishing port.
Spurn Lightship. A kind of lighthouse ship that used to guide ships to Hull.
Streetlife Museum
Hands on History Museum

We have three big shopping centres, this one is called Princes Quay Shopping Centre because it was built on an old dock of the same name.

We have had a few big musicians/bands from Hull too, such as The Housemartins, Beautiful South, Fine Young Cannibals and Fatboy Slim.

We have Hull Fair every October, it's one of the largest travelling funfairs in Europe.


We are the home of the greatest football team in the world - Hull City!! :D


We also have a ferry terminal with daily ferries to Belgium and Holland.


Most of the places people live are rough council estates but there's some nice places too. This is Queens Gardens and the BBC broadcast from a building there.


We also have a Marina, one day I will park my yacht there.


We have lots of parks too. East Park


West Park.


Pearson Park. This one contains an animal house with snakes and lizards.


Pickering Park


Now I'll show you some of the Hull tourists don't see.
This is Bransholme Estate, supposedly one of the biggest housing estates in Europe, half the houses are boarded up.


The beautiful Orchard Park Estate. I used to live here when I first left my mothers. If you don't get beat up or burgled every 6 months you're doing well. The police found a girl murdered and stored in a cupboard in a flat there not so long ago.


And last but not least, my current area, Anlaby Road.


Yes, yes, it looks like shit. But all those houses are getting knocked down and new posh ones are getting built, some are already finished and once it's all done then my house price will double :D


So that's Hull. Whatchyathink?

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2013, 03:59:52 AM »
Wow, Hull looks like a place I'd love to live in. Not too busy/flocking and beautiful.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2013, 05:35:42 AM »
Wow, I wish São Luis was at least 2% as beautiful as Hull.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2013, 08:22:33 AM »
Wow, Hull looks like a place I'd love to live in. Not too busy/flocking and beautiful.
Wow, I wish São Luis was at least 2% as beautiful as Hull.

Yeah, people always comment when they visit on how green Hull is. We have trees lining a lot of our roads.

São Luis? What's that like? Where do you live analfister?

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2013, 01:15:17 PM »
Wow-ah, you made your work of it. I live in Aalst. Well, if you insist for pictures.... Here are a few of things around my living area or the city I live in.

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If anyone, like MSG, ever comes to Aalst, I'll gladly make a walk around town with you :3

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2013, 07:09:20 PM »
Nice parks msg :o I love parks.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2013, 07:16:57 PM »
Jonez, your city centre looks cool. I'll visit one day and see it myself.
Nice parks msg :o I love parks.
We just arranged to go to East Park on Sunday to have breakfast and feed the ducks :)

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2013, 10:12:14 PM »
Well, I just showed you the pics I could find online. We also have a park and such. It's interesting here. Tell me when you visit so we can meet up and that I'm not stock up in my intern for school.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2013, 08:22:53 AM »
Where do you live analfister?
Doha, Qatar.


Much of Qatar's "beauty" is man made and the city not fully developed yet, so it ain't all that good. We have the city center and "Pearl Qatar", a set of artificially made islands which is the "hip" place where tourists roam. I suppose things are going to change vastly before the 2022 World Cup, but I'm not sure because of the scandals revolving around it.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2013, 06:22:52 PM »
Where do you live analfister?
Doha, Qatar.


Much of Qatar's "beauty" is man made and the city not fully developed yet, so it ain't all that good. We have the city center and "Pearl Qatar", a set of artificially made islands which is the "hip" place where tourists roam. I suppose things are going to change vastly before the 2022 World Cup, but I'm not sure because of the scandals revolving around it.
I just googled it and it looks beautiful. That's somewhere I'd definitely like to visit one day.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2013, 12:13:29 AM »
Well, I am originally from Três Lagoas, a small city in Brazil which is currently in development, and doesn't really have anything really interesting. 100 000 inhabitants or so. I mean, apparently it has the biggest and the third biggest paper/pulp factory in the world, but that's meh. Right now, I live in Campo Grande, capital of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. I'll see if I can get some pics. It's about 8x bigger than Três Lagoas.

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Well, I guess it's not much. I don't know the city very well, since I just moved here in February and I don't go out much, but it's something. I did my best with what I could find on Google images.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2013, 07:49:53 AM »
Well, I am originally from Três Lagoas, a small city in Brazil which is currently in development, and doesn't really have anything really interesting. 100 000 inhabitants or so. I mean, apparently it has the biggest and the third biggest paper/pulp factory in the world, but that's meh. Right now, I live in Campo Grande, capital of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. I'll see if I can get some pics. It's about 8x bigger than Três Lagoas.

Well, I guess it's not much. I don't know the city very well, since I just moved here in February and I don't go out much, but it's something. I did my best with what I could find on Google images.
It looks quite a nice place, it reminds me a lot of Spain.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2013, 08:54:59 AM »
Hull is aiming to be the next UK city of culture. Here's a video somebody made :
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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2013, 01:59:28 PM »
Hull is aiming to be the next UK city of culture. Here's a video somebody made : http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=mXJkDgBUR9c&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DmXJkDgBUR9c%26feature%3Dshare
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well.. something wrong with that link obviously :/

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2013, 06:38:37 PM »
Stupid phone. Fixed!

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2013, 06:49:18 PM »
When do you come to Aalst?

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2013, 06:58:31 PM »
When do you come to Aalst?
I dunno, I only get 4 weeks holiday a year now I'm working.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2013, 11:01:22 PM »
In a shitty place named Liedekerke. Where a film crew messes up my diving training.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2013, 04:56:59 AM »
Can anyone make a guess ;)

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2013, 10:06:12 AM »
In a shitty place named Liedekerke. Where a film crew messes up my diving training.

Oooh. What film?



I live in Melbourne, AU.
I don't live that far from the CBD, so it's not a long train ride, but it's a nice place.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #20 on: November 15, 2013, 07:22:37 PM »
well they just made a short documentary of a water ballet group.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #21 on: November 18, 2013, 10:18:38 PM »
well they just made a short documentary of a water ballet group.
Syncho swimming .

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2013, 06:28:18 AM »
Is there a difference then?

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2013, 06:48:19 AM »
I forgot to mention we have an ice arena too, but I always fall over, I suck.


And on the outskirts we have an enormous chemical plant run by BP. It's so big you get a pushbike to get around once you're inside.

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Re: Where do you live?
« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2013, 01:33:31 PM »
Hull has been named the new UK city of culture today! It's a great day for us, it should bring lots of jobs and money to the city.

 

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