Harrogate – Brilliant if you like floral displays on traffic islands

Living in Harrogate, North Yorkshire

Harrogate has previously won “Happiest Place to Live in Britain” awards. Unfortunately it has dropped a few places on those rankings, mostly because surveys have shown that many, many people who live in Harrogate are really miserable gits. It also ranks highly for the most drunk driving convictions in Yorkshire and the most usage of […]

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Keighley: the most depressing and dull place I’ve ever encountered

Living in Keighley, Yorkshire

“You’re not local, are you?” I couldn’t make it up… I’ve just returned from my second and last visit to Keighley. I have never encountered such a depressing, unfriendly and dull place in my life. The more time I spent there, the more I felt I was trapped in some groundhog day loop of repeating […]

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Otley, the town that is well known as grotley otley.

Living in or moving to Otley, Yorkshire

The town that is well known as grotley otley. It is pituresque, with cobbled roads and a beautiful riverside… are you wondering what’s so bad about it? It’s quite plain and simple, simple being the operative word in this, THE PEOPLE! I’m now under the conclusion that the people in this town were once experimented […]

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