WTF...You could not make this up

[Clive_Thistle]

Apparently we live in the 2nd worse town in Britain.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3692154.stm

 

Jealousy is a terrible disease!

[Woody SUFC]

Kick deadworth out of Windsor!! Dragging the rest of us down

[MISM - WEFC]

woody you dont evan live in windsor you OLD windsor scum lol

[Woody SUFC]

The Orginal and the best!

[Guest]

more like it was rejected from windsor

[MISM - WEFC]

original??? windsor just cut it off not good enough

[zoom]

Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

 

First about this survey, i wouldn't take it's findings too seriously i mean whats there criteria? Did they ask everyone who lives or has lived there? It's good copy designed to sell books which is why everytime one of these surveys appears the top ten changes.

 

This quote: "The big thing about Windsor is that its townsfolk believe that by living near the castle they are more or less royalty themselves." is simply b*llocks and whilst it may be a true description of the views within the "new money" that have moved into the area, it's hardly a typical one from those either brought up in or whom have any kind of genuine affinity with the area beyond making profit through property speculation or sending little Johnny and Samantha away from that ghastly comprehensive.

 

Windsor has changed drastically over the decades and it's strengths remain it's locality, it's security and it's quaintness. Of course thats off-set by it's high cost of living, it's lack of diversity, it's relatively bourgeois nightlife and the simple fact that being a town full of people not originally from the area it's largely lost it's soul.

 

Second worst town in the country? Spare me the cr*p. As someone who's left behind SL4 for the life of surban London and knows to a reasonable degree the other side of the fence there is one simple difference that will always blow such surveys out of the water. Windsorians NEVER lie about where they come from.

 

Draw your own conclusions.

 

 

 

[MISM - WEFC]

a good response zoom!! i seriously doubt they asked true windsorians 4 there survay

[Big J R]

As someone who used to work at Runnymede, I had to visit Windsor regularly, and always found it pleasant and its residents sociable. Obviously the person who compiled this report has NEVER travelled north of the Watford gap !

[Hammerman]

I would have Windsor at No1. What a Dump!

[dansilk]

Don't knock us types who have moved here in the last few (well, ten) years either. We've chosen to live here, not just defaulted to it.

 

Plus what some might call a "bourgeois nightlife" others call "loads of good pubs plus plenty of restaurants and you don't have a compulsory fight with a pissed-up Neanderthal afterwards". I speak as someone who's lived in Darlo.

 

Probably it's in the worst towns list because the list author can't afford to live here but really really wants to.

[AncientBlue]

The prat who wrote that should take a walk around the Medway Towns? In the most part Ugh!

[Hammerman]

Wheres's all the great pubs. Most closed years ago!

[zoom]

Originally Posted By: dansilk

Don't knock us types who have moved here in the last few (well, ten) years either. We've chosen to live here, not just defaulted to it.

Plus what some might call a "bourgeois nightlife" others call "loads of good pubs plus plenty of restaurants and you don't have a compulsory fight with a pissed-up Neanderthal afterwards". I speak as someone who's lived in Darlo.

Probably it's in the worst towns list because the list author can't afford to live here but really really wants to.

I smell something fishy and i'm not talking about the beer lines in Terry Hall. Could Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss Silk be on a wind-up?

There's nothing wrong with people moving to any area but having a town predominantly full of newbies at the expense and displacement of the majority of people who grew up in a town does not make for an area full of pride, tradition and unity. It is exactly the kind of mentality by those with the "i can afford it here so f*ck you" that p*sses people off and explains why windsor is seen as a town full of toffs nationwide. It also in part explains windsors poor gates.

As for windsors nightlife it's crap. It's protentious, expensive, dull and fails to offer anything in the way of choice. Whilst of course some folk might want to neck cocktails from the comfort of a leather sofa others might want a game of pool, some live music and a friendly atmosphere in a shall we say more down-to-earth environment. Windsor fails to offer that choice and has failed to do so for 10 years. I would agree that nobody wants to see a town centre full of fights and p*ss heads, yet there are no excuse for such things if pubs are run properly and securely particulalry now they don't have to kick all on sundry to the kerb come 11:20pm.

[zoom]

Originally Posted By: AncientBlue

The prat who wrote that should take a walk around the Medway Towns? In the most part Ugh!

Margate. Now there's an example of a real dump.

[Guest]

Umm. I moved to Windosr just four years ago and love living here. I have lived all around the U.K. and all around the world, and think that Windsor is the best place I have lived in. As do others of the "newbies" to which you allude.

 

Interstingly what I have liked best about Windsor is that community spirit that you deny exists anymore. I like it then when I walk through town people know me by my first name and stop to talk. I think that Windsor does offer varied social life. There are some real pubs - The Criterion - for example. You can go as posh as you want, or as working class as you like. There are pubs in Dedworth you know.

 

Added to all this the location: M4,M3,M40,M25,M1,Heathrow,Gatwick,London all within forty minutes travel time.

 

I tell you something: much of the U.K. is a [****!!****] hole, and Windsor is welcome relief from that. That Betty chooses to live here gives Windsor its "aura" and meand it is far better served with facilities than it would be if Windosr were just a medium sized market town, so don't knock the toffs either!

[zoom]

Originally Posted By: Anonymous

Umm. I moved to Windosr just four years ago and love living here. I have lived all around the U.K. and all around the world, and think that Windsor is the best place I have lived in. As do others of the "newbies" to which you allude.

Interstingly what I have liked best about Windsor is that community spirit that you deny exists anymore. I like it then when I walk through town people know me by my first name and stop to talk. I think that Windsor does offer varied social life. There are some real pubs - The Criterion - for example. You can go as posh as you want, or as working class as you like. There are pubs in Dedworth you know.

Added to all this the location: M4,M3,M40,M25,M1,Heathrow,Gatwick,London all within forty minutes travel time.

I tell you something: much of the U.K. is a [****!!****] hole, and Windsor is welcome relief from that. That Betty chooses to live here gives Windsor its "aura" and meand it is far better served with facilities than it would be if Windosr were just a medium sized market town, so don't knock the toffs either!

I think your confusing community spirit with snobbery and the wish to live in a in insular society devoid of any of the social blights that exist in the real world. Whilst i would accept it is the common eutopia to live in a safe area with people existing on first name terms, i would respectfully submit that in the Royal Boroughs case that is achieved at the expense of society as a whole which by implication means other areas are kept below the standard to which Newbie Windsorians claim to be so proud.

[Guest]

Originally Posted By: zoom

Originally Posted By: Anonymous

Umm. I moved to Windosr just four years ago and love living here. I have lived all around the U.K. and all around the world, and think that Windsor is the best place I have lived in. As do others of the "newbies" to which you allude.

Interstingly what I have liked best about Windsor is that community spirit that you deny exists anymore. I like it then when I walk through town people know me by my first name and stop to talk. I think that Windsor does offer varied social life. There are some real pubs - The Criterion - for example. You can go as posh as you want, or as working class as you like. There are pubs in Dedworth you know.

Added to all this the location: M4,M3,M40,M25,M1,Heathrow,Gatwick,London all within forty minutes travel time.

I tell you something: much of the U.K. is a [****!!****] hole, and Windsor is welcome relief from that. That Betty chooses to live here gives Windsor its "aura" and meand it is far better served with facilities than it would be if Windosr were just a medium sized market town, so don't knock the toffs either!

I think your confusing community spirit with snobbery and the wish to live in a in insular society devoid of any of the social blights that exist in the real world. Whilst i would accept it is the common eutopia to live in a safe area with people existing on first name terms, i would respectfully submit that in the Royal Boroughs case that is achieved at the expense of society as a whole which by implication means other areas are kept below the standard to which Newbie Windsorians claim to be so proud.

So your premise is that funding/initiatives are diverted away from the environs to Windsor to keep it a utopian ideal? Have you any evidence for this, or are your insuations just the product of an over zealous left wing pontification?

And a town then only has "community spirit" when it is not in your words "devoid of social blights"? Oh come on, please spare me the sermon on suffering and judochristian morality implied in your post.

I am sure further that many residence outside of the "golden triangle" to which you seem keen to ascribe all of Windsor's imagined faults would be pleased to know that they are living in a snobby utopian ideal where there is no community spirit and people only get on with each other to keep up appearances.

Look, I've liked nearly everywhere I have chosen to live, logically enough. Do I think Windsor is utopian? No. Do I think its a great place to have a nice middle-class existence? - yes I do. That you seem not to want to see the overwhelming positives of in the town may suggest more about your prejudices toward it than reality itself i'd suggest.

[Guest]

Originally Posted By: Anonymous

Originally Posted By: zoom

Originally Posted By: Anonymous

Umm. I moved to Windosr just four years ago and love living here. I have lived all around the U.K. and all around the world, and think that Windsor is the best place I have lived in. As do others of the "newbies" to which you allude.

Interstingly what I have liked best about Windsor is that community spirit that you deny exists anymore. I like it then when I walk through town people know me by my first name and stop to talk. I think that Windsor does offer varied social life. There are some real pubs - The Criterion - for example. You can go as posh as you want, or as working class as you like. There are pubs in Dedworth you know.

Added to all this the location: M4,M3,M40,M25,M1,Heathrow,Gatwick,London all within forty minutes travel time.

I tell you something: much of the U.K. is a [****!!****] hole, and Windsor is welcome relief from that. That Betty chooses to live here gives Windsor its "aura" and meand it is far better served with facilities than it would be if Windosr were just a medium sized market town, so don't knock the toffs either!

I think your confusing community spirit with snobbery and the wish to live in a in insular society devoid of any of the social blights that exist in the real world. Whilst i would accept it is the common eutopia to live in a safe area with people existing on first name terms, i would respectfully submit that in the Royal Boroughs case that is achieved at the expense of society as a whole which by implication means other areas are kept below the standard to which Newbie Windsorians claim to be so proud.

So your premise is that funding/initiatives are diverted away from the environs to Windsor to keep it a utopian ideal? Have you any evidence for this, or are your insuations just the product of an over zealous left wing pontification?

And a town then only has "community spirit" when it is not in your words "devoid of social blights"? Oh come on, please spare me the sermon on suffering and judochristian morality implied in your post.

I am sure further that many residence outside of the "golden triangle" to which you seem keen to ascribe all of Windsor's imagined faults would be pleased to know that they are living in a snobby utopian ideal where there is no community spirit and people only get on with each other to keep up appearances.

Look, I've liked nearly everywhere I have chosen to live, logically enough. Do I think Windsor is utopian? No. Do I think its a great place to have a nice middle-class existence? - yes I do. That you seem not to want to see the overwhelming positives of in the town may suggest more about your prejudices toward it than reality itself i'd suggest.

Ere do you a spaka da engleesh?

[Guest]

I grew up in Bolton Road in the 70's and moved out in 1983. My dad also grew up in Bolton Road and my Mum in Princess Avenue, so I'm pretty much Windsor born and bred. I've never been too far away (apart from University years) and I could afford to move back now and would love to live in Windsor, and I'd like my boy to grow up there and go to Windsr Boys' (like me and Dad did), but I don't think I could stick the aircraft noise again. That's the only drawback I can see (apart from Dedworth of course!! ;-))