55 Responses to “Plymouth Moor View”

1. runnymede

   Why haven’t you mentioned Dorset?

   December 8th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
2. Tim Jones

   ‘Why haven’t you mentioned Dorset?’

   I was mainky focussing pon counties in the far west (the wesat country) and those which boarder Wales.

   Dorset is neither although I’m the first to say it’s one of the most unspoilt and picturesque counties in the whole country

   December 8th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
3. Andy JS

   I quite like flat areas of the country like Cambridgeshire and Suffolk so I’m not going to be in complete agreement with Tim on this.

   December 8th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
4. Pete Whitehead

   I’m not keen on the flat areas like in Cambridgeshire and particularly Norfolk but in general Tim is talking rubbish about the East/South East. There are every bit as many chavvy towns in the south west, places like Taunton and Yeovil and Weymouth and if there are poor and rundown small towns in Norfolk there are every bit as much in Cornwall. Of course all this is sort of irrelevant since all these counties are on the ‘right’ side of the Severn/Wash line – perhaps Tim is confused about where the Severn is. The only part of the South West region which is to the ‘left’ of it is the Forest of Dean (‘delapidated, run-down small towns’). The line generally refers to the division between the southern regions (SE, SW, East and London) and the rest so all those areas he refers to with the exception of the Welsh Marches are south of that line

   December 8th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
5. Tim Jones

   Regardless of which side of the Severn/Wash line they are on, any objective observer would rate the South West streets ahead of East Anglia and South East England in terms of desirability. Why else would so many people from the South East chose to retire in the south West – even now when property prices aren’t so contrasting as they once were? Its proximity to London will always make the South East a more densely populated and expensive part of the country to live in

   Parts of Cornwall might well be run-down – I remember Cambourne and Bodmin seeming particularly down at the hell, but its landscape more than makes up for it whereas the likes of Norfolk and Lincolnshire have no such redeeming features.

   The South West may indeed have some chavvy towns – and you could add Plymouth, Bristol even Paignton to those you mention, but these are vastly outnumbered by those in the home counties alone – Stevenage, Hemel Hempsted, Harlow, Grays, Stains, Bracknell, Basildon, Slough, Welwyn, Watford, Southend, Pitsea, Braintree, Reading, Dartford, Gravesend, Maidstone, Margate, Ramsgate, Chatham, Strood, Sheppey, Dover, Ashford I could go on

   There seems to be an assumption that the Tory-voting habits of the voters from such towns makes them less chav – a rather bizarre conclusion

   December 9th, 2010 at 8:54 am

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