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What's Totnes like?
Hebden Bridge of the SW. Nice, but full of anti-vaxxers, hippies, etc.
What's Totnes like?
What's Totnes like?
It is a shame, I remember great nights seeing good bands in The Spinning Wheel back in the mid-seventies. Though I preferred Brixham as a resort. We were last in Paignton in 2003.I notice nobody has mentioned my hometown of Paignton.
I can confirm that it is utterly dire. All the sketchiness of Torquay without any of the (few) redeeming features.
I only live 25 miles away but it wouldn't bother me if I never went back. Last time was about three years ago and it was stupendously depressing. It was never great, but like so many UK seaside towns it has really declined rapidly.
Hebden Bridge of the SW. Nice, but full of anti-vaxxers, hippies, etc.
Totnes was voted the happiest place to live in England a few years back. Must be all the hippies who settled that went to Dartington Hall that I knew.
Pretty much all the seaside towns on the Kent and Essex coasts are shit holes. I used to go to visit a mate in nick at HMP Standford Hill on the Isle of Sheppey. Afterwards, I once took a drive around the island and ended up in a kip called Leysdown-On-Sea. A horrible, run-down dump, complete with manky chippies, half derelict amusement arcades, and St George's flags in the windows of most of the scabby residential properties.
The prison was less depressing.
Broadstairs seems like it's trying really hard not to be shit and for the most part manages, but is hated by the rest of Kent for its troubles. The other problem is that if you turn the wrong corner you find yourself in Margate or Ramsgate.Botany Bay beach is really nice though and Broadstairs pleasant enough.
It is nice town to visit, but a mate of mine moved there as a returning Devonian for his retirement and has regretted it - too many blue-rinse Tories. Some other friends also moved there from Ottery but left again as there wasn't much for the kids.
What's Totnes like?
Sidmouth aka the town at the mouth of the river Sid isn't well enough known to appear in these lists but is fantastic. There's no tacky arcades and it isn't full of second homes.
The frequent rock falls don't kill too many people to deter visitors and as long as you sit away from the base of the cliff you're ok.
The cafe at the top of Jacob's Ladder does massive bits of cake.
What's Totnes like?
And I dunno what planet you'd have to be on to think Weston Super Mare was a seaside town. If you can see the other side, it's not the sea.
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What's Totnes like?
No. If you sleep somewhere else then it's a holiday. People who don't have holidays abroad aren't having staycations here.Staycation means staying rather than going on vacation and is context-dependent. It could mean not leaving the house, not leaving your town, not leaving your county except for day trips, not leaving your country etc...
it seems nowhere in Exeter itself will let us rent a house with a dog
I actually far prefer places like that than the alternatives, which are more often than not dirty, puke-on-the-pavements, sticky floored pub towns, with an open invitation to a punch-up.organic Tories
... nowhere in Exeter itself will let us rent a house with a dog
No. If you sleep somewhere else then it's a holiday. People who don't have holidays abroad aren't having staycations here.
That's a shame. Our old house was opposite a popular dog walking park in the city centre but got snapped up as another student house.
And I dunno what planet you'd have to be on to think Weston Super Mare was a seaside town. If you can see the other side, it's not the sea.
It's the North American holistay. Just because capitalism and classism lead to there being different tiers of holiday (staycation - aspirational daytrips and according to your definition holidays that aren't abroad) doesn't mean we should adopt that usage.There’s a difference between how some people think words ought to be used, and how they are actually used. A quick google shows this rather new word is variously defined, and as i said is therefore dependent on context. You have no right to mandate a particular use.
Probably. Fucking Tories.Wasn’t it due to pig fucker holidaying in Cornwall that we first got to hear of staycations?
They’re using the term wrongly
They’re using the term wrongly
Nah, a staycation is staying at home - the place you live - and doing stuff at or from home. If you stay overnight at a place that isn't your home, that's a vacation/holiday.