i remember when you moved, didn't you used to live in Leeds??

No no no no no, mate.

It's got a lot more than that. All that Victorian and industrial archtecture - how can you not love that? All those railway viaducts are great! And the people are cool, good cultural and leisure stuff like museums and art galleries, central to just about everywhere in the country, nice Chinatown area, there's the canals and rivers, good shopping etc. PLUS Lancashire County Cricket Club and Manchester City Football Club. What more do you want? Manchester's nice. The Fall are a Manchester band, you know. Seriously, what more do you want?

Preston and Chester are pretty ace too. But they aren't Manchester...

Hahaha, I love how you didn't mention Manchester United. Liverpool has museums and art galleries. AND a cricket club. AND a football club. AND the only Manchester band I ever liked were The Stone Roses.

Move across the river. :]

yes i did that was a long time ago though now. its nice here, but i want to be somewhere else.

Well, I don't support Manchester United!

You don't like The Fall? Or the Happy Mondays? Or The Fall? Or MC Tunes? Or The Fall? Or The Smiths? Or The Fall? Or Nine Black Alps? Or THE FALL?

The only downsides to Manchester are the lack of charity shops, antique shops and antiquarian bookshops. But it's easy to get a train from Manchester to lots of places that have them.

Liverpool is very good for museums and art galleries (I love the Tate especially) and OK for antiquarian bookshops (Reids, on Mount Pleasant, is very nice). But if I was going to move, I'd want to move further away. You don't have a professional cricket club, although any cricket at all is a good thing. Probe Records has always been a favourite shop.

I hear the people from Quiggins have found somewhere else to go to, which is good.

Do you like living in Liverpool?

I would've loved to move to Tampere, which is two hours away in south from where I now live, but I didn't get in the school I wanted to go and it was a matter of 1,5 points.
So I now I have to move within a month to another city, nowhere near as appealing as tampere, two hours away in northeast.

Honey, you live in the UK. Portland will seem like the cheapest place on earth when you aren't paying with the English Pound. I moved here from Normal, Illinois, and while Portland is more expensive, it wasn't that drastic a change. Rent will run anywhere from $300-500 a month, which in your currency, is like what, 200-350 pounds a month? Not too shabby. Beer is cheap and plentiful. So is coffee. Most shows are $5-20. Record stores abound. Portland is cheap, especially compared to places like Chicago.


To respond to the queries about Paris: Paris is awesome, but I wouldn't want to live there. You have to like cities that huge. I've never lived in one, but I'm not sure I'd ever want to live in a city so big it takes hours to cross. I LOVE visiting Paris though, and because I speak French, I'm able to experience it the way it should be experienced-just walking around the city, away from the super-touristy areas. Good stuff.

I know this is a cliche' but, id like to live in Amsterdam. Not because of the legalization of cannibis, but because of how beautiful and laid back it is. ive done research on it in school and from what ive seen it is wonderful and scenic

A dumpster

Quebec, i hear, is a fantastic city. i would live there.

any major city, something with alot people

HM. Lots of dfferent places.

Moscow, Russia
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Cairo, Egypt
New Delhi, India
Baku, Azerbaijan

Strange places so different from home. For sure.

Not really. I don't enjoy living in the UK at all. So I'll settle for Liverpool, which is where my family is and it's what I'm used to.

Canada or the USA are pretty desirable places to live for me. I feel at home there.

A cool place indeed, but make sure you learn the language and don't look like a tourist. You will likely be robbed and possibly killed if you don't do these things. Stay away from the slums (favela's), and out of the touristy parts and you will enjoy it to the full. My grandfather lived there for a while and some of my other family live there, its a cool place but Brazil has some really other great places to go also.

i've seriously considered moving to nyc when i get out of law school (of course i'm jumping the gun here since i haven't applied yet!) . . . i don't know about moving there, but i'd love to see london, hong kong, tokyo, singapore, shanghai, athens, dublin, paris, berlin, rome, moscow, sydney, buenos aires, la, seattle, phoenix, boston, cairo, some hellish place in subsaharan africa, etc. (all places i've never seen.) i love huge cities, but the only ones i've ever seen are dc, philadelphia, nyc, baltimore, and chicago.

New York

nice choise :)

BTW Is your nickname means "56" in russian? there are some grammar mistakes. "Пятдесят Шесть" is correct :)

as for me I want to live in Tokyo.

Yes, it is 56.

The X is not supposed to be there, and I'm missing the soft sign, but thats only because it looks better without.

Anyway, I have family that lives outside of Moscow, my aunt is there right now. I've been told next year I get to go, but I've been told this before. We'll see...

Woot, Preston!