Why move to Swindon?

that's all i've got.

Modern Shopping Malls

League 2 Football with Wisey as Manager

No nasty over crowded Tube

One of the fastest growing and largest towns in the UK

Swindon doesn't really look like a town I'd want to live in, but I do go there a couple of times a year to shop in the Macarthur Glen designer outlet place.

On the minus side, oh, everything else. It's not quite as grey as you might imagine - there's a nice park or two and if you head just a couple of miles out of town there are places with nice countryside pubs - but there's not much to recommend it either. Don't expect shops that aren't in every other sub-200k town because there aren't any. Well, there was and I hope still is a proper second-hand bookshop, you know the sort, crammed with all manner of books in little apparent order, in Old Town, but it's about all I could think of.

(I am total snob, cz everyone else at my workplace lives in Swindon and likes it. Really, it'd be better than living where I do, just not by enough for me to bother moving. But if you don't nurse my increasingly unlikely and childish dream of moving somewhere with an actual music scene or long to watch obscure films in non-multiplex cinemas etc then Swindon may be as good as anywhere. May...)

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But anyway I haven't got a job there yet.

Thanks Rebecca for the sobering honesty.

"Don't move to any area of Swindon beginning with a P" says my officemate. He also says more interesting things are slowly starting to happen if you know where to look, but I certainly don't. Old Town is the bit of Swindon you can almost pretend isn't Swindon, as in its Victorian terraces etc were there on the top of the hill before a whole new 20th-century world of concrete horror sprung up round the railway at the bottom.

Wish I could remember which park I'm thinking of with ducks and a botanic garden type bit (and I vaguely remember lizards or turtles or something but maybe I'm now confusing it with Cotswold Wildlife Park).

Which is what I, and probably every other non-Brit on ILX, thought of first. XTC=Swindon in our (well, my) mind.

The chance to speed without fear of prosecution?

Mark Lamarr doesn't live there any more.

You would never guess from his strong Wiltshire accent

Two pensioners on the bus in Chiswick last Saturday:

"See those windows up there above the restaurant?"
"Yes?"
"That's where that Ant and Dec live with that Mark Lamarr."
"Oh yes, I think I know Ant and Dec."

Do they live there?

Those stalwart Geordies certainly do reside somewhere in Newky Broon W4.

Nearly every time I'm on Chiswick High Road I see that Scott Walker riding his bike on the pavement. It's a disgrace.

you get to go on the magic roundabout every day

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Magic_Roundabout_Schild_db.jpg

Endless fun circumnavigating the magic roundabout
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:/

Back when we had money (nice and sunny, Lech Walesa etc), Dawn was on the shuttle flight from Heathrow to Newcastle, and found she was on the same flight as A&D. Seems, they got on the flight the famous Ant and Dec, and got off two lads being picked up by their mums and dads.

I know, I know, just sayin'

I have a t-shirt with that roundabout on. But I don't wear it outside the house.

YouTube comment of the week...

"As far as Swindon was concerned, people kept throwing themselves off the car parks, but they aren't high enough to kill yourself. So they just ended up in hospital to be let out to try again. It was that depressing a place."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwb4oCvP_m4