Grendel in missing point shocker...Yeah great keep the life out the aspirational achievers.
I couldn't drive a big car, I'd be terrified to attempt a park. I swapped from a 206 to a Fiesta and felt like I was in a tank.
Haha, remember La Zenia fondly. Did my back in after slipping on the marble flooring and had to be helped on and off the plane . Redevelopment needs to be on a scale that Coventry City Council could never envisage. Cathedral lanes is too small. West Orchards is too small. It's a hotch potch of small scale ambition that doesn't go with anything that really sums up the City. Look what Birmingham has done to the canal area in the centre. What has Coventry done to make people want to visit it ? The area round the Belgrade has improved significantly but its simply not enough. Much of the centre needs bulldozing and billions spent on it to suck people in from 20-30 miles around . I doubt anyone outside the city would want to come to Cov when they can get a better experience almost anywhere else. Its about time Coventry was added to the official "craptowns" list volume 5. I've had a better experience at the seaside in January when everything's closed.Don’t know if anyone has been to Zenia Boulevard in La Zenia, Costa Blanca, Spain but that’s what Coventry City centre needs. Knocking down and starting again in that vain. Everything including West Orchids. Cathedrals Lane especially. Open that all back up as green space bringing back the views of cathedral and everything else hidden behind it. In place of the precents and west orchard have a single story open air shopping centre with lots of open spaces and all the car parking underneath instead of all the monstrosities of multi-storey car parks. That’s what they’ve done in La Zenia and it’s bright and airy with no feeling of claustrophobia that I get in Coventry City centre. Doesn’t seem to have any problems attracting the big name brands and shops either. Open the river back up to
Grendel in missing point shocker...
I did it recently after the wife nicked mine, went from a really small car to an "executive" estate. Feels like I am sat on the sofa and gliding as you don't feel much from the road.
Haven't mastered the reverse park yet though.
No I get the point but it’s just inverse snobbery - big expensive cars can be shown as a status symbol and a measure of material wealth - we should encourage not discourage.
We should be encouraging people to cut their cloth according to their requirements and not unnecessarily pollute an already over polluted planet. Big cars are not always a measure of material wealth. I know someone who has a brand new discovery and literally can’t afford to do anything else in life to pay the finance. I have a much better quality of life than him and by some distance. Not that you would know it if we were side by side at the traffic lights. Any idiot with finance can have a “status symbol” these days. Fair play to them if that’s what they want to spend their money it’s up to them but let’s not pretend big cars are an exclusive privilege of those who have “arrived”. They ain’t.No I get the point but it’s just inverse snobbery - big expensive cars can be shown as a status symbol and a measure of material wealth - we should encourage not discourage.
It doesn’t make anyone any happier.
Status symbol and anyone jealous of them is just an inverse snob. Either that or any idiot with finance can afford a “status symbol” these days.On another note, what is it with lads about 19-23 or so now driving round in financed up to the eyeballs A class Mercs, Audi A3s and 1 series BMs? Yeah they might look nice but bet it's taking a large chunk of their income just for that, the other half is probably on a bottle of vodka they carry around all weekend for selfies.
ExcellentI think it's really vibrant now that they've put Cathedral Lanes to better use and opened up the square to markets and attractions. Looks a site better than some grass and is now a productive space.
On another note, what is it with lads about 19-23 or so now driving round in financed up to the eyeballs A class Mercs, Audi A3s and 1 series BMs? Yeah they might look nice but bet it's taking a large chunk of their income just for that, the other half is probably on a bottle of vodka they carry around all weekend for selfies.
Places I have visited that make Cov look like a safe paradise
London outside the centre
Birmingham
Manchester
Portsmouth
Southampton
Leicester
Stoke
The North East except central Newcastle
Swathes of the grotty DSS on sea south coast
Plymouth
Bradford
Rochdale ( fuckinghell)
You can't expect the schools to teach everything, things like finance, healthy eating need to come from their parents. It's about time people took responsibility for their actions. Our parents never got this sort of help from schools, it came from their parents and that generation have done alright for themselves.
Manchester? Your're having a laugh right?
Depends which bit!The North East
Places I have visited that make Cov look like a safe paradise
London outside the centre
Birmingham
Manchester
Portsmouth
Southampton
Leicester
Stoke
The North East except central Newcastle
Swathes of the grotty DSS on sea south coast
Plymouth
Bradford
Rochdale ( fuckinghell)
Yeah, but I'm not sure you are supposed to put them on the same plate, Henry.I was taught to make a full English breakfast and a Victoria sponge in home economics. Seen me alright.
You can do that in Coventry too if you drive in a circle.<snip>
You can drive for 10 minutes in London, Brum, Manchester and see nothing but god forsaken shit holes.
You can do that in Coventry too if you drive in a circle.
Absolutely agreed. I moved out of Coventry years ago to Rugby. Its a small town of around 50,000 with an out of town development called Junction1 Elliots Field that attracts loads for people from Daventry, Leicester, Leamington, Coventry.
Coventry could never do this without ballsing it up. Look at Hertford Street. As bad as anything Ive seen in the fag end parts of London and Croydon. Then you have the white elephant that is the canal basin, Fairfax street, the lower precinct then was done on the cheap, the upper precinct that needs bulldozing. The walk from the station along Warwick road looks promising until you hit the bull yard and then its like some apocalyptic nightmare all the way to the bus station which someone designed on the back of a fag packet. All neatly strangled by the ring road.
Nottingham and Leicester are far better city centres because of serious investment . Coventry city centre is just a serious, soulless mess .
You've obviously never driven in east or north Manchester. It's a shite hole (Hyde Rd through Gorton or Oldham Rd through Miles Platting & Newton Heath or Rochdale Rd through Collyhurst). Not to mention Cheetham Hill. All these areas are immediately outside the city centre.Manchester? Your're having a laugh right?
Durham is lovely, a good example of a town which is prosperous in no small part due to its university.Depends which bit!
Kind of glad I've narrowly avoided the Easter holiday to Middlesbrough, mind...
Yet the first release very high spec luxury apartments in the Coop have sold off plan.
yep. Cov is a fine City to live in. The city centre is shite though. But as a place to live it's better than a good many.
And even if you end up in a dodgy area, even on foot you'll be out of there in under 10 minutes.
You can drive for 10 minutes in London, Brum, Manchester and see nothing but god forsaken shit holes.
You can't expect the schools to teach everything, things like finance, healthy eating need to come from their parents. It's about time people took responsibility for their actions. Our parents never got this sort of help from schools, it came from their parents and that generation have done alright for themselves.
I doubt there was as many fast food outlets, microwave meals and takeaways with a few clicks/taps of a phone. I kind of agree that schools are already stretched enough as it is, but a lot of people don't have the knowledge to know any better.
It's a cultural issue across the country that needs addressing more than anything, fair play to the likes of Jamie Oliver for trying to address it. The diet of a lot of people in Britain is shocking.
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