But as I said, I go there every week and have spent over 1000 days there. Does someone who has lived there permanently for 1 month know it better?
Obviously the longer someone lives there, the better they will know it, a month is little more than a long holiday.
That's a sweeping statement. I know some 'Londoners' that are as welcoming and generous as anyone I've met. Equally, I know some right ****s that live in Hull....
I'm willing to see it as a back-handed compliment, more in response to our suddenly cool status as City of Culture, than to our former Crap Town monicker.
Sat on the tube is one example of people not even making eye contact as they would then have to engage in conversation with another person. Get on a train or a bus here and you know the name of the persons dog who is sat next to you.
But why do you want to know that? There's a difference between friendliness and somebody that you'd never want to speak to sharing the banalities of their pitiful existence.
3 months then. Does that beat me spending multiple days their every week for years? And if not how long does it take to outdo my 1000 days plus?
This is an utterly pointless discussion. If you think that someone who visits a place knows it as well as someone who lives there, then fine, I'm certainly not arguing over it.
London is the reason Hull cannot improve with the same effectiveness as other Norther cities as the decision makers, based in London of course, have this same myopic type mindset as the media, mostly based in London as well. It doesn't matter if a journalist who writes this stuff has actually been to Hull as his opinion is already based of the many years of Hull bashing on TV, Radio and newspapers, it has been unrelenting. We had a brief respite when City first got into the Premier League, you know the thing 1st time in the top leauge in over 100 years of existance, but then it was back to the same old same old. Even Chancellor George Osborne's Powerhouse Of The North vision left Hull off the list, just like we get left off the list for multi-million pound improvement to road and rail links, Hull is, litterally at the end of the line. It appears Castle Street is the most polluted road in the UK you know the road that was being improved but like other projects in the city seemed to have slipped off the drawing board. And it has always been thus I have lost count of the lovely architects drawings that this could be or should be done but never are. Its a mindset about Hull that is never going to change and lets face it with 2 former cabinet ministers and also Hull MP's who's total contribution to the improvement of the city were zero I'm afraid we don't have much of a chance and as far as I can see never will have.
I never said I wanted to know it. I'd check your definition of friendliness. People wanting to speak to you and share in conversation, despite how you see it, is friendliness. You telling them to **** off because you find them banal isn't friendly. Taking 2 minutes out of your day to talk or even listen to them is friendly, despite it being banal. You might have been going to that there London too much!
I think the insular behaviour and suspicious attitude of some locals in our city isnt friendly and they're the type to chat to you on a bus about "our Chantelle's bairn". The amount of times I've spoken to someone in Hull - be it a shop, pub or indeed public transport - and the first thing they've said aggressively is "you're not from Ull". Well my response is always the same : "erm, yes I am and even if I wasnt, what's that got to do with it?". There's a very almost threatened attitude to anything or anyone new I feel, they qalmost seem to scream "if you're not from round 'ere then leave".
I was quite pleased with it. When in my head I said "banality of their pitiful existence" it came out as a Morrissey impression.
Really isn't much to cry about. If he properly slags us off then fine. But he just says he'd rather be skint then have a bit of dough and live here. So **** what?
