Bristol,6th largest City in England and a total sporting joke.The sporting facilities are absolutely appalling for a City of this size.The both football teams,the cricket team all deserve better facilities but have been blocked by local councils and nimbys for god knows how many years and will continue to be blocked in the future.City have their plans to turn a former tip into a fantastic new stadium which would not only benefit the club but the people of Bristol as well and because 22 locals say they use it as a recreational area it becomes the largest village green in Europe.The Rovers had the same with Severnside years ago and now the same sort of thing is happening to Gloucestershire C.C.What with the Ice-Rink closing,no International Athletics arena and the City Council trying to sell off sports fields we really are a sporting backwater.Perhaps the people who are responsible for all this will be happy when there is no sport left in Bristol at all.
Plus it is, or has It's an overpriced and ****e public transport joke It's a premium entertainment facilities joke It's an international airport joke It's a general infrastructure joke It's a traffic nightmare joke
this is exactly why im moving out of Bristol/England and wont miss anything bar my mum, cant wait to MOVE out of a city that wont
In so many ways Bristol is a great place to live. Lots of history and heritage....not including the slave trade as a plus point mind you.... Lots of green spaces still remain Relatively safe (I exclude the city centre on a Friday/Saturday night but it's the same in any big town) Not particularly polluted Spoiled by the things we've already covered that take the edge of of all the plus points
not being funny angelic but history, grass and good behaviour is nothing to stay here for....... when i drive around Bristol its bloody depressing, were turning into a slightly better London as in some areas being a state (NOT BEING RACIST HERE) and full of samalions and foreigners, not that i mind that its just its not nice to see an actual part of bristol where theres no english...... Nope not for me id rather be a foreginer is a nice country like america/australlia nice weather all year long..thank you very much
Shiny - Agree mate, parts of Bristol are depressing but most of them have always been that way and you're young and keen to travel. The likes of Hartcliffe, Withywood, Southmead, Avonmouth, Lawrence Weston, Knowle West and many others have always had higher unemployment, higher crime, under age pregnancies and all other manner of social and economic issues and it won't ever change because every generation is the same. The difference is that more and more areas are becoming like them now - including Easton, Filton, and Patchway. However I'd still rather live here than in most of London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester, Stoke, and most industrial towns 'up north' that are near ghettos in a lot of cases. Most depressing place I've ever been in the UK is Rotherham. Jesus what a hole but really nice people.....! I love America. I go there for 3 weeks every couple of years (but not anywhere commercial like Florida) and we are treated like royalty by our friends of 10 years plus there. We were there in April 2011 and you would never know that there was a recession. All the shops are hiring staff, all the bars, restaurants and shops are busy. The air is good, traffic is on a massive scale but all the roads can cope with it and there are seldom jams, plus you can turn right at a red light if there's nothing coming ! Then you come back here and it's a different world. I've also worked a lot in Europe. Mainly France, but also Poland, Holland and Belgium plus I spent some time in India. Mumbai is a place of contrasts....from 7 people (2 adults and 5 kids) living under a tarpaulin at the side of a road with absolutely nothing to their name bar the clothes they wear and maybe a single cooking pot, to millionaire's row one road down. When you've seen that, even Manchester looks semi attractive...!
Responding to Angel. Too long to copy! Bristol's biggest problem is the lack of 'getupandgo' which has been a characteristic thro time. Everything always seems to be left too late. The fiasco over the docks when the ships became too big to travel down the Avon. What did they do? They put the prices up to recover their diminishing returns. Then they build the first road of it's type to the new King Edward Docks at Avonmouth. A lot of the folk who made Bristol great were not brought up here; Brunel, MacAdam, Plimsoll, Cabot.... We desperately need another George White. Bristolian born and bred. Developed the Tramways, Bristol Aero industry and had his finger in pretty much every pie that made Bristol zing. Referring to Angel's India. Try Lagos and Nigeria. Long lines of roadside rubbish constantly smouldering; dwellings strung along the road made from cardboard and flattened tins; roadside violent muggings...
I actually think Bristol is a great place to live...for a big City. Has great work opportunities, is mainly clean and mainly safe. It has plenty of green spaces, along with various attractions. Drive five minutes and you’re not far, from beautiful countryside. What it lacks is a DECENT COUNCIL (with balls), transport, sporting venues, concert venues and an airport that’s fit for a City this size. If we could address what it lacks, there is no large City I would prefer to live (in the UK that is)..
I'd rather not try Lagos thanks Sapphire, it always looks bloody horrible on the telly. Docks and shipbuilding in general are just a distant memory now and have been consigned to the history books, but it did make the area famous once upon a time. We don't have the history and passion for football in Bristol like the great industrial cities of London, the Midlands and the North had (and still enjoy to this day) and it's not something you can easily create either. I believe that with a new stadium City could get 25,000 - 30,000 for home games in the Prem, but like Reading (who used to get just 3,000 at the old Elm Park if they were lucky) teams like us and them (and many others like Carlisle, Luton, Oldham, Swindon) you can't retain these people when you're not in the top flight. Whereas Man U, Man City, Chelsea, Spurs, Newcastle, Wolves, Sheff U/Wed, Leeds etc who've all tasted either 2nd, 3rd or 4th tier football over the last 30 odd years retained a huge support despite their relegations.
Have been saying this for ages as I live in Cardiff and can see the contrast. As for the States was there again in Oct. and the recession is beginning to hit and people are worried. However this time, correct me if I'm wrong, but the stadium fiasco now is not the Councils fault as they recommended the granting of permission. I am and will always be proud to be a Bristolian but we are becoming the butt of others jokes and it's p*****g me off. As I said in another thread Home Rule for Bristol is the only way!!!!
I haven't been to Lagos for some time now Angel, but the last time I was there, someone had set off a bomb in the Centre. The hole was literally big enough for a double decker bus and all the traffic drove around it. The cities are 'orrible.
This may sound crazy, but it's getting to the point where I think that Bristol City should seriously consider just sending the builders in to start work on the stadium, whether the council are behind it or not. From a legal perspective it would take a few months for the council to stop Lansdown building the stadium should the council step in, but given the support the public has given it would finally force the councils hand towards taking a position. Lansdown is already bleeding money on the stadium project so it's possible that any fine the council could give would be wasted money any way. Before anyone states that we cannot build because of a lack of planning permission, a lot of projects start without planning permission. If I remember correctly the NEC in Birmingham started before planning permission was granted, and in our own city Costa decided to open its doors in Stokes Croft without permission from the council. Psychologically, it would be a huge blow to the opposition of this stadium and pushing the promise of extra jobs in the area by directly marketing them now would send a clear message to the council that both the public and business leaders operating in the city want this to go ahead. Yes, the council have stated a recommendation for us to get the stadium, but it's been a long battle and this is the first time they've been on the side of the public for a long time. In my eyes, nothing has changed and the recent issues with the cricket ground highlight this. I fear that if this isn't sorted soon Lansdown will walk, and to be frank I wouldn't blame him.
The problem with that Ender is that you would attract the country's idiots to bury themselves in the ground, live in the trees and generally f..k the whole process up.
