Off Topic The reputation of Hull

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City Man said:
To be fair to Luton, their ground has character the way you have to go through someone's house to get in.

I don't think Hull gets a worse rap than the vast majority of places north of Stevenage; to the smarmy stand up comics they're all much of a muchness.
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In the turnstiles, then between someone’s washing lines on the way in!

Horrible place though
 
dennisboothstash said:
In the turnstiles, then between someone’s washing lines on the way in!

Horrible place though
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It's a working class town in a middle class part of the country. There are far worse characterless dumps : Crystal Palace, Milton Keynes, Bournemouth
 
City Man said:
To be fair to Luton, their ground has character the way you have to go through someone's house to get in.

I don't think Hull gets a worse rap than the vast majority of places north of Stevenage; to the smarmy stand up comics they're all much of a muchness.
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I actually like the Kenilworth Road ground, except the portacabins down the touchline but the town itself is a ****hole and has had its identity stolen and I wouldn't want to live there, or London for that matter.
 
I had 2 students working for me. One from Huddersfield and one from Warrington. Both could if chosen unis elsewhere but came here. When I asked what decided it they both said one look at the uni and speaking to to other students here and it was sealed.
 
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like i said earlier

how is a city judged?

on it's estates? well i'd rather be in an hull estate than a glasgow or london or manchester or derby or birmingham or wolverhampton and luton

hull has one of if not the best old towns i've seen in the uk bar maybe edinburgh

very close proximity to stunning countryside, but also beaches

the marina and the area around it is absolutely incredible, it's a shame it took so long for the renevations to take place

plus we ain't surrounded by another 10 cities in close proximity like hell holes of wolverhampton and the like

it's got it's flaws
mostly the council

but it's a good city

and the university has one of the most stunning buildings in the uk
 
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armchairfan said:
The infrastructure point is an important one, creaky slow trains from Doncaster have been the experience for many over the years. I've even seen people quote Philip Larkin poems to disparage Hull. The idea that it's 'out in the sticks' is a nonsense if you look at the distance from the central spine of the country.
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Hull has its own sudden elegancies. People are slow to leave it, quick to return. And there are others who come, as they think, for a year or two, and stay a lifetime, sensing that they have found a city that is in the world yet sufficiently on the edge of it to have a different resonance
 
speaking oh telephone boxes

when was the last time any of you used one?

i remember in my yoof
ringing phone boxes, the number was listed above the keypad, and hoping people would answer
was brilliant
 
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