Everyone is so down on where they’re from on social media at this time of the year.
Weymouth has so many nice quiet beaches, tonnes of pubs, and there’s so much history around here. I couldn’t wait to leave when I was growing up and could probably never live here now but it’s far nicer than this miserable teen gave it credit for.
It’s a new town so pretty boring culturally, but because it was planned there’s lots of green space. I used to mock people for chosing to live here after they grew up but now I can see why it’s a good place to raise a family. Oh, because it has so many roundabouts there’s barely any queuing traffic, ever.
For real, we have lots of historical monuments (maybe St Patrick’s grave!) And a nice big stone circle nearby. Some nice walks and the mcds is open 24hrs on a weekend
I am really fond of my hometown and never really criticise it but I genuinely can’t think of anything I could say about it that is actually nice really.
The closest beach to where I lived for the first eight years of my life was only a mile or two away, but was right next to a huge oil refinery. Catching the train to out to Southend was much better.
I grew up in two towns, and I don’t know that I’d call either my ‘hometown’ these days - I feel more rooted in East London or Newcastle.
Both towns have many memories for me, and my parents still live in one of them, but it’s hard to think of anything that an outsider would like about either of them, really. The mediaeval high street is quite nice, I suppose.
There’s a really nice walk along the river itchen for several miles where you can walk from one town to the next which I have often done when I need to clear my head. Probably be doing that in the next few days.