#24

Croydon is my home town. Everyone criticises it, but I’ve never had a problem with it and will always defend it.

There are some lovely parks, easy to get to London in 15 minutes, some nice pubs and there used to be a nice local small music scene with venues.

The towm centre is run down nowadays but I have fond memories of it as a kid. Fairfield Halls is reopening this year after a refurb which will be good for plays. Once Westfield is built hopefully the shopping area will get back to what it used to be.

Matthews Yard is a hidden gem too.

#25

Lots of parks and fields
Safe place to grow up
An excellent pub near the petrol station
Very hospitable Indian restaurant
Good links to London

#26

Brilliant for trail running/mountain biking. Pretty good museum. Good craft beer scene. The odd bursts of creativity that saw Peter Jackson, Flight of the Conchords and Taika Waititi all happen at more or less the same time.

#27

2 miles from a national park and lovely countryside
5 miles from the beach (West Wittering beach fans)
Lovely city center
It’s where a lot of my friends live

#28

the road out of it, lol #banter

#29

@colon_closed_bracket this photo was taken 5 miles away from it

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#30

Everywhere in the G is haunted with memories, reminds me of being young. Was never actually happy when I was young but still believed it was possible

#31

Probably my arse

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#32

I grew up in Fareham which is exactly half way between Portsmouth and Southampton. Shit town but have loads of happy memories of playing weird gigs at youth centres and schools when I was a series of poor teenage punk bands. There’s also a high street with THREE Wetherspoons in about half a mile.

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#34

Oh god we probably grew up within about 20 miles of each other.

For the record, the best thing about my hometown is that I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to ever return.

#35

Really good Indian buffet on the high street now as well

#36

Very close to the border so good escape route from UK, doing amazing crossborder trade as a result of the current state of the £.
Good connectivity to both Dublin and Belfast.
Parents and siblings are there.

#37

feel guilty for laughing at this bit

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#39

Both of these are great things btw, the first might seem like some of that road out of here stuff, but it’s about convenience. Also everywhere is walkable, if you’re abke bodied and rivers and parks and countryside and the mill from the front cover of the first Black Sabbath album all withing a short ramble. It’s an easy place to live when you’re super lazy.

#40

I feel like there’s always a lot of classist attitudes towards people who’ve left my hometown. It usually seems to boil down to a London centric feeling towards the CHAVS Back home or something.

My home town is equally distance from two coasts. It has a ridiculous amount of pubs. It has no ‘culture’ to speak of in that broadsheet definen way, but a lot of that stuff is rubbish anyway. I’d love to be happily satisfied living there but I’m like everyone else and left for the big city. Hate brain drain so much. It’d be cool if there was an enforced thing where people had to stay in their communities and build them into amazing places. or maybe it wouldn’t be I dunno just got back from the pub.

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#41

Jeez there’s more folks from Northern Ireland on here than I thought
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#42

Don’t read that ^

#44

Are we talking the town we grew up in, or wherever we call home now?

#45

they filmed shameless there