Carlin How: it’s now like walking through Beirut

Is Carlin How a nice place to live or is Carlin How rough?

I grew up in the small village called Carlin How and I can say that I had a great childhood there, playing down the woods and camping up at “Texas” and all that, it was great! Yet to my surprise, going back there this year I was in shock and awe at what I had […]

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Middlesbrough, kiddos.

Is Middlesborough a nice place to live or is Middlesborough rough?

I’ve lived in Middlesbrough since 2014 and to put it lightly, f*ck this place. Now, I’m not going to generalise here but as a person who grew up in a quaint rural town in the south, moving to Middlesbrough was a shock to me in many ways. The town does have its ups, for example […]

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Middlesbrough, If one town deserves…nay, pleads to be wiped from existence, this sh*tehole is it

Is Middlesborough a nice place to live or is Middlesborough rough?

If one town deserves…nay, pleads to be wiped from existence, this sh*tehole is it. For the geographically challenged, Boro lies to the South of Newcastle and Sunderland, hidden by a miasma of green noxious gas, presumably produced at the Joker’s lair in Billingham. Indeed this heavy industrial fog has given rise to the generic nickname […]

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Hartlepool (Narrr like i’m goin oot on the rob)

Is or moving to Hartlepool a nice place to live or is or moving to Hartlepool rough?

Ahhh sunny hartlepool, it used to be famous for just one thing; In 1700 odd the bright citizens of the town were astonished to see the wreck of a french battleship, the only survivor being the ships mascot, an african ape. Being the type of village where sleeping with your sister was the preferred way […]

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