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Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.
Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good.
I lived in the Quarter for two years, but in the end I got tired of Birmingham businessmen smirking around Bourbon Street and the homosexuals and patio connoisseurs on Royal Street.
For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.
I lived in Camden, Primrose Hill and Kentish Town for 10 years.
Can it be the old devil's house? I've heard he has a house in North London.
Birmingham was a dirty industrial city, and from the plane it had a delicate rose-pink aura of pollution, like the chiffon scarf around the neck of an old prostitute.
Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.
I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland.
away from Clive.
Bagby Hot Springs.
I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland
Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.
We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
London; a nation, not a city.
My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life.
We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
Cresington Lane, There's an old public toilet with an old broken
I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.
I love living in London.
London, thou art the flower of cities all!
Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool.
When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.
Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.
Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.
Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it's actually a pub.
The country life near Manchester I really love.
So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.
I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
Yorkshire is so much part of me.
I love working in London.
But I've been here in Wolverhampton for two days now and that's felt pretty eternal (though I can reveal that the Pizza Hut
Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home.
Belfastas uncivilised as ever
savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.
I love London and British women.
Brownsville, having missed their road and wandered in the
I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.
I love it in Warrington. The kids are settled and I've spent GBP10k on a new garden. If I run away it's like I've got something to hide, which I haven't. I'm a big fan of Warrington, but not a big fan of Warrington people at the moment.
Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business
I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn't care about anything that happened outside it.
This is Manchester, we do things differently here
As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.
I hate London when it's not raining.
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
London is my home ... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.
Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
We grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. We didn't have much, but it was irrelevant. We played out a lot with all the kids on the street.
I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.
If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.
Used to Sears, JC Penney, and Woolworth's, Birmingham's stores sounded foreign: Gucci, Jacobson's, and Dittrich Furs. Underground parking kept the shoppers flawlessly coifed and dry - a scene from a Hollywood movie.
London is a modern Babylon.
London is a language. I guess all places are.
Manchester is in the south of the north of England.
Its spirit has a contrariness in it
a south and north bound up together
at once untamed and unmetropolitan; at the same time, connected and wordly.
You know what they say; if you're tired of London, you're tired of life.
I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.
In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.
London isn't a place at all. It's a million little places.
I will work out exactly how - with my no money, no money at all, until I actually receive my first, dawdling pay-cheque - I will get to Birmingham later. Perhaps Birmingham will, in the next week, move closer to Wolverhampton, and I can simply walk there!
I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.
I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.
I write late into the night at the Tutweiler in downtown Birmingham, and try hard to turn down that second cheeseburger at Milo's over by UAB, which has the best one in the whole wide world.
Manchester's got everything except a beach.
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.
I love London, I love the British people.
When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.Pub-- Don Johnson
In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.
That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.
I like where I live here, in London.
The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.
Home will always be London. There's something unique about the British. It's about cheekiness.
One has not the alternative of speaking of London as a whole, for the simple reason that there is no such thing as the whole of it. It is immeasurable - embracing arms never meet. Rather it is a collection of many wholes, and of which of them is it most important to speak?
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.
Bray is where I live; it's a seaside resort. It's a nice place to walk up there and stuff, on the coast. There's crosses along on top of it.
I've lived a lot of my life in London, so I often feel that I am a Londoner.
I love Manchester. Everyone knows that - I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.
London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.
London darkens the map like England's bowel polyp. There is a whole country up here.
In Conisborough there's no Hoxton Square to bring a bit of light relief. It's just mile after mile of broken windows and the bloody Earth Centre.
Greenwich is a funny word, isn't it? All green and witchy. Like soup.
I love the free spirit in London.
Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester's my spiritual home. I've been in London for 22 years now but Manchester's the only other place, I think, in the country that I could live.
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
coming to Hollyhill to visit my
I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
Mooreland is a long way to go to not to be anywhere when you get there.