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Listening to a book today and it was taking about club or country players

Messi and Ronaldo are club players first, but Zidane was a country player first.

Back to your question - I like being country but no more than an hour out.

Spent this week up in the highlands and its beautiful for a day but no for living in.
 
Purple & Green said:
Listening to a book today and it was taking about club or country players

Messi and Ronaldo are club players first, but Zidane was a country player first.

Back to your question - I like being country but no more than an hour out.

Spent this week up in the highlands and its beautiful for a day but no for living in.
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This is where, I have to say, parts of England have an advantage. I could happily pooter about an English village with green and quaint boozer, versus emerge from Scotland's natural majesty to water-stained harling and huns
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
Confirmed townie here.

The sticks are fine but need the human touch.
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I agree with that sentiment but sorta think it's the other way around. I think in a village boozer you're more likely to end up in a sesh with strangers than in the city. I speak, tbf, as a visitor. Clearly if you lived in one of these places then there would be less variety of folk.
 
egb_hibs said:
I agree with that sentiment but sorta think it's the other way around. I think in a village boozer you're more likely to end up in a sesh with strangers than in the city. I speak, tbf, as a visitor. Clearly if you lived in one of these places then there would be less variety of folk.
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As ever strictly MY opinion, totally disagree about the sesh, thought I was the romantic head-in-the-clouds one here 😊
 
I like the idea of living in the country but I suspect that the novelty would wear off at some point.
 
Both have their pros and cons , here in Norway , when your young and bringing up a family , it’s a lot cheaper to buy property in the country and commute in to the city , as you near retirement, we tend to sell the traditional home and move into the city into apartments because , the need for a car and all the expense that brings, toll roads( Norway has gone toll road mad) upkeep etc isn’t needed , collective transport is free for pensioners, near all the amenities like doctors surgery, shops ,banks etc.
I’m nearing retirement age , we live in a suburb in Kristiansand , a small city of about 80,000 people , about 8 miles from the city centre. As it stands now I don’t think we’ll be moving into the centre as we get older.
 
egb_hibs said:
Which do you prefer ?

I've 180'd on this with age - and it's very definitely that - but I now far prefer the country, and would move out the city if I could persuade the missus, which isnae happening.
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Why would you prefer to move from towns where gangs of young kids roam about creating havoc, vandalising stuff, disrespectful to their elders and the main streets are occupied with cafes, charity shops and vaping outlets . Pubs are closing on a monthly basis and supermarkets rip people off 🤷‍♂️
Bit late in the day for me but should have done it before now . Closeness to family was a big factor in not doing it 🤔
 
I can see me flipping on this too.

I grew up in a wee village in Fife and couldn't wait to leave. Left home at 19 and have lived in, or near, a city ever since.

Im not sure if it's nostalgia or what, but I am begining to think I took my childhood for granted. The peacefulness I saw as boring as a younger teen was actually pretty idyllic (getting the bus to Edinburgh really wasn't that much of a hassle).

I live just outside Glasgow now, and still love having city life on my doorstep, but I can feel the countryside calling in ten or fifteen years when the missus and I become empty nesters.
 
Two Headed Boy said:
I can see me flipping on this too.

I grew up in a wee village in Fife and couldn't wait to leave. Left home at 19 and have lived in, or near, a city ever since.

Im not sure if it's nostalgia or what, but I am begining to think I took my childhood for granted. The peacefulness I saw as boring as a younger teen was actually pretty idyllic (getting the bus to Edinburgh really wasn't that much of a hassle).

I live just outside Glasgow now, and still love having city life on my doorstep, but I can feel the countryside calling in ten or fifteen years when the missus and I become empty nesters.
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What village , not that I’m well travelled, eh Daz 🤣
 
Countryside for me. We’ve lived out here for 33years now and would only move back to a town if we were incapacitated in some way as we’re 4 miles from a bus route and rely on being able to drive.
 
joethehibby said:
What village , not that I’m well travelled, eh Daz 🤣
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Coaltown of Balgonie.

It's got more cosmopolitan since I left in 2001. You don't have to travel to Markinch to use a cash machine anymore since the corner shop went corporate. The pubs gone a bit fancy too. I'm sure the locals enjoy it, but I do miss the character the Raith Rovers curtains in the "lounge" gave the place.
 
Two Headed Boy said:
Coaltown of Balgonie.

It's got more cosmopolitan since I left in 2001. You don't have to travel to Markinch to use a cash machine anymore since the corner shop went corporate. The pubs gone a bit fancy too. I'm sure the locals enjoy it, but I do miss the character the Raith Rovers curtains in the "lounge" gave the place.
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Used to work with a guy who lived there, Kenny watson , not you by any chance 🤣
 
Living in Moredun it's a no brainer. Moredun hands down.
 
egb_hibs said:
I agree with that sentiment but sorta think it's the other way around. I think in a village boozer you're more likely to end up in a sesh with strangers than in the city. I speak, tbf, as a visitor. Clearly if you lived in one of these places then there would be less variety of folk.
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I'm a townie.

I had a townie friend, well fae Cumbernauld 😆, he got a great job near Lakenheath. Two quaint pubs, cricket on the village green, Mick Jaggers daughter had a place next door!

Loved it for about 2 years then had to find somewhere with more to it then he thought he was going mad.

The pubs didn't have many outsiders visiting, just the same folk every day, every week. You knew what they were going to talk about as soon as you saw them. A stagnant community. Well apart from the time Jaggers daughter wanted to turn the cricket pitch into a helicopter landing site, technically she owned the land, but the previous owners over the last hundred years or so had given it over for village things. That caused a stooshie!

He still pops back, but not very often.
 
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