On 2017-01-10 10:27 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> "Gary" wrote in message ...
>
> Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> Tell you what Gary, you go live in Manchester as I did for 9 months
>> and then
>> come back and discuss it.
>
> I'll get back to you in 9 months then. heheh
>
>>
>> OK? My 'limited' experience is still one hell of a lot longer than
>> yours.
>
> Yes, you are correct. So you evidently ran into many mean people in
> Manchester. Didn't you meet some very nice people too? I would never
> label a town or city bad because of a few people. There are good and bad
> everywhere you go. Every neighborhood always seems to have at least one
> trouble maker.
> Even every single person has their good and bad sides.
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>
> They were generally unpleasant. Usually if I am out and about there is
> the odd word between people. Try that there and they look at you as
> though you are mad.
>
> The people around me would just stare past if you said good morning. It
> didn't take me long to stop.
>
> Saying that a place is wonderful because you know a couple of people
> from there is crazy. Perhaps they got nice after they left.
>
> Of course not every single person was nasty, but the greater number of
> them were than were pleasant.
>
> During that time I travelled with my husband, I lived in 5 different
> places and that was the *only* one to which I will never return.
>
>
>
There used to be a well-known violin repair shop in Manchester run by a
father and son. The father was in the habit of going to the pub most
nights. On one particularly cold night he returned to find the doors
locked. His son wouldn't let him in until the old man agreed to make
over the business to him.
I met the son once. He was a nasty piece of work.