UK 'Poly Meet Jan/Feb/Mar 2003

[MikeH]

And I live at least 3 hours from Manchester. So that's 5.5 hours minimum + the changover in Manchester and delays.

So for some reason I'd prefer to go to Bristol, Reading, London, even Manchester would be 100% better than Aber for me.

[Solly]

"And I live at least 3 hours from Manchester. So that's 5.5 hours minimum + the changover in Manchester and delays."

[MikeH]

You said that Aber was 2.5 hours from Manchester.

Actually best way for me is to change at Wolverhampton. Journey time approx 5 hours.

[Worthingtons]

The Stinger - www.statistics.gov.uk

Manchester is smaller by population.

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by Rothy
The Stinger - www.statistics.gov.uk

Manchester is smaller by population.

Depends on what you class as manchester, its like saying London is just the city of London which it clearly isn't.

Manchester is the connurbation surrounded by the M60 and therefore should have a population of around 2 million.
People from Salford or tameside would say they are from manchester

[*End Is Forever*]

That's comparing local authorities. Manchester's local authority doesn't cover the vast majority of the "Manchester" urban conurbation; there are ten local authorities within Greater Manchester.

[Faboba]

Originally posted by Boddington's
Yeah but we still have annoying pacifists as well. I really can not understand them at all...got a left-wing girl in some of my economics class and she started arguing with the lecturer

Aye but let me guess, she wasn't properly left-wing, she just felt she was. Like those twits that say they're socialists but support 'affirmative action' in America ( at least in its present form which, good intention aside is just reverse-discrimination ). Too many people decide they are left wing because they just haven't thought about the issue properly.

About Aber though, I've already convinced myself to go. Frankly the drop-out rate is not a selling point. The only thing which has freaked me so far are the fairly low entry requirements - especially for Creative Writing.

Coventry... Warwick... Coventry - it's all the same. Some English town I've never been to, never heard much about in the context of modern life and know nobody that's ever lived there ( to my knowledge ). I mean Warwick's selling point it that 'it's cheap to live there'.

You haven't mentioned the library! Or the pubs. Admittedly the number of pubs IS overkill but still having a national library just down the road from the university is a good thing....

So are welsh accents....

[Faboba]

Originally posted by *End Is Forever*
That's comparing local authorities. Manchester's local authority doesn't cover the vast majority of the "Manchester" urban conurbation; there are ten local authorities within Greater Manchester.

That's true of all the big cities, it's too large and too ****ed up to be handled by a single local government body. Usually the inner-city gets the council and the suburbs are given off to whatever authority is running on that side.

[MikeH]

Library? At university? Took me 18 months to find mine and it was the biggest building on campus directly opposite from my department.

[Dauphin]

When I drove to Aberystwyth it took me 6½hrs to get there, 7½hrs to get back. Its over 450 km from where I live.

[MikeH]

Is there an airport?

[Faboba]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
When I drove to Aberystwyth it took me 6½hrs to get there, 7½hrs to get back. Its over 450 km from where I live.

But once you're there why would you need to leave.

RE Library: It's got a standard university library just live everywhere else but down in the town itself it also has the National Library of Wales. Which I'd wager is big.

Are there a lot of Welsh Nationalists? I don't want to wind up trading Scot-Lit nuts for Welsh-lit ones.

[MikeH]

The fact that Birmingham had a big students uni was important to me.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Faboba


But once you're there why would you need to leave.

So that I can get home.

[MikeH]

We can all just stay at Boddies' house.