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- From: lmadison@nl.oracle.com (Linc Madison)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Advice sought on living in UK
- Message-ID: <3231@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:11:23 GMT
- Sender: news@nl.oracle.com
- Reply-To: lmadison@nl.oracle.com (Linc Madison)
- Organization: Oracle Europe
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- Hi, everybody -- I'm baaaack!
-
- I am at the moment living in Dublin, Ireland, but will be moving (and
- abandoning this e-mail address) in about a month, and crossing the water
- to the Ewe-nightie Kingdom. My quandary is that I still haven't decided
- *where* in the UK to locate. Current candidates include: [Oh, yes, I
- guess I should mention that I'll be there on a six-month student work visa,
- although I probably won't stay out the entire six months, more like four
- and a bit. Qualities of interest include: nice housing at a reasonable
- price, job possibilities (most likely of the temporary clerical sort),
- weather, social climate, intellectual life, and the like.]
-
- London -- obvious advantages of lots of social, cultural, and economic
- activity, but also obvious disadvantages of crowding, crime, noise, and
- EXPENSE.
-
- Brighton -- nice seaside town, reputed to have a large motss population,
- about an hour from London, but still a town of only about 150,000. Still,
- the weather would be nice....
-
- Cambridge -- university town, ergo presumably reasonably high level of
- intellectual activity, still close to London, but also a fairly small town.
-
- Edinburgh -- lively arts scene, but it's cold and a long way to anything
- else.
-
- Manchester -- reputed to have a high concentration of motsseurs, reasonably
- medium-sized city, close to friends in the MANW area (Merseyside And
- Northern Wales, as in MANWEB).
-
- Of course, one of the questions I have no information on at all is the
- availability of public-access internet sites at reasonable cost -- just in
- case my next job doesn't come with e-mail on the side.
-
- -- Linc Madison == LMadison@IE.Oracle.Com (temporarily!!)
-