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WORST CITY - York, England |
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York, England
Population:
174,000 - but it seems like 174,000,000
Worst Feature:
It's crowded – all the time
Best Feature:
Loads of choice with places to eat and drink and drink and drink and drink
I love York . It is beautiful and a great place to visit if you come by some
form of public transport. The Minster, the shops, Betty’s tea rooms - it is
all lovely.
Until you decide to do something normal – something non-tourist, like park
your car. York is full, all the time, every day of every week. The other
problem is the tourists, not them actually, but the greedy folk feeding off
them. All the normal shops with things that you really need seem either to
have been driven out to commercial estates on the edge of town or you have
to pass 24 shops selling models of the Minster and Yorkshire tea to find
one. And no-one can do all their business out of town. Banks are still in
there, as are solicitors, building societies, council offices and so on.
They are the only non- tourist trade people who can afford the rent.
Enjoy a visit to York, but DO NOT attempt living there.
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York
Minster - very grand!! |
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York Minster - how it might
have looked if it were a slum in Mexico. |
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The Grand old Duke of York
he had ten thousand men
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again.
When they were up, they were up
And when they were down, they were down
And when they were only halfway up
They were neither up nor down. |
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