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GarandMarine:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 08 Jan 2014, 11:22 ---I live in a dry village! I also live in a working men's social club, aka a pub. Britain: full of contradictions since 1066.

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I'd ask why you'd live in such a hellish place, but since there's a bar downstairs it's pretty clear no one else would want to either.

Barmymoo:
It's a lovely place, and there's a very good pub just a few minutes' walk away in the next village. This one was built by Quakers for their employees to live in, and Quakers don't drink. Plus the social club isn't a bar, it's a small, quiet pub-type place. It's always silent by midnight and usually quiet on weeknights.

GarandMarine:
The next village is a few minutes WALK away?

The mind, she boggles!

Barmymoo:
It's not really a village exactly, it's weird. It's a section of the outskirts of the city, but there's a definite difference between the two areas. British cities are kind of different from American ones, they grew organically so they can be a bit odd.

The Seldom Killer:
As an example, I live in Walkley, the villages of Crookes, Upperthorpe, Stannington and the town of Hillsborough are all a few minutes walk from my house and all of them are in the city of Sheffield which has over 130 identifiable neighbourhoods. These can be towns, villages, parishes, roads and districts.

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