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Many years ago I did a part time course in Stoke on Trent. Many of people there were graduates of the university of Staffordshire. All the people on the course were fairly local and some were from the Birmingham area. The area had a lot of connections with Birmingham and it felt like Stoke Trent relied on Birmingham in a lot of ways. Yet Stoke on Trent for me (living 3 miles from Manchester city centre) was simply a 40 minute bus ride into Stockport and a 30 minute train ride from there.
I once managed to do entire journey in just over an hour all on public transport. They were all quite amazed how far I was traveling as Manchester to them sounded like the other side of the country, they were shocked when I told them it is just half an hour away and actually closer than Birmingham.
I did write a lot more but it was waffle so I deleted it :).
Just always found that experience of me coming from a thousand miles away ammusing. The funny thing is on the course the member of staff that run it from was Litchfield and she lives there but she did mention the two main cities to stoke as being Birmingham and Manchester but I am sure that was just for benefit.
I suppose in the south east the pull will always be London so this probably dosn't happen. I know people who live 50 miles away in Bedfordshire still think they are in London sometimes!
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Mon 1 Nov 10 at 23:59
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