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A recent survey by Readers Digest has named Hyndburn the 18th best place to raise your family in the UK.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstor...name_page.html

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123 Braintree, Essex :rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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me thinks someone is extracting the urine


78 Gateshead <<<<<<<<<< yeah reet

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Hyndburn 18th best place!.. that's pretty good going.. but I don't suppose it will stop the constant moaning about how Accy is a bad place to live from some members.. whining about people parking on pavements or other such heinous crimes ... if you don't like Accy why not move to a lovely inner city flat and try your luck dodging bullets?

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i would think that table speaks volumes for the people of the higher placed ones,also volumes for Down south.;) :D

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The results are probably based on the number of people who returned the lucky envelope, which contained their unique numbers, to see if they'd won the no obligation prize of £100,000.:D

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Not convinced about the ranking. If it is so good why isnt there a flood of people desperately try to set up a home in Hyndburn or am I missing something especially as its miles ahead of Blackburn with Darwen? The rank for Falkirk above Stirling makes sense to me and the top 2 are Yuppie heaven along with West Lothian.

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There maybe some people trying to set up a home in Accrington.. but it's sometimes obvious that the "locals" don't take to kindly to "outsiders" moving into Accrington.. judging by some of the posts on here you are welcome in Accy if you are.. lets say white!

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well i live in the 166th place,thats bad to say its in the middle of the beautiful countryside with next to no crime,i dont think that survey is right

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where r u willow?

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Fair enough.. what I'm really saying is that people should get in touch with reality... Accrington is really a nice safe town compared to most of the UK.. but for spuggie to question why people are not queing up for housing in Accrington is not real...how many black people live or have tried to live in Accrington.. I'm not talking about Asians.. black people.. why would any British born black family want set up home in an obviously racist town?

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I gave up looking for Blackpool when I passed 100. I see Pendle came in at 90and Dingleborough came 141st (no wonder you left Dave). feel sorry for those poor ba**ards in Blackburn........:D

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where's central ward?

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Willow lives near me Jacky

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Slinks Willow whats it like being an ethnic minority?? Bit of one myself in a weird way. :)

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oh rite,my aunt lives near you slinks just off willows lane,been there 40+yrs

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Its very nice thanks....very quiet, no-one wants to talk to you when your the white sheep of the family :D

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65 Rossendale, Lancs

I would have thought rossendale would have been higher than hyndburn!!!!



Checks karma waits to see how much i lose:D

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How many times to PB vote on this? MAybe he has done some good for a change. :rolleyes:

Though the transport links to big urban areas without suffering their ills might be part of it.

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answer my question... are BLACK families welcome in the Accrington?

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cant agree mancie,dont believe accy is obviously racist,sure theres racist gits everywhere, but the BNP/ex National Front have never got very far in anything here, cannot say the same for other towns, not a million miles from here. most folk i think are live n let live.

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and what do you mean by welcome most people dont welcome you wherever you move to weather whatever your race

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In 1960- My father's comment when my brother started courting a girl from Waterfoot "They eat their young up there!"

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Why wouldn't they be welcome?? Like as been said before! Accy isn't generally a racist town. YES you will get racist's ... same goes anywhere, but not ALL are racist.:mad:

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I don’t live in Accy, haven’t done for over 30 years, but as a regular visitor and a lover of observing people I’d have to say that people of any colour, race or culture are welcome.

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Inbreeding was popular.....:D

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I thought that was in Church - when I lived there everybody seemed to be related to each other :D

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Naughty, I can’t wait to meet you ****** lugs :D

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Just looked at your profile picture - sure I've seen you somewhere before - dating website?

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We've had the Drifters at Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre.

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Garinda - you have butted in just when I thought I was getting chatted up!!

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OMG ROFLMAO!!! yeah see we can't be racist :D:D

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Maybe...just don't let on to Mrs Doug though.;)

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Oh well -had too many husbands of my own without bothering with anybody elses!!!!

PS sorry was off topic

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Lets get things clear... I am a white Accringtonian that moved to London during the 80's Tory depression.. moved to London on the coach from Accy peel street with £5 in my pocket.. after a couple of months working casual got a job.. married a London born west indian girl... I did come home to Accy every couple of months and to be honest it felt like cheap beer and cheap pubs and clubs.. I came "home" with my wife and there was not any real problems.. but when I read some of the posts on this site I really do have to take into consideration the amout of racism I have seen... and I will give you some examples
these are the karma messeges I have been given..................

Shut up nig nogs get everything round here and us whites get nothing

Wake up the the coons will take over

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Was it positive or negative karma?

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Personally I've seen a lot less racism here in Hyndburn since moving back, compared to London, parts of which are like a tinder box.

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Don't be silly neg

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Hang on I'm not cryin.. I'm just stating an example of what comes across on this site.. the karma comments are real .

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I disagree.. London is far more interragated .. I mean we understand each other more than you would get in Lancashire.. we have "learned" to live with each other... my problem with Accrington would be the idea of having a west indian family living next door to them .. AWW the shame!.. get real Accy

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Who said you were crying?

Abusive or offensive karma comments can always be reported to the mods.

By the way, my train passed your coach, when I was moving to London, just outside Hemel Hempstead. I'd have thought I was rich if I'd have had a fiver in my pocket. All I had was a sunny personality, and a dream in my heart.:D

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Well, we'll have to agree to disagree on our experiences in the big smoke. For me London was a less racially tolerant place than Hyndburn, parts of which you took your life in your hands if you made eye contact with someone who thought you shouldn't be in their Manor.

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Hemel Hemstead? I wish.. I ended up in new cross!. Qeens road and got a "bed token" from the dhss.. but fair enough bruv .. hard times

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It's nice to meet a Tory boy like you, who followed Tebbit's advice.

Coach/bike, whatever.

Jolly well done you.:D

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Got to say I'm dissapionted .. no support from the local Accy webbers about my sob story.. but it just shows the racism that is an intergoral behind closed doors involvement of this web site

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Strange thing about Hemstead garinda.. shop up the "high street" that sold amazing spud pies!

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In the 1940's a west Indian doctor lived on Hornby St. He was a rare sight, maybe the only negro in town. I never heard any racist comment about him. Come to think of it I dont recollect any racism heard against negroes who have come since him perhaps it's because they arent very numerous. There are some people who resent the large influx of asians which started when Idi Amin drove them out of Uganda. They really were coming in droves!!. At that time I was a social security visiting officer in Blackburn and spent 6 months putting no-one else but them 'on the books'. It did really seem like invasion and was bound to cause resentment. Vietnam refugees and Hungarian refugees - I've visited them all. It has been when they have arrived in volume that there has been some racism/resentment

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Rubbish, there are Afro-Caribean people in Hyndburn, just not many. There are large black communities in Preston and Manchester. Historically the people who came to Hyndburn came to work in the mills here, many of whom had experience working in the textile industry.

Are we racist because there isn't a large Jewish community here?

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You may well have Margaret Rothwell, but not on any web site. You might have baby sat me though.........:D

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LOL -cheeky :D

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Now that is a very true comment margaret... so.. is the racism now pent up towards the asian,muslim population?.. I think so.. but the Accringtions in there flight of fancy viking posture seem to think everyone not of the same color as your local cheap cider drinking dole boy.. must be of an "non despcript" breed.. makes me laugh when you see some ill bred ,braindead. nucklehead numchuck shouting the odds at NP rallies

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think yer way off beam with this one mancie one of me best mates has a west indian missus n we love her to bits,

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Racism might well be alive in Accrington but I don’t think I’ve seen it on Accyweb. There are those who might have an opinion in respect of those from other parts of the world who come over and complain about rights and the like, but having an opinion isn’t necessarily being racist. Play fair and abide by the law and I don’t care what colour or culture you come from. Further more, white, black, Brown or any other colour you'll be welcome at my table as long as your not a frog.

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Afro carribean people in Accrigton?... cor blimey have you got thier phone numbers?.. bull****.. were did you spot em?

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Arndale last Saturday.

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Nice one Cashy.. at the end of the day reasonable bods like yerself give blokes hope.

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I always preferred to visit asians rather than Irish tinkers - better hospitality offered.
There I go- will get some bad Karma for that one -just when I scored a few :(

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I don't think I'm off... if anyone can be arsed to look at some posts on this site you will see blatant racism.. and OK i've seen it from some of the mods

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I'm off -will leave you boys at it - bye

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can understand you gettin the hump, with those karma comments,but put some salt n vinegar on that chip on yer shoulder.theres always been a few afro-carribeans in accy, was a guy on st james street,early 60s who was very well known n respected, was also a lady who had a cafe on union road at that time, there was fredas cafe which was nearer to our school, but everyone went in hers at dinner time. fredas cafe was english,by the way,but no-one used it.

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An ethnic minority means there are less people of a certain background compared to other groups in a country's population.

Ethnic minorities make up 7.1% of the population in the UK. Of these, 24% are Indian, 17% Pakistani and 13% Black Caribbean. (these figures are from the Commission for Racial Equality)

People with different histories, cultures, beliefs and languages have been coming here for centuries. Nearly everyone who lives in Britain today is either an immigrant or the descendent of an immigrant. Most of us can probably trace the immigrants in our own families if we go back far enough.

Many people in ethnic minority communities are sons and daughters of people who have moved to the UK generations back




well i like where i live:D

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Their was a nice chap and family friend that worked on the Buses in the mid 60s who was Afro Carrabean always welcome and alway made others feel welcome

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Hang on Cashy.. the comments I got where from I suppose bona fid Accwebbers.. large amounts of karma.. these people are humpted with great Accyweb rep...

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:eek: Why...............:D :D :D

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because its washed in DAZ which keeps whites even whiter pmsl!!!!:D;) :eek: :D

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I hate Daz, My grandmother (the Blackpool one) made me bath in it, she said I was a dirty little ****** and had Tide Marks round my neck.... and muttered something about me being from Accrington....:) ;) :D

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ewwwwww:eek: did no one tell her that soap got rid of the tidemarks just as well....:D

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Methinks everyone protesteth too much.

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No willow she has not.. but I have have recieved comments of course more in jest than anything and no harm meant... but why do I find myself having to even state to forum that my wife is black.. am I paraniond?.. no.. it's because I have read racist comments from members ,racist comments from the administrators and from the moderators of this site!

Lets see the karma comments again
shut up the nig nogs get everything round here
wake up! the coons are taking over.

nice.. and the 1st comment was very early in the morning when only myself. a mod, and one other where on the site.

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I'm sure this thread wasn't here to made into a racist slanging match??

Mancie you sound like you have a real big problem. Now is the problem REAL or is it just that you're paranoid??

I would rather live next door to an ASIAN, Black person etc.. than a bloody Drug dealer or group of A.S.B.O drunkards, and I think quite a few people would agree with me on that.

You have stated that ACCYWEB is a Racist forum?? everyone is entitled to their views. Like you calling people WANKERS!! why did you feel the need to call people that??

Do you just read the racist comments?? or do you read the nice things people say??

And last but not least......There is a report button for anything on here that you think is out of order!! USE IT

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That everyone who disagrees is a ******? Just a stab in the dark.

And completely off topic: the top three cities in Canada are (drum roll) Victoria BC, Halifax NS, and (more drums) Kingston ON.

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Mancie My best friend was Afro caribbean. Black has you call it. I loved her and her Family to bits.
Most of her Family lived in London and it was her dearest wish to go and lived there.
She died just a couple of month's after her 21st Birthday. I still miss her dearly.
Granted this was when we lived in Preston.
But someone isn't automatically a racist because they have moved.
In my opinion from what I have read it seems to me that it's you that has a problem.
I for one most certainly wouldn't mind living next door to them.

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mancie why do you keep calling everyone 'wankers'??
thats not very nice!!

there will always be racists out there, and i dont just mean white attacking black, it does happen the other way round as well!!

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I wonder if Hyndburn is till the 18th best place to live in Britain in 2010?

http://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/...in_top_20_list

:rolleyes::D

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Originally Posted by Mancie http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...s/viewpost.gif
answer my question... are BLACK families welcome in the Accrington?

Is it wrong to laugh at your own jokes, three years on?

Lock me up, and throw away the key.

:p:D:p

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That link does not work for me Gary

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:confused:

It works for me.

Perhaps you can't access it because you grew up in the Ribble Valley, which is at a different position in the chart of desirability.

;)

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I am almost in Liverpool

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Uncle Mick gave the link to the story in the Mirror, though the Observer link should also work.

BEST AND WORST PLACES TO BRING UP KIDS - mirror.co.uk

Though this quote in the Observer seems an odd boast.

Hyndburn MP Greg Pope said: "I am delighted that people are beginning to recognise what a great place Hyndburn is. I have been saying this in London for ages. We have low unemployment and high unemployment and that is something we should be proud of.
Hyndburn voted in top 20 list - News - Accrington Observer

:D

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That could explain it.

Hold a wire coat hanger out of an open window, and try the link again.

Though keep a close eye on the coat hanger, as being so near to Liverpool, it might be on it's way to a scrapyard before you can say 'wooly back git, nickin' our jobs'.

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One of the local lads explained perfectly how come so many of us come a long way to work here.

Non of the scousers want a job :rolleyes::D

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there is they are called poles :)

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Your point ?? :D

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Try that and see how quick you lose the hanger & yer watch !!

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We do ! but no heavy lifting, long hours, or hard work !! :) then you woolies come in & run us down, bloody cheek !! :D

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Just in case you've not noticed, I am one of the accused !! :cool: