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>> No. 3046 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 6:41 am
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What are the best places in the UK in which to live a redneck sort of lifestyle? I want to live somewhere with wide open spaces, own guns, become an alcoholic, have easy access to amazing nature and land on which to camp, hunt, and fish, and have the need to drive a cool 4x4.

I'm seriously considering moving from London to the Scottish highlands. Those teuchters seem like a happy bunch. Apart from job and career advancement opportunities, there's nothing in this city that I find appealing, and I'd be happy to trade them for a lower salary as long it were combined with lower living costs.
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>> No. 3047 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 7:32 am
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That sounds like Norfolk or Lincolnshire to me.
>> No. 3048 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 10:50 am
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East Yorkshire is quite hick-ridden, quite a lot of grizzled farmer and labourer types filling up a lot of the pubs after shift.
>> No. 3049 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 11:16 am
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Cornwall, maybe? Definitely gave me a "your kind ain't welcome round here" type of vibe when I was there.
>> No. 3050 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 11:25 am
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>>3049
It's true. There's a lot of nice places down here that fit your requirements though, OP, plenty to choose from.
>> No. 3051 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 2:44 pm
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oo arr in the wess cuntery, lad!
>> No. 3052 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 2:47 pm
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So, apparently, basically anywhere that isn't a city, OP, and you're immediately in Yokel-on-Muck. I'm not sure how well this reflects on our country.
>> No. 3053 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 3:11 pm
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>>3046

Runcorn, lad.
>> No. 3054 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 4:59 am
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I think somewhere in t'far North or the highlands is the best option. Scotland is especially good because of their freedom to roam rights; no need to deal with all that malarkey of asking the landowner if you can camp on his land.

Norfolk and Lincolnshire look appealing but flat landscapes are really boring; it's nicer to live around hills and mountains innit. The south is too densely populated and Cornwall has too many tourists.
>> No. 3055 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 5:07 am
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> I want to live somewhere with wide open spaces, own guns, become an alcoholic, have easy access to amazing nature and land on which to camp, hunt, and fish, and have the need to drive a cool 4x4.

When you put it like that, being a redneck sounds an awful lot like being a toff.
>> No. 3057 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 5:32 am
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>>3055

It's both funny and depressing that a lifestyle associated with the unwashed poor in America, is the preserve of the rich and privileged in the UK.
>> No. 3058 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 1:04 pm
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>>3057

Not really. They've got nothing but space out in America, there's forests bigger than this entire country, making it easily accessible to the lowest classes. Here, with arable or even just green land at such a premium, you can only really hunt, shoot, fish, or drive on land you own.
>> No. 3059 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 12:25 am
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Why do Englishmen always romanticise about the highlands? Oh so often you hear about English folk moving to the middle of nowhere there and buggering off after a year or so because they can't cope with the dreariness.
>> No. 3060 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 2:38 pm
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>>3059
I'd have thought it obvious. It's the last bastion of truly unspoilt and isolated nature in our Isles, something even rural English folk don't have everyday experience of. The remoteness, and indeed rarity of the Highlands, makes it appealing to people who spend most of their time in densely populated and increasingly globalised surroundings. That's not to say I disagree that this is a romanticised view, but it's easy to reason.
>> No. 3061 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 3:17 pm
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>>3060
I don't really understand the picture; because everyone lives in a departures lounge?
>> No. 3062 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 3:19 pm
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>>3059
It's not just Englishmen mate, every urbanite does this, we just happen to live in a very urban country, population wise. People romanticise a rural life and then they do it and find out it's shit, or they don't do it and never realise it's shit.

It's better than urban life in many respects, but in others it's worse. Comme ci comme ça.
>> No. 3063 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 3:22 pm
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>>3062
Also I've always had a hypothesis that English people are pent up rednecks. I think we all crave a life of guns and SUVs and shooting animals for no particular reason, but we could never do so out of a social structure we've created to hide from this fact. Polished turds, for better or worse.
>> No. 3064 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 3:29 pm
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>>3063
I don't think I'd show an animal for no particular reason, but then I've never had a gun to know what I'd do with it. I shot a concrete duck with an air rifle from my mate's bedroom window before.
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26th February 2015
Thursday 3:31 pm
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>>3064
I didn't say you actually wanted an SUV, a gun or to shoot animals, I just think it'd come naturally to us folk were we put in a situation where it was a 'thing'.
>> No. 3066 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 3:39 pm
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>>3061
>I don't really understand the picture
You do understand it. It's an extreme comparison of two environments. You're just being a snide cunt about it.
>> No. 3067 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 3:47 pm
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>>3062
Lived most of my life out in the sticks and 6 of those in cities around the UK. I agree with the sentiment of this, though I think I had the best of it from growing up out here in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a few people to go larking about in the fields and woods with. When you hit your teens and have a blossoming social life, then the problems begin in terms of mobility and getting to see friends, go to parties, bumming about the nearest town with friends, the kind of things that people of that age usually do and generally continue to do later on in life. I am in my mid 20s at the mo and currently stuck back out here again with the rents and it is mind-numbingly boring during the days I have off, and equally so on a night in all of the one pub. All there is here re: people are retired farmers and a few of the middle class grammar school catchment area brigade, two of my most despised demographics.

I wish Le Corbus were still alive, I'd give him a bell and see if he fancies concreting over the entire fucking lot.
>> No. 3068 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 4:08 pm
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>>3067
You're replying to another rural fucker. I'm in my early twenties and having to deal with the prospect of going home after uni ends in a few months. I love the countryside, I love the people who live there too whether you despise them or not, but then I have quite a big background in rural conservation. I'm hoping to get a job in London because fuck going back home for any extended period of time. It's so dull if you're young.
>> No. 3086 Anonymous
5th May 2015
Tuesday 2:04 am
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Maybe Northern Ireland is the answer?
>> No. 3087 Anonymous
5th May 2015
Tuesday 2:06 am
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Literally anywhere outside the M25.
>> No. 3088 Anonymous
5th May 2015
Tuesday 2:02 pm
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How has no one said Wales? Powys is the most sparsely populated county in Wales... and apparently where you will find Britain's happiest place. It's also fucking beautiful. Try mid Wales.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7584321.stm
>> No. 3089 Anonymous
5th May 2015
Tuesday 2:38 pm
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>>3088
You say that, but almost every part of arable land in your photo has been turned into a field.
>> No. 3090 Anonymous
5th May 2015
Tuesday 3:19 pm
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>>3089

Sure, not the best photo, but it is pretty.

By every metric, Mid Wales is isolated and untouched (by UK standards).

UK topography: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Uk_topo_en.jpg

UK population density (up there): http://britfa.gs/map/src/142423558650.png

UK light pollution: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/post-codes-and-light-pollution.jpg

National grid outline: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmenergy/194/19402.gif

Habitats of the UK pt1: http://www.audacity.org/images/maps/Habitat-Map-UK-NEA-540.jpg

Habitats of the UK pt2: http://blog.scottlogic.com/archive/2012/07/uk_habitats.png

Distribution of the surname Jones: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Jones.png

National cheese map: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/thereporters/markeaston/cheeses_map_595.jpg

Religiious perspectives of evolution: http://i.imgur.com/iGAdwGc.jpg

UK railways by operator: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5346/13643338343_9f289a6e17_o.png

The Greater Tokyo area, as compared to the UK: http://i.imgur.com/Eqfme.jpg

Spread of Squirrels: http://www.westbriton.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/275776/Article/images/19613549/5137061-large.jpg

UK regions by GVA per capita: http://i.imgur.com/u2McpOJ.png

UK snow on the ground average: http://i.imgur.com/rUDvUJE.jpg

UK road crashes 1999-2010: http://i.imgur.com/a624Rb1.gif

Map of AIDS prevalence in the UK (%) : http://imgur.com/gallery/WxBYhJF/
>> No. 3091 Anonymous
5th May 2015
Tuesday 8:58 pm
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>>3086

Sure you can live as a bit of a redneck here but there's very little wilderness.

You be best off going somewhere on the west coast of Ireland or more northerly bits of Scotland if you want somewhere truly empty.

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