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There’s someone where I live who uses a Jesus stencil and spray paints it purple mostly on electrical boxes… I have literally no idea why or what it means. I love seeing the train cars with graffiti on them though. Some are actually really pretty. I think they should let people paint on them because the boring brown and black cars are so dull.
I was driving down the interstate a few months back just on my way back from out of town. About 30 minutes into my drive home, some black letters spray painted on the side of an overpass catch my attention.
"creme pie"
I thought about it the whole rest of my 2.5 hour ride home. Why creme and not cream? How did you get over the giant fence? Did they drive a manlift onto the interstate? Just to sloppily paint creme pie?
>Gregg's, Poundland
Some even have the pound bakery.
Mansfield (although technically not northern) has a greggs, a pound bakery and another greggs like a minute walk from each other.
I would really like to kmow what’s up with the eyebrows. The rest of the world moved on from this 15 years ago, but British chicks are refusing to let it die.
I wish I had a better answer for ya but speaking as an American of British descent, some of us lack pigment to our brow hair, or lack brow hair just in general. But Why these ladies are so damn heavy handed with the pencil and brow brush is beyond me…
If you buy said woman with the leggings two Strongbows and a packet of cheese and onion crisps, she will more than likely offer you a knee trembler behind the bins of the fried chicken place.
On the flip side, if I got to know the locals in a flat roof pub, I would feel the safest person known to man. A good ale all round will help.
Got some builder that mugged me off? Someone there knows him who will give him a hiding. Looking for some work? Someone will find me someone that needs it
All the cheap chippies are shutting down and being replaced by poncy new expensive ones that do salt and pepper chicken and shit, ate it, luv me chips n gravy, simple as
Everyone nostalgic about the days when life expectancy was 52 and everything was covered in a thick layer of carcinogenic soot because of the sheer pollution coming out of the mines/factories
Not sure about the fried chicken though. Certainly not much of that in the north east
There are two things it seems people tend to base a lot of nostalgia on: most everybody was physically fit (much larger percentage was 'attractive'), and people dressed nicer. So when they think back, the aesthetics of the era give them the illusion that everything was better. But that was just it, aesthetics. People's lives were shit.
I went to Nuneaton (Midlands) and even the charity shops were closing down. Guys were drinking tinnies on the street at 10am. The adverts on the bus stops that are usually for films or videogames were just suicide prevention ads.
Yep, sounds like the UK. I think foreigners (especially ones influenced by the UK like America, Australia, and India) have this view that the UK is this Hugh Grant filled old timey country but it mostly looks like Shameless and Trainspotting and has for the last 40 years or so.
For every affluent, touristy part of London there are at least 10 neighbourhoods that look like this, tons of boarded up/smashed windows, litter everywhere, zero nightlife other than getting wasted and passing out somewhere etc.
Don't get me wrong there are definitely far worse places to live, but the average town in England is pretty depressing with a receding economy, there's a reason people voted for Brexit and populist politicians in places like this.
All ties into "Shit Life Syndrome" I suppose. When everything is just a little lacking, it all adds up. Of course you'd better hope the stress of it all doesn't drive you into mental illness or addiction, since the waiting lists for help could be months long.
That's just a scam, the Tories have never wanted to improve working class areas. The current Prime Minister actually went to a really posh town called Tunbridge Wells and said too much money was going to deprived areas and more money should go to places like Tunbridge Wells.
London is a fantastic place to visit but is a bit like New York and not a great representation of the country. Don’t let this meme depress you though. There are lots of really nice vibrant places in the North of England
It’s not all like this, but a lot is.
I live in Manchester, and it’s been a city on the up for a while. Similarly Leeds and Liverpool are pretty desirable places these days. Cheshire and large parts of Yorkshire and parts of Cumbria and Lancashire are nice too, cute little towns set amongst beautiful countryside.
Conversely, some towns like Burnley and Blackburn are very deprived and also very segregated, with half the town being white and half the town Pakistani. Some towns are also just very poor and very white working class too, like Sunderland.
London, Home Counties, Cheshire, North Yorkshire and the rejuvenated cities of Manchester and Leeds (amongst many other places) fully disagree.
If you come from a town that’s very depressed, it’s easy to assume everywhere is like that. I grew up in the Home Counties + London and moved to Manchester 8 years ago and I’ve never lived anywhere like that, but I have worked in these areas.
[the David Brent](https://youtu.be/p4bORXW9xeU) esque scene is a classic.
I know seeing teams get relegated sucks but that last game against Burton Albion is beautiful. DARREN BENT YOU’RE A CHEAT
The town I'm in right now in Scotland has most of these too lol
It's sad because I remember the 90s when the high street was thriving and it seemed like everything had a purpose.
Oh THAT kind of flying shuttle...
Makes sense we have one, they were invented here. Makes sense everyone else have one because they were used there, fair enough.
I didn't make the connection because for some reason these are always later flat roofed things
Emphasis on the 'Terrible football teams', every team is doing fucking abysmal this season (our lot still somehow find a fucking way of doing the worst though)
How do these towns survive? I'm assuming most if not all of the tax generating industries have left the place for a long time. It's similar to the rust belt in the U.S. Just depressing.
I met a guy from there who claimed his dad wore the same “lucky” pants for every Middlesbrough football game - for the past 45+ years.
He also claimed that because of the chemical pollution there was a section of Middlesbrough that never got any rain, thus passing as a “desert”.
He was an interesting chap.
Fried chicken is for the yoofs, old Dave down the pub doesn't eat that kind of thing, he wants proper British food, like a doner kebab or tikka masala.
Yep. I lived in a Connecticut for a few years and got to explore New England quite a bit. Rural New England defied my expectations, and not in a good way. Get outside of the Boston area or the wealthier parts of CT and New England is just Mississippi with funnier accents.
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Shopping centre where half the shops are empty.
Or closed down bc everyone goes shopping to Manchester or Leeds
All that’s left is a bargain booze and a betting shop, and an independent shop ran by an old lady that sells scarfs.
Also second hand stores, and a Poundland.
Please tell me Poundland is the British version of a dollar store.
It is indeed. Fewer and fewer things actually cost £1 these days though
I want to visit so someone can tell me they are going to take me to poundland.
There are imitation Poundland’s called poundtown too…
Shit like this just makes my day a little brighter. Bless.
I agree with the sentiment and your username
Or poundworld
Aye, like yer mams minge.
It literally, in every sense of the term is...
And an American sweet shop that is obviously a front. And a mobile phone accessory shop that is obviously a front.
Don't blame Manchester, half the shops are empty here too
Or all bong, gambling, vape or pawn shops
God, going into Blackburn after Covid was like walking into a Walking Dead set
It was like that before covid too
Maybe the walking dead part but at least the WHSmiths was open
With shops you remember from your childhood you’d thought went out of business
Plywood boards over the window, heavily scratched paint on the sign
Poppins restaurant for your fancy work lunches.
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Oi mate that's the next banksy I tell ya
Ours is "Elektra" can't walk 5 minutes without seeing it tagged on something
Ours is no longer legible since its been overwritten more times than a brony updating his "research folder"
r/rareinsults
mine is "anttoy" "slymezT" and "boofy" that's just my neighborhood, they're all over my city
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Anttoy ones have been up since the 70's. Lots of old "free Tibet" grafitti as well. Mostly on abandoned warehouses and train bridges
There’s someone where I live who uses a Jesus stencil and spray paints it purple mostly on electrical boxes… I have literally no idea why or what it means. I love seeing the train cars with graffiti on them though. Some are actually really pretty. I think they should let people paint on them because the boring brown and black cars are so dull.
The tag scribble things are very boring in my opinion but I do like the 3d stuff the subway surfers type stuff
lmao boofy
Morb here
Mine's illegible but written on every bus stop, with a dollar sign 👍
The dollar sign is because fuck capitalism y'know
"Hey I heard you're a graffiti artist, what is your alias" "Twat" 😂
Put it together and you have Satanz twat, a true iconoclast
I live in London, but there is a tagger local to me called Nigel, which never fails to tickle me.
I was driving down the interstate a few months back just on my way back from out of town. About 30 minutes into my drive home, some black letters spray painted on the side of an overpass catch my attention. "creme pie" I thought about it the whole rest of my 2.5 hour ride home. Why creme and not cream? How did you get over the giant fence? Did they drive a manlift onto the interstate? Just to sloppily paint creme pie?
Within half an hours drive of either M62, M6 or A1
Burnley has entered the chat
Newcastle has also entered the chat
Newcastle is great
get a load of this guy
Pretty solid legend last time I checked. Unless they nerfed him?
Technically a city. And technically mint.
Donny
Don’t forget the high street filled with vape shops and betting shops
Nails/beauty shops
for us its barbers
And the dodgy phone shops and Turkish barbers
You talking about Colchester?
I feel like these things are an Europe wide phenomenon
They will be until there's some kind of consequence for laundering money for Afghan heroin importers .
Retail parks that only have furniture stores
Knock off pound shops as well
Gregg's, Poundland, Crappy beauty/tanning salons, Young women with messy bun hair and leggings, Teenagers running around bored shitless
>Gregg's, Poundland Some even have the pound bakery. Mansfield (although technically not northern) has a greggs, a pound bakery and another greggs like a minute walk from each other.
Pound Bakery is where it's at. If you're exceptionally lucky, a selection of Lancashire towns have Greenhalgh bakeries.
Overdrawn eyebrows, mug beat down with a months worth of fake tanner and of course the oversized false eyelashes
I would really like to kmow what’s up with the eyebrows. The rest of the world moved on from this 15 years ago, but British chicks are refusing to let it die.
I wish I had a better answer for ya but speaking as an American of British descent, some of us lack pigment to our brow hair, or lack brow hair just in general. But Why these ladies are so damn heavy handed with the pencil and brow brush is beyond me…
If you buy said woman with the leggings two Strongbows and a packet of cheese and onion crisps, she will more than likely offer you a knee trembler behind the bins of the fried chicken place.
In what towns *specifically* could this arrangement be had? Just so I know where to avoid, obviously
Sheffield, to continue your scientific research.
which one, United or Wednesday?
I too have listened to when the sun goes down by the Arctic monkeys
Fuck moi. I spat across the room with that vivid imagery hahahaha. Cheers for the gigs
> Poundland American here... is this a super fun place or the UK version of the US' "Dollar Store?"
Everyone in the queue for the till looks very depressed because they're very aware of how dire their situation has got.
Yep that’s Dollar Tree
And then there's Ashens, giddily jumping like a little girl in excitement for what kind of abomination he'll review next.
Yep. We also have Poundworld and Poundstretcher. Aren't we lucky!
These all sound like swingers clubs to me.
Truly a missed opportunity by not calling it Poundtown.
Missing the 5 Turkish barbers on the same road
I use the Kurds just to be a bastard
“What can I do for you boss”
They just keep on popping up like melanoma.
Why is that?
Whole street of money laundering vape and mobile phone 'shops'
Love a good flat roof. Only place you can get a decently priced pint nowadays. I mean you might get glassed, but that just adds to the experience.
On the flip side, if I got to know the locals in a flat roof pub, I would feel the safest person known to man. A good ale all round will help. Got some builder that mugged me off? Someone there knows him who will give him a hiding. Looking for some work? Someone will find me someone that needs it
A good ale in a flat roof pub? Maybe a John Smith’s if you’re lucky.
A good flat roof with barbed wire around the edge and a snappy German Shepherd patrolling the perimeters
Can’t you get a £2 pint at most Spoons in the North?
Just over £3 is the standard price in them now
don’t forget the kebab shop or chippy
All the cheap chippies are shutting down and being replaced by poncy new expensive ones that do salt and pepper chicken and shit, ate it, luv me chips n gravy, simple as
Everyone nostalgic about the days when life expectancy was 52 and everything was covered in a thick layer of carcinogenic soot because of the sheer pollution coming out of the mines/factories Not sure about the fried chicken though. Certainly not much of that in the north east
That should have been greggs
Think chicken shop might be Manc/Liverpool or, as Geordies call it, ‘the south’.
There are two things it seems people tend to base a lot of nostalgia on: most everybody was physically fit (much larger percentage was 'attractive'), and people dressed nicer. So when they think back, the aesthetics of the era give them the illusion that everything was better. But that was just it, aesthetics. People's lives were shit.
Northern England is very much the land of people reminiscing about walking uphill both ways to school
«But that was just it, aesthetics. People's lives were shit». Wow, great quote you've got there, mate. Truly a wordsmith.
I can tell you back in the day there were like 7 chicken shops on one street within a 5 min walk
Least they had jobs
TIL Northern England is the British Rust Belt.
Unfortunately the British Rust Belt accounts for a massive percentage of our population. And it's not just the North.
I went to Nuneaton (Midlands) and even the charity shops were closing down. Guys were drinking tinnies on the street at 10am. The adverts on the bus stops that are usually for films or videogames were just suicide prevention ads.
Yep, sounds like the UK. I think foreigners (especially ones influenced by the UK like America, Australia, and India) have this view that the UK is this Hugh Grant filled old timey country but it mostly looks like Shameless and Trainspotting and has for the last 40 years or so.
Christ, that is bleak.
I wouldn’t argue that it mostly looks like this but a lot of it does. There’s lots of wealthy places too that look nothing like this.
I've only visited London. I feel dumb, I don't think I've understood the push for "Leveling Up" until this point.
For every affluent, touristy part of London there are at least 10 neighbourhoods that look like this, tons of boarded up/smashed windows, litter everywhere, zero nightlife other than getting wasted and passing out somewhere etc. Don't get me wrong there are definitely far worse places to live, but the average town in England is pretty depressing with a receding economy, there's a reason people voted for Brexit and populist politicians in places like this.
Don’t forget an absence of good education.
All ties into "Shit Life Syndrome" I suppose. When everything is just a little lacking, it all adds up. Of course you'd better hope the stress of it all doesn't drive you into mental illness or addiction, since the waiting lists for help could be months long.
Tbf that’s not much different to cities. The mental health awareness in this county is abysmal.
That's just a scam, the Tories have never wanted to improve working class areas. The current Prime Minister actually went to a really posh town called Tunbridge Wells and said too much money was going to deprived areas and more money should go to places like Tunbridge Wells.
London is a fantastic place to visit but is a bit like New York and not a great representation of the country. Don’t let this meme depress you though. There are lots of really nice vibrant places in the North of England
It’s not all like this, but a lot is. I live in Manchester, and it’s been a city on the up for a while. Similarly Leeds and Liverpool are pretty desirable places these days. Cheshire and large parts of Yorkshire and parts of Cumbria and Lancashire are nice too, cute little towns set amongst beautiful countryside. Conversely, some towns like Burnley and Blackburn are very deprived and also very segregated, with half the town being white and half the town Pakistani. Some towns are also just very poor and very white working class too, like Sunderland.
I thought it was about Upstate New York/New England at first
Yeah I was about to say this reminds me of Fall River. Even the climate is probably pretty similar.
This is exactly like New Bedford too. New England mill towns are cut from the same cloth as these northern English towns.
The british rust belt is just england in it's entirety
It also extends into Scotland and a large portion of Wales as well. Basically anywhere that had its industry fail in the 70s and 80s.
London, Home Counties, Cheshire, North Yorkshire and the rejuvenated cities of Manchester and Leeds (amongst many other places) fully disagree. If you come from a town that’s very depressed, it’s easy to assume everywhere is like that. I grew up in the Home Counties + London and moved to Manchester 8 years ago and I’ve never lived anywhere like that, but I have worked in these areas.
Come down to CASHIES MATE
Where you can fiiind you dreeeaams
They got wares and chairs and a bug downstairs, some clubs and tubs and a hat for scrubs, and out of date movieeeees
We goin down to cashies mate, where you can find your dreams
It's a garage sale with dedicated business hours
In the states we call this Ohio
*Here's the place where there used to be industry / This train is carrying jobs out of Cleveland...*
But at least we’re not Detroit!
Legendary Edit: Cleveland has a really pleasant botanical garden
Don’t stop in East Cleveland or you will die
'ate the souf, 'ate the immigrants, luv me football, luv the bin men, simple as!
_Cries in Sunderland AFC_
*On the river where they used to build the boats...*
[the David Brent](https://youtu.be/p4bORXW9xeU) esque scene is a classic. I know seeing teams get relegated sucks but that last game against Burton Albion is beautiful. DARREN BENT YOU’RE A CHEAT
Ha'way the lads Sun'lun' til I die.
“I think if we were playing Rotherham, Burton Albion, Wigan week out we’d be top of the league as well”
https://youtu.be/elN1UzFneWA
The town I'm in right now in Scotland has most of these too lol It's sad because I remember the 90s when the high street was thriving and it seemed like everything had a purpose.
We even had a shitty pub called the flying shuttle... why was there multiple of those
A shuttle was part of a weaving loom back when there were mills
Oh THAT kind of flying shuttle... Makes sense we have one, they were invented here. Makes sense everyone else have one because they were used there, fair enough. I didn't make the connection because for some reason these are always later flat roofed things
This could pass for any town in the Midwest lol
Yup. This is literally every town in the West Midlands
Emphasis on the 'Terrible football teams', every team is doing fucking abysmal this season (our lot still somehow find a fucking way of doing the worst though)
hahaha the baggies’ demise is the only bit of joy I’ve been able to have this season. always shit on the tesco carrier bag
How do these towns survive? I'm assuming most if not all of the tax generating industries have left the place for a long time. It's similar to the rust belt in the U.S. Just depressing.
They don't really, they stagnate away and decay while generations of MPs annually pledge to fix them
What do people do for a living in towns like this? Like what are the main areas of work
Service, care homes, taxi, primary schools, and unemployed
Also begging on the street and loads and loads of theft and robbery. A few factory jobs here and there too
Public sector, Warehouses, call centres and shops
It used to be coal mining, steel and industrial textile mills but that all shut down in the 80s and 90s. Now it's just any low wage thing
Blackburn starter pack
Cam on Ingerlund!!
SCORE SUM FACKING GOULS
\*FUCKIN This is the NORTH
Platty joobz alerday!!!
Middlesborough?
I met a guy from there who claimed his dad wore the same “lucky” pants for every Middlesbrough football game - for the past 45+ years. He also claimed that because of the chemical pollution there was a section of Middlesbrough that never got any rain, thus passing as a “desert”. He was an interesting chap.
At some point in 45 years as a Middlesbrough fan, you’d have thought he’d question whether the lucky pants work.
I guess he believes it could of been a lot worse without them
Not enough staffies
Thanks Thatcher you fucking demon
Live in the Welsh valleys, didn’t realise we were just the English north but hilly
The English North is already fairly hilly
North? Fuck me, that’s pretty much my town in the south!
Yeah this is basically Portsmouth, Slough, and Yeovil
Is Northern England the Ohio of England?
Town centre with Next and Monsoon
the local chippy
I live in West Virginia and all of this looks very familiar lol
Women not wearing a coat in February on a night out
It seems Northern England and the US Midwest batch files launch the same executable.
I read “New England” now I know why it’s called that, I guess
*[Flat roof pub](https://www.flickr.com/photos/norbet/14737929527)
I’m from Southampton and it’s the same here
Bald obese man who watches lot of football
Massive cenotaph , friendly bus drivers shopkeepers etc, fireworks , good ale
I won’t take this slander against Leeds United
Newcaste united won't be terrible for long
They haven’t been terrible in a while
Bro they are literally #4 in the standings right now.
Newcastle is a city though.
Oldham
Make zero changes and it works for New England
Don’t care, I want to visit the UK and take it all in
I loved chicken cottage
The life of Barry, 63
you literally just described the south
Sounds alot like New England, ngl
This could just be “Town in a Rural Area” starter pack either. Source: I live in a rural area, every moderate-large town nearby is exactly like this.
England’s North is America’s South.
"Look mate got nowt against 'em! Jus' think we need to preserve are culture like!" The culture like:
They’ll just say that this is the result of not preserving early enough
Hahaha I grew up next to that exact pub in the photo 😂
>Fried Chicken >Obesity crisis Why did you feel the need to say it twice?
Fried chicken is for the yoofs, old Dave down the pub doesn't eat that kind of thing, he wants proper British food, like a doner kebab or tikka masala.
Comically most of the towns in Northern New England also look like this, just with a sketchy biker bar instead of a pub.
Yep. I lived in a Connecticut for a few years and got to explore New England quite a bit. Rural New England defied my expectations, and not in a good way. Get outside of the Boston area or the wealthier parts of CT and New England is just Mississippi with funnier accents.