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At last count there were 3 industrial estates, each offering their own unique brand of temping jobs. Perfect for the slack-jawed morons that are happy to spend their hard-earned cash on lowering their Vauxhall Novas, and putting neon lights underneath. That sort of mentality just about sums up the town - the bigger and louder, the better. That's why we have (had) a ski slope. Epping hasn't got one, Bishop's Stortford and Sawbridgeworth haven't got one. They may have some nice greenery, nicer residents and cleaner air, but we done gawn got a ski slope!!!11
The town is the real highlight though. Half a dozen dodgy nightspots within a stones throw of each other, and they wonder why there are so many fights and so much violence up there every Friday and Saturday night? The only place to buy clothes is Next, River Island and the White House, so everyone looks the same - like yobs. I hate to use that word, because it's the sort of generalised swoop that the Daily Mail makes. Not everyone dressed in Burberry can be a thug. There must be a diamond in the rough. You'd think. Chances are you'll get sworn at, or given 'the look'. Walking past a group of kids, teenagers or men at night results in an uncomfortable silence, like both sides are expecting a fight to break out.
But every area has their troubles. We had Tony Blair here the other day, going on about how successful ASBO's have been - even though overall it's being reported that violent crime has increased. He only came here because it's rough, but not as rough as other trouble-spots around England. Some kid on a bike isn't going to bother him, and he would have been lucky if anyone actually recognised him.
EDIT: Though I suppose the shops give all the citizens of Harlow something to spend their benefit on. As none of them work.
> Mm, well a sleeper cell I think is like somewhere where a load of
> people are hiding/sleeping to avoid public presense, and waiting to
> strike whenever they're needed.
Well thanks for the explanation (no MM, I'm not stupid, well not overly at any rate) as I had no idea what this was about :)
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> But I guess you'd have to watch Eastenders to know that.
Not even if you glued my eyelids open!
Delivering mail in Harlow sucks ass unless you do Old Harlow or Church Langley.
The rest of it, a couple of areas aside, is just huge vacuums of intelligence and culture.
Imagine vast concrete estates decorated with lawn ornaments like fridges, mattresses, old sofas, wardrobes and burnt dollies.
Vest-wearing neanderthals answer their door at 10am like they've just figured out they go outside, grunt and click and try to scratch their signatures for recorded deliveries before loping back inside where their pregnant fat girlfriend is attempting to keep Gnasher from smashing through the baby-gate and attacking me.
Or dirty-faced feral kids stand around in apathy and smash each other with branches they've pulled from what few trees remain, whilst their alsation urinates frantically on anything that doesn't run away or kick it.
Benefit-assisted housing springs up faster than chokeweed, bringing with it the usual assortment of low-slung-jean wearing assfaces that think because they have sovereign rings and a burberry cap they are somehow able to escape the lure of glue-sniffing.
Bishopsfield is a particularly nice area. A half-moon shaped two storey area that has tiny alleys at the bottom with houses that don't have windows in the front so nobody can get in and steal your MFI furniture.
I hate it and shall be moving in the next few weeks.
Oh, and for the record - Anybody wearing anything Burberry deserves to be shot in the eyes. No excuses.
And baseball caps look stupid on Englishmen.
> Harlow sucks ass.
Heh.
Funny thing happened when i was in Harlow the other day. I was taking my driving test theory and the woman working there asked the girl behind me if she'd been here before to which she replied in a plastic cockney accent - "Yerr m8 i bin ere loadsa times"
Guess you had to be here.
It's bad enough down here in Hertford (no go zone post 9pm-ish) can't imagine how it is in Harlow.