Where would you rather visit as a tourist? Southampton or them? Why canāt we be a contempoary modern fun outward looking City? Its grey, dreary, boring and well shite. The suburbs and urrounding areas are better which shouldnāt be the case.
When tourists visit Portsmouth, itās for one reason - maritime history. Thereās the Mary Rose, the historic dockyards, the Victory, the Warrior, probably the odd other thing too. Once theyāre there, they may choose to visit the Spinnaker Tower and browse round Gunwharf Quays for a bit - but those are not the reason theyāre in Portsmouth in the first place.
In that sense, Portsmouth has made better use of its history than Southampton has (though one might argue that thereās simply more history there in the first place). I certainly wouldnāt describe Portsmouth as a modern, fun, outward-looking city.
Which does rather beg the question - what exactly characterises a modern, fun, outward-looking city? Can you give us any examples of such a city? And what would you like to see done in Southampton to bring it closer to this ideal?
But, but, but my missus wants to go to Portsmouth to āgo shopping at Gunwharf Quaysā not to the dockyards or anything like that but to go bloody shopping.
We go to Southampton together once or twice a year to go bloody shopping (when I go to the football Iām on my own!!)
I know people who travel to that place near the Dartford tunnel to go bloody shopping!!!
Anyone spot a common theme here?
That you donāt like shopping much?
I have had the misfortune to be in london with the Ayatollah and her sister in law, who not only go into Next ābecause it is different in Londonā, but then insist on going into three or four more Next stores because āthere might be something different in these onesā.
When you similar theyāre not that similar though, are they?
And have you been to Derby? Itās a fucking shit hole.
All thatās happening here is youāre showing that you have very little taste and very little knowledge on what makes a city enticing to different age groupsā¦yes, Southampton needs to improve, but with you saying that Plymouth, Derby etc are better, shows that either you really like shit holes and run down areas, or you havenāt been to Southampton in a long time.
Hehe. What plumsā¦ Derby is not spectacular. When you arrive at Derby train station, thereās a handy little guide to where the shops are. Half of them are in Nottingham.
Fair play to them for being upfront about it. Gives the shopper time to turn heels and get a train into Nottingham.
