Does anyone live in Lincoln?
10 April 2002, 04:33 PM
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My friends Dad will be living there for a few weeks while appearing in a play, I doubt he's got a Scooby fetish. Think Kung Foo, Grasshopper that sort of thing. Nearly forgot Death Race 2000 so maybe the scooby would interest him.
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02 October 2002, 11:26 PM
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Someone I know may be living there for a few months and I know nothing about the place. Nearest I could get was East and Market Deeping.
02 October 2002, 11:41 PM
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I used to live near Lincoln several years ago. (I still visit relatives there)
It wasn't a bad place to live, if you had a car to get around. Lincolnshire is a big county. With plenty of backroads
It wasn't a bad place to live, if you had a car to get around. Lincolnshire is a big county. With plenty of backroads
03 October 2002, 11:04 AM
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Lincoln: pretty interesting place, good mix of really old, and new.
Football: forget Lincon City, drive up the road and watch the Iron!!
Parking; OK, but can get crowded saturdays and in the summer.
People: same mix as everywhere, pretty friendly on the whole.
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Football: forget Lincon City, drive up the road and watch the Iron!!
Parking; OK, but can get crowded saturdays and in the summer.
People: same mix as everywhere, pretty friendly on the whole.
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03 October 2002, 12:35 PM
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No-one "lives" there, they just inhabit the place. You cant drive IN lincoln, soo many stupid one way/restricted/crowded roads...
Still, excellent roads up around Caistor/Horncastle/Conningsby etc..and a damn fine cafe at Langrick
The Iron? Pfttt.... (better than Hull City, yes, I know, ok? OK?? :P)
Still, excellent roads up around Caistor/Horncastle/Conningsby etc..and a damn fine cafe at Langrick
The Iron? Pfttt.... (better than Hull City, yes, I know, ok? OK?? :P)
03 October 2002, 08:47 PM
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I lived there for five years.Very nice city.
Can recommend the "Green Dragon" and "The Witch and the Wardrobe" pub.Lots of history,cathedral,castles,etc.
Traffic can get bad at times
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03 October 2002, 10:19 PM
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I lived there from 91-98. Pretty dour place really. Green Dragon! God, been p!ssed in there on plenty of occasions! Has gridlock like central London in peak times!
Glad I don't live there any more!
Glad I don't live there any more!
04 October 2002, 09:27 AM
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Going there on Saturday to visit my Dads new house and to watch the mighty AFCBournemouth clash with Lincoln City, what a game that promises to be... any good book recommendations... 
04 October 2002, 11:37 AM
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fatherpierre - gridlock like London?
Never - I have lived in both places, and Lincoln always seemed twice as bad as London!
(yes, I have commuted in London both in a car and on the tube, and Lincon in the car... Used to do Earls Court to Bank and back on the tube and Earls Court to Tadworth and back in the car.
Maybe I just expect the bad traffic in London and ignore it
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Yes, I've had too much to drink in the Green Dragon as well
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- I have lived in both places, and Lincoln always seemed twice as bad as London!(yes, I have commuted in London both in a car and on the tube, and Lincon in the car... Used to do Earls Court to Bank and back on the tube and Earls Court to Tadworth and back in the car.
Maybe I just expect the bad traffic in London and ignore it
)Yes, I've had too much to drink in the Green Dragon as well
04 October 2002, 01:44 PM
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Lincoln's not a bad place to go out in evening, e.g. Po Na Na-- a few good clubs; accessible and good mix. Best bet is to live on the outskirts. Property is dirt-cheap: sell your 1 bed flat in Chelsea and buy a 450-acre estate in Lincoln. Probably afford to buy a twin-engine plan and pilot and commute to City airport for the next twenty years...
Best thing are the open roads. Mostly new, well funded by EEC grants, etc. Twisty, woldy nicely cambered-- perfect. A158 is a good sprint. Anywhere around Cadwell Park (north) is good too.
A few years a go was pushing my TVR Griff fairly aggressively. (Oops! Wrong board!) Was doing the Horncastle to Skegness back-roads on an average 122mph. Didn't realise was being chased by three police cars at the time. Sadly, piled into a roadblock in Spilsby-- which in my opinion counts as cheating. Having said that, pretty much of a one off with the police-- virtually no police on patrol since Lincolnshire is too large an area to cover given current policing budgets.
05 October 2002, 11:18 PM
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Best bet is to live on the outskirts. Property is dirt-cheap: sell your 1 bed flat in Chelsea and buy a 450-acre estate in Lincoln. Probably afford to buy a twin-engine plan and pilot and commute to City airport for the next twenty years...
I still liked living in Lincolnshire - as people say, good police to miles of road ratio
Still, I'm happy down South now. No speed cameras where I live (yet)
05 October 2002, 11:40 PM
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my mums mum lives in lincoln down brant road somewhere, not the nicest place to live, grandad says the gold wheels may attrat attention round there and could well be seen a few days later on the market
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