27 Aug 2007, 6:15 pm
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Cambridge could be fun. Much easier to escape the crowds than in London. Not sure how easily people would be able to get there, though - I'll have to check how many places have direct trains to Cambridge.
Not a place I would like to go. Dont like the university there.
Neither do I
Doesn't stop me living there though! Besides, it's not difficult to avoid bumping into the more obnoxious people from Cambridge Uni, seeing as they barely ever leave the college buildings.Graelwyn wrote:
Shall look into that...Is Cambridge closer or further from Southampton?
I am too weary to look up on a map so someone else might be nice enough to do it for me?
I am too weary to look up on a map so someone else might be nice enough to do it for me?
Further, I'm afraid. It's a 45 minute train journey from Kings Cross station (assuming you catch the express train), if that helps.
Thanks. Shall consider, tho unsure as I only went there as a child and teen and don't know the area at all.
27 Aug 2007, 6:21 pm
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Cambridge could be fun. Much easier to escape the crowds than in London. Not sure how easily people would be able to get there, though - I'll have to check how many places have direct trains to Cambridge.
Not a place I would like to go. Dont like the university there.
Neither do I
Doesn't stop me living there though! Besides, it's not difficult to avoid bumping into the more obnoxious people from Cambridge Uni, seeing as they barely ever leave the college buildings.Seeing Oxford was enough for me. And at Oxbridge, they do leave the buildings, asides the town is dominated by them.
See now, this is a funny thing. I *LIVE* in Cambridge, you say you don't want to go there, and yet you profess to know MORE? They keep themselves to the area of town with the high street, leaving the bulk of Cambridge occupied by people who actually live there, or people from *MY* Uni. And I think I as a local can say that with a lot more confidence than you can after making a visit to Oxford.
27 Aug 2007, 6:33 pm
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Cambridge could be fun. Much easier to escape the crowds than in London. Not sure how easily people would be able to get there, though - I'll have to check how many places have direct trains to Cambridge.
Not a place I would like to go. Dont like the university there.
Neither do I
Doesn't stop me living there though! Besides, it's not difficult to avoid bumping into the more obnoxious people from Cambridge Uni, seeing as they barely ever leave the college buildings.Seeing Oxford was enough for me. And at Oxbridge, they do leave the buildings, asides the town is dominated by them.
See now, this is a funny thing. I *LIVE* in Cambridge, you say you don't want to go there, and yet you profess to know MORE? They keep themselves to the area of town with the high street, leaving the bulk of Cambridge occupied by people who actually live there, or people from *MY* Uni. And I think I as a local can say that with a lot more confidence than you can after making a visit to Oxford.
The city centre would be where you would have a meet up, if you want people without cars to be able to get to you. As you said its more or less dominated by Cambridge.
27 Aug 2007, 6:46 pm
27 Aug 2007, 6:48 pm
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Cambridge could be fun. Much easier to escape the crowds than in London. Not sure how easily people would be able to get there, though - I'll have to check how many places have direct trains to Cambridge.
Not a place I would like to go. Dont like the university there.
Neither do I
Doesn't stop me living there though! Besides, it's not difficult to avoid bumping into the more obnoxious people from Cambridge Uni, seeing as they barely ever leave the college buildings.Seeing Oxford was enough for me. And at Oxbridge, they do leave the buildings, asides the town is dominated by them.
See now, this is a funny thing. I *LIVE* in Cambridge, you say you don't want to go there, and yet you profess to know MORE? They keep themselves to the area of town with the high street, leaving the bulk of Cambridge occupied by people who actually live there, or people from *MY* Uni. And I think I as a local can say that with a lot more confidence than you can after making a visit to Oxford.
oh, i'm so sorry! it was only a thought, a sugestion. it's a meet up, not 3-4 years of your life! my only desire was that it be quiet and central(ish) for people in UK - lets get some perspective here!
27 Aug 2007, 6:48 pm
27 Aug 2007, 7:10 pm
sepia wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Cambridge could be fun. Much easier to escape the crowds than in London. Not sure how easily people would be able to get there, though - I'll have to check how many places have direct trains to Cambridge.
Not a place I would like to go. Dont like the university there.
Neither do I
Doesn't stop me living there though! Besides, it's not difficult to avoid bumping into the more obnoxious people from Cambridge Uni, seeing as they barely ever leave the college buildings.Seeing Oxford was enough for me. And at Oxbridge, they do leave the buildings, asides the town is dominated by them.
See now, this is a funny thing. I *LIVE* in Cambridge, you say you don't want to go there, and yet you profess to know MORE? They keep themselves to the area of town with the high street, leaving the bulk of Cambridge occupied by people who actually live there, or people from *MY* Uni. And I think I as a local can say that with a lot more confidence than you can after making a visit to Oxford.
oh, i'm so sorry! it was only a thought, a sugestion. it's a meet up, not 3-4 years of your life! my only desire was that it be quiet and central(ish) for people in UK - lets get some perspective here!
Sorry Sepia, didn't mean to give the impression that I was irritated by your suggestion! I'm just a little frustrated about Hadron's objections.
Hadron - We met at the station on sunday, and that worked fine. People are more likely to get lost trying to find the center of a city they've never been to before than they are if they just meet at the station then move elsewhere as a group.
27 Aug 2007, 7:15 pm
violentcloud wrote:
sepia wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Cambridge could be fun. Much easier to escape the crowds than in London. Not sure how easily people would be able to get there, though - I'll have to check how many places have direct trains to Cambridge.
Not a place I would like to go. Dont like the university there.
Neither do I
Doesn't stop me living there though! Besides, it's not difficult to avoid bumping into the more obnoxious people from Cambridge Uni, seeing as they barely ever leave the college buildings.Seeing Oxford was enough for me. And at Oxbridge, they do leave the buildings, asides the town is dominated by them.
See now, this is a funny thing. I *LIVE* in Cambridge, you say you don't want to go there, and yet you profess to know MORE? They keep themselves to the area of town with the high street, leaving the bulk of Cambridge occupied by people who actually live there, or people from *MY* Uni. And I think I as a local can say that with a lot more confidence than you can after making a visit to Oxford.
oh, i'm so sorry! it was only a thought, a sugestion. it's a meet up, not 3-4 years of your life! my only desire was that it be quiet and central(ish) for people in UK - lets get some perspective here!
Sorry Sepia, didn't mean to give the impression that I was irritated by your suggestion! I'm just a little frustrated about Hadron's objections.
Hadron - We met at the station on sunday, and that worked fine. People are more likely to get lost trying to find the center of a city they've never been to before than they are if they just meet at the station then move elsewhere as a group.
Cambridge seems too big a place really if you stray far from the station. Particuarly as people will want to arrive and leave at different times. I think somewhere slightly smaller and more northern could be better.
27 Aug 2007, 7:23 pm
Why do you insist on arguing about this when you don't know what you're talking about? Cambridge *ISN'T* a big place! About 85% of it is housing! The station is only 5 minutes from the Botanical Gardens I mentioned, and you can cross the main part of town in around 40 minutes! Unless you organised the meet up in the middle of a housing estate, you wouldn't even walk through most of the city!
From the fact you're so against Cambridge and London, and keep on suggesting somewhere more Northern, I'm guessing you live in the North and don't want a long and expensive journey? So organise a meet up in the North! If a meet up in the South isn't convinient for you, why let it bother you so much? I wouldn't want to go to a meet up in the North of the country because it'd take too long to get there, but I haven't tried to squash the idea when it gets suggested 
And besides, like Sepia said, it was only a suggestion!
27 Aug 2007, 7:31 pm
violentcloud wrote:
Why do you insist on arguing about this when you don't know what you're talking about? Cambridge *ISN'T* a big place! About 85% of it is housing! The station is only 5 minutes from the Botanical Gardens I mentioned, and you can cross the main part of town in around 40 minutes! Unless you organised the meet up in the middle of a housing estate, you wouldn't even walk through most of the city!
From the fact you're so against Cambridge and London, and keep on suggesting somewhere more Northern, I'm guessing you live in the North and don't want a long and expensive journey? So organise a meet up in the North! If a meet up in the South isn't convinient for you, why let it bother you so much? I wouldn't want to go to a meet up in the North of the country because it'd take too long to get there, but I haven't tried to squash the idea when it gets suggested
And besides, like Sepia said, it was only a suggestion!
From the fact you're so against Cambridge and London, and keep on suggesting somewhere more Northern, I'm guessing you live in the North and don't want a long and expensive journey? So organise a meet up in the North! If a meet up in the South isn't convinient for you, why let it bother you so much? I wouldn't want to go to a meet up in the North of the country because it'd take too long to get there, but I haven't tried to squash the idea when it gets suggested
And besides, like Sepia said, it was only a suggestion!
I live more or less in the middle of the country, but will be moving quite a bit further north for uni. You keep saying that Cambridge isnt a big place, but also that we wouldnt get bothered by the university people. It seems you are contradicting yourself here.
27 Aug 2007, 7:37 pm
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
sepia wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Cambridge could be fun. Much easier to escape the crowds than in London. Not sure how easily people would be able to get there, though - I'll have to check how many places have direct trains to Cambridge.
Not a place I would like to go. Dont like the university there.
Neither do I
Doesn't stop me living there though! Besides, it's not difficult to avoid bumping into the more obnoxious people from Cambridge Uni, seeing as they barely ever leave the college buildings.Seeing Oxford was enough for me. And at Oxbridge, they do leave the buildings, asides the town is dominated by them.
See now, this is a funny thing. I *LIVE* in Cambridge, you say you don't want to go there, and yet you profess to know MORE? They keep themselves to the area of town with the high street, leaving the bulk of Cambridge occupied by people who actually live there, or people from *MY* Uni. And I think I as a local can say that with a lot more confidence than you can after making a visit to Oxford.
oh, i'm so sorry! it was only a thought, a sugestion. it's a meet up, not 3-4 years of your life! my only desire was that it be quiet and central(ish) for people in UK - lets get some perspective here!
Sorry Sepia, didn't mean to give the impression that I was irritated by your suggestion! I'm just a little frustrated about Hadron's objections.
Hadron - We met at the station on sunday, and that worked fine. People are more likely to get lost trying to find the center of a city they've never been to before than they are if they just meet at the station then move elsewhere as a group.
Cambridge seems too big a place really if you stray far from the station. Particuarly as people will want to arrive and leave at different times. I think somewhere slightly smaller and more northern could be better.
no problems hadron, if you have a better suggestion, feel free to make it. it is nothing to do with fixed decisions. people will, i am sure , go with what suits them best after all!
27 Aug 2007, 7:38 pm
sepia wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
sepia wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron wrote:
violentcloud wrote:
Cambridge could be fun. Much easier to escape the crowds than in London. Not sure how easily people would be able to get there, though - I'll have to check how many places have direct trains to Cambridge.
Not a place I would like to go. Dont like the university there.
Neither do I
Doesn't stop me living there though! Besides, it's not difficult to avoid bumping into the more obnoxious people from Cambridge Uni, seeing as they barely ever leave the college buildings.Seeing Oxford was enough for me. And at Oxbridge, they do leave the buildings, asides the town is dominated by them.
See now, this is a funny thing. I *LIVE* in Cambridge, you say you don't want to go there, and yet you profess to know MORE? They keep themselves to the area of town with the high street, leaving the bulk of Cambridge occupied by people who actually live there, or people from *MY* Uni. And I think I as a local can say that with a lot more confidence than you can after making a visit to Oxford.
oh, i'm so sorry! it was only a thought, a sugestion. it's a meet up, not 3-4 years of your life! my only desire was that it be quiet and central(ish) for people in UK - lets get some perspective here!
Sorry Sepia, didn't mean to give the impression that I was irritated by your suggestion! I'm just a little frustrated about Hadron's objections.
Hadron - We met at the station on sunday, and that worked fine. People are more likely to get lost trying to find the center of a city they've never been to before than they are if they just meet at the station then move elsewhere as a group.
Cambridge seems too big a place really if you stray far from the station. Particuarly as people will want to arrive and leave at different times. I think somewhere slightly smaller and more northern could be better.
no problems hadron, if you have a better suggestion, feel free to make it. it is nothing to do with fixed decisions. people will, i am sure , go with what suits them best after all!
Fair enough. If I get to know people better on here I might plan something.
27 Aug 2007, 7:40 pm
27 Aug 2007, 7:44 pm
ANYWAY
A meet up in Cambridge seems like a nice idea, I'll spend some time trying to think of good spots to go to if it actually happened. I won't commit myself to any big plans any time soon, though - moving house this weekend 
27 Aug 2007, 7:52 pm
violentcloud wrote:
Hadron - We met at the station on sunday, and that worked fine. People are more likely to get lost trying to find the center of a city they've never been to before than they are if they just meet at the station then move elsewhere as a group.
Id be happy to make a secondary trip back to the station to pick up latecomers (if any), if that would make them feel more
comfortable
Its very likely that ill be late myself anyway.
27 Aug 2007, 7:56 pm
