Jamie M
15 Aug 2016, 9:09 pm
#347
(15 Aug 2016, 8:38 pm)BusLoverMum Sunderland's a little less grim - probably because it's much bigger and at least does have a few decent shops. We sometimes browse around on a Sunday, since we can get there directly - I'll take one of the boys to get them out of the other's hair.
And there's much, much worse places to have as a local town than Durham. We'll be househunting in a year or two and, even though Husband works on Teesside (though that's never set in stone) we don't want to move out of spitting distance. Helps that it's small enough to dash through and do al your errands before the next bus leaves, half an hour after you arrived, but nice enough to sit in the marketplace with a sarnie and just relax for a bit. And I've lived in the region for getting on for 3 decades and near Durham for 13 years of that and it still keeps surprising me. (Partly because I still keep losing my bearings there, despite having a pretty spot on sense of direction!)
Ay, I'm not marking it down as a bad place to live by any means, just from a tourist point of view - I aint in a rush to go back and see al the same 3 things again.
