Friday, 29 October 2004

Personal

East vs. West

Emma and I spend a fair bit of time comparing our current home towns. After all, they're both coastal towns of similar size. Both have are served by infrequent branch-line railways. The similarities seem to stop there though.

Aberystwyth, on the west coast of Wales, is bubbling and alive while Woodbridge snoozes into the east coast night with its slippers by the fire. Tonight we're off to see Kate Rusby at the Arts Centre in Aber. Woodbridge doesn't even have an appropriate venue to host live music.

I think the key is the location of the Arts Centre - at the university. Woodbridge is the sort of place people run away from to go to university. Aberystwyth - quite literally on the other side of the country - is the place school-leavers run away to, to become adults. They take their need for arts and culture with them, leaving a drained soul-less place.

So the next time I move, "Does it have a university?" will be right at the top of my checklist for a potential hometown.

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