wanna live in my town?

October 31, 2018 2:19am CST
Of course you do! It's the best town ever. Do you crave solitude? We can offer you isolation. Ten thousand souls smushed together, surrounded by nowt but fields of flatness. There are four {emergency} exit points, each one leading to a larger town many miles away. Are you keen on challenges? If you lack driving skills, your mind can be kept busy with Bus Timetable. He is a cheeky fellow, very difficult to read and understand, and just when you get used to him, he goes and changes. But those who drive are not left out of the fun! Due to the natural state of the surrounding countryside {we're below sea level here} the roads fare worse than others. You may find one exit from town closed off for anything from a night to a month for roadworks. Your challenge, Driver, is to find a detour which is fewer than thirty miles. If your guilty pleasure is getting your hair chopped off, then we are the town for you. For the discerning gentleman we now have no fewer than four barbershops, two of which are fashionably Turkish. Who knew that Flat Men were so very contemporary? For the ladies, we have a selection of six hairdressing salons to choose from. There is no excuse for you not to be nicely coiffed. Fancy a coffee? Grab one at one of our many cafés, from the Welly Boot Tea shop at one end of town, to The Cobbler at the other end, taking in all five others an route. If your tipple of choice contains alcohol, you may find that the three local pubs are more your thing. But be careful. They are very much local pubs for local people! Like nothing more than munching on a take-away at the end of a long working day? You're in luck, you lucky thing! Our two restaurants and six take-aways can offer you a selection of Indian, Chinese, Fish & Chips, Kebabs, Pizza, Burgers, etc. You will be spoilt for choice. But, be forewarned. If you enjoy breaking up your days of coffee and hair-cutting with a spot of clothes shopping, we can only offer you charity shop clothing. If you need to buy a pint of milk, you have a choice of two convenience stores in town, where products tend to be double the price they are in our only supermarkets on the edge of town. Yes, you can buy shoes in our only shoe shop, but you will need a preference towards the tartier shoe. As an extra added bonus we throw in the joy of never knowing which smell you'll wake up to in the morning. Will it be onions? Or will it be manure? Who knows? Please, step inside one of our four Estate Agents and stake your claim on property in this area.
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@LadyDuck (458006)
• Switzerland
31 Oct 18
Thanks for your kind proposition, but I am well in our little town of 4,000, where we have everything you listed. Our choice of take away is reduced to one (McDonald's) but we have many interesting little restaurants and many cafes. The buses bring us to the major cities, we can even cross the border to Italy using a bus. There are no smells in the air in the morning, except coffee, coming out from the households.
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1 Nov 18
But, manuuuuuure! You don't know what you're missing!
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@LadyDuck (458006)
• Switzerland
1 Nov 18
@Poppylicious We have manuuuure smell, not cow manure, sheep manure, when the wind blows from south we get the smell, not strong. The sheep are in a field a block from our home, they have their stable and the farmer collect the manure in a protected place, but time by time we can smell it.
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• Philippines
31 Oct 18
you really have a nice town. but still i love my town. :)
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1 Nov 18
No, I don't. Unless you genuinely only like cafés, take-aways and getting your hair cut. *sad face*
1 Nov 18
@Nickzter1331 Truth be told, I do too. But sometimes I just want to be able to walk into town and do some shopping!
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• Philippines
1 Nov 18
@Poppylicious i kinda like.a simple town :)
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• Preston, England
31 Oct 18
You sell it so well - reminds me of Frank Sidebottom's tour of his home town, Timplerley (which now has his statue in the street)
this is the magical bus tour of timperley,as conducted by its first son-frank sidebottom.
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• Preston, England
1 Nov 18
@Poppylicious my town has just been declared the ,most improved
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1 Nov 18
Oh, I have just remembered that my town is mentioned in a semi-famous song by a less-famous band. And we've been on the national news twice already this year. Whoa! We really are the town to live in.
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@xFiacre (12595)
• Ireland
31 Oct 18
@poppylicious Does it have any houses of ill repute?
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1 Nov 18
Oh, I'm not sure that we cater to the saucier market. The Welly Boot Tea Shop was raided a few years ago due to it being attached to a motel which offered 'services', but I can probably find out for you. I'm sure it will make an interesting discussion on our town's FB page!
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@Plethos (13560)
• United States
31 Oct 18
sounds like we live in the same town.
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1 Nov 18
I knew I recognised you! *grin*
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@Plethos (13560)
• United States
2 Nov 18
@Poppylicious - i am recognizable, especially when im the only one in a toga and cowboy hat.
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@YrNemo (20261)
2 Nov 18
You should move to my town then, it is much much better than yours. We are surrounded with almost everything, from giant shopping malls to small local ones. You mention anything, and we could provide you with that. (Even manure, but for that, you might have to drive 7 minutes away to get to that specific racecourse. Ah, you want some chicken droppings, one of my neighbors who live 200 metres away, could give you some too.). Keen to come? (Just checked, the population here is about 150 (plus) thousand people)
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6 Nov 18
Well, it's very tempting ... :)
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@YrNemo (20261)
7 Nov 18
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
31 Oct 18
You do a good job of extolling the virtues of your town but I can't help wondering why there is only one (rather posh) shoe shop and both of the cafés you mention have footwear associations! Am I right in thinking that the bus service is "highly dependable" as a certain Manchester based Indie band have claimed?
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1 Nov 18
I made the names up, although one is loosely based on its true name. The bus service is indeed very highly dependable.
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• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Oct 18
If u invite me i will sure
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1 Nov 18
Well, I'm not sure that Husband would appreciate me inviting internet strangers over!