The Best Things in Basingstoke, Hampshire*

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• The Road to Newbury / Reading (delete as applicable)
• lol ur having a laugh
• Large parts of Basingstoke have been rejuvenated - therefore some of the comments are a little out of date (I resent the Snotty pushchair remark a) I can't stand snot and b) It relates to the "chav" part of the town - which every town has). Surely Basingstoke cannot be worse than Slough for instance?? There is lots to do if you find it - I agree that Skate parks should be put in place - but have everyone who uses it to sign a waiver - you get hurt its your own fault and you can't sue - then the council will probably put in hundreds of them!
• Yes, I know Basingstoke is filled with townies, and yes, I know that Basingstoke is not London, and yes I know its suburban and small and incestuous, but dammit, I like Basingstoke! Ive lived here all my life, and am not a townie. I go out to Liquid, but I dont start fights and I dont piss in the street. AND I regularly go to London for a bigger night out than Basingstoke can offer (without whinging about it). The shopping centre, whilst faceless and like every other shopping centre in the country, at least now has some decent shops, some coffee shops and good places to eat. The transport facilities in and around b stoke are very good, and excuse me, but three theatres and two cinemas? Hardly culturally devoid. Please, if Basingstoke is so awful, then move!
• Bitz Bizzare is possibly the funkiest shop in Reading, selling hippy-chic clothes, ethnic jewellery and fab bags.
• Easy access to the countryside espeally if you live on Kempshott. The new town with the new cinema (bit expensive though). Easy access to London and the beaches. Some of the nicer, newish housing estates like Hatch Warren, Kempshott but not the really new ones like kempshott park and gabriel park, they are really cramped up there.
• The North hants hospital in Basingstoke has just been awarded a top star rating by inspecters!.
• easy place for shopping. Shops are grouped together.
• easy place for shopping. Shops are grouped together.
• Some of my family live there, but want to get out, Thank God!!
• dunno really.. its all i know.
• best thing in b'stoke probably the m3 exit to london which is where the whole population in b'stoke came from anyway.
• Basingstoke Motor Club - a chance to get involved in local motorsport
• Loads of nice wide pavements, verges, and underpasses for walking the dog!
• Local girl Gemma Wilkin Top Bird!! It 's The only reason I'm, still here.
• The people are really nice and mostly friendly. The parks are well kept. The roundabouts help to tighten up your self-control skills...... Overall, the kids are great, too. Mostly thoughtful and caring but...well, see 'worst things'.
• my friends
• The first place to became a ground 0 in the next war!
• Before Virtual 'rip off no exchanges' Games.
• easy to get to..
• Every one in basingstoke is up for a laugh especially the sk8ers
• the new car park!!! the old multi story has gone and up has gone the festival place new-pink, and purple one! hail to the sadistic artitects of basingrad.
• Frequent trains to other places.
• there alot of bad things aboout it but there are also alot of good things the further away from the town centre the worse it gets the best thing about basingstoke is that me and me boys live ap tp mz and dd and also the alcohol of course
• If there ever was a nuclear war it would be one of the first places to be hit thanks to the close proximity of Aldermaston, the Thames Silicon Valley and Bovington.
• If you grew up in Basingstoke you will always be a part of it - Being able to walk into most pubs alone and know at least 5 people in there!
• Cheap food aplenty at the market on a Saturday - perfect for skaters on a budjet. Majority of the Skaters are really friendly, so if you see some go over and say hello and get a good skate sesh goin!
• My family, meeting up with old friends, I really like the swimming pool in the sports centre as its not too busy and quite relaxed. QMC rocks! The Rising Sun. Memorial park and Eastrop Park. Ease of access to beautiful Hampshire, brilliant cycling country. The comedy announcement at the station, 'basingstoke, this is basingstoke' (said in a very slef-important manner), this stupid 'welcome to basingstoke, home of winterthur life' signs, I quite like the Haymarket, close to london and Winchester, its prosperous, wages are high, but so are house prices.... Sainsburys. Cliddesden Rd area.
• It's near to London, the seaside, Oxford and the countryside. Good employment rate. People. Live scene of quite a few local bands (against all the odds due to lack of support)
• The new swimming pool is pretty cool, the new library is, well, full of books...
• Half way between London and the coast.
• Seeing basingstoke in your rear view mirror
• Skaters. Skater Chicks. Porn. Easy Women. This is a completely un-sexist view of course. I'm sure there is alot for women too.
• The memories of the George Pub
• Used to be Brookvale until someone decided that it was far to nicer place to live and built on any single empty space going. Is nothing sacred, someone even built a house on the alleyway between Southend Road and Victory Green.
• A good group of metal/Industrial/Goth scene people, when you can find them. There are no good clubs and pubs for that sort of thing in B'stoke so we all decamp to Reading or London of a Friday/Saturday.
• A lazy sunny afternoon in the park
• The best things in Basingstoke is the Bison Ice Hockey team , all my mates and the fit lads!
• The best thing is the number of really terrific looking girls with perms. Thank god for Basingstoke, I unfortunately had to move away about 5 years ago, but I always remember that, whatever the fashion for female haircuts in the rest of the country there will forever be girls in the Stoke with a stylish perm, plus one of those sexy litlle fringe efforts.
• I was born there and no matter how bad it is it's home. Queen Mary's aint a bad old place.
• Getting better - 10 screen cinema, though they're beginning to rip people off as their prices have gone up twice in the last year, there's no cheaper "family" evening and as for student rates, they're even more restrictive. Anvil and Haymarket put on some good stuff but not enough West End shows such as Joseph, Fantastic Voyage, etc. Shops are slowly improving. It's a pity about the good ones that open and then close within a month.
• It's about equi-distant to Bristol and London, the only two places I go out these days and it's only an hours drive from both...
• Great Basingstoke-based Band called "The Kettleheads". See 'em if you can. KNown to play at Shamus's now and then.
• My Mum!! A right old trollop called Kerrish Mac Gow Goon and numerous other good friends who I miss...!
• The best thing to come out of Basingstoke is the A34 Northbound.
• Leaving!!
• The best view of Basingstoke is through the rear view mirror of your car when you're driving OUT of town.
• Leaving for long periods of time. It is always good to pop back to the town every now and again to remind yourself that things could always be worse. My House. The fact that you know that if you go into town, you will always see people you know. Basingstoke Town Football Club always being shit so you can take the piss.
• Relatively quiet and fast road system. Despite the number of roundabouts it is easy to get into and, more importantly, get out of the town.

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Last updated: 2008-10-14