The Best Things in Exeter, Devon*

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The Best Things

• Having all the amenities of a city, yet being so close to the coast, and beautiful Devon countryside; the best of both worlds. The safeness of the city, especially when considering a night out. Nice architecture, generally, with many ancient buildings still standing. The grandness of the cathedral. The view of countryside from the city centre. We also have the narrowest street in the world, in the city centre.....
• Exeter Airport - There IS a way out...
• Rooster Records on Fore Street
• the skatepark good, the park opposites cool and the pub opposite the flowerpot skatepark is brill.
• Street drinking on the Cathedral "village" Green. Like your garden, but illegal/full of strangers doing same as you. Also Scott Bailey and Jim Harwood! Buh-less.
• in the summer u can visit pretty much any beach in north devon and cornwall easily and guaranteed u will c ALL ur m8s there. also exeter kinda has the best of both worlds cuz its a city in the country, and it isnt 2 rough as far a cities go...
• Definately NOT Al-FARIDS Exeter. Expensive and overated. Tapas is good, meat content very poor. Unfortunately this restuarant has gone like many of the other themed restuarants, in the way of lurring customers in the early days, with good food at reasonable prices. Now gone drastically downhill unfortunately.

• The best thimg is the chilled out lifestyloe people are wicked and its easy to find cool people to skate and ride with. I spent the summer there 2004 and it was quality loadsa cider flaggens, plenty of buddha and the skate chicks are stunnin and over flowin.
• Variety. You can be chilling out near a major medieval building, five minutes later you can be chilling out near the river. There are quite a few parks. Folk are generally laid back and friendly. So close to the countryside
• The Cannal and River. Has quite alot of greenary. The Farmers Market on a Thursday-great organic food that tastes sublime.
• the friendly people and nice atmosphere everywhere u go, and the fact that u hardly ever have to worry about nething cuz its really safe. there r more sk8ter boys than kevs which is a good thing and the alternative scene is pretty good considering exeters a pretty tiny city.
• The countryside.
• great town to grow up in, the ease of dringking from a early age (obviously as soon as we turned 18). and the closeness of Newquay (just 1 hour).
• The compact central area.The one an only WESt front of the Cathedral, the church and the setting inthe cathedral green

• The new Fired Earth shop at Topsham.
• Cavern, Gandy Street, Fore Street.
• 'Exeactly', the inaccurate, satricical, topical and mericfully brief review of Uni life in the city, as found in pubs, loos and buses!
• Ivor Dewdney's the pasties in what used to be Lethbridges Butchers in Cowick St. Exeter's proximity to The Nobody Inn at Doddiscombesleigh, how difficult it is to find and how this keeps all the idiots away. Their sausage and mash.
• The river Exe. The people.
• Not being Plymouth
• The cathedral/cavern/mayor
• friendly, good shops, its home
• I love Exeter because its a lovely green city with a fantasic surrounding view. The sense of history gives it a wonderful character. I also like the mixture of megastores and the quaint little shops on Fore Street and Gandy Street. For a city it has a calm feel and for Devon, some cultural diversity, which is cool cos I could feel slightly more at home here than I have been in all my 3 years in this God Forsaken part of the world, though I'll be glad to leave Devon, I'll miss Exeter and my mates.
• Grass, and not too noisy.
• heavitree car wash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Has become much more cosmopolitain over the last ten years without losing that Devon pace of life feel to it.
• it has a pretty good music scene sometimes. there are a few nice blokes. it is easy to find a like-minded friend after dark in Rougemont gardens. Just sit on a bench, or in another shadowy place and say RIZLAS or TOKE very loudly and wait for someone to come over. also, there is a regular train service making it easy to leave.
• Martian Records, Cavern, Boston's, the Picture House, nice pubs, lots of nice boys everywhere...
• Karaoke Bob's live Elvis Tribute Shows aroung the city.
• Claustrophobics in the underground passages.
• The gardens next to the station, Boston's, the Cavern, lots of lovely scruffy boys, The Real McCoy and Kitsch U Like, Martian records, the Quay, the Cathedral, the nice man in Urban Surfer (don't know if he's still there) who sometimes gives discounts.
• All the little gem old buildings tucked in amongst the concrete. A compact city centre that has pretty much all you need. The beach is just a short train ride away, as is wonderful Dartmoor (if you like that kind of thing).
• The river, especially in summer. The pubs!!! surrounding countryside, nearby beach. Fresh air.
• The night life, its an outstanding pub crawl, if you can put up with all the students!
• Easy to walk from one end of town to the other, Timepiece bar and club, Boston's , Queen St,
• Got to be a tie between the Quay or Cathedral Green on a sunny afternoon, Timepiece and of course DOUBLE LOCKS!!
• The Prince's Trust Volunteers at Haven Road (01392 849319) best for a change of life if your bored 16 to 25 and want to meet new friends, try new activities and get a life........12 weeks of something quite different.
• Proximity to Dartmoor.
• In town, Gandy Street had all my fave shops (like those tiny ones in the arcade that can only hold about 3 shoppers at once). The Quayside is really beautiful. Shame the Maritime Museum is gone. It's a really lovely walk down the river to Topsham, a really pretty village that has lots of Dutch-style houses from ye olde days. And there are tons of cute villages and market towns easy to get to by bus or train, especially Budleigh Salterton, Totnes, and Dartmouth.
• All the teeange girls that hang out in Rougemont park!
• General comfort of living. The freaky people who make me laugh
• Absolutely disagree with the contributor who included Fore Street in the Demolish-it-now category. Fore Street is an antidote to the aseptic 60s style of Exeter centre. All the distinctive and eccentric shops are here: biking gear, martial arts, music and sound gear, second-hand books, junk/antiques, Chinese herbalism, New Age stuff, minerals and crystals, etc. This is *the* place in Exeter to find anything strange and interesting.
• The best things about Exeter are the following: Although a city, you are minutes away from the countryside and the beaches. There's a homely atmosphere, people are friendly and it's full of local people who have lived here all their lives. Everything is nearby! The weather is quite good, compared to the rest of England we get some of the better weather! The pubs/clubs are great, friendly and cheap! The area is pleasant and relatively safe. There is not as much violence as bigger cities. Once you've moved away after living there all your life you realise you miss everything, the TV programmes, the weather, the shops, the people, the pubs and clubs, the nearby beaches and countryside, the food and just the general 'Exeter' way of things!
• The clothes shopping is fantastis although it is beaten by the sheer beauty of the surrounding area. Although, Exeter is a city it is compact enough for you to always be aware that you're in beautiful Devon.

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