The Best Things in Oxford, Oxfordshire*

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The Best Things

• All the beautiful old colleges. I'm sure you can get in for free if you're a resident of Oxford (or just walk in looking like you know where you're going), so the comments of people why say they feel excluded because they're not part of the university don't really apply. Having so many beautiful green areas within easy reach of the city centre: University Parks, Christ Church Meadows, the grounds of Magdalen College. The expensive parking. Sorry, but there's enough traffic in Oxford as it is, and it's rubbish for shopping anyway - why don't you go somewhere like Milton Keynes or Bicester Village if you want to look at the shops? Bus drivers are very friendly and helpful. If you've always lived in Oxford you probably don't even notice this, but if you've lived in another big city where they're miserable sods you will realise how lucky we are in Oxford! Oxford is really well-placed geographically: we're in easy reach of many big cities, beautiful countryside, and access to the coast isn't that difficult either.
• Everything in Oxford is walkabble. It has a great mix of people and things to do.
• Everything you need is in walking distance most of the time. The people are friendly. The chavs are mainly just all talk and pose no real threat to anywhere who is dear I say it 'different' and does not want to wander around in a white tracksuit and copiois amounts of fake gold jewlerey from argos. Punting on the river. Uni parks in summer.
• Lovely girls everywhere, especially the older students and postgrads and especially during summer anywhere near the colleges, they gather and just look fantastic.
• Me, Good pubs, good music, nice buildings, pretty nice atmosphere
• The sky.
• amazing buildings, low crime rates in city centre

• The local music Scene - lots of good people who care about music. Most of it I can't stand, but it's nice to know it's there. Locally produced beers: Ok, most of them are now produced up the road in Abingdon, but you know what I mean. Christchurch Meadow. Not as peaceful as Port Meadow, but it's right slap bang in the middle of town and allows a relaxing walk up to Iffley village, or back towards Grandpont nature reserve.
• Cowley Road Carnival, lovely parks and river, Port Meadow, punting, the local music scene, a mix of different cultures, good food.
• It isnt Banbury! ... Get me outta here!
• Playground at the oxford brookes uni on wednesday, by far.
• You always bump into people you know. Great nights out. Surrounded by countryside
• Erm...mi mates.
• Picnicing in the University Parks with friends in the early summer (May-June), watching swans and ducks, and drunken students punting on the river. It's a very safe and friendly city, and small enough to know people but large enough to have enough shops, and many restaurants.

• The architecture. Mostly unique and beautiful.
• Most of Oxford is quite pretty.
• was jt, but has to still be the coven II(and jt does sometimes visit) radio oxford
• The express bus service that links Headington in Oxford with London every few minutes
• Borders; I haven't mentioned Borders yet. It's open from about 9am until 10pm (used to be 11pm), and best of all it's american, so you can read the books for as long as you want. You can even copy them out. Also you can get vouchers for taking part in psychology experiments.
• The way that green spaces permeate the city, it's wonderful buildings of all ages and the amazing mixture of people. Cycling to work along the High is an uplifting experience.
• Culture without having to live in London
• The fact you can go down town any day of the week and bump into someone you know. This has to be the most picturesque city - and I live here.
• Safe streets! You can walk anywhere at night. Oxford has one of the lowest levels of street crime in the United Kingdom. This includes supposedly deprived areas. Actually, I've lived in Glasgow, and by that standard Oxford doesn't HAVE any deprived areas.
• Cosmopolitan and diverse
• Night time because you can walk down the streets and not get crushed.
• Everything, but as a city, the place really comes alive in the summer. The back streets and cobbled alleyways The Dreaming Spires, especially the view you get of them from the top of Boars Hill.
• Head of the River, after GCSE's, cold pint, and the sun oh and my youthful innocence London Road in the Manor
• Oriel College. Come visit our bar on a Sunday evening and view the entertainment provided by boaties and their unsuspecting guests. Unless of course you've been invited by them, in which case, RUN AWAY!!!
• Sone and Daughters of millionaires, Big names all visit regulary. You can see or even meet president clinton at the oxford Union and many others in way you could never do in a place like london,if you see what I mean. Plenty of money in tehe rich upper middle class types around. You may even be able to gatecrash expensive Gatsby type private parties on college premises, You never quite know whos who in Oxford its a very cocmopolitan and rich place.
• Port Meadow - a huge field, only 20 minutes walk from the town centre. Complete with cows too!
• dtms
• The people and the grounds. University parks and the meadow at Christ Church are two pieces of ground you can't find anywhere else. On a nice spring day you can experience heaven if you're sitting by the Isis (Thames) with some Pimms and some friends. It just doesn't get any better than that.

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