[MK Chris]

Ha have you been before? It ain't bad... I like it here anyway.

[Sidders]

No, never. It occured to me how easy it is to get to the other week. I reckon I could get there in under an hour.

[MK Chris]

Easily from Leicester (although I know you're not exactly Leicester). It's straight down the M1, get off at Junction 14. If you're going to the Centre, turn right at the roundabout and keep going straight on at all the rest of the roundabouts till you see signs for shopping.

If you can work your way round the grid, you're one of the chosen few... I can but I've lived here all my life - most new people can't.

[Dickie]

I have only been for an Oasis gig last summer, Milton Keynes that is. All i remember is roundabouts.

[MK Chris]

Yeah but if you were there for a gig and left promptly afterwards, that's all you will have seen.

[Eddie]

Shopping centre is good there and Sidla, you can easily get from Leicester to MK in about 45 mins so it can't be that far from where you are. Topher's driections are good. Use them!

[Quincy]

follow the signs to MK

[Rychu]

I think London would be OK to live in (if ridiculously expensive), but the problem is, it takes away the novelty of spending the day there.

Edinburgh is well expensive as well but it's a really cool place to live. Thoug all the best gigs in Scoland are allways in Glasgow and that pisses me off.

When I first got to London that was my first time ever abroad. And I was well impresed. I will allways remember when I first took a double decker bus in london (had no idea where im goint just random bus) and there was this Rasta guy with his massive dred loks checking tickets and singin bob marley on the top of his voice. Brilliant.
And then i was terrified to jump of. Those busses almost never stop. You have to accualy jup of!!!

[Wyatt]

Theres not many of those left now, but we do have some bendy buses.

[kendra k]

they're called "articulated" buses.

[Wyatt]

Maybe where you are but we call them bendy here

[kendra k]

we don't call them anything here, maybe long buses? but in the transportation industry, for which i work, it's articulated. i'm becoming a geek.

[Sidders]

Easily from Leicester (although I know you're not exactly Leicester). It's straight down the M1, get off at Junction 14. If you're going to the Centre, turn right at the roundabout and keep going straight on at all the rest of the roundabouts till you see signs for shopping.

If you can work your way round the grid, you're one of the chosen few... I can but I've lived here all my life - most new people can't.

A5, M1. Simple.

The grid was as confusing as hell, every junction looks the same. God knows how I managed to get out. I didn't really like the place, probably for that reason. It's all just too planned. I was actually quite glad to get back to Hinckley, it may be a dump but at least it's a naturally evolved dump.

Having said that, the shopping centre was alright, but again - very easy to get lost. I suppose it'd be alright if you know the place.

[MK Chris]

How long did it take you?

I love it here - the surrounding villages, etc, make it for me. Stony Stratford (useless fact: the phrase * and bull story comes from the two pubs in Stony - The * and The Bull), Newport Pagnell, etc.

[Sidders]

About an hour.

[Eddie]

I was there today, at about 1.00pm ish. Didn't see you though, well,I don't think I did anyway.

[Sidders]

I didn't get there until about 1.30pm.

[kendra k]

wait, this grid you are speaking of, you mean a city where the streets are aligned in a grid? those are so easy to naviagte!

[Sidders]

It's sooo not. Not when you're new to a place and when you're used to conventional cities.

[MK Chris]

wait, this grid you are speaking of, you mean a city where the streets are aligned in a grid? those are so easy to naviagte!

Exactly that - and yes it is easy... Far easier than a one-way system (which I believe Leicester, for example, has.)

[kendra k]

grid systems are very common on this side of the atlantic, because the cities are newer, so there could be some planning into the layout. i think the first grid city was in mexico, planned by the spanish.

anyhow, they usually follow some numerical or alphabetical order, and it's pretty hard to really get lost. after living in a really old german city, i longed for the safety of the grid.

sidders, get with it.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Its kind of depressing. I like the fact that we have little roads that go nowhere.

[MK Chris]

anyhow, they usually follow some numerical or alphabetical order, and it's pretty hard to really get lost. after living in a really old german city, i longed for the safety of the grid.

Here we have vertical and horizontal road numbers... Everything is V5 or H3, etc.

[Eddie]

And it's very easy to find somewhere. Someone onlyhas to say it's on the corner of V5 and H3 and you'd easily find it.

[Sidders]

As I said, I'm sure it's easy if you're used to it. However if you're not it's really confusing. Every junction looks exactly the same.

I prefer my towns unplanned thankyou.