Just had a meeting on Churchgate. Sad to see the Bolton News offices empty. And in a week or two the Travel Counsellors building opposite will be empty. Another 200+ people spending approx £20 per week on parking and lunches in the town... plus whatever other services they spend their hard-earned on - all being lost. Very sad state of affairs.

 

When will it get better? Should these empty offices be turned into apartments?

14 minutes ago, Sweep said:

To be fair, I think everybody is pretty aware of the above. Although, I appreciate that some may struggle to grasp the whole concept of "cost of living" concept, and assume everything should just be based on how much somebody earns each week

Correct.

My daughter lives in Oz and most stuff is double what it costs here, but she's earning 3/4 times more over there than she was here.

13 hours ago, frank_spencer said:

No as it's nowhere near where my family network is.

No family ties and I'd happily move back to my old gaff in Hillfields in Cov. Loved that place.

Talking absolute crap like others on here. Ok let’s pretend your family live at the top end of Deane. You work in Bolton town centre. You’re looking for a terraced house with a budget of around £80-90,000. House comes up on Gibraltar street. Are you seriously telling me you would contemplate living there? It’s even got a mosque on the street so imagine the points you would accumulate on here from your bullshitting lefty friends.

13 hours ago, gonzo said:

I work in an area with loads of Polish folk. They are hard working ace people and its a shame a lot left after brexit.

However they live in a part of town that's a fucking shit hole due to its cheap housing and proximity to employment. I wouldn't move there if I was homeless.

None of them are my friends and I wouldn't choose to mix with any of them as they probably dont like Bolton or pints in Thornton-Cleveleys.

Its not their fault the areas a shit hole, its just the affordable housing that landed them there.

Capiche?

You’ve already stated you wouldn’t be happy is Pakistani Muslims started appearing on your street so no point backtracking now. You made a racist statement pal. End of. You are just like me. 

12 hours ago, Casino said:

How about we say theyre all shit

So you agree that all the big Asian communities in Bolton live in shit holes ?

5 hours ago, little whitt said:

YP ???

No pal

It’s actually laughable how people on here are trying to convince me that they would have no problem bringing their families up in highly populated Asian/Muslim areas. 

31 minutes ago, Johnny1990 said:

You’ve already stated you wouldn’t be happy is Pakistani Muslims started appearing on your street so no point backtracking now. You made a racist statement pal. End of. You are just like me. 

I know a Bangladeshi Muslim, is he better or worse than a Pakistani one? 

9 minutes ago, Sweep said:

I know a Bangladeshi Muslim, is he better or worse than a Pakistani one? 

You’d better ask gonzo because it’s him who made that statement. But I’d hazard a guess you won’t directly ask him. 

12 minutes ago, Johnny1990 said:

You’d better ask gonzo because it’s him who made that statement. But I’d hazard a guess you won’t directly ask him. 

@gonzo, Johnny wanted me to ask you if Vic, who is from Bangladesh, who owns our local "Indian" takeaway, it's worse than a Pakistani Muslim.

I think he's too shy to answer the question, which is quite surprising 

3 minutes ago, Sweep said:

@gonzo, Johnny wanted me to ask you if Vic, who is from Bangladesh, who owns our local "Indian" takeaway, it's worse than a Pakistani Muslim.

I think he's too shy to answer the question, which is quite surprising 

It’s funny how when gonzo made the oringinal statement you never called him out for it. And now when you do ask him you make it  into a humorous question. i think you need to grow some balls. 

Even London wanderer has admitted he’s a racist so why not ask him the question? And he’s a teacher ffs.  

Infact sweep tell me this. Have you in your life ever had a racist thought?

1 hour ago, Johnny1990 said:

You’ve already stated you wouldn’t be happy is Pakistani Muslims started appearing on your street so no point backtracking now. You made a racist statement pal. End of. You are just like me. 

Difference is I genuinely dont give one single flying fuck if it could be deemed racist or not

 

1 minute ago, gonzo said:

Difference is I genuinely dont give one single flying fuck if it could be deemed racist or not

 

Well on here you will forever be known as the guy who has a problem with Pakistani Muslims. Or maybe not as being part of the clique people will overlook that. 

Just now, Johnny1990 said:

Well on here you will forever be known as the guy who has a problem with Pakistani Muslims. Or maybe not as being part of the clique people will overlook that. 

He's better known for reeking of crime

3 minutes ago, Johnny1990 said:

Infact sweep tell me this. Have you in your life ever had a racist thought?

Yes, loads, where have I suggested I'm not racist? 

I don't like poor white people either, they're scum in my book

1 minute ago, Sweep said:

He's better known for reeking of crime

Answer my earlier question small balls

So you don’t like White people who are poor? What a ridiculous statement to make. A racist snob 

4 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Yes, loads, where have I suggested I'm not racist? 

I don't like poor white people either, they're scum in my book

I do hope people on here call you out for this statement. 

1 minute ago, Johnny1990 said:

So you don’t like White people who are poor? What a ridiculous statement to make. A racist snob 

Each to their own surely.....I  prefer the term "elitist racist" if you want to chuck around names. 

 

Just now, Johnny1990 said:

I do hope people on here call you out for this statement. 

If they're poor, then I'm not going to be that fussed really. 

Sadly, I'll going to be in a tunnel for the next 15 or do minutes, with no signal, so I'll have to wait to see what further you come up with 😊

2 minutes ago, Sweep said:

If they're poor, then I'm not going to be that fussed really. 

So you have no problem looking down down on the misfortunate in our society?

It’ll be interesting to see what London_wanderer thinks of what has just been posted. He’s always full of opinions. A fellow boltoner who cannot stand to be around the poorer in our society. A Boltoner who thinks the underprivileged are scum. 

11 minutes ago, Johnny1990 said:

Well on here you will forever be known as the guy who has a problem with Pakistani Muslims. Or maybe not as being part of the clique people will overlook that. 

If you look at my original post I did include other ethnicities did I not? And did you read the rest?

Im happy in my area living amongst the demographic of people I do. If I didnt, Id move.

That's not me saying I hate anyone or its a shit show we are being outbred or whatever term you used. Id just rather live in the area I do. 

I think most sane people on here could differentiate from what I was saying to your wind up blurge riddled with racist connotations.

I wouldn't fancy living amongst hordes or Buddhist Monks or Eskimos either.

If a gang of Eskimos moved into my street and all the shops turned in to sea lion butchers and pubs were swapped for igloos, I wouldnt like that, Id move. 

Does that make me racist to Eskimos?