https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/north/ Recent content in North on A Geek's Life Hugo en Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:33:14 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2010/10/15/stuff-i-will-not-miss-about-nct/ Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:33:14 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2010/10/15/stuff-i-will-not-miss-about-nct/ <ul> <li>Broken lifts - gave me free exercise but thirteen flights of steps went a wee bit too far&hellip;</li> <li>Empty bottles, spilled liquids and much more in the lifts when they actually worked&hellip;.</li> <li>Extra rowdy football crowds - if only <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen_F.C.">they actually won something</a>&hellip;..</li> <li>Jehovah&rsquo;s Witnesses proselytizing - oh and they offered to come back&hellip;</li> <li>Mr Landlord - who smoked in the house, once decided to remodel the bath on a Monday morning and was generally a pain in the nether regions&hellip;.</li> <li><a href="http://news.stv.tv/scotland/north/184640-pair-charged-with-attempted-murder-of-man-57-due-in-court/">Attempted murder</a> just across the road and in broad daylight too&hellip;</li> <li><a href="http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=300599">A notorious park</a> within the neighborhood&hellip;</li> <li>Hate messages scrawled on freshly painted walls, and scratched on lift doors&hellip;.</li> <li>Raised eyebrows when I give my post code at the GP&hellip;</li> <li>Regular police fliers in the mail requesting information on crimes committed in the neighborhood&hellip;&hellip;</li> </ul> <p>Ten months after making the move up north - and opting to go the cheap route to stay in the vicinity of a council flat - I&rsquo;m finally moving houses&hellip;  Its good to be moving on&hellip;. If I can only get the heating and the internet  to work.. ..</p>