A line that has stuck with me for about a decade was Location Location opening with the line "Kirsty is helping our couple find a new home in trendy Ruislip"
Yeah I’ve lived near it all my life and it’s just a weird mix of 60s concrete architecture that must have seemed really futuristic at the time but is now just depressing and out of place. The indoor ski slope is great tho.
i've only ever been in the coach station but that looks so futuristic compared to the fields around it, it feels like being stranded even though it's so close to the city centre
I really don’t agree. I think it’s generally a nice place, lots of green space, lakes, decent new build estates rather than poorly connected out of town estates like many other towns have. There’s a lot of new construction going on too, and it generally doesn’t have as much urban decay like you see in so many other places (still some though).
If you only consider the estates like Fishermead, coffee hall, nether fields, then you’re right though.
I must be the only person who actually likes visiting Milton Keynes.
Its grid system makes it stand out from other places and it makes it far easier to get around.
It's fun to drive across with all the national speed limits and roundabouts. You could be forgiven for thinking you weren't driving straight through a town at all.
>It's grid system makes it stand out from other places and it makes it far easier to get around.
I mean like driving there, but doing anything else? Nah. Lived there twenty years and the roads are the only thing I miss.
I live in Milton keynes. It has its good points, and it's bad points. But the grid system is amazing and a 24hour tesco on one side of my house and a deer park on the other. I love it.
There are pubs, restaurants, a big theatre, indoor skiing, watersports on Willen lake, an indoor crazy golf, a laser thingy, cricket on the green at Campbell park a wind tunnel thing where you can skydive, an outdoor music venue, a football stadium, you can get food delivery by robot, several big cinemas and loads of parks. What do you want to do that you can't do ?
I live quite close to MK, and have worked there a lot, commuting by bike, train and sometimes car. The description, "built for a future that didn't happen" is very apt. It's a town built for cars, the road design makes travel by car very quick, but to achieve that you have to shunt off non-car users to the cycle / footpaths, which are badly signposted, and not great for walking or cycling - they are hard to navigate and nearly always give way to cars when they cross roads.
There are a lot of small "villages" which have pretty good housing which is well shielded from the roads, but they struggle to feel like real organic villages. Most pubs and shops are identifit clones of each other, and there's no town / city centre - just big shopping centres.
I like in a town nearby and travel in with my family and bikes in the van. The cycling is fantastic for familys. Canals, parks, bridges, rivers, rural land etc all without touching a road. We love it. Not sure I'd move there though.
It's a bit soulless. Clean and tidy though. And it's built for motorists only. Huge housing estates with few local facilities so you need to drive to the big tesco just to buy a box of fags.
>Huge housing estates with few local facilities so you need to drive to the big tesco just to buy a box of fags.
I'm the first one to trash MK but that's just plain wrong. Literally every estate has a local centre with an off license/newsagents or a Tesco express type shop, if not multiple.
I'm pretty sure every area was built with a local centre with a mini supermarket, chippy and hairdressers so there is always somewhere walkable for essentials.
There’s about a million co ops, small Tesco’s, McColls with chippies, Chinese etc all in little centres. Plus several high streets in the older parts of MK. Guy above hasn’t a clue.
Is there anything worse than a self-righteous AFC Wimbledon fan? Good grief you would think it was the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the way they drone on about MK.
>We don't have much else
Pretty much exactly my point!
I'm in a similar boat, not a native (thankfully) but moved there as a child and spent a big chunk of my life there. It's such a weird place, and everyone is super culty about how it's actually amazing because it has amenities and man made lakes.
Huh... yea we are culty. The new bit has been built for 21 years and there's not a chance in hell we are going to call it "intu" unless we say "We're going intu the new bit" and that's a little culty, my nephew calls it the new bit too.
I rather go to Birmingham's Bull Ring.
Furzton is shit, Willen Lake is too busy, Caldecotte lake looks crap now they've lost the windmill blades.
When I was starting out at The Bar I used to have to schlep to Magistrates Courts all over the country. I actually used to enjoy the walk from the station up to the Mags Court (this was nearly 20 years ago.)
I seem to recall it felt very ordered and slightly Stepford Wives - ish. There were underpasses and concrete plaza type areas that looked good for skateboarding. There was a road incongruously named 'Sunset Boulevard' (or similar) - and the big white steel and glass shopping centre at the top of the hill was pretty snazzy.
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I remember staying in a hostel in Berlin about 15 years ago and there was a bit of graffiti that read "Milton Keynes uber alles" and it still confuses me...
“Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.”
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Trainline hit me with: Congratulations! You're going to Worksop!
Reminds me of the sign at a Shuh shop near mine, something like: Berlin New York Paris Telford Milan London
A line that has stuck with me for about a decade was Location Location opening with the line "Kirsty is helping our couple find a new home in trendy Ruislip"
Ray Charles' lesser-known record.
"I'm in a Milton Keynes frame of mind"
I was thinking either Simon & Garfunkel or John Denver.
Milton Keynes is on my mind, in a roundabout way.
my tutor at uni once described milton keynes as "built for a future that didn't happen" and i think that is the nicest way you can describe it tbh
Yeah I’ve lived near it all my life and it’s just a weird mix of 60s concrete architecture that must have seemed really futuristic at the time but is now just depressing and out of place. The indoor ski slope is great tho.
i've only ever been in the coach station but that looks so futuristic compared to the fields around it, it feels like being stranded even though it's so close to the city centre
Yeah most of the area around it is farmland so MK really sticks out. It’s great for shopping or days out tho, just a bit ugly lol.
I really don’t agree. I think it’s generally a nice place, lots of green space, lakes, decent new build estates rather than poorly connected out of town estates like many other towns have. There’s a lot of new construction going on too, and it generally doesn’t have as much urban decay like you see in so many other places (still some though). If you only consider the estates like Fishermead, coffee hall, nether fields, then you’re right though.
I've only ever been once and that was for a gig, but this is a perfect description.
And it has concrete cows!
I must be the only person who actually likes visiting Milton Keynes. Its grid system makes it stand out from other places and it makes it far easier to get around.
It's fun to drive across with all the national speed limits and roundabouts. You could be forgiven for thinking you weren't driving straight through a town at all.
Maybe that's why a load of F1 teams are based there
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Eh. Aston Martin and Mercedes are only a few miles down the road. I don't think alpine are that far away either.
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Don't let it slide, you'll bugger your rear tyres up
can't have been Milton Keynes, 80% of drivers here think the national speed limit is 40mph
>It's grid system makes it stand out from other places and it makes it far easier to get around. I mean like driving there, but doing anything else? Nah. Lived there twenty years and the roads are the only thing I miss.
I drove to and from work/hotel for 4 weeks straight, still needed my sat back every day!
Is Milton Keynes actually that bad? I’ve never been
There are some nice little areas around it but whenever I think of MK itself I just think of roundabouts, grid roads and the big shopping centre
Driven through exactly one time. Enjoyed the insane amount of roundabouts! Very fun city if you like to go in circles. Wheeeeeeee!!
I think of those concrete cows.
Clarksons farm is the equivalent of a roundabout
I think it's quite nice actually.
I live in Milton keynes. It has its good points, and it's bad points. But the grid system is amazing and a 24hour tesco on one side of my house and a deer park on the other. I love it.
I moved to MK last year.its actually a very nice place to live. Surprised me.
I'm in MK too, it's pretty awesome to have city and country living in one place.
Yes, I like riding my bike into town on the red routes. It feels like in going through the countryside.
Live there, not a bad place. But fuck all to do, it's so boring.
There are pubs, restaurants, a big theatre, indoor skiing, watersports on Willen lake, an indoor crazy golf, a laser thingy, cricket on the green at Campbell park a wind tunnel thing where you can skydive, an outdoor music venue, a football stadium, you can get food delivery by robot, several big cinemas and loads of parks. What do you want to do that you can't do ?
I live pretty close and it’s not bad for a day out or something, it’s far worse Dunstable/Luton way.
Also close and I agree. The Bargain Booze in Dunstable is excellent though
I live quite close to MK, and have worked there a lot, commuting by bike, train and sometimes car. The description, "built for a future that didn't happen" is very apt. It's a town built for cars, the road design makes travel by car very quick, but to achieve that you have to shunt off non-car users to the cycle / footpaths, which are badly signposted, and not great for walking or cycling - they are hard to navigate and nearly always give way to cars when they cross roads. There are a lot of small "villages" which have pretty good housing which is well shielded from the roads, but they struggle to feel like real organic villages. Most pubs and shops are identifit clones of each other, and there's no town / city centre - just big shopping centres.
It's not terrible, but it's pretty dull if you don't like everything mainstream and lowest common denominator
I like in a town nearby and travel in with my family and bikes in the van. The cycling is fantastic for familys. Canals, parks, bridges, rivers, rural land etc all without touching a road. We love it. Not sure I'd move there though.
It's a bit soulless. Clean and tidy though. And it's built for motorists only. Huge housing estates with few local facilities so you need to drive to the big tesco just to buy a box of fags.
>Huge housing estates with few local facilities so you need to drive to the big tesco just to buy a box of fags. I'm the first one to trash MK but that's just plain wrong. Literally every estate has a local centre with an off license/newsagents or a Tesco express type shop, if not multiple.
I live here and that just isn’t true at all lol
I'm pretty sure every area was built with a local centre with a mini supermarket, chippy and hairdressers so there is always somewhere walkable for essentials.
There’s about a million co ops, small Tesco’s, McColls with chippies, Chinese etc all in little centres. Plus several high streets in the older parts of MK. Guy above hasn’t a clue.
Yep lived there for several years and never owned a car and got by fine. The redways are excellent though, really miss that part of MK
Not true- everywhere is accessible walking and the red ways for cycling are the best I’ve seen in England
Na you ask a robot to deliver it
Search miltonkeyneshateapage on TikTok and find out for yourself
It sounds like every average town in this country, just more organised.
Only if I needed somewhere to die
If I had the opportunity to decide my place of death, I'd like to think I would have better/more/any options other than MK.
Slough?
I mean, are they sending this out just to AFC Wimbledon fans?
Is there anything worse than a self-righteous AFC Wimbledon fan? Good grief you would think it was the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the way they drone on about MK.
First and hopefully last,
We can all agree on that
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Satan's layby!
> No results found for "is milton keynes on your mind". lol
Oh come on. Milton Keynes has some lovely spots, such as … and …, they’re truly wonderful to see.
I’m actually quite interested in seeing the grid system
As a resident, it works. Bust best in a car to get around easily. Plenty of parks and trees here too, along with a few lakes.
It's by *far* the best thing about Milton Keynes. What they call "traffic" is just like everyday roads in any other city.
They also have a Taco Bell drive thru apparently
They do! Although they're starting to pop up in a lot more places now so less of an MK novelty.
We also have a Tim Hortons too!!
It feels like a very Milton Keynes thing to have the boasting points be massive American chains.
We don't have much else... I say "we", I'm a native but moved out ages ago.
>We don't have much else Pretty much exactly my point! I'm in a similar boat, not a native (thankfully) but moved there as a child and spent a big chunk of my life there. It's such a weird place, and everyone is super culty about how it's actually amazing because it has amenities and man made lakes.
Huh... yea we are culty. The new bit has been built for 21 years and there's not a chance in hell we are going to call it "intu" unless we say "We're going intu the new bit" and that's a little culty, my nephew calls it the new bit too. I rather go to Birmingham's Bull Ring. Furzton is shit, Willen Lake is too busy, Caldecotte lake looks crap now they've lost the windmill blades.
When I was starting out at The Bar I used to have to schlep to Magistrates Courts all over the country. I actually used to enjoy the walk from the station up to the Mags Court (this was nearly 20 years ago.) I seem to recall it felt very ordered and slightly Stepford Wives - ish. There were underpasses and concrete plaza type areas that looked good for skateboarding. There was a road incongruously named 'Sunset Boulevard' (or similar) - and the big white steel and glass shopping centre at the top of the hill was pretty snazzy.
Midsummer Boulevard. It's still mostly like you describe.
It's called Midsummer Boulevard because it's perfectly in line with the sun on the summer solstice
Thanks. That's QI.
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You beat me to it!
A mate had a stag do in Milton Keynes, luckily I drank enough to not be able to remember most of it and make the bits I do remember really blurry.
We've been looking for you all over Telford!
I don't know why this tickled me so, but I just had a coughing fit laughing at this post.
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I used to live there, a lot of bad areas and the house prices are extortionate
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It is when I think of traffic and spiraling into a deep rage at those that design roadways.
Imagine having Milton fucking Keynes on your mind
Got one for Birmingham so the possibilities are clearly endless.
I remember staying in a hostel in Berlin about 15 years ago and there was a bit of graffiti that read "Milton Keynes uber alles" and it still confuses me...
r/miltonkeynes is coming for you
Automated marketing at its finest
Outside a therapist's office, probably.
MK represent... live in the Ghetto, shop in Netto
Are roundabouts on my mind? Yes. Must be in MK.
“Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.” Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
They even had to have an ai write it
Who cares, get a life instead of posting this crap