Missy Jem wrote:
Bangor looks very nice Steve, but i'd be more impressed if you had statistics with the pictures such as:
Number of pubs
Number of off licenses
Number of kebab shops/burger bars
Number of patrolling police

Pubs: more than churches, that's all we ever worked out for sure...everything from Moe's through hood bars to exquiste posh Joints filled with wankers who think they deserve to be there (we call them "fur coat no knickers" people).
Off licenses: in addition to the booze section of the chainstores (I love the English...NI store NEVER put booze in the same room as food), there are several including one fitted with a walk in refrigerated warehouse. Last closing is 11PM.
Nosh: 3 excellent Indians, 5 or 6 decent chineses (including one exeptional one I am addicted to toally...the guy has pork ribs with salt and chillie in the pan before I get to the counter). Couple of very good kebab houses, a Pzzeria that I think is average but all the yachty fuckers say is the best the get to eat out of anywhere, plus some other average ones. All the usual swill-in-polystyrene options are available.
We also have a truly amazing chippy, let down only by the staff being vile little terrorist/chav offsping.
Police: at closing time there are usually 100 armed officers looking for trouble (all the late night bars ar within 100yrds of each other and kick out in sync, so it's not unreasonable). Most average nights there's a duty officer and a single patrol car. Smiling and not pointing guns at our cops will get you a long way...if they think you're into one side or other or you're gobby you're doomed (before anyone starts about cops being biased...they break heads in this town, and there's only orange heads to be broken...it is a god given right of the two communities in NI to gurn their fuckin lamps out about how the cops work only for the other side)
Downside...not everyone's as nice as me, we're a bit backward in many ways...and then there's fucktard season.