Bristol is properly busy now

Traffic, people, construction. Almost feels like Covid never happened.

restaurants near me are all operating a reduced capacity and you cannot get  table Thursday through Sunday.  While eat out to help out was somewhat contradictory it really did seem to kick start going back to restaurants again not just for the month in operation, so, on reflection, probably one of the governments better moves.

I don't know if you think the numbers on Bristol postcodes are analogous to London tube zones or what, but BS6 is the nice bits. The trendy nice bits anyway. We don't live there tho 

There's a lot of postcode snobbery in Bristol, to the extent that, for example, if you live on the "wrong" (BS10) side of Falcondale Road your house is probably worth a third less than if it were on the "right" (BS9) side.

The most hehsome thing is that there's a Facebook group called "BS9 mums". 

It's interesting Guy.  I don't know a lot about it, but I think historically the Council basically housed people (social housing, asylum etc) quite often by race.  Bristol on paper is very diverse, but you could go to Uni there and work at a law firm there and barely ever come across any non-white people. 

Indeed although I think it is as much to do with class than race.   You can live is BS6, BS8 and most of  B9 (combined a pretty large area) and barely be aware poor or working class people exist.   I can think of no other British city with such a large almost exclusively middle class area

My sister used to live there and teach in a local infant school.  She had a torrid time of it because hardly any of the kids had English as a first language, and tbf her Urdu could be better.  

My overwhelming impression of Bristol is that it is very hilly.

BS3 is the more realistic option for reasonably affluent young people without benefit of family wealth.

 

Don't know many youngish lawyers who can buy decent property in and around Clifton, Redland, Cotham etc solely on own income.

Even the "poorer" areas of Bristol are pretty racially segregated. E.g. Bedminster -overwhelmingly white, Lawrence Hill - high proportion of Somalis.