u/Odd-Paramedic-3826

I'll go first, fuel pipelines. there's plumbing sending jet fuel all over the country, sometimes you'll see a marker warning where it is so people don't dig there but to those not in the know they just look like any old street sign or bollard.

(posted this last week but at the wrong time of day so i didn't get any comments from other brits lol)

I'm 22, I currently live in an utterly miserable post-industrial market town in the middle of nowhere. I'm trying to move out but hitting brick walls because the job market is terrible and the rent in most places is too high to even get a room in a houseshare unless you're on a higher wage.

I lived in manchester while I was a student and I loved it there but upon research and speaking to friends who still live there it just seems too expensive. London was in my sights too and is probably the dream city, but once again too expensive.

My priority is to be somewhere vibrant and busy with a lot to do and a lot of likeminded people around. I like museums, galleries, live music, nightlife, rock climbing, cycling. Where I currently live caters to none of those interests. I don't drive so walkability, cycleability, or good public transport is a must.

On the matter of work, I've got a degree in a subject I don't intend to work in since my time at uni absolutely crushed my passion for it, so I'm at a point where I'm not sure what my career will look like or what fields i'll go into. But in the meantime i've been applying to admin and support roles with the civil service, nhs, and medium-sized businesses. I've accepted that I'll probably be earning close to minimum wage, which is why the rent not being sky-high is important.

When I was 10 my family moved to one of englands many post industrial market towns. Kind of in the middle of nowhere. No local culture, dead town center, no job opportunities, no places to get involved with hobbies, and now that I'm in my 20s seemingly nobody else my age.

There's so many things I'd like to do with my life that I simply don't have access to by virtue of location. I'd like to have a proper job and a career, but I'm stuck in a part time role working 10 hours a week because it's the only thing I could get. Driving is more or less a requirement to live a good life out here but i can't afford to run a car because there's no good jobs here.

It even has an effect on your hobbies and community. I'd really like to get into rock climbing for example, it seems like a sport i'd enjoy and a great way to meet friends, but my nearest climbing gym is a 5 hour round trip on public transport.

I've grown a deep distain for this place. When I look at the big picture, practically every problem in my life, my mental health struggles, my diminishing social life, my excessive screentime, and all manner of other issues, all root back to me living here. Everything would be solved overnight if I just moved away to somewhere more interesting.

Thats the cruel irony of it though, it's nigh on impossible to leave. I've been applying to jobs all over the country ever since I graduated, I'm beginning to suspect they see that I'm looking to relocate on my CV and just toss it out because they'd rather hire someone local. It's a complete piss take.

I've tried everything. Remote jobs, live in work, companies with relocation schemes, all sorts. Nothing works. There's genuinely just nothing you can do to leave. The only thing left for me to do is try and find a way to reckon with the fact that this is the hand i've been dealt.

I currently live in a small market town thats a bit out of the way and I'm trying to get my career off the ground. The only career-worthy jobs out here are trades, teaching, and care work, none of which i'm cut out for, and I don't want to live here anyway so I'm looking further afield.

I've been applying to roles nationwide, mostly UI/UX since it's relevant to my degree but also general office admin since I have some experience in that, and there's been several jobs that I'm 100% qualified for and just get ghosted from or immediately rejected, and I'm starting to think the postcode is the problem, even though I always make it clear in the applications I'm looking to relocate.

Is it just in my head or is this an actual problem?

So i'm relatively new to this. I use a mountain bike, the route I take is 5 miles and about half regular streets, 30% tarmac cycle paths, and 20% gravel/dirt paths. Even ignoring the gravel and dirt, the roads and cycle paths are so full of root bumps and potholes that making the journey without suspension and wide low pressure tyres seems downright stupid. Most of the roads in england are like this, even in london and the other cities. I don't know how people manage on standard road bikes

I haven't been to ireland since i was a kid but I think if you placed me at any random spot on either island I wouldn't be able to tell which was which without looking at a road sign or hearing someone talk

I have a trip booked with two legs, verona and pompeii. me and three friends need to get between the two on june 12th. Train apps are being a bit tempermental with that route, neither of the italian rail apps are giving any results for it and trainline is telling me to get a bus from naples, which would be a bit cumbersome with our luggage.

Any thoughts?

I've started gunning for jobs with the government and the NHS, I know the wages are lower but with the current state of the job market it seems like a safer bet for stable employment.

Most of my applications have been for entry level admin and support roles. I'm really enjoying not needing to put a CV through but the personal statements are a bit of a mystery to me. I try and tailor them to the job description as much as I can and hope for the best.

Any tips for making sure i get those right, as well as general advice for increasing my chances at getting those roles? thanks in advance!

I'm 22, I currently live in an utterly miserable post-industrial market town in the middle of nowhere. I'm trying to move out but hitting brick walls because the job market is terrible and the rent in most places is too high to even get a room in a houseshare unless you're on a higher wage.

I lived in manchester while I was a student and I loved it there but upon research and speaking to friends who still live there it just seems too expensive. London was in my sights too and is probably the dream city, but once again too expensive.

My priority is to be somewhere vibrant and busy with a lot to do and a lot of likeminded people around. I like museums, galleries, live music, nightlife, rock climbing, cycling. Where I currently live caters to none of those interests. I don't drive so walkability, cycleability, or good public transport is a must.

On the matter of work, I've got a degree in a subject I don't intend to work in since my time at uni absolutely crushed my passion for it, so I'm at a point where I'm not sure what my career will look like or what fields i'll go into. But in the meantime i've been applying to admin and support roles with the civil service, nhs, and medium-sized businesses. I've accepted that I'll probably be earning close to minimum wage, which is why the rent not being sky-high is important.

It's been exactly a year since I handed in my final university assignment, in a month it'll be a year since I handed the keys over and left my student house. hundreds of grad job applications, and a good handful of regular job applications later and im still here, wasting my 20s away, working 10hrs a week because thats the only job I could get

please tell me im not the only one

Not somewhere bad per-se but just so boring and nondescript that nobody ever talks about it.

Boston (Lincolnshire) comes to mind

don't currently work in the civil service, it's an entry level role and I'm completely qualified for it. Tracker on the website still just says "application recieved"

So if strong emotional responses weaken the signal (what happened when carol and manusos yell at them), the key is going to be getting a response from them strong enough to pull everyone out of it.

Yelling at them doesn't work, but what if being moved by a work of art is enough to snap them out of it.

Carol is an author. what if the show resolves with her writing something moving enough to snap everyone out of plurbification.