Don't be listening to these southerners Ice, lol. I am about 6 miles(ish) from stockton and was there this morning taking my son to guitar practice.

Prices for pc hardware, software are the same all over the country so it'll be no cheaper in the north but obviously be more enjoyable not being in the south :-)

Sod those Northern Monkies!

London is the place to go.

And yes Mace, I'm 100% London/cockney/west 'am/ICF bad mofo....

LOL

Andy.

...so Andy has the greatest admiration and respect for his team's close neighbours Millwall FC!

Hehe.

Edit: Close neighbours prior to 1910!

LMAO

Don't get me started.

I've been in run-ins with Millwall fans that are nothing short of civil war!
Those were the days........

Strangely ironic how Ice is a Filipino that's going to England, and I'm a Londoner who WAS going to the Philippines......

Ahhhh, the North-South divide. You can't really beat London; it's got pretty much everything.
In fact the South in general has most of the good stuff... it starts to get worse once you're past Watford Gap...

But yeah, computer/software/hardware stuff is pretty even throughout the UK. Fuel prices tend to be a couple pence lower in cities than say in the countryside, and if you're going over with a group of other chaps, the chances are that legal issues ought to be dealt with, as they will already have a framework for that.

Listen to Gopher!

LOL

Oi!!! *takes off glove and slaps Gopher across the face* Sir, if I can call you such, I challenge you to a duel! Choose your vegetable and meet me at dawn by the chippy down the road!

I will happily accept your challenge!...

...as long as you pay for the journey!

On the subject of The Great Dish, gawd I am dying for a fish'n'chips. I haven't had one since... July?? For a country full with fish, I don't get why no-one has set up a chippy up here. I wonder if there is one in Tromsø...

so what do Norwegians do with all that fish if they don't deep fry it & stick it with some potatoes & peas?