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Liverpool
Liverpool is a maverick city, completely unlike any of its
neighbors. It has the sea air of a large estuary and its own
irrepressible spirit. It is a relatively new city, rising
meteorically in the 19th C and facing towards the dizzy
horizons of the New World. It is not really an English city
but made up of Scots, Welsh, Irish and economic migrants
from around the world. The waterfront is like a combination
of New York and Shanghai. At its height it generated
incredible wealth, often by chequered means. One is
completely surprised and in awe of the amount of palatial
like buildings. For several decades the city was severely
devastated by the sharp decline of its docks and many of its
grand buildings lay empty as if part of some strange
Salvador Dali painting. However regeneration is apace and
many opportunities are available in this grand city. In some
ways Liverpool is a tough place but it also very friendly
and its bars really rock, some entirely to 60's music which
it did so much to create.
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