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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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