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My internet service has become excessively expensive with Virgin Media, so I have decided to leave them after 25 years. I see that most ISPs charge about the same and I wonder if any forum member could offer advice or warnings about who I should go with.
Hello
I have been with Sky Broadband for
over eight years. I pay £27.00 pm on
An eighteenth month contract.
I have never had any problems.
Bryan114 wrote on Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:39pm:
Hello
I have been with Sky Broadband for
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over eight years. I pay £27.00 pm on
An eighteenth month contract.
I have never had any problems.
Thanks for your reply Bryan. Are you on the Superfast (59 mb/s) or the Ultrafast (145 mb/s)? They are advertised at £25 and £28 respectively.
Kind regards,
Andrew
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AndrewB wrote on Tue Feb 14, 2023 7:16pm:
Thanks for your reply Bryan. Are you on the Superfast (59 mb/s) or the Ultrafast (145 mb/s)? They are advertised at £25 and £28 respectively.
Kind regards,
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Andrew
I am on 28. I must say I couldn't be happier. How is Swansea I used to love my holidays there.
Kind regards
Bryan
Bryan114 wrote on Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:06pm:
I am on 28. I must say I couldn't be happier. How is Swansea I used to love my holidays there.
Kind regards
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Bryan
Dear Bryan,
I've lived in Swansea for the last 55 years. (I'm 75). It continues to have the same good points and bad points as it has all my life. The bay and the nearby Gower bays are, of course, lovely. We started walking around during the pandemic and the habit has persisted. We live in the Sandfields area so we walk into town most days to buy food etc. Everything we need is reachable on foot, so we will probably be getting rid of our car soon. The roads are jammed with traffic all the time, so driving is no fun anyway. We started walking for pleasure during the Pandemic and we've kept the habit - sometimes along the beautiful seafront towards Mumbles and sometimes into the Marina which used to be dockland. We also live near to the bus station so we quite often catch a bus out to some random place and walk back. The inland routes from the bus station are all uphill, so it makes sense to bus out and walk back. If we get knackered we will hop on to any bus that's going in the right direction. That's the beauty of the bus pass - best thing we ever got!
The city itself is a bit run down now. The council seem to spend their money on ambitious and grotesque developments. The latest one is the "Digital Arena". It cost £135 million and it looks awful. It is also too small to attract really big acts. Meanwhile buildings all through the city are empty and rotting, The only supermarket we can reach easily is the Marina Tesco. Many of the older Swansea shops have closed down, replaced by barbers, vape shops, pawn shops and charity shops. I suppose that is true for many places lately.
Having said all this, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. It's a salty, cosmopolitan city with lots of interesting characters (nutcases, many of them, haha) and life is never dull.
Kind regards,
Andrew
AndrewB wrote on Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:45am:
Dear Bryan,
I've lived in Swansea for the last 55 years. (I'm 75). It continues to have the same good points and bad points as it has all my life. The bay and the nearby Gower bays are, of course, lovely. We started walking around during the pandemic and the habit has persisted. We live in the Sandfields are...
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...a so we walk into town most days to buy food etc. Everything we need is reachable on foot, so we will probably be getting rid of our car soon. The roads are jammed with traffic all the time, so driving is no fun anyway. We started walking for pleasure during the Pandemic and we've kept the habit - sometimes along the beautiful seafront towards Mumbles and sometimes into the Marina which used to be dockland. We also live near to the bus station so we quite often catch a bus out to some random place and walk back. The inland routes from the bus station are all uphill, so it makes sense to bus out and walk back. If we get knackered we will hop on to any bus that's going in the right direction. That's the beauty of the bus pass - best thing we ever got!
The city itself is a bit run down now. The council seem to spend their money on ambitious and grotesque developments. The latest one is the "Digital Arena". It cost £135 million and it looks awful. It is also too small to attract really big acts. Meanwhile buildings all through the city are empty and rotting, The only supermarket we can reach easily is the Marina Tesco. Many of the older Swansea shops have closed down, replaced by barbers, vape shops, pawn shops and charity shops. I suppose that is true for many places lately.
Having said all this, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. It's a salty, cosmopolitan city with lots of interesting characters (nutcases, many of them, haha) and life is never dull.
Kind regards,
Andrew
Hello Andrew
Thank you for your wonderful Letter. Originally I am from Bargoed but we moved to Kent..when l was very small. I moved to Doncaster work related and have lived here ever since. Like most places it has gone downhill.
I am disabled and rely on my mobility scooters, one was for travel the other for local use. Now at 72 my only hobbies are computers and watch my football club Tottenham Hotspurs. My only claim to fame is having poems published.
It will be glad to get out on a nice summer days. On my travels in summer are more user friendly especially white van man letting me over on busy duer days.
Well Andrew time marching and won't belong till tea time. Stay safe and take care.
Kindest regards
Bryan
