#area guides

[unveiling-bristols-havens]

Unveiling Bristol's Treasured Havens: An In-Depth Handbook for Homebuyers

Nestled in the captivating southwest of England, Bristol stands as a city seamlessly blending a storied history with a vibrant modern lifestyle. Boasting diverse neighbourhoods and distinctive character, Bristol has emerged as a sought-after destination for those seeking to own property. 

In this comprehensive guide, we'll dive into the allure and individuality of select Bristol suburbs, providing valuable insights for potential homebuyers. Whether you're enchanted by the sophistication of Clifton, drawn to the cultural dynamism of Easton, or tempted by the historical charm of Old Market, Bristol has a unique gem for every discerning buyer.

Clifton: Heritage Embraced in Elegance

For those in pursuit of a seamless blend of historical allure and upscale living, Clifton stands out as one of Bristol's premier neighbourhoods. The iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge, a marvel designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, serves as a majestic backdrop to this affluent suburb.

Prospective homebuyers in Clifton can anticipate not only elegant Georgian and Victorian architecture but also picturesque streets and easy access to the Clifton Village shopping area. Clifton estate agents specialise in presenting the creme de la creme of properties, ranging from spacious townhouses to luxurious apartments, offering stunning views of the Avon Gorge.

Easton: Celebrating Diversity, Shaping Culture

Reflecting Bristol's multicultural essence, Easton emerges as a vibrant and eclectic neighbourhood that encapsulates the city's diversity. The St. Mark's Road area serves as a cultural epicentre, boasting independent shops, diverse eateries, and an undeniably lively atmosphere.

Homebuyers drawn to Easton's charm can explore a diverse array of housing options, from traditional Victorian terraces to modern apartments. Well-versed in the unique character of this community, Easton estate agents assist buyers in finding a home that mirrors the neighbourhood's rich tapestry of cultures.

Southville: Bristol's Canvas of Artistry

Renowned for its artistic flair and proximity to the harborside, Southville has evolved into a sanctuary for creatives and professionals alike. The bustling North Street, the heart of Southville, features independent shops, cafes, and galleries, creating a dynamic environment for residents.

Navigating the property market in this trendy suburb, Southville estate agents provide prospective buyers with insights into prime locations for waterfront living, modern apartments, and charming terraced houses.

Knowle: Suburban Tranquility with Family Appeal

For those yearning for a serene suburban escape with a strong sense of community, Knowle proves to be an ideal fit. This family-friendly suburb boasts an array of schools, parks, and recreational facilities.

Knowle estate agents guide buyers through diverse housing options, including spacious family homes and cosy bungalows. With its green spaces and exceptional local amenities, Knowle stands as a perfect choice for those looking to establish roots in a welcoming community.

Henleaze: Tranquil Residences in Bristol's North

Nestled in Bristol's northern expanse, Henleaze offers a peaceful escape while ensuring easy access to the city centre. Characterised by tree-lined streets and proximity to the expansive Durdham Downs, Henleaze appeals to those seeking a tranquil residential atmosphere.

Specialising in showcasing properties aligned with the suburb's serene lifestyle, Henleaze estate agents offer options ranging from period homes to modern residences. Quality schools and community-focused amenities further enhance the appeal of this charming neighbourhood.

Bedminster: Urban Pulse with a Bohemian Beat

Capturing the essence of Bristol's bohemian energy and urban lifestyle, Bedminster emerges as a hotspot for creativity and community engagement. The vibrant North Street, a focal point of Bedminster, boasts street art, independent shops, and trendy cafes.

Estate agents in Bedminster, well-acquainted with the eclectic nature of the area, guide buyers through a spectrum of housing options, from converted warehouses to contemporary flats.

Bishopston: A Suburban Retreat with a Trendy Twist

Striking a balance between suburban tranquillity and a trendy, youthful atmosphere, Bishopston stands out. Gloucester Road, known for its independent shops and vibrant street scene, serves as a central feature of this diverse neighbourhood.

Bishopston estate agents cater to buyers seeking a blend of period properties and modern developments. With its proximity to green spaces and community events, Bishopston offers a welcoming environment for families and young professionals alike.

Old Market: Bridging the Past and Present

Old Market, with its historic architecture and recent regeneration efforts, represents the convergence of Bristol's past and future. Estate agents in Old Market can assist buyers in exploring a diverse range of properties, from refurbished warehouses to contemporary apartments.

The area's historical significance, coupled with its emerging cultural scene, makes Old Market an enticing prospect for those eager to invest in Bristol's evolving landscape.

Embarking on the exciting journey of purchasing property in Bristol offers a unique opportunity to discover the perfect home tailored to your lifestyle and preferences. Whether captivated by the historic allure of Clifton, the cultural diversity of Easton, or the urban vibrancy of Bedminster, Bristol's suburbs cater to every discerning buyer. 

Rely on the expertise of local Bristol estate agents to navigate the process, ensuring that your dream home in Bristol becomes a tangible reality.

[exemplarybehaviour]

I keep seeing people say things like this: "You know what does matter to the politicians, even more than us voting for them? When we DON’T vote for them."

No, absolutely not. This is not how the US electoral system works. Under the current system, only votes cast matter. Only people who are going to vote matter to campaign strategists.

The last election, less than 20% of my district voted. The 80+% of the people who abstained? Their opinions on the results don't matter. The system does not take them into account. They gave up their right to have a say. Some strategists for future elections might look at the numbers and say: wow, why didn't those people vote, and can we GET them to vote? But ultimately, the system is designed so that if only one person votes, that person gets to decide the winning candidate. You get the representatives voted on by whoever shows up to the poll.

If a candidate thinks you cannot be swayed to vote (because, for example, you've joined a weird anti-voting movement), then ther campaign is not going to cater to you. Their strategists won't care about you. Someone in the next cycle might try for your vote, but you are giving up your right to have a voice for this cycle.... and voters with a history of voting are more promising targets for any campaign strategies.

(Your actual vote is a secret, but they DO monitor that you have voted. This will affect how much annoying campaigning materials you will get, because they do target active voters.)

Also, "if I don't vote, that will make a point!" is just a stupid take in general. If you don't vote in November, and then Trump wins, what have you really done? Do you think the Biden admin will care, as they're leaving office? Do you think the Trump admin will care, as they enter office? Republicans want fewer people to vote! Your abstention will be nothing but a footnote in history about how Trump won.

[underwhelmingalchemist]

I have spent far too long making this

[adaginy]

The Big Guide to Humans: Home Planet

Humans come from a small, rocky planet, called Terra or Earth or some other translation of "dirt," where they lived on the land surface despite the planet being mostly covered (area and volume) by water. They do, however, measure temperature in a scale based approximately on the freezing and boiling points of water (at their average atmospheric pressure), set to 0 and 100. As with "years" (see lifespan and development), your local human can probably tell you the conversion to local measurements, if the knowledge is not in your local storage and the numbers are not being converted automatically by your translation dock. The planet's rotational axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane, resulting in "seasons," a predictable progression of local temperatures between local lows to local highs and back over the course of an orbit, despite its nearly round trajectory. This is in addition to the smaller temperature changes of the day/night cycle. Terran weather temperatures range from -90, below the freezing point of radon, to 60, nearly the boiling point of bromine, though humans mostly live where the weather over the course of a year ranges between -20 to 45.

Humans infamously breathe oxygen, but Terra's atmosphere is actually mostly nitrogen. The 23% oxygen concentration is enough for fires to sustain easily, assuming fuel and initial ignition, but low enough that fires smother nearly immediately when fully covered. Terra's rotation and heat from Sol combine to cause a predictable pattern of convection known as prevailing winds. Winds are often strong enough to move light objects without causing damage, not uncommonly strong enough to make it difficult for humans to move against it, or stronger, and sometimes strong enough to cause damage to buildings. This is in addition to regional threats of "extreme" winds, most notably tornadoes (fast-moving, localized funnels of winds strong enough rip buildings apart and fling heavy objects) and cyclones (weaker than a tornado, but traveling slowly and raining so copiously that shelters are also damaged by water).

Having such copious rain that buildings are damaged can happen outside of a cyclone, as well. While humans can swim surprisingly well for a non-liquid-dwelling species, this water has usually picked up so many contaminants that it is capable of overwhelming a human's immune system if it enters their body via their mouth or damaged skin.

Alternately, little or no water may fall on an area that does not usually experience water scarcity. The resulting "drought" kills plants and animals that cannot be moved. This is less predictable, but takes multiple years to come into effect. A vegetated area facing drought, however, is at particular risk for a wild fire, a fire that becomes too large and fast-moving to be smothered. Areas as big as residential ships can burned before the fire runs out of fuel or is able to be drenched.

Terra's planetary surface is made up of several pieces of "crust" floating on top of its liquid center. At the edges of these pieces, or at cracks in the pieces, huge pieces of crust can be forced upward or buckle under the pressure. Done slowly, so slowly no one notices, this produces mountains. Done quickly, it produces "earth quakes." Some earth quakes can only be sensed by sensors, but others cause buildings to shake apart. Humans know where these edges are and, instead of not building there, they design buildings that are able to resist being shaken. If the locus of the shaking is near or under the ocean, it can cause a fast-moving, towering wave called a "tsunami." An average tsunami is capable of obliterating buildings when it reaches shore, and then sucking any survivors into the ocean when it recedes (with strength far past even the best human swimmers). As with earth quakes, humans design buildings to survive being struck by this wall of water. The same edges and cracks also produce volcanoes, places where the earth's liquid center oozes or bursts out of the ground. This liquid will be at temperatures of 700 or more, above the melting temperature of radium and on past the the melting temperature of gold. It can cause fires when it touches things in addition to being so heavy and/or voluminous that it covers items in its path. Humans generally do not build very close to volcanoes that are frequently or explosively active. However, if a volcano is only likely to erupt once or twice within a human lifespan, or tends to ooze rather than burst, they will simply use several sensors to know when it will happen so they can get out of the way. Because they all originate in the same geological source, it is common to have two of these crack-based issues at once and not unusual to have all three.

Sometimes, rain falls in tiny frozen pieces, covering the ground in a layer of ice chips. Sometimes it falls in large rocks of ice, breaking and shattering what it strikes. Sometimes the temperature is anomalously hot or cold in places where the wildlife and human dwellings are not adapted to those temperatures. Sometimes massive sparks of electricity shoot from the sky to the ground. Sometimes the side of a mountain — or the ice chips piled on the side of the mountain — will fall off and slide down, burying and crushing everything in the way. Sometimes erosion under the surface will cause the surface to give way, leaving a hole in the ground big enough to swallow a person or a building. Sometimes the liquid inside Terra doesn't burst through the surface, but super-heats water until it does. While none of these features are unique to Terra, even among inhabited planets, it is uncommon for an inhabited planet to have so many of these features and it is nearly unique among humans to choose to live in afflicted areas. It can be helpful to understand, when one is wondering why humans and other life from their planet are "like that," that life only evolved on Terra once* and then experienced a burst of population up to and beyond local carrying capacities. Every species, including the plants, shares a common ancestor, and every creature that was ever born (hatched, sprouted, divided, etc) faced immediate competition from other, similar creatures. The ability to run faster, eat weirder, live hardier, spread farther provided an immediate benefit. Furthermore, in addition to the horrors described in this chapter of this guide, in Terra's planetary history there are multiple near-extinction-level events — new chemosynthetic species producing upheavals in the atmospheric gas balance, an asteroid strike, massive volcanic eruptions choking the air with ash and blocking energy from Sol — that further pressed evolution. Terra, truly, has earned its reputation as a death world — but less so for the life that has formed there.

*there is a long-standing idea that cephalopods may have originated separately, but this is really only taken seriously by the Chiparsen, who used to colonize via panspermia. While the Unified Government no longer accepts this as a valid territorial claim, the Chiparsen still hope to prove relation in order to put forth a diplomatic demand that Terrans remove cephalopods from their diet.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - Depths of Darkness

[best-fictional-band-poll]

Two super-destructive bands in this poll! Disaster Area are famous for concerts that devastate ecosystems, and are best enjoyed from the safety of a bunker several kilometers away. Highlights of their shows include crashing spaceships into suns!

Grifters Bone are bloodier on a smaller scale, driving their audiences to violent madness and causing everyone in the venue to rip each other apart. They're famous for No Survivors!

[baeshijima]

at least he is self-aware

[solar-sunnyside-up]

hey, something i've been struggling with recently is i've been struggling with "finding my people" because i'm a minority in my hometown, and a lot of people... aren't. they don't understand me, and often when i try to get them to understand they seem like they fall back into the old systems they were traumatized with (elitism, classism ect.,). 1/2 -solidarity anon

Im gunna say this at the top, this is so rough and im so sorry you gotta go through this sweetie. We are so isolated and filtered into categories within our current system in order to keep that isolation and to fight solidarity and unity. Now I cannot know for 100% sure what your going through or the extend your suffering. But will say I am from and currently still live in a oil loving, god fearing, anti-LGBT, and very racist city while i was raised wiccan by a poly core family and all my gay aunts/uncles and have been dreaming of an earthship my whole life plus every summer id be stuck in an even more harsh farming community that was so small they gotntheir first street light when i was 9 and the chruch is also town hall (mayor works in a wing off of the building). So there is at least some overlap in the experiences your having.

But that being said, how I got weirdly connected to people and involved in so many projects and stuff might not work for you.

Personally? I just yelled and yelled about the injustice of the system at work, about cool forestry projects and people buying ghost towns to start up Co-loving villages. Sharing discworld and different philosophers with coworkers backed up by their fave hobby. About how terrible the conservative politics are. About how cool transit could be if we funded it. About community art projects and how cool solar glass would make things look. About drags shows and events and did you know there is A SOUP FESTIVAL? I'm autistic and have only really interacted my whole childhood with friends with ADHD so my brain is weird and won't shut up once it starts going.

As a result of my ramblings, I have gotten a lot of responses mostly ones that are positive since if they didn't agree with my absurdist philosophy ramblings or solar project ideas they'd just leave the coffee shop. If they enjoyed it, say they want to join a community garden/event or if someone was as stoked as I was about again UNLIMITED TASTINGS SOUP FESTIVAL than we'd chat about that. The thing is a lot of these things have overlap. Someone who wants to convert their lawn into a pollinators habitate prob also likes little libraries and as a result prob also likes the idea of dark sky street lights. And down the rabbit hole you go.

That being said... my best actual advice is 2 pronged.

RESEARCH and REACH OUT

I personally have done years worth of research on my city. What local events and politics are happening? Even in rural places there is at least garderns, there's engineers, there's usually a LGBT focused club. And from these spaces, you can build a network. Doing research I found out about 5 different organizations in my city (most of which was founded 40 yrs ago??) That where sustainability focused. Doing research made me realize how cool community associations could be and how I could help mine out. It also gives you all those ideas for convos.

Second, I reached out to those groups about weird ideas I had, about if I could hang up posters for them in my local area, if I could buy groups worth of tickets in advance, and than also reaching out to the ppl I already talked to and had these ppl interact. My fave example of this is T. T is an engineer who built a fully functioning solar car during his degree program but specializes in hydroponics (how we ended up talking was over plants) he than gets shown my fave farm near by and now he's building the farms hydro system and Seedling house. Writing in to newsletter ppl and showing off weird layout design. This is ultimately very anxiety indusing. What if I'm bothering them? Why should I be spamming them like this? But the secret here is-

No one will ever be mad about you showing interest in their interest once you find those ppl. They want the interaction just as much as you do.

[twinsoftriumph]

SKY KID STUCK

[ultrainfinitepit]

25. The Lost

This one was tough but I settled on Atlas as the Lost. For much of his story, Atlas is struggling to find his way in the world. The things he wants to do don't seem to be what people need from him. He runs away from home and is literally lost for a while. I'd like to think Atlas will find his perfect fit someday, but at the moment even at his happiest he doesn't have everything he wants.

[angrybatart]

Oh, to have a giant lily pad umbrella and someone to walk with under it during these rainy times.

Based on a screenshot I took today.

[themanwhomadeamonster]

ME WHEN VIDEO GAME SERIES CALL BACK TO PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS BY REFERENCING PAST MUSICAL THEMES AND MOTIFS EXCEPT IT'S INCOMPLETE OR OTHERWISE ARRANGED DIFFERENTLY REMINDING US THAT IT'S THE SAME SETTING BUT WILL NEVER AGAIN BE EXACT SAME STORY

[foulbearobservation]

ok I am digging elden ring but I wish there was like. a spoiler free guide on where to get shit. I feel like I'm running around with a set of werewolf claws and a dream. which I know is the experience!!! it's just not my favorite way to play a game.

[catstronaut-one]

The restaurant at the end of the universe

[fictionadventurer]

All the tour groups in Springfield should be very proud of me for how well I refrained from sharing all my fascinating Lincoln facts.

[bp-best-froggo]

"Gravel Ahead" was a very good event. So cool of HG to give Gravel her own event and a mechanic that revolves around using Gravel. Gravel has given a lot of kissies. 10/10 would Gravel again.