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Yep, JL has gone pulling power, totally accept that. If it was here I would go in on the odd occasion I would reckon, just for a browse.

Where have I said people with spending power are snobs? :whistle:

When we went on the Saturday, we went to one place and when we couldn't get in, we rang the other 13 places. We didn't queue anywhere.

Well that's where we're different. We eat out all the time. My parents are now 85 and don't like cooking, so we eat out just about once every week or so.

Merely pointing out it is like a needle in a haystack guess. Bound sure to be someone we have probably never ever heard of.

It puts me off too if it's too busy, but someone much earlier in the thread, a few weeks back, was talking about the city centre being dead and it clearly isn't. I think I mentioned way back too, that we tried 14 restaurants on a Saturday at 5.45 and couldn't get a table at any of them. All full.

Strikes me as snobbery that. As I said much earlier, the food side of JL is great, but the rest of the store I find very over priced for the most part. In saying that though, I would be happy if John Lewis came here. My point about the students was that it doesn't matter whether you or I are...

Lol. What gangs of Kosovans? :claping hands: Last time I heard that said it was about 15 years ago and someone I worked with said he was attacked by a gang of Kosovans and people were saying there were Kosovans all over the city. I worked as a volunteer at the refugee centre in Coventry at...

Oh and on a sidenote, Coventry city centre seems to be bustling for the most part on many shopping days. I went a week last Sunday and really struggled to find a parking space anywhere. I got the very last space in one large car park and there were a whole line of cars queuing behind me. Just...

Just saying if they were a common everyday experience, then surely I would be encountering them more. :D

Nope. Disagree with you there. If I go all the time and hardly ever see anyone and you don't go much at all and do, I would say therefore that they are rarer than you perceive them to be. :whistle:

I know it doesn't mean they are not there, Nick, but I am in town at least 3 times a week. By all accounts you have said you hardly ever go, so I would say my experiences hold greater relevance. I agree about buying online, but then why go shopping to any town anywhere then?

No, it was all students, both Coventry University and Warwick and any at colleges etc. The headline was Students who live in Coventry tell us why it deserves its place alongside London, Paris and Sydney. Not saying I at all agree with that at all, but, that's the headline. Guardian newspaper...

I reckon a player. Either a keeper, defender, midfielder, or striker.

It's a positive for the city! It's not about me and you.

There is cheap parking to be found, Nick. I find Coventry a lot, lot cheaper than many other towns and cities I have to park in. On a Sunday for instance, you can park for 4 hours for 50p. I would consider that very, very cheap indeed. You can park for 2 hours on any other day, for £1.80. I...

It irks me Grendel, that Coventry has been voted in the top 50 cities for students in the entire world. That HAS to be a positive. Whether you are a student or not is not relevant in this scenario. That IS a positive for the city. I am not a student either, but it is great for this shithole of...

Exactly Macca! It's ridiculous to talk of Coventry in such a bad light when there are so many towns and cities that are worse. i absolutely adored Liverpool, but up there some of their buskers had to have chains round their buckets, that were wrapped round their ankles, to stop them being...

Yeah, it's always good to put a negative spin on something positive.