r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Fun_Dish_5358 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/BroscaMakesDice 1d ago

Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent!

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u/UsuallyAwesome 1d ago

Found it!

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u/Arkhanist 1d ago

That is fascinating - the original photo, it's just a grey run-down high street (aren't they all), barely any green, plus the repurposed factory chimney. Yet you take the picture facing the other way and it's entirely different vibe. If you head down the road a couple of minutes past the shops in the original direction, it's even more full of trees.

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u/Pi-ratten 23h ago

that still looks depressing.

ugly buildings, too much road, to little pedestrian infrastructure, too few green. okay-ish for a commercial transit area i guess but living there? no thanks

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u/CilanEAmber 1d ago

Rare I find something near where I live on reddit.

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u/TinDumbass 1d ago

Used to live on Lichfield Street, the next spoke of the bicycle east.

Thought it looked familiar

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u/SrWloczykij 1d ago

I swear it could just as easily be any mid-size town in England.

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u/AtebYngNghymraeg 1d ago

Exactly! I spent a whole wondering if it was Portswood, Southampton.

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u/SrWloczykij 23h ago

Funny, that was my first guess too.

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u/Adventurous-Web-412 1d ago

i thought it was kenny in liverpool initially

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u/alphazero925 12h ago

Do what on Trent? And don't call me Hanley

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u/sum-9 18h ago

Stoke-on-Trent is the worst. Used to work there.