My parents live in Guildford so I visit a couple of times each year. For the first ten years or so after I left it stayed fairly nice. Now it has changed. People look scruffy. Restuarants that used to be a bit up market have been replaced with generic chains. There are a lot of empty shops. It's starting to remind me of Doncaster. Yes there are lots of shiny cars but I don't like driving on those roads. I spoke to my mum yesterday - not my dad
- and she told me that my dad's hearing aids have failed and that he has been told that it will be 4 months before he will get an appointment for new ones.