Buzz·Posted on 17 Jun 201525 Things You'll Only Know If You Grew Up In A Small British TownYour teenage years = drinking warm Strongbow in a park.by Alex FinnisBuzzFeed Staff, UKLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. A lot of your teenage years were spent drinking tinnies and dicking about in the park. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 2. There was an intense and very real rivalry between the local schools. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 3. You can walk through the town centre and recognise people you’ve never actually met. View this post on You've probably made up nicknames for the more extravagant ones. 4. You get really excited when you meet someone and find out they’re from near you. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 5. And then spend ages finding out who your mutual friends are. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 6. A pub changing hands or a shop closing down was always a massive deal. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 7. If you wanted to go clothes shopping, you had to travel to the nearest city. 8. And making that trip always felt super exciting. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 9. You and your friends have dated a lot of the same people. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 10. If something scandalous happened, it only took a couple of days before basically the whole town knew the gossip. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 11. You know every single pub in your town, and more importantly, whether they’re worth going to. 12. But you probably settled on a local years ago, and feel kind of bad when you stray. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 13. Describing where you’re from when you’re abroad is basically impossible. 14. If you've moved away, you silently judge the people who stayed. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 15. And if you've stayed, you vocally judge the “traitors” who moved away. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 16. You spent a lot of time hanging out in shops like Virgin Megastore and HMV, staring at discount DVDs. 17. There was never greater uproar than when people discovered plans to build houses on “our lovely, green fields”. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 18. The local newspaper was always mind-numbingly boring. 19. Except when it wasn’t. 20. You have a strong allegiance to a particular supermarket chain, which is based largely on whichever was nearest to your house. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 21. One of the strongest memories from your childhood is boredom. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 22. And you’d always complain to your mum that there was “nothing to do here”. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 23. You like to joke about how shitty your town is. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 24. But someone else slagging it off? Nope, that’s not on. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 25. Because it’s not just a shitty town, it’s your shitty town – and you’ll always be happy to go back.