I work there ... but live somewhere else.
It has its own weather system that, to this day, still defies the best efforts of the Met Office. A local bookie once took bets on whether it would rain tomorrow in Chorley, but nowhere else within 100 miles - he took a lot of bets and closed (penniless) two days later.
Like most towns of its size it has good and bad areas.
South East - Mainly small terraced houses, the Asian quarter.
North East - Ex-council estates and terraces, the Trisha/Kilroy quarter.
South West - Ex-council estates and terraces, the prison visit quarter.
North West - Semi's, detatched & bungalows close to Ashton Park - the Daily Mail quarter.
If sprawling suburbia is your thing, they're building hundreds of houses on the site of the old munitions works at Euxton, just NW of Chorley. Probably cheap and only a slight chance of an unexploded bomb being set off by the barbeque
Once you get away from the town limits, though, things are generally less grim and there's some loveley places out towards Anglezarke and Rivington.
If, however, getting pi55ed and fighting in the streets on a Saturday night is your cup of tea, then a chap in the office has got a town centre flat for rent that's within crawling distance of the high street and only a 4 quid taxi ride from A&E.
If you go to the baker's, always ask for an Eccles Cake and if challenged, explain you don't want an inferior knock-off product when they try to sell you a Chorley Cake. Don't expect to find any butter in a Butter Pie.
[Edited by stu200 - 11/11/2003 5:32:29 PM]