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My company's hinting at job prospects around Leeds / Yorkshire. Due to some other aspects of life coming together, I'm quite open to the idea, as is my wife, particularly after seeing what we could get up there for the price of a one bed flat here in Putney.

Any areas to look at / avoid?

Ideally I want to nail down a few areas and then start doing some research followed by a long weekend up there to have a mooch.

Cheers :)
 
Diddums said:
My company's hinting at job prospects around Leeds / Yorkshire. Due to some other aspects of life coming together, I'm quite open to the idea, as is my wife, particularly after seeing what we could get up there for the price of a one bed flat here in Putney.

Any areas to look at / avoid?

Ideally I want to nail down a few areas and then start doing some research followed by a long weekend up there to have a mooch.

Cheers :)
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Yeah, avoid Leeds/Yorkshire.


Nah, Yorkshire is a really big place - you might need to narrow it down a little bit more!
 
Harrogate, Bingley, Ilkley from memory, been a few years mind you.

York I hear is lovely, probably expensive though.

I think Halifax is supposed to be ok, and I know someone who lives in Wakefield and thinks it ok there.

There will be loads of smaller towns around that area though, need to go have a look really.

Dewsbury is a **** hole btw.
 
Diddums said:
Can you suggest any? Looking to have a proper tour of the place. Cheers :)
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Beverley and some of the villages nearby are lovely. Head to the east a little more and there are some nice coastal towns and villages but they're a bit remote.

York proper is nice. Could merrily live there but like any city has its crap holes too.

Leeds/doncaster/Bradford/Sheffield basically form a rectangle of urbanisation. Some nicer individual areas but generally misses the gems that you can find elsewhere. Really though, Yorkshire is big so you're going to want to have a bit more of a pointer of where you'll be working and how often you'll be needed on site etc.

Or sack it all off and come up here to the proper north.
 
Pick a nice suburb or commuter village, spend on the top end of your budget, and you automatically avoid chavs and students.
The Victorian inner city terraced houses look like good value but you can end up with flats next door and/or traffic, and they're a nightmare to heat.
Public transport up north blows compared to London, so expect to drive everywhere.
Northerners will randomly start talking to you because they're friendly, they aren't trying to mug you, have a conversation.
 
Depending on where your office is in Leeds, the train service on Airedale line isn't actually that bad - relatively frequent trains from Ilkley or Bingley to Leeds (and Bradford). Ilkley and Burley in Wharfedale are more well-to-do areas. Guiseley's not bad either I don't think. Bingley, Saltaire, Baildon etc are fine too I think. Further away Harrogate is probably even more well-to-do than Ilkley.

I think in general places South of Leeds and Bradford aren't so nice.

Main places to stay away from imo would be central Bradford and Manningham area, and central Leeds, I especially remember Beeston having a bad rep.
 
Leeds is the far south of Yorkshire. As a child I spent many happy summers with my grandmother in north Yorkshire, up around Richmond, Darlington, Barnard Castle, etc.
 
I live in beverley and its nice, having driven to Leeds a few times, I find it a nightmare to navigate. Didn't realise Driffield was becoming a city though, surely its small than bev.
 
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