Moving oop norf
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@Diddums take a look around Harrogate and the surrounding towns & villages, a few of my relatives live around there and it's lovely. There is a railway line called the Harrogate line which runs from York to Leeds, few of the places along there inc Harrogate are really nice.
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Good views on the commute if you take the train to work:
LOL I know someone who did one of their early rotations as a medical student or junior doctor in a hospital near there, story has it that occasionally medical notes contained "NFD" short for "normal for Dewsbury" as some of the locals who came in were presenting with a whole mess of issues, it was essentially shorthand for:
"don't get too distracted with this one, lots of them are a bit like that, just treat the thing they've come in for or you'll be there all day, the rest of it is really not unusual for this area".
Harrogate line - Wikipedia
Good views on the commute if you take the train to work:
LOL I know someone who did one of their early rotations as a medical student or junior doctor in a hospital near there, story has it that occasionally medical notes contained "NFD" short for "normal for Dewsbury" as some of the locals who came in were presenting with a whole mess of issues, it was essentially shorthand for:
"don't get too distracted with this one, lots of them are a bit like that, just treat the thing they've come in for or you'll be there all day, the rest of it is really not unusual for this area".
I was born in Dewsbury,yep it's a hole, m&s was replaced by Poundland and charity shops a long time ago , Wakefield is where I learned to windsurf at pugneys also days out around the sculpture park and new miller damn nearby
Can you suggest any? Looking to have a proper tour of the place. Cheers
Anywhere North of Leeds is nice, just avoid the rough areas of Leeds, Yorkshire is generally a friendly area, there aren't warzones like in London or places you'd hard avoid.
Maybe look at Horbury.
I spent a lot of time in Bradistan as a kid.
As someone once said to me, it's actually quite an attractive city in many respects and I agree.
There are plenty of industrial age architecture, and features, canals etc. Also the way the city is built on a hill in a sort of valley, with nice countryside surrounding.
It's about as polar opposite to say somewhere like Milton Keynes for example.
Unfortunately it's gone a certain way, if you get what I'm saying, and the local inhabitants have turned it into a dump.
As someone once said to me, it's actually quite an attractive city in many respects and I agree.
There are plenty of industrial age architecture, and features, canals etc. Also the way the city is built on a hill in a sort of valley, with nice countryside surrounding.
It's about as polar opposite to say somewhere like Milton Keynes for example.
Unfortunately it's gone a certain way, if you get what I'm saying, and the local inhabitants have turned it into a dump.
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Knaresborough.@Diddums take a look around Harrogate and the surrounding towns & villages, a few of my relatives live around there and it's lovely. There is a railway line called the Harrogate line which runs from York to Leeds, few of the places along there inc Harrogate are really nice.
Harrogate line - Wikipedia
Good views on the commute if you take the train to work:
LOL I know someone who did one of their early rotations as a medical student or junior doctor in a hospital near there, story has it that occasionally medical notes contained "NFD" short for "normal for Dewsbury" as some of the locals who came in were presenting with a whole mess of issues, it was essentially shorthand for:
"don't get too distracted with this one, lots of them are a bit like that, just treat the thing they've come in for or you'll be there all day, the rest of it is really not unusual for this area".
Nice town to visit.
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Nah still a southernor
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I live there, I concur
Cheers for all the replies, very much appreciated 
Newcastle isn't on the menu sadly, for, and I quote "I couldn't live with that accent every day"
Yes, my wife will write off an entire city based on an accent. You can imagine how hard this is then.
Newcastle isn't on the menu sadly, for, and I quote "I couldn't live with that accent every day"
Yes, my wife will write off an entire city based on an accent. You can imagine how hard this is then.
Considering a similar thing myself - looking at all sorts of places on the outskirts of Doncaster, Sheffield, Huddersfield etc. I currently live in Fareham and the property I could get up there for equivalent money down here is insane. Quite fancy a change, as does my wife and being north/midlands area is more beneficial for my work anyway.
My friend lives in Ripon, I've been over a few times and it's nice, but the transport links from Ripon to anywhere but Harrogate just aren't very good.
The more I look in to this, the more I'm wondering why I live in London. Don't get me wrong, I love the place but I'm getting older and don't go to as many bars / clubs as I used to so I'm getting to the point where it's wasted on me.
We're currently paying £1575 for a 2 bed flat in Putney, before bills. I could rent a 4 bed detached house oop norf for that money!
I'm gonna start perusing our vacancy list a bit more, would love to buy before the year is out.
We're currently paying £1575 for a 2 bed flat in Putney, before bills. I could rent a 4 bed detached house oop norf for that money!
I'm gonna start perusing our vacancy list a bit more, would love to buy before the year is out.
I always enjoy visiting London, nowhere else compares in the UK for liveliness. I have a few friends and relatives there who I see semi-regularly. However, I always leave thinking that was a great weekend, but couldn't for one moment fathom living there. Different strokes for different folks as always.
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Cheers for all the replies, very much appreciated
Newcastle isn't on the menu sadly, for, and I quote "I couldn't live with that accent every day"
Yes, my wife will write off an entire city based on an accent. You can imagine how hard this is then.
I started my training as a Merchant Navy engineering officer back in 2011 in South Shields, and until that day I hadn’t been that far north east. For the 1st 2 weeks or so I couldn’t understand a word the locals were saying, and at the end of my training 3 years later there was a guy in my class from Shields that I still couldn’t understand. I had to get one of the local guys with a milder accent to translate for me.
Still, grew to love South Shields, has a certain charm to it.
I live in Moortown, OCUK neighbours!
OP, Roundhay/Moortown is probably the nicest area in Leeds to live and be just a 20 minute bus ride into town. Then as said, anything north of this up to Harrogate is beautiful.
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1575 christ that sickening for rent :/
Come oop norf! (proper norf hahaha)
Yed nigh on be in a stately home for that lol