sheffield or leeds?

Sheffield all they way but I would say that :p have you looked at any specific area in Sheffield ?
Sheffieldforum.co.uk is good resource for info advice about the place propertys ect.. but cant comment on Leeds only been there for day trips to the city centre.
 
ic1male said:
I went to uni in Sheffield. Best place I've ever lived in. Loads of pubs, shops (Meadowhall) and a light rail system to ferry you about everywhere.
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Adding a +1 to this - I was in Sheffield for four years as a student and go back from time to time. Still feels like the same place to me - plenty to do, friendly people and easily to get around. Cheap too, especially if you're coming from London!
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Because London is awful.
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That’s just a moody that we natives play along with and reinforce where we can, in the hope that dyed in the wool northerners who pronounce bath as if it rhymes with Kath, will see the error of coming down to civilisation, and stay where their whippets can run free on frozen grass, they do not look out of place as the only one walking down Clerkenwell Road in a flat cap, and where they can be sure that their bath has an adequate supply of coal.
 
Jean-F said:
That’s just a moody that we natives play along with and reinforce where we can, in the hope that dyed in the wool northerners who pronounce bath as if it rhymes with Kath, will see the error of coming down to civilisation, and stay where their whippets can run free on frozen grass, they do not look out of place as the only one walking down Clerkenwell Road in a flat cap, and where they can be sure that their bath has an adequate supply of coal.
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I'm a midlander though. The best of the lot. ;)
 
Leeds isnt too bad. i went to sheffield once. wasnt too bad. been to london and it was awful. way too many people. way too many people and all the roads seem to be a car park? Also i think houses in london are about £900,000 too much
 
I moved from London to Leeds 7 years ago and never looked back.

Leeds is an absolutely fab place to live. It's extremely beautiful. I'm not a big fan of Sheffield. It doesn't even have a proper city center.
 
Dave said:
Adding a +1 to this - I was in Sheffield for four years as a student and go back from time to time. Still feels like the same place to me - plenty to do, friendly people and easily to get around. Cheap too, especially if you're coming from London!
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Same here. It feels like a big town, but with better bars, pubs and restaurants etc, with great green spaces as well as the Peaks on your doorstep. The locals generally are very friendly too, I'd move back in a heartbeat if the opportunity came up, and I'm actively looking at ways to do this.

Leeds is far bigger, with great shopping but is fairly spaced out. I wasn't a massive fan but it depends what you're after.
 
Jumper118 said:
Leeds isnt too bad. i went to sheffield once. wasnt too bad. been to london and it was awful. way too many people. way too many people and all the roads seem to be a car park? Also i think houses in london are about £900,000 too much
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I’m quite happy that I live in London, where I bought a house for
£56,000, I’m now mortgage free, and it’s valued at £1.25 million.
Sure, I could sell it, and probably buy Rochdale, or Middlesbrough,
But I think that I’d rather sit in the traffic on Bethnal Green Road.
ic1male said:
And quite right. You don't pronounce Kath as Karth do you? :p
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No I don’t, but if I overtook another car in my hurry to get back to
London, I’ve passed it, as in pahsed, not passed rhyming with gassed.
I hasten to add, northerners are NOT saying these words wrongly, just
differently to how we southerners say them, we’re both saying them
correctly, depending on where we were raised.
 
I'd say Sheffield, used to live near Leeds and went into Leeds regularly as the social scene were I lived was none existent. Leeds is a nice place plenty to do but in my honest opinion it's not quite like Sheffield, meadowhall (meadow hell to many) is good too.. If you don't mind very busy shopping centres especially around this time of year. If your younger and like a good night out Sheffield is full of university students too
 
Scythe said:
Same here. It feels like a big town, but with better bars, pubs and restaurants etc, with great green spaces as well as the Peaks on your doorstep. The locals generally are very friendly too, I'd move back in a heartbeat if the opportunity came up, and I'm actively looking at ways to do this.

Leeds is far bigger, with great shopping but is fairly spaced out. I wasn't a massive fan but it depends what you're after.
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Leeds isn’t ‘far bigger’ at all. Leeds is England’s 3rd largest, Sheffield is 4th so hardly a massive difference.

I’m biased being a born and bred Sheffielder but taking a balanced view, I think Sheffield edges it for me.

Leeds has better high end shopping (Sheff will catch up a little when the retail quarter gets finished), more higher paid jobs etc. Don’t let this sound like Sheffield is poor because it certainly is not. Sheffield has many very wealthy suburbs.

Personally, I find Sheffield a far more interesting place ..... more bohemian ..... more quirky!

Nightlife is great in both cities but the music scene is probably better here. We have great theatres too.

Both have lovely surrounding countryside but Sheffield easily wins in this department.

And yes our tram system is great too.

I’d still rather live in either city over London which is a vile place. I can cope with it for a weekend or so but it’s soooooo depressing and everyone looks depressed. Not for me at all.
 
Jean-F said:
I’m quite happy that I live in London, where I bought a house for
£56,000, I’m now mortgage free, and it’s valued at £1.25 million.
Sure, I could sell it, and probably buy Rochdale, or Middlesbrough,
But I think that I’d rather sit in the traffic on Bethnal Green Road.


No I don’t, but if I overtook another car in my hurry to get back to
London, I’ve passed it, as in pahsed, not passed rhyming with gassed.
I hasten to add, northerners are NOT saying these words wrongly, just
differently to how we southerners say them, we’re both saying them
correctly, depending on where we were raised.
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That is good going on the house front! What year did you buy?
 
Reading through the comments re. Leeds, it looks like most of those commenting are based on experiences when they "used" to live in Leeds, ie. as a student etc. I've got no experience of Sheffield but I've lived in the Leeds area for 10 years now. Leeds has been on a massive journey in those 10 years - it has expanded massively from a retail point of view and is also much more cosmopolitan and vibrant than it was even 10 years ago. New restaurants and nightlife are popping up all the time and the Yorkshire Dales are on your doorstep.

I like it, and that's coming from someone who is from the "proper" north (Newcastle) but also lived 'dahn sarf' for a few years.

Someone else will need to chime in about what Sheffield is like because I've never been there and have no experience of it.
 
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