Aibu to not want to move up north

Leeds is generally considered in the north of England yes, no matter where you live.

Buy a street maybe?

I'd move to Leeds in a heartbeat if I could. I also have mixed race children and we are there often as have friends and family there. My kids are a little younger than yours but I have only ever had good experiences.

That made me laugh. It seems an OK place, nice shops I recall.

This is so true my Grandparents lived in Bacup they were regularly snowed in ,in the winter ,whereas we lived just a few miles away near Bury and has just a sprinkling of snow.

@time2changeCharlieBrown can you live nearer York? Not too far to commute. Good for trains etc. And there are villages around York. I personally love Huby.

Make sure you move to the east of me and you'll be fine. I'm as far east in Lancashire as you can get before hitting Yorkshire, trust me we get all the rain instead of Yorkshire. We can be snowed up and next town has nothing. Leeds has really good transport connections if your dh can go into the office by train if not the road network is good but gets busy. Its easy to work in Leeds and live way outside. Try to avoid needing the m62 to the west of Leeds, any issues in that direction and the A roads can be a nightmare.

@justasking111 Oh it will be £900k. Deffo. Always is. 😂

My son went to uni up north and every time we visited it was hot! Admittedly one day it was raining hard, but that was the case all over the country on that particular day. I thought the countryside was beautiful. My son wasn't in Leeds but he mentioned going there and liked it.

The city is geared for young students with two universities. There is a Harvey Nichols, a big shopping centre, restaurants, cafes galore. I enjoyed visiting now and again for it's vibrancy. But being a country mouse myself I'd opt for one of the villages.

@time2changeCharlieBrown if you gave us an idea of budget house wise we could be more helpful.

For not being Northern or living here, your information is scarily accurate. Have you spent time here?

Take note @time2changeCharlieBrown

You need to get out more, wfh is not doing you any favours.

😂 Made me chuckle

Chester is the nicest city I've ever visited.
I'm sure there are other lovely places nearer to your new work opportunity maybe near The Peak District or near other parks and beautiful places in North Yorkshire.
Buy a house with great heating.

I lived in Manchester for some years and it is wetter than most of the rest of England (Scotland is different). I've lived on the Yorkshire coast for 7 years and it's MUCH drier - and we hardly ever have snow at all.

I'm originally from Sheffield (which tends to suffer snow more than Leeds because of the hills!) and have friends in Leeds. Leeds is very multicultural so I see no reason to think your son will suffer racism there. But as others have said, there are very lovely places to live that are easily commutable for your husband's work.

I am a northerner and yes it's colder up here compared to say Devon or Cornwall as you mentioned south West. There are plenty of villages up here I have a great view if hills and I can see as far as leeds from my flat on a hill. Harrogate is posh you will love that. I get annoyed how people perceive up north sometimes. Leeds actually is being quite gentrified in certain areas in many bars it's not cheap and more with folks saying about London prices . I donr live in a city would hate that but you can see some lovely countryside up here cheaper to so there is thatb

And where do you live then that has a utopian life style with no crime and glorious weather?

All community Facebook pages make the town sound like it is a cesspit of deprivation, feral youths and violent crime. They are not a reliable barometer of actual conditions.

Fair enough. But since posters, inc. me, are poking fun at someone who seems to get her information from Crimewatch and Nextdoor, I’m sure you can cut us some slack.

(I don’t come from the north or live in the north.)

You're talking like it's Lebanon not Leeds 😂 careful though, up North we have webbed feet (perfect for swimming through all that extra rain) no electricity and have to collect water from the local wells.

And they completely overlook the increasing popularity of whippets, which (entirely understandably) seem to make up at least a third of the dog population here, a few miles from the south coast.

I genuinely think you need to get out more! Yorkshire on the whole is a beautiful county, and there’s no reason you have to live in Leeds itself, there’s good transport links

Yawn. Can we just stop the jokes about whippets and flat caps. I know they’re supposed to be tongue in cheek but bloody tedious.
Always makes me laugh how the ex-southerners are always the most vocal about how great it is up here 😂

My son went to Leeds for university. He's now living in a gorgeous village with his partner, it's where they filmed the Sewing Bee. Lovely atmosphere, friendly people, excellent shopping and hospitality. According to police statistics almost non existent crime rate . He can hop on a train to get into Leeds very cheaply .

At weekends, they have a choice of the country to explore or the city. I envy them their train lines which are so much better than ours.

@time2changeCharlieBrown just ignore the moaners on some community groups. As for Leeds Live, awful rag.

Try this community page as a comparison

I'm a softie southerner born and bred but spent a Christmas in Leeds with a friend and had the best time ever!

The people are far friendlier than in the South.