What’s it like living in the York area?

Babyroobs · 26/09/2021 20:00

@BabbleBee

When I was little I read a book about a district nurse who bombed around the Yorkshire dales in a white mini. I loved everything about that book and has stayed in the back of my mind ever since.

I am desperately unhappy living where I do on the south coast. It’s crowded, the road networks are awful and can’t cope with the ever increasing population, there’s houses and people stuffed into every nook and cranny between the South Downs and the sea. We can’t afford to move because of the ridiculous house prices.

We visited the York area last weekend, not for the first time, and I love it there. It felt so open in comparison to where we live. I’ve been working as a community nurse for a few months, love the job… I jokingly said to DH while we were there that I’d just need the white mini and I’d be living the dream

Now I find myself scrolling through Rightmove wondering if I should just bloody do it and move. DH is not averse to starting afresh somewhere new; We’ve had a rough few years and we could do with a change of scenery.

So wise MNetters what’s it really like there? I was surprised at how busy York centre was and wondered if it’s always like that. There’s even current jobs advertised for both DH and I… or am I totally delusional?!

My sister in law lives just outside York and is a district Nurse at night time. They do have to cover huge areas at night though. My db and sil like living up there they moved up from the Midlands, there seems to be plenty to do, not far from the coast and nice countryside.

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BabbleBee · 26/09/2021 20:04

@Babyroobs she has the same job as me, I’m overnight service too! We also cover a huge geographical area right across the county which includes rural areas too. It’s very demanding but it’s also rewarding. I want to be the James Herriot of nursing

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LittleMy77 · 26/09/2021 20:27

Love it, moved here last year. Nice restaurants and bars, great scenery locally, lots of National trust / old stuff to see if that’s your bag, shopping is pretty good for a small city

Traffic is a nightmare tho if you have to commute through the city by car or bus (great off road bike lanes tho) Bit of a nightmare atm tho for houses, both rental and buying as the market is insane. Not helped by the uni over offering first year places and not having enough accommodation as a result.

For your job, I imagine if you went outside the city you’d likely cover a massive geographical area, some of which the roads are v small, and variable gritting in winter! Most of the GP practices in the city seem to belong to 2 or 3 big medical groups - the hospital is big but doesn’t offer all specialities like Hull or Leeds do

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BabbleBee · 26/09/2021 21:22

@LittleMy77

Love it, moved here last year. Nice restaurants and bars, great scenery locally, lots of National trust / old stuff to see if that’s your bag, shopping is pretty good for a small city

Traffic is a nightmare tho if you have to commute through the city by car or bus (great off road bike lanes tho) Bit of a nightmare atm tho for houses, both rental and buying as the market is insane. Not helped by the uni over offering first year places and not having enough accommodation as a result.

For your job, I imagine if you went outside the city you’d likely cover a massive geographical area, some of which the roads are v small, and variable gritting in winter! Most of the GP practices in the city seem to belong to 2 or 3 big medical groups - the hospital is big but doesn’t offer all specialities like Hull or Leeds do

We have the same road issue in winter here too, it can make the nights very interesting! It seems the community teams are attached to the main NHS hospital trust in York, rather than GP surgeries. We have our own community NHS trust here so it would be similar.

I suppose navigating traffic would depend on where the schools are, and how far away we are from them. In an ideal world that would be walking distance but that’s in total contrast to wanting to live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by fields and trees!

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LittleMy77 · 26/09/2021 21:43

Do you need primary or secondary schools? That’ll likely dictate where you live(and the cost..) and in some areas the catchment zones in the city are a bit odd

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BabbleBee · 27/09/2021 07:05

@LittleMy77 My youngest DD is in yr 5 so depending on when (if!!) we did this it could be secondary only. I’ve also got one DC currently in yr9 with learning difficulties so I’d also need a decent SEND provision for her going into post 16 education.

[[Rudcarr Lane, Warthill, York, YO19 5TL
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/82086673 This]] is stunning and would probably be 6 figures where we are…. Still dreaming!

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mokojolo · 27/09/2021 07:23

The vale of York is not actually the dales - that place you've linked is closer to the Howardian Hills. It's still beautiful! It's just not the dales. Yorkshire is unreasonably huge - 6,000 square miles.

York is a great city, and if you can deal with the tourists, has just about everything you need. It's not the remote part.

LittleMy77 · 27/09/2021 10:52

Depending on where you’d be, that would put you in Malton schools and outside the city of York. If the kids are secondary / almost secondary age, my biggest recommendation would be to look at transport somewhere like that, both for schools and for getting around on weekends etc to friends houses / stuff to do

ineedaholidayandwine · 27/09/2021 11:02

Warthill is nice, if i recall there is no pub/shop etc though, i'm in Dunnington where my catchment school is Fulford which is a really good school, there is also Archbishop Holgates school nearby.
Fulford has a school bus from the village, those going to Archbishop get the First bus that runs through the village and drops outside the school.
We drive into York for work and it's mostly ok, never had any major hold ups, depending which side of the city you go it could a bit slower getting to the hospital as Gillygate and Bootham can get very busy