Moving to Yorkshire

[susan5678]

I live in Bournemouth and want to move to Yorkshire to rent a flat no more than £600 a month for a 2 Bed Flat as it would be for myself and my 34 year old son. I would like to live in a nice quiet area. Where there is no anti-social behaviour. A nice neighbourhood. Could anyone tell me the nice areas to live in where the Rent is reasonable. Quality of life is very important to me. Any help would be very much appreciated.

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£600 pcm will not get you very far in North Yorkshire. Have you been? I ask that genuinely because in North Yorkshire you have vast areas of countryside with limited public transport or market towns/York where you’d need a substantially bigger budget.

Hi OP, I’m sorry to say but you’ll need to up your budget, nice parts of West Yorkshire, Yeadon, Guiseley etc are around £850/900 for a 2 bed house, North Yorkshire, Harrogate way you’ll be looking around £1k.

The rents are expensive in Bournemouth not within my sons and my budget. We have to move as we need more space. We are not posh people we are working class we would just like to live in area that is affordable and have considerate quiet neighbours. I would appreciate your help.

Is lice a Freudian slip?

East Yorkshire might be possible

Don't try Bradford!

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@susan5678 people are trying to help you , you would need a much bigger budget

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OP I suppose how central to a big town do you need to be??

Not North Yorks, but you could get a 2-bed in Halifax just about:

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149340905

I like that part of West Yorkshire and it's reasonably well connected.

You could try Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire - good transport links, near to countryside but a small town centre that is walkable. Not trendy like nearby Hebden Bridge so cheaper. Even there, you’ll struggle to get a rental for £600.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/114190481

No i never have been to North Yorkshire. I have to live near shops and a quiet area. If you can suggest an area within our budget i would appreciate it

I did a few searches on Rightmove around Thirsk - there's one or two two-bed flats listed at £650. One in Ripon, another Helmsley ....nice places but not good for public transport.

Part of the problem may be that North Yorkshire probably doesn't have too many flats, it's more likely to be houses/cottages I think.

It might possibly be worth looking over into Lancashire and up into Cleveland, though there's definitely areas to avoid in those.

Have you driven it?

Burton in Lonsdale to Speighton is just over three hours on the map. Add in either moors traffic, country lanes, the A64, York, Harrogate or a combination and it can take 4 hours 30. I drive to those from a mid point and it can take bewteen two and two and a half hours.

The days when you could rent a place in a nice, quiet area of Yorkshire for that kind of money are long gone, as others have pointed out. Do you have family or other connections which attract you to Yorkshire in particular? If not, you’ll have to think again in terms of the geographic area you’re looking at to get anything close to what you want for such a low budget.

One of the West Hull Villages might be ok
look around the Humber Bridge area

Scarborough…

Catterick Garrison/Colburn

But not that nice!

Beverley has a few under £700. Whats that like nowadays? Always had a good rep.

@Blouson Beverly is nice for a few hours to visit it's clean etc but very quite

Thirsk has a train station, York 15 mins, Leeds 45 mins - I commute to York, with Leeds and London once a week from Thirsk, 2 hours 40 mins to London. Tons of parking at the station.

I agree. There are lots of misconceptions about housing costs in the north!

If you want to live somewhere nice, safe, with lots of amenities and good transport links, then the cost won't be dissimilar to much of the south. The cheap rentals are in areas with issues such as crime, few jobs/facilities, poor transport links etc.

For reference, I paid £500 a month to rent a 2 bed flat (no garden) in a dodgy, crime-ridden area of Leeds back in 2003! £600 wouldn't have got you what you're looking for even back then.

This is a typical terraced rental in Silsden which is just out of Keighley just to give you an idea of how far your money will go in some of the cheaper areas.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149482337

I wouldn't want to live in Thirsk , it has an odd vibe to it, not very welcoming a fairly shabby