Carlisle vs Newcastle ?

[medianewbie]

Thinking of re-locating within the next 12m.

Either around the Carlisle area or the Newcastle area?

I will only have around £200K (hopefully a bit more, certainly less than £250)

For this I need a 3 bed (pref one on ground floor?), pref with a large outbuilding. Happy to live rurally or 'in the city' and happy to live in something that is a fixer upper (not major building works)

Ideally I'd be on a bus route to a College or University as I have 2 young people who I hope will be able to attend College & live more independently in time.

I know North Northumberland but I've never been to Carlisle or surroundings. Alternatively, I'd consider Dumfries & Galloway but rather be south of Border.

Anyone ?

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Newcastle and Carlisle are very different cites.

My preference would be Newcastle,or the adjoining coastal towns.

I'd definitely go with newcastle or surrounding area. There's a few choices for universities in commutable distance (newcastle, northumbria, metro up to Sunderland or Durham in easy driving/possibly bus distance). There's also probably more job opportunities for if your young people stay local.

£200/250 will go pretty for in either

Hi, am from Carlisle and went to uni in Newcastle, both a long time ago but I pop back to see friends in both.

Carlisle is a nice little city and sure you would get something for your budget. There are some nice villages not too far but you could find yourself ferrying the teens around. Transport to these isn’t amazing.

Newcastle is much larger, more diverse and vibrant and I would imagine has far better employment and educational opportunities though housing costs might reflect this in the nicer areas.

Thank you. I maybe should have asked more about Carlisle as I'm less familiar.

Newcastle. No contest.

Umm, re Carlisle, for students I think the main 16-18 choices are school sixth forms (bit of a mixed bag) or there is one large-ish tech college in the town centre. After that there is an outpost of northumbria uni doing stuff like teacher training, business degrees, nursing etc but I dont think it offers the full range of degrees that the main site in newcastle offers (apols, this is second hand info from my friends that still live there so I might have some details wrong)

There’s lots of nice housing stock but I think to get an outbuilding you would probably need to be further out and the transport isn’t great.

Although it’s classed as a city it’s the same size as a medium town and the employment opportunities are pretty limited, Newcastle is the nearest city and that’s a good hour or more by train or road.

upsides are affordability, nice people and access to lovely countryside.

Hope someone can come along with more direct and up to date experience

Are you assuming they would get into Newcastle/Northumbria universities?

In any case Newcastle and surrounding areas is a lot better served than Carlisle which is more remote.

I am from Hampshire but moved to live west of Carlisle in a village between there and Keswick for a year a while ago. I was a community nurse so travelled all around north west Cumbria. Apologies to any Cumbrians reading but I absolutely loathed living there. So much so that I sold up and moved back home losing quite a lot of cash in the process. Yes there is lovely countryside with beautiful views but much of the area is hugely deprived and run down plus there was a lot of resistance to accept anyone who hasn’t lived there for generations in the villages.
I would head for Newcastle instead.

Cumbria is a pretty miserable backward looking place. We used to visit a holiday home near Penrith and travelled around or get the train to the nearby areas and you wouldnt want to live there.

Compare that to East of the Pennines and there's a lot more going on and it's less like Craggy Island off Father Ted.

Of you want rural look at Northumberland.