I was recently offered a very well-paid job in the Black Country but ended up turning it down because I just couldn't imagine myself living there. I drove around the area and found it, well, depressing and I couldn't imagine myself living there. No offense to anyone around there - sometimes people 'jive' with a place and sometimes they don't. And I'm not a huge fan of commuting - for lots of reasons - so didn't want to have to live 45/60 minutes away from work.
My DH always brings it up and thinks I made a mistake, particularly as the salary was so much more than I'm on now. I feel horrible about the whole thing so would appreciate if people told me I was (a) crazy to give up the job or (b) made the right decision.
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AIBU to not want to move to Dudley?
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williaminajetfighter · 06/04/2013 16:32
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MarmaladeTwatkins ·
08/04/2013 11:32
To be fair, I think it is new, Haylebop. Like, in the last 6 months new. Let's meet there for a sausage roll!
I'll go with you, Sparkling. There is an indoor shopping "centre" with an Iceland AND a Home Bargains having a face-off. What class.
I'm making Dudley sound awful. I do actually really like it! You have to take it for what it is, which is a working-class market town. In which case, it is fine. If you're expecting posho coffee shoppes and Coutts bank then you won't like it. But it has nice people and the High Street is actually pleasant enough! The market traders are lovely. Mother twatters and I were cooing over some plates the other week and the man selling them goes "YAM TWO AM A BIT POSH FER DUDLEY MARKET AY YA?!" 
First time I've ever been called too posh :(
Haylebop12 ·
08/04/2013 11:35
marmalade if I want dd to come to town and behave I bribe her with a sausage roll and a cookie personally I quite like it but I have lived here all life. It's home and always will be. Plus we're still holding onto a new look and a river island 
not sure how much longer for though!
MarmaladeTwatkins ·
08/04/2013 11:37
"marmalade if I want dd to come to town and behave I bribe her with a sausage roll and a cookie"
What's wrong with bells on purses?!
Sparklingbrook ·
08/04/2013 11:38
Nothing Marmalade I have heard them in Asda in the Mezza but never anywhere else so wondered if it was a Dudlay thing. 
Have we mourned the Monorail yet? We usually do. 
Sparklingbrook ·
08/04/2013 11:44
After the system was put up for sale in 1996,[10] the trains and track were transferred in 2001 to the Oasis Shopping Centre, in Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia
The monorail was Wanted Down Under.
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BackforGood ·
08/04/2013 11:45
Have to agree with the very first reply, from Caja.
Not sure a) why you are asking when it's too late, or b) why your dh keeps bringing it up when it's too late.
If you'd asked before you had to make the decision, then peple could have told you all the places you could live, with an easy commute, where your salary would also have gone a LOT further than it will in SE England, but I don't see the point in asking afterwards. 
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