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In not wanting to move to Pickering?

104 replies

Brunocat · 12/04/2013 19:37

I've been for a few hours and although it looked fine for a day trip it's in the middle of nowhere and there seems to be very little to do. Houses seem expensive and it's a drive to get anywhere. Am I totally wrong?

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AwkwardSquad · 12/04/2013 22:31

Sorry, I sounded really up myself in that last comment. I do like York, I do! More Wine I think

AwkwardSquad · 12/04/2013 22:31

Stephen Joseph Smile

TunipTheVegedude · 12/04/2013 22:32

I was annoyed by you dismissing the museums, I agree about the galleries and theatre Grin

NorthernLurker · 12/04/2013 22:34

Ok, couple of things:

York doesn't have a one way system. It has a lot of foot streets in the city centre and it has a couple of streets running parallel with the walls that are one way plus a couple more slightly further out.

The playwright is Alan Ayckbourne. David Hockney also lives nearby.

Op please don't move to Pickering or York. You obviously won't appreciate the area and we can do without more moaning southerners. Hmm Wink

AwkwardSquad · 12/04/2013 22:35

Fair cop Grin. And amazing architecture of course, particularly ecclesiastical.

AwkwardSquad · 12/04/2013 22:37

Yes playwright is AA, theatre is called the Stephen Joseph.

Moving on... Scarborough can be fun and the Moors are beautiful. Do you like walking, OP?

Wallison · 12/04/2013 22:37

York does not bad for what is essentially a pretty small town. The theatre quite often has productions by new writers and directors, the opera house gets big touring companies, the gallery had the Hockney thing for ages and there are massive installations in the church near the Jorvik. A few really good live music venues as well, and there's always something interesting going on in the City Screen basement.

marriedinwhiteagain · 12/04/2013 22:47

Whitby to me was dingy houses, manky fish and chip shops, not much sparkle, vampires, and a crap bloke who bought a house there to write a novel months after I went woah - he came back south and got a proper job again

marriedinwhiteagain · 12/04/2013 22:49

And everyone I saw there looked interbred and I drew the conclusion it was because the moors made it too far away in the winter for any new blood to enter. I may have been wrong but they all had an anorak and and the same hairstyle and the same expression - it was like the antithesis of Stepford Wives in my eyes.

lily333 · 12/04/2013 23:00

Mmm, difficult one as it's small,not much going on in the evening and schools aren't that great........houses aren't expensive particularly though

But then I live in Scarborough so am biased and there's more of a cultural/music scene

Clary · 12/04/2013 23:00

I lived in Whitby for a while and it was not somewhere I would want to live again. Very under-resourced (eg 30-mile drive to a big cinema) and the people could be insular tbh.

Sorry, the area is lovely in terms of walks, scenery etc but I would have hated to bring up my children there. Apologies to any Whitby-ites who are on MN - I imagine if you are from there (ie good family support in area etc) it's a bit different!

Pickering is in the same area but I never lived there so I can't coment on the town itself. I bet it's similar tho.

OP are you having to relocated? There may be better options than a small market town.

lily333 · 12/04/2013 23:02

Btw, howling@awkward's flamingo land gags.....

marriedinwhiteagain · 12/04/2013 23:11

And goodness Flamingo Land was/is awful - even the dc didn't want to go again and they can only have been 8/5ish when we took them Shock.

thebestnamesaregone · 12/04/2013 23:27

I grew up in Whitby and know Pickering well. I would go with your gut reaction and not move to Pickering. You are surrounded by lovely but scenery but if that's not your thing you wont settle there. Local people in North Yorkshire can be very insular and hard to get to know and dont really like incomers especially if you are from the south. A posh accent would have led to a lot of bullying when I was at school in Whitby so your children may have a tough time. Choose York or Scarborough instead.

Scheherezade · 12/04/2013 23:34

ex.scarborian here!

trinitybleu · 12/04/2013 23:44

I would kill to live in Pickering. 25 minutes to Whitby, 20 to my Aunt in Sleights, 30 to York. Fab.

There's a big Morrisons in Malton ... ?

marriedinwhiteagain · 12/04/2013 23:46

It's a tiny Morrisons and the man on the till refused to put my cucumber in the plastic bag in case it made a hole in it Shock

trinitybleu · 12/04/2013 23:47

Oh and Aunt moved there, had kids there and people are lovely. The girls in Bothams still remember me from when I visited as a child / teenager. Her in laws moved there too upon retirement and also have built a friendship circle easily.

trinitybleu · 12/04/2013 23:50

It's not tiny. Not a superstore but big enough. And Whitby has a Sainsburys now ... That was an exciting development.

To be fair, I've been visiting 3 or 4 times a year for 24 years and love it.

LackaDAISYcal · 12/04/2013 23:51

I could think of worse places to live! You won't be far from York and the shopping mecca that is Leeds!

marriedinwhiteagain · 12/04/2013 23:52

But I couldn't be happy there. I need more than Sainsburys to get my loins tingling and it aint Dracula.

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 12/04/2013 23:54

Pickering is alright, but I wouldn't want to live there myself.

LackaDAISYcal · 12/04/2013 23:55

Happy memories watching The Wall of Death at the Traction Engine Rally ArtexMonkey

trinitybleu · 12/04/2013 23:58

I've got a OH for loin tingling and he'd move with me! Grin

ThingummyBob · 12/04/2013 23:58

Pickering is dullsville imho although Dalby Forest is fab.

Roads get very clogged up in the summer with all the fucking caravanners and its a crap night out too.

I would rate Malton more highly as a place to live, which is something I've never said before, but the best thing about either place is the A64 back to Leeds Grin