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AIBU to want to move to Yorkshire

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PinkSlipperQueen · 18/01/2016 17:31

Fed up with Surrey and all the people here my mil and her family are all dysfunctional nightmares. I want to move far far away and start over freshere. Is it so wrong to just want to move far away for a better life?

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StepCatsmother · 19/01/2016 13:43

MummyZELC

Have I completely misunderstood your post?

^I'm a Manchester girl born and bred. Love living in Yorkshire. Apart from the assumption that everyone either supports City or United grin
Some people like Oldham Athletic or Stalybridge Celtic you know wink^

You seem to be talking about Lancashire... Are you saying you're from Manchester and you moved to Yorkshire?

MummyZELC · 19/01/2016 14:57

Haha yes that's exactly what I'm saying. I don't admit being from Lancashire though for fear of being lynched Grin I say Manchester

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Melonaire · 19/01/2016 17:33

'I don't admit being from Lancashire though'

Well, you'd only make them feel inferior.

MummyZELC · 19/01/2016 21:59

The Lancashire/Yorkshire thing dates back to the war of the Roses lol

OhForFrigSake · 19/01/2016 22:07

I'm from a village in Yorkshire called 'Holmfirth.' It's where Last of the Summer wine was filmed and I hope to live here forever. The people are great, the scenery is magnificent, the local economy is thriving and my village has great pubs, one of the UKs finest small music venues and wonderful independent restaurants. It's the best place on earth.

Melonaire · 19/01/2016 22:09

Do you have to leap out of the road to avoid pensioners careering past in bath tubs? Grin

OhForFrigSake · 19/01/2016 22:09

See! :-)

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OhForFrigSake · 19/01/2016 22:10

Melonaire - yup, several times a day. Small price to pay though Grin

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OhForFrigSake · 19/01/2016 22:13

Less so these days Egosumquisum, LOTSW finished quite some time back. These days Holmfirth is arguably more popular as a cycling destination thanks to the Tour de France.

Melonaire · 19/01/2016 22:17

It is beautiful. DH and I are tethered to London for work but the day we retire I'm heading North.

OhForFrigSake · 19/01/2016 22:18

Do it Melonaire. We have quite a few friends who pursued their careers down to London. A few have come 'home' recently with the rest planning to!

Nancery · 19/01/2016 22:21

OP what kind of places do you like? What do you like doing etc? I say that as I live in a fabulous little part of Yorkshire which is like a little bubble to a lot of nearby places and it's ACE

OhForFrigSake · 19/01/2016 22:23

Oh, and whoever said the OP's children would be disadvantaged educationally by moving to Yorkshire - we have great schools thanks! My DS's primary school is fantastic, as is the local high school. Both outstanding, both rated far higher than the national average.

Like a previous poster said, we aren't still sat around grooming our ferrets or heading t'mill.

BikeRunSki · 19/01/2016 22:31

I have to agree with Frig. I live a few miles from Holmfirth, it's a cracking wee town and the music venue Frig mentions is awesome.

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BikeRunSki · 19/01/2016 22:35

Oh.. And ds's First School has been outstanding for the last 4 Ofsted inspections, and feeds into an outstanding Middle School.

Biggerbangtheory · 19/01/2016 22:39

Come and join us up in Yorkshire. (How many Lancashire is horrible jokes would you like to hear). My DCs are in a great school and we are in what I consider to be our forever house. I go and visit DB down South and am always glad to get away again

Bunbaker · 19/01/2016 22:51

DD's old primary school is not only outstanding but one of the top primary schools in the country.

sashh · 20/01/2016 06:24

OhForFrigSake

My grandma and aunt lived there when I was little - lovely place.

But we need to stop letting the southerners know.

JoffreyBaratheon · 20/01/2016 11:30

I think there is a romance about Yorkshire - maybe started a long time ago (a bit like the romance that people put around Cornwall and Scotland). Which makes people want to come here and magically their entire life will be 'made better'. (Also the opportunistic thing to benefit from the differential in house prices).

Truth is, if you're unhappy with your life, changing the background scenery won't make a jot of difference. And however great the schools and pretty the scenery - you won't ever truly belong (my stepmother found that out even after over 30 years here she was never really One Of Us but maybe that was more down to personality and Yorkshirefolk have very good radars, maybe).

If I was OP I'd address the issues where I was, rather than imagining that moving to somewhere that looks pretty on the telly, would suddenly make me and everyone in my immediate vicinity, somehow different...

My husband is fine here but he is unusually resilient to digs, and slightly on the charismatic side which means he charms the pants off people with his disarming smile. So it depends on the Southerner as to whether they ever really integrate (and in the posher villages they're all outsiders anyway, to be brutally honest so OP would fit in fine - I only heard one other local accent in the playground when picking my kids up from a certain school they used to go to in a snobby estate village).

I always think there is a danger of destroying the thing you admire, when you superimpose yourself on it. Come here on holiday. Spend your tourist dollar. Get it out of your system that way.

StepCatsmother · 20/01/2016 12:56

Thanks for clarifying MummyZELC - I definitely didn't have my brain in gear.

I've only just moved from London to Yorkshire so it's all a bit baffling still :)

PinkSlipperQueen · 20/01/2016 18:39

We had our eyes on Beverly looks amazing

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