To ask where you go if you're disabled, broke, no family and not an economically viable person?

[PippaThePauper]

I currently live in London. I have to stay here for 6 months more for definite to finish some medical treatment. After that I think I need to get out of this city it's too expensive. I'm facing up to the fact my body isn't healthy enough to allow me to work full time. I do 3 days per week and I'm almost comatose with exhaustion and pain doing that.

Where do I go though? What part of the UK should I look at? I'd love to be properly rural, but am scared of being isolated and also not near centres of excellence for my medical needs.

I suffer severely from anxiety and have been sexually assaulted before so terrified of going somewhere that turns out to be a bad neighbourhood and being targeted.

Wwyd? Where would you go that's safe and affordable?

Glasgow is a very small but vibrant city. It has a tube system and great bus services.

I came on to say Yorkshire or north east as well.

I am a Yorkshire lass. I am at the comments about no ethnic diversity. Certainly in north Yorks where I live now there is not as much ethnic diversity as in Leeds or Bradford but there is still diversity.

Thirding Chesterfield. I've always wanted to live there.

Look North - fabulous beautiful places, and cheap. North west particularly might be good.

I'd move to the North East, like County Durham/Sunderland/Newcastle way. To one of the small towns/villages surrounded by beautiful countryside. Public transport ie buses up there are fantastic, reliable and cover extensive routes. So easy access to Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland for shopping and hospitals. People are so friendly. Housing is really cheap. Some great pubs. But best of all lots of lovely countryside. I'd get a dog immediately, though don't know if that appeals to you / is possible with your disability.

I'm in West Yorkshire. Leeds is a fab vibrant city, there are plenty of beautiful places to explore too. Had to lol at the no ethnic diversity comment as I sit in my street where we are the only white British family.

Yes, up north is lots cheaper than the south, friendly and vibrant too. My godson Just bought a house twice the size of mine for quarter the cost, and I live in SW.

He's in Leeds I meant to say!

I'd avoid Northumberland if the treatment is related in any way to MH. That's pretty shambolic there.

Most of the Northeast is great, though.

"Yorkshire maybe. Only if you don't mind no ethnic diversity whatsoever."

KinttedBlanket
Clearly you have never set foot in Bradford, Leeds or Sheffield.

Chesterfield is a cheap but slightly run down market town with a superb hospital and the Peak District on it's doorstep. Also close to the Sheffield teaching hospitals. Some rough areas but my aunt recently bought a 2 bed ex council house in a rather nice area for 90k.

How about Kent, maybe Ashford which is very affordable and on the direct train link to London as is Folkstone which is even cheaper.
Nice sea air, good shops. Not horrifically rough, quite acceptable to live in unlike Hastings or other places in Essex.
I was in Folkstone and Ashford recently visiting a friend and there were lovely areas in both.
You could follow that train link down and see what you think.

"Its Northumberland that has no ethnic diversity. Its the whitest part of the country."

There is very little ethnic diversity where I live in South Yorkshire either. Historically the miners were very hostile to the idea of outsiders taking their jobs. I expect that would have been the case in Northumberland as well.

I'm in Sheffield which has a fair ethinic mix - much more than the rest of A Yorkshire but hardly on par with Manchester, Birmingham or London.

Sorry, that should say " far more than the rest of South Yorkshire "

I will own that Co Durham is one of the least ethnically diverse parts of the country. As a PP pointed out, though, it's not the only form of diversity and I will say that it's an incredibly socially diverse part of the country. I have kids with neuro-disabilities and we meet a lot of other people in our own and neighbouring counties with both physical and neurological disabilities on our travels and, as is right and proper, they're just a part of the community. Judgy pant hoicking is only an occasional thing.

I've taken my more obviously diverse kid to places where that knicker elastic has been well and truly strained, the minute he opens his mouth.

Historically the miners were very hostile to the idea of outsiders taking their jobs.

Aye - hence "you're not form round here are ye" said to people from 10 miles away.

I've noticed that disappearing in my own mining village. It's changed radically in the 13 years I've been here. The well located ones have been all but re-imagined as commuter villages.

Yep you want to be in Gods Own County - north part of North Yorkshire and you are in easy distance of James Cook hospital or trains up to Newcastle

And as for diversity 😂 ....

South Wales Valleys/Merthyr Tydfil/Pontypridd - Short comment into Cardiff for jobs

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What's your budget for rent and transport? Thanks will help narrow choices.and if you want to stay close to London for work what commute length would be acceptable to you?

What are your particular needs?
Where might you find a job?
Where might you like to live?

Another one saying Glasgow, but Glasgow-ish since you want rural. I'm in East Ayrshire (very commutable to Glasgow on the M77) where properties are cheap and car insurance is lower than in big cities. I don't know your medical issues and we may not have a center of excellence for your condition (probably not, tbh) but otoh we don't have a government hell-bent on privatising our NHS.

Be wary of Wales from an NHS point of view, trying to get treatment through English NHS should you need to be referred back to England can be very difficult and long winded. A family member is having surgery on the border in a specialist hospital, they were told if they lived in England the wait was 6 months, if they were from Wales it would be 18... Same hospital, same surgeon but all about funding.

Historically the miners were very hostile to the idea of outsiders taking their jobs

There might have been pockets of hostilty but there were still miners from all over the world working in the mine with my Dad, even 40 years ago - from Poland and the West Indies at least.