I don't understand the hype about Yorkshire?

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Is it just me to be fed up with continuous hype about Yorkshire?

TV programmes devoted to the county etc etc. I spent some time up there recently and feel the South West, where I'm from, has far more to offer.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19153924

Look at Yorkshire athletes , flying high in medal table

Ha - these last couple of posts have just reminded me of a conversation we had at a dinner with a Yorkshireman. We do quite a lot of cycling in the French Alps and he was insistent that there was no need for us to go to the Alps anymore and that Yorkshire has it all, as the Tour de France stage there had proven.

I mean, there's pride in your local area and there's...

I think it was the London Olympics, we Yorkshire had an immense collection of medals more than some entire countries. It's a diverse county full of natural beauty, cosmopolitan cities, spa towns, the list goes on and on I from Yorkshire and love Yorkshire. Only Cornwall comes close in my eyes. When working in Derbyshire I was asked if I would relocate my family down there, I gazed out of the window scanned the horizon paused and said I don't think so this is no Yorkshire.

@perfectstorm
*There's a brilliant chipper in York I know
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Go on...

Also, yes to Forbidden Corner, friend and I went there a couple of years ago, without any kids and had THE BEST time.

Also, obviously York is the capital of Yorkshire, get away with your Wezzie Leeds nonsense

"Yes, there are some lovely bits of Yorkshire, but interestingly none of the many tv programmes are set in Rotherham. Or Dewsbury."

Educating Yorkshire was set in Dewsbury
Band of Gold in Bradford
Love, Lies and Records, Fat Friends, the Beiderbecker trilogy and At Home with the Braithwaites are all set in Leeds
Prisoners Wives was set in Sheffield

There is both the golden triangle and the rhubarb triangle in Yorkshire.

The golden triangle is the area between Leeds, Harrogate and Wetherby with lots of vair naice and expensive property with prices that would give most places in the south-east a run for their money and the rhubarb triangle, which I grew up in the epicentre of BTW, is the area between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, which is world famous for growing both standard and indoor forced rhubarb which is harvested by candle light.

Is it just me who thinks the golden triangle sounds like the centre of the illegal drugs industry?

I don't know, do any of these houses look like drugs dens?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-70472315.html

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67249670.html

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65174705.html

Ah, ok. Educating Yorkshire. Not seen it.
I never mentioned Sheffield or Leeds though, those are reasonably ok places on the whole (well Sheffield is)..but when people wax lyrical about Yorkshire, I do think " have you ever been to Castleford??

You are not being unreasonable- and I live there!

Leeds a “ reasonably ok place on the whole”?!! ...I hit my head hard when I fainted after reading that!!

You can always tell a real Yorkshireman but don't bother because they don't bloody listen!

Everywhere has its bad points.
Oh, and I much prefer Leeds to Sheffield.

Barbaraofseville you must be from the same place as me in the rhubarb triangle

I’m think there’s lots of people that haven’t been to southern counties and yet will write them off as not possibly being as beautiful as Yorkshire or the Lake District or wherever. I think a lot of people are surprised about what Dorset is like when they haven’t been before. Lots of coast, beaches and tourist areas but so much rural countryside too.

There can be more than once nice place to live, and more than one nice place with views and more than one nice place where you get good chips and people talk to you in your street. Gasp, even in the south

Dorset, not too shabby..

I’m think there’s lots of people that haven’t been to southern counties and yet will write them off as not possibly being as beautiful as Yorkshire or the Lake District or wherever. I think a lot of people are surprised about what Dorset is like when they haven’t been before. Lots of coast, beaches and tourist areas but so much rural countryside too.

There can be more than once nice place to live, and more than one nice place with views and more than one nice place where you get good chips and people talk to you in your street. Gasp, even in the south

Dorset, not too shabby..

Paddington I think the humour in this thread has perhaps passed you by

"I’m think there’s lots of people that haven’t been to southern counties and yet will write them off as not possibly being as beautiful as Yorkshire or the Lake District or wherever."

I agree. I'm from South London, but have lived in Yorkshire for over 30 years now. We have had several holidays all over the UK and Ireland, and everywhere has something to recommend it.

DD and I have a road trip to a different part of the UK every year. We've just spent a week in Yorkshire (Huddersfield moors area, Harrogate, York and Castle Howard).
We had amazing scenery, autumnal tints and a fair amount of snow, Christmas atmosphere, good food and lovely people (Airbnb) who were genuinely proud of their area.

The fact I have Yorkshire roots might have something to do with it, but it was one of our best trips ever!

Try and buy a house in dorset, go for afternoon tea or rent a cottage for a week, pricy as fooook!!

Yep, the south coast is expensive.

However to date the most expensive soft play I ever went to was in Yorkshire! I was very shocked considering how everyone goes on about no one getting ripped off up north. And it wasn’t even very good

I'm very fond of much of the jurassic coast. For me it doesn't compare aesthetically to Yorkshire. That isn't a statement of any fact other than my preference.

Oh we loved holidaying in time Regis.

I've live in other counties, but miss home in Yorkshire, but I also would happily live in Cornwall.

Lyme!