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.

There are reasons housing in the south is more expensive - more people want to live here! Are they all wrong?

Well they are in a lot of cases glitterati.

The reasons given by a lot of people for preferring the south over the north (apparently there is no work, no culture, no diversity, nothing worth seeing or doing etc etc) bear no resemblence to the reality of living in 21st Century northern England.

Well, not you South Yorkshire.

Too right, the Peaks and the Pennines, hideous dumps

The view from my windows is stunning. And you'd struggle to buy a garage in the south for the price of house here.

“Everyone is Yorkshire is lovely”.

Really? Because there are quite a few from there in this thread who are being quite arseholey.

As per, the House price thing comes up. As does the smarminess re London. As does the “darn scarf” which as a southerner I still am not sure what language that phrase is supppsed to be And yet our it comes every time.

We’re adults. Behave like fucking adults. You can be proud of where you live, be it “God’s own Country”, “That London” or anywhere above, below and in between, without the 5 year old in you coming along to slag everywhere else off.

As per, the House price thing comes up

That isn't "arseholey". That's a fact. House prices are substantially cheaper in parts of the north. Of course so are (some) wages but even so the ratio of what you can buy size wise/better area wise is cheaper in the north.

You've clearly never been on threads slating the north for being "lower class", "no culture", "boring", "insular" and the ubiquitous "ooop north".

This thread is positively zen in comparison

Yorkshire is very lovely but I love Scotland more. We headed north...and kept going. Couldn't pay me enough to live in London again.

:D this thread is funny

Of course all yorkshire folk will say yabu. It’s a contractual agreement as part of living here. There is something about this region that does get under your skin and drive a need to post on message boards to correct wrong headed people. I assume yorkshire tourism/ development are reading the thread feeling pretty smug. Or maybe this was all an entire masterstroke to get people to bang on about how great it is.

I love yorkshire, but there are parts that are not as pretty. I’m from West Yorkshire and some is dismal. But come on people, all of east or South Yorkshire is awful? Yeah that’s why Hockney has spent years documenting the wolds landscape.

Filey sands, east yorks is lovely for kids. Plus Filey Brigg for crabbing.

@Domani - totally agree, Filey is fabulous, and it's very dog-friendly too. Fish and chips and then a walk down the brig! Long walk down the beach and back, taking in an ice-cream. Looking out over the sea at Country Park before going home ... ooh, I wish it was summer!

OP if you live in the SW , do you really want more people descending on it in the summer ?

I think the UK has so much to offer scenery wise , it is so diverse and yet in a relatively small and accessible space . There are loads of places I haven't visited yet and are on my list . I love the SW, especially the area of Cornwall around Penzance , people are generally very friendly and this is the big one for a Yorkshire lass , the sea is a pretty colour , not brown !

Filey beach would be nice if it wasn't for the fact that it's "dog friendly" so every fucker there has a dog. Dogs..beaches...what could possibly go wrong?

Ifnot - middle section of Filey beach is dog free from 1st May - 30th September.

Plus, let's face it, most of the Northern seaside towns feel quite depressing. I'm fond of Whitby, but it is filthy round the harbour and full of drunks and scrag heads. The Southwest is definitely naicer.

I know screaming. The middle section with the sea wall behind it, instead of the pretty green hills. And people still let their dogs have free reign up and down the beach.

The beaches in Northern Cornwall are amazing as is the Dorset / Devon Jurassic Coast which is stunning! Anywhere on the East Coast is too cold, the resorts are generally grim and the North Sea is slate grey. For instance, there are beautiful long, wide sandy beaches in Norfolk and Suffolk, but the sea is never blue or appealing.

I was amazed at how beautiful the countryside is in Sussex in the North or South Downs. Beautiful villages and rolling countryside without the perpetual greyness.

IMO the best beaches are in Norfolk and Northumberland.

I love Yorkshire, I'd happily holiday by the coast there every year, and DD thinks Flamingoland is the best place ever.

Yorkshire tea is shite compared to Scottish blend though.

Get back under your bridge op...!

North, South, East or West Yorkshire?
If I go for a drive or get on the train I can visit some beautiful places. I won't lie, though. Where I live is a right fuckin dive.

like most places it has nice bits and nasty bits, lovely people and shitty people. I do find that "gods own country" and "everyone's so friendly" tends to raise hackles and merely invites retorts to disprove them.

Ifnot have you been to Leeds or Sheffield? "Reasonably nice places on the whole" !!!!!
Yorkshire does have its fair share of not so nice towns, usually where the industry that grew the town then died, but do other counties not have these too? I've no idea about the South West, the image I get from tv is beautiful but full of tourists in summer making travelling anywhere a nightmare, but I haven't been so wouldn't comment on a massive area as a whole.

Yeah, I know both places well. I have also been to the South West many times, as well as other beautiful places in the UK such as Pembrokeshire. There are loads of lovely places all over the UK. Plus the people of the North East are the friendliest I have ever come across.

but when people wax lyrical about Yorkshire, I do think " have you ever been to Castleford??

I was born there Currently residing in the absolutely fabulous Sheffield. I LOVE it here

like most places it has nice bits and nasty bits, lovely people and shitty people. I do find that "gods own country" and "everyone's so friendly" tends to raise hackles and merely invites retorts to disprove them

Could have saved us a whole thread if this had been the first response to the OP!

I'm London born and bred and so used to people slating London and Londoners that I just cba to take any of this stuff seriously, but did actually talk about this thread at a party on Saturday (have quite a few Yorkshire friends from uni) and even they had to admit that they got really wrapped up in the gods own stuff during the 2012 olympics, Tour de France and also - which was a bit of a surprise to me as I was working abroad at the time - the Scottish independence debate but in hindsight find it a bit cringey and not surprised it puts people's backs up with the sheer white rose-tinted specacles. People will say it's all in jest, but we all know that's not the full truth.

Does anyone else snigger slightly when you hear Sally traffic pronounce Castleford ? And can anyone else point me in the direction of the Roman bits of this historic Roman town