to think I should move up North

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I've never really been to the north much and haven't lived there but the house prices!

Many, many parts of the north are fantastic. Come and join us!

The north is very pretty but its sodding cold!

Depends on where in the north tbh, some places are still expensive.

So your whole life revolves round house prices? You can pick up and move - your job, family, kids and schools, friends and support network- to an entirely different region just because you think it's cheap? I've always wondered how this works. Places with cheaper housing often also have lower employment opportunities/wages/services to go with this. I'm amazed on MN how easily people can just 'move up north'. Do they all just have jobs they can do anywhere? Live alone so all the decision making is theirs with no impact on anyone else? Fucking hell it was a major upheaval for us to move 40 miles a few years ago, much less hundreds of miles. I mean, don't you need a job to pay the mortgage?

Please don't! No offence, but just because you find the house prices cheap up here it doesn't mean the rest of us do. If y'all come hurtling up here with your southern bank balances, you'll shove the prices even further out of our reach.

Some of us find the house in your link quite expensive for a 2 bed.

Yes, house prices are cheaper (in some areas) but wages are lower.

My DD has moved up north. Lovely fanily orientated people. Yes, the big cities have problems, but thats probably the same in all cities, we just dont have many here. House prices are sensible. Close by some great national parks.

Well do you have jobs ‘up north?’

Wierd thread

Reasons to come North

• cheaper, affordable houses
• less traffic
• nicer, friendlier people
• cheaper to eat out, and socialising generally

It’s a no-brainer tbh, OP. I visited London for the first team in years last week. NEVER AGAIN.

Wages are lower, weather is rubbish (usually) and public transport is very bad and expensive
Apart from that...I love it here

i was going to say that Harriet i dont think that house is paticularly cheap for a two bed, also its been boiling in my town for months now its not cold , and my town missed the worst of the beast from the east because of the penines.

The house prices are cheaper for a reason.

👆🏻What Bigpinkball said 👆🏻

I live up north and I wouldn't pay that much for that house. Our wages are lower and it's pretty chilly 90% of the time but yeah, come on up...

Our three bed (in a desirable area) was cheaper than that when we bought six months ago. Can't say it's particularly good value for what it is tbh.

I nearly had a heart attack when I read a thread recently that showed a couple of houses not dissimilar to ours but that were 4x the price for the privilege of being down south.

To be honest that’s comparable here in the midlands and you are in the heart of the country.

Love Leeds used to live there. Dh works in London. Totally utterly vile. He can’t wait to retire and never visit again.

The house prices are cheaper for a reason.

Because they’re further from London?

Cheaper houses, beautiful countryside, national parks, charming villages, brilliant cities, architecture, culture, music, great schools, jaw-dropping scenery and less than two hours' train journey to London if needed.

Choose well and 'up north' can be an amazing choice of where to thrive.

Are you just randomly looking through right move for any house anywhere??

Seems strange to look for a house in an area 'up north' when you don't really have any intention to move

Unless it's your house really?!

That's not really cheap for a 2 bed.

This thread will go the way the rest of them do. Slagging off the north until someone bites and sends it back.

"The north" sounds more like an area in Game of Thrones than a part of the UK. Places have names, it's not all just a big blob.

Huddersfield isn't very northern. Hth

Because they’re further from London? hmm

because there are fewer opportunities, higher unemployment and wages are lower. I’m from the North but live in the south and last time I looked you could buy a flat for £9k in my home town, but I wouldn’t go back there for anything, even though I’d be able to swap my 2 bed semi for a 4 bed detached house.

I know what you mean.

Every now and then, I look at houses in the Scottish borders. For roughly what we'd get for our tiny, 2-bed semi in Sussex, we could buy this:

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54885786.html

No neighbours or their noisy builders to disturb our peace, and the cold wouldn't bother me that much. It's the short days in the winter that would get me down.

Honesty I can’t imagine anyone preferring to live in Peckham to living in Worcester, Derbyshire, Yorkshire etc. But it’s work isn’t it. Jobs. Everyone knows it’s bollocks down south

Last time I was in Kent it rained non stop and the houses were that old white shite ‘clap board’ and hideously expensive and depressing. Yeuk. Couldn’t wait to get back to the beautiful midlands