To think the north of England offers a worse quality of life than the South or Midlands?

[DDRickyDD]

I was thinking of moving to Lancashire, but having done some research online, it seems a lot of people have negative opinion of it. I'm now set on Warwickshire or Leicestershire. Does the north in general offer a worse quality of life than the Midlands? I know its cheaper up north but is it much worse up there?

The North of England is actually quite a big place with many towns and cities, which shock horror are not all the same. I am from the North West and love it but I am from a big city and like that kind of lifestyle. There are obviously smaller towns in the North with a slower pace of life. It depends what you are after. If you are one of the many ill informed who think it is grim having never spent any significant time up here then you are probably better off where you are. I also wouldn't male such a big move having only checked online. You should be visiting a place several times before you consider moving there as you need to get a feel for a place and see it with your own eyes. Your post seems very naive.

Pebbles? That would have been a feast to us. We only had pebbles at Christmas. The rest of the year all we had to eat were broken glass.

:-)

Could be worse. You might have lived in Milton Keynes.

Except for in Salford where the BBC is, because it was the only way they could bribe people to leave London - cos Booths

There is a Booths in Media City, isn't there....

*make

Surprised nobody's posted this yet ...

Northern Powerhouse has done nowt for Newcastle. And HS2 stops at Leeds - Thank God!

Northumberland is hideous. A bleak, grubby wasteland!

It's dreadful. Please stay put 👍

Not read the full thread but I think we've had something similar in the past and my response is just as it was previously. I am about 10 miles from the Ribble Valley - the Queen had said that if she was plain old Mrs Windsor, she would live in the Ribble Valley (mind you, she does own some of it). Years ago, my boss had just moved up from Guildford and at the time, the house prices in the south were so high that when he moved here, he managed to buy a renovated farmhouse for the price he sold his detached 3 bedroom house in Guildford. He said he would never go back south. He also liked the food - he said the portions were bigger up here.

If you have such a blinkered view of Lancashire, as other posters have said, we don't really want you here, thank you.

I offer my humble thanks to those concerned about my situation.....as a Yorkshire woman now residing in Lancashire I appreciate the support. It's tough but I have some good news:

I can actually see Yorkshire from my house ......tis glorious

My village technically used to be in Yorkshire and most of the houses have a white rose decoration and the old men on the allotment fly the Yorkshire flag. I'm thinking of getting one for the garden

I made my Mancunian in laws have Yorkshire puddings with their Christmas dinner.

And now to the bad news..
My son has a manc accent and calls a teacake a muffin 😭😭😭😭

chomalungma
You wish!
The original factual telling of that true story was 1st London £10000, then Liverpool £5000, then York £1000, then Newcastle £500 then Edinburgh 4d. 😉😉😉

It’s worser than worse don’t come!

@SueEllenMishke

It's definitely a tea cake. Love from South West x

My son has a manc accent and calls a teacake a muffin

But if you go to East Lancashire, you can have a teacake with soup..

And it's definitely not a muffin there.

No way, the North has had way more investment than we have.

You are not wrong that the SW gets the worst deal (certainly on transport with £219 per head spent compared to £290 in the NW). My point was that all regions are being fucked over compared to London which gets £1900 per head.

The figures for other targeted regional investment by government are similarly bad- so the least advantaged areas are getting the least investment.

When you look at the size of that huge discrepency we should all be pissed off with the SE rather than bothered about the differences between the scraps we get.

Hell no.

Moving to the North was one of the very best things I ever did. Ok, so its a different way of life, it rains all the fecking time and insulated wellies are kind of necessary in the winter. But every time I go back down South to visit family I am reminded of why I like living where I do.

Chips and gravy. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Are you sure it’s not a barmcake?

The Ribble valley often tops quality of life polls. Much of Lancashire is surprisingly rural and hilly. The land is very fertile so there is a lot of dairy farming.
That said I dont especially like some of the towns and I grew up in one.

wolfgirrl yes!!!
If you ask me for a muffin you get one with chocolate chips in 😂

I wanna know where the line is, so I don't accidentally cross it without knowing ...either way

There are some things that you can only get in the South/London. There's two I am aware of:

The weather is better and summer is about a month longer, which if you enjoy gardening or outdoor life (or even just lunch in the beer garden) does make a difference.

The cultural/creative buzz in London isn't matched by any of the other UK cities. It's not that other cities don't have galleries or theatres or music venues - of course they do - but the sheer volume and range of grassroots and niche stuff in London is so much wider, which is a function of (1) there being so many people that almost anything can find an audience, and (2) a self-reinforcing trend for London attracting away people from other regions who might otherwise be doing grassroots and niche stuff in their home towns.

(There are no things I'm aware of that you can only get in the Midlands apart from the local specialities and history, but every region has a version of that.)

If these matter to you then the North will never compare.

Otherwise, like most people are saying, the difference between individual areas is far more significant than North vs Midlands vs South.

Hi op. It rains in Lancashire. A lot. Really, if you're not used to it, it could shock you. You dont need sandals here because it also rains in summer.

Also, if your hair is naturally curly, it’s just a pain living in a damp atmosphere. You style your hair. You go outside. It’s of course raining. You're hair is curly again.

Sometimes the weather in summer gets to new highs! And being in lancashire the beach is not too far a way at all. So 21 degrees at the Weekend and I'm on the beach!

Am i selling it?

OP, you are being incredibly insulting to huge numbers of people here. Please stop it.

Oh, and Leics/Warks are not 'north'.

Stay put

@donquixotedelamancha

Agreed about London. Its unfair we just get lumped in with 'the south' and assumed to be wealthy and privileged SW is mainly farmland, plus the shit transport means we have no chance of attracting investment. The farms are underappreciated and underpaid. Sorry to rant, this topic gets my goat as we literally never get a mention

Yep, it's awful. We all curse the day we ended up here. Do us yourself a favour and stay put.