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

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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?

Lancashire is very well placed for variety.

It is...right in the middle of the country too.

Yeah please don't come to the north. It's fucking awful. 😆

My "quality of life" is great thankyou for your concern.

Yorkshire is a third world cess-pit.
Lancashire is the nearest thing to paradise on earth.
HTH.

The sun never shines in the north because there is a physical cut off point

Yeah, I don't have a tan from sitting in the garden last weekend. No tan at all. It's just muck, a good bath (tin and in front of the range) will get me back to my usual pasty grey colour.

Dunno.

We spend too much time down the pits to worry about shite like quality of life.

Wouldn't it be weird if instead of our glorious collection of countries being spread north and south, we were just a thirty mile high vastly wide horizontal land! One central train track east to west , 15 identical university cities. Actually, it's better as it is, in all its wondrous variety. But, please don't say all southerners are standoffish and rude, that's a regionist as anything op has said!

Since lockdown, every single day I have regretted moving back up north. I should have stayed in London with the view out front of the houses the other side of the street, the view out back of the houses in the next street, my journey to work seeing tarmac, concrete and brick. The gangs of young people, the stabbing and shootings. I was so stupid to move here with country walks from my doorstep, my journey to work seeing green fields, trees, hills, buzzards, pheasants. The friendly people. Unfortunately now I can’t afford to move back to London so I guess I am stuck here forever. Nightmare.

I'm in the Midlands and based in your OP we don't want you either.

And just to be clear.....

Can I clear up the confusion about avocados? They're what southerners eat in lieu of mushy peas.

Awful views, always rains and never sunny

As a southerner, I do really hate mushy peas. Not sure about the whole scone/scone thing though. It caused many an argument with my school friends. Not such a clearly marked thing.

I'm a southerner and I bloody love mushy peas. Also eccles cakes and bakewell tarts (the real thing not kiplings).

Ill just send out the MBP (Manc Border Patrol) don't worry guys she won't get any further than Fallowfield.

I've the misfortune of living less than an hour from all of the following: Lake District, Morecambe Bay, Forest of Bowland, Yorkshire Dales, North Pennines, Scotland, the dreadful wide open and deserted beaches of West Cumbria, West Pennine Moors, The Fylde and more. It's dreadful.

Thankfully the M6 is 10 minutes drive away and there's a mainline railway station close, too, so I can get to London in two hours where the civilisation and wonderful and much missed smell of drains are.

It never stops raining here, and temperatures in August are barely above freezing. I'm sewn into my thermals and only change them when they rot and fall off.

I never go wild swimming, fell walking, kayaking, wind surfing, cycling. I don't walk along canal toll paths, or cycle along the 5 mile prom between Morecambe and Heysham (a truly ugly village). I never visit art galleries or museums in Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh (the latter two also being 2 hours away by train).

It's an absolute wasteland here. No history, no culture, sod all to do. As it is everywhere in the north. Don't come.

Don't worry OP. Some while back the KLF prepared a list of places in the North to avoid.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=HwtSdJaPCSI

I live in Sheffield and it’s alright where I am but I would love to move to Scotland someday because I much prefer the Scottish people. My husband isn’t too keen though, he’s Pakistani and he says he likes it more in Yorkshire because the Pakistani community is so large and thriving and he is afraid it won’t be the same up there. He will also miss his family and he doesn’t like the cold bless!

Op didn't make it back then

Obviously a Southerner

Yeah it’s really terrible in Yorkshire, we only have coal to eat but we have to ration it now because there’s not much left.

Yorkshire Dales beats the crap out of where I am. It's nice here, but to me, far nicer in Yorkshire.

I go a lot for work and have always loved it. My wife and boys love it too. Just looking at booking a holiday there next year, if we are all allowed to go on holiday by then.

I love in scotland - which I love - but have a real affection for the north of England and would very happily love there. It’s warm for me

I live in the Midlands and wish I lived in the north.

I’ve lived in Scotland, Berkshire and now Tyne and Wear. I really miss living down south. It is far better. There’s just more to do. Weather is better as well

@ErrolTheDragon What a beauty that short legged whippet is, extremely rare and only ever found in the north.

Pros and cons to each writing as someone brought up in the NE of England and living in (outer) London. In fact I have ended up my parents in a way as they owned a detached house in the Newcastle suburbs as do I but in London. So I think the similarities of those lives are greater than the differences. Things take longer to get to from London in terms of getting to isolated coast and nice woods with no one in them and yes it is a few degrees warmer here than in Newcastle but it is not exactly a different climate!

I am not looking for "more to do" really and never was as was always busy with full time work and children. I think there has been more choice of better schools down here although our private schools in Newcastle were certainly not bad. In London there is a bit more of a mixing of people of different kinds, a bit more of a melting pot meritocracy than perhaps I remember of the NE but it is not a fair comparison as I am comparing 1970s NE to 2020 London.

This house in the middle of the country looks pretty nice for the price of a much smaller 4 bed house detached just up the road from me in London www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-77863414.html you get 17 bed for £1.5m Lincs for that one......