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?

Awful views where I live, rains all the time, there's no greenery, and I've never seen a wild animal 🤣 its awful I wouldn't inflict it on anyone.

ClientQ Very pretty but what those are huge grey bottomed cumulus clouds? As a southerner I’d be thinking rain was imminent.

I’m still in bed but this is the sky from my housing estate atm. Morning cloud will be burnt off soon Does get boring having to water all the tine. Not had rain for over 10 days now.

I think we can accept Devon & Cornwall as honorary northerners by virtue of only being remembered about at holiday time.
Pasties are almost pies too.

@TheDrsDocMartens Phew!! I can't wait to get back up to Yorkshire.

Pasties are almost pies too.

Pasties the sold at Cooplands, that makes em honorary pies in my book. 👍

I love this thread.

Well, the bits of it from the red rose side of t'hills anyway. I'm still keeping an eye on you Yorkshire folk.

Butter pie, anyone?

Pasties the sold at Cooplands, that makes em honorary pies in my book. 👍

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I'm surprised at all the Cooplands love. I haven't been for years and the one time I did go, they were like a cheap and nasty version of Greggs.

they were like a cheap and nasty version of Greggs

*They were like a more reasonable and much better tasting version of the rip off fuckers, Greggs.

Fixed that for you. 😉

I used to entertain the southern crowds by being asked to say certain words. Skirt was one I remember, but the ones that got them rolling in the aisles were bath, grass and laugh. I can say them nicely now but it has taken half a lifetime.

QUISLING!

There's a Waitrose in Preston.

It's rubbish because they don't sell clogs.

Or flat caps.

Or ferret shampoo.

Waste of valuable retail space if you ask me.

Well I grew up in Warwickshire and was horrifically abused. Think grooming gangs, happened in our naice town. Coventry is also a bit of a shit whole, their hospital is absolutely shocking.

I now live in Leicestershire and we are looking to move north to lincolnshire so we can afford some land. The small naice town I'm in surrounded by villages is as everywhere is, a mix of lovely people and a drug dealers and burglars etc.
No one area, certainly not an entire count, is going to be wonderful. There are people in all these places and with people there are real lives, issues, money problems, abuse, arguments, poverty.

I have a cooplands at the top of my road. I can go spend £5 and get 20 sausage rolls to throw at Barbara

I might be kind and get some yum yums too.

Avocados? Those are those little salty fish in tins, aren't they?

Them's the ones!

I'm a Yorks/Lancs mongrel and lived t'other side before this side. Both are preferable to the part of the sarf I grew up or the midlands where I did my degrees...for many reasons but access to proper hills and lower density of people included.

I've never actually had a butter pie, maybe I should add a couple to our next meat delivery from Honeywell's? We're resisting using Latham's as one of our lockdown food suppliers, but some of you might be interested to know they're delivering quite widely and plan to provide a national service. (and if you don't know what I'm talking about just ignore this valuable info)

And it’s quite nice having two major airports and two minor ones Portsmouth to drive over to Europe or Eurostar for the train all less than 90 minutes away.

That's true - when we go camping in France, we do have to factor that in.

Saying that. we did leave early in the morning from home and made the 11am Eurostar to France. Just a drive down the A1.

Yes it’s awful up here. The clean air, the beautiful countryside, the friendly unpretentious people. Stay where you are!

Southerner here living in Lancashire. Slightly off topic but can some of you friendly northerners reveal where all these beautiful photos are taken. I need recommendations for some new dog walks. We haven't managed to tear ourselves away from the beaches yet but some green walks would be lovely too. I promise we'll be wearing appropriate wellies and flat caps to blend in if that helps?

But I live in Durham so that’s probably considered north of the wall!

Can I just ask for a Cooplands clarification, which I may have missed as I haven't RTFT.
Are we talking North Yorkshire cooplands, or South Yorkshire cooplands, or somewhere else entirely?

@Leflic - Lancashire. Rain is always imminent

I was born in central London, lived there til early teens then suburbs 12 miles out. Roll forward many decades, we live in the NorthWest now.
Frequently visit relatives in London: overriding impression of London now is how overpriced and shabby an awful lot of it is, especially the commuter belt.

My walk yesterday. And no, I'm not telling where it is to people who think a 'village' is fifteen million houses, a school, a shopping centre, two banks, a Post Office, four doctors' surgeries and an armed robbery.

THIS is a village...(listens to the silence). This is a Yorkshire village...

ha I didnt say cooplands was any good. Although the sandwiches are alright.

Cooplands is based in Hull/Scarborough but I have no idea how far it goes. It just seems to vanish when I go over the humber bridge

I do remember how disappointing it was to visit Waitrose for the first time just to discover it was an up-itself Sainsbury's.

Booths is heaven on earth. It really is more of a foodhall than a grubby supermarket like Waitrose.

If I win the lottery I'm cleaning them out.