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 keeps the rain off Yorkshire, but Yorkshire keeps the bitingly cold wilds off Lancashire - the climate is significantly milder west of the Pennines.

How many National Parks does Lancashire have?

None, which is brilliant because non-locals shoot off up or across to the more obvious places. Lancashire has many AONBs and nature reserves.

As to Internet - well, I've got normal fibre to property which is nice, but there's a large rural area where the locals decided to build their own. The word BARN may not mean quite what you think in parts of rural Lancashire. I think the coverage area may even extend into Yorkshire now.

b4rn.org.uk/b4rn-service/coverage-area/

I’d love to know what a life where ‘number of Michelin starred restaurants’ is a criteria when picking an area to move to.

And anyway there are Michelin starred restaurants in the north.

It does depend what you deem important to your quality of life. I mean, if you have a need to go to the RSC for every production you might opt for Warwickshire. But some of us can bear to live with the Lowry, the Royal Exchange (etc) plus eg Dukes (stage to screen in a theatre works surprisingly well. )

Yeah Didsbury is way worse than a Luton.
What a stupid thread.

I’d love to know what a life where ‘number of Michelin starred restaurants’ is a criteria when picking an area to move to.

Same goes for all sorts of cultural activities IMO.

Yep, cinema, shopping and basic restaurants are a staple, but a lot of people bleat on about the amenities of London in terms of theatre, musicals etc.

I mean, great, like, but I'm not that into that kind of thing? I do like art, history etc, but I travel the world and see that sort of thing internationally. I'm also - shock horror - able to visit anywhere in the country (well, not right now obviously).

@thecatsthecats I know right. You’d have to be earning a lot in London to be able to go to the theatre and eat out every night, even if you did priorities it in your budget. Most of my London based friends experience of the west end is walking through it on their way to work, not paying £75 plus for a ticket every week !

I live in west Lancashire. It's horrible, destitute, cold, grey skies all the time. And we don't even get the luxury of a snow day in winter because we're surrounded by water on 3 sides so classed as a microclimate, we just get ice cold rain. All the time.

The only upside is I have 3 Booths in my area, the furthest being 30 minutes away. So at least I can get my Latham's chocolate fudge cake fix.

@figment where the heck do you live? Somewhere with it's own microclimate? The weather (admitted miserable and grey today, like most the country) is so variable. I got sunburnt over Easter weekend, and the lst bank holiday. And was in the garden in just a T-shirt with my sunglasses on yesterday!
I live near Preston.

How odd

I used to work at a michelin starred place near Beverley...

@Ginfilledcats I live on the fylde coast. It can be snowing heavily in Preston, yet as soon as you drive down the M55 the snow disappears.

Cos about £40 per basic meal so good luck eating that every week.

It hardly ever snows heavily in Preston. That (and most of the rain) waits till it gets to the hills.

Has James Martin arrived on the thread yet?

Ginfilledcats - it was a bit bloody chilly for ‘just’ a t-shirt in Preston yesterday. Hope you had pants on too

Just to add my twopenneth - Lancashire is an amazing place to live.

Some of you lot sound to be very close to me - Honeywell’s, superb butchers and farm shop (I’m actually related to them, but round here, so are quite a few of us 🤣). Latham’s, mmmm. I now need a coffee Renoir.

Another Northerner married to a Southerner. What the hell was I thinking of?!

You'll be ok up norf. You will just have to get used to your lunch will become dinner and your dinner will become tea. We don't use napkins, we just wipe with our sleeve. No dinner rolls, we have proper bread and butter. Wait until you get scraps with your chips, you'll hyperventilate!!

As another poster has stated anyone will strike a conservation up with you and suddenly you have made a new best friend! No they are not demented, just friendly. In the South if you dare to speak to a stranger, they look at you as you have sprouted another head! Oh wait a minute maybe I do have two heads as we are all interbred!

As for the poster that mentioned the bashing the stottie on the keyboard comment. Cheers for that love as I was currently in a queue on the phone to the doctors and burst out laughing just as the receptionist answered!

Anyway OP. I do hope we have sold the norf to you! You will love it!

Receptacle - I drove from Barley to Downham and back to Blacko this morning and didn’t see the top of Pendle Hill. 🤣

You will just have to get used to your lunch will become dinner and your dinner will become tea

Depends where you are, I've never lived anywhere but Yorkshire and we have lunch in the middle of the day, dinner and/or supper

Sorry meant to finish with "in the evening"

@MarieQueenofScots I am from Cleveland/Teesside. Have a lot of family in North Yorkshire though.

This thread is hilarious

Sorry OP, I've only just caught up with this thread. Up here in Lancashire I'm proud to call a wheelie bin home, and today it's the once a year bin day, so I've crawled out from under the chip fat and whippet poo that's been dumped on top of me for a glimpse of the big wide world. A couple of years ago I forgot about bin day and it got very messy.

So please don't come up here, it'll mean one less wheelie bin for the rest of us.

Me too @Lou670. Grew up in Hartlepool. I don't live there now but my parents and sister do.

I am from Cleveland/Teesside. Have a lot of family in North Yorkshire though

Both very nice parts of the world

@Bawdrip your dog would love a walk on the Lancaster Canal. Also Bowland forest.

Also why is there a farmhouse in the middle of the M62? I’ve always wondered that.