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

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DDRickyDD · 17/05/2020 20:21

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?

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CalmYoBadSelf · 17/05/2020 20:46

Well places in the Ribble Valley regularly win the best place to live in the UK type things, coastal towns like Lytham St Annes also score highly but I guess it'll tick along nicely without you anyway...

AdultierAdult · 17/05/2020 20:47

You’re talking about huge areas. I’d much rather live in York or Hope Valley, Derbyshire than Leicester or Slough.

Slumcat · 17/05/2020 20:47

YouTheCat
A lake you say? No need to brag

ClassicCola · 17/05/2020 20:47

I've heard they don't even eat avocados up North.

donquixotedelamancha · 17/05/2020 20:48

I live in a lake and eat cold gravel.

Gravel, gravel, we'd've been glad o' gravel when I were a lad. After out shift down t'pit we 'ad to walk 20 miles to school with no shoes and all we got for breakfast were a few pebbles.

I didn't see a plate full of gravel until I was 25 and went to the dazzling lights of Preston.

antipodalpizza · 17/05/2020 20:48

and even the ducks have it bad now because the racing pigeons stole the football.

derxa · 17/05/2020 20:48

So many goady OPs tonight.

Zaphodsotherhead · 17/05/2020 20:48

Oh, definitely don't come to North Yorkshire.

I had to eat my own young just to survive. And the zombie infestation is getting worse...

Redleathertrousers · 17/05/2020 20:49

@classiccola

Nope and not many of us av cars either.

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 17/05/2020 20:49

Give yer head a wobble OP. You can't be that thick, surely. Hmm

Sparklingbrook · 17/05/2020 20:50

I have heard all sorts about up north OP, and you are absolutely right. No quality of life at all.
I live in Worcestershire and it's not dissimilar, so don't come here either.

DDRickyDD · 17/05/2020 20:50

So where's the best place to live? Lancashire, Warwickshire or Leicestershire?

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buggeroffvirus · 17/05/2020 20:50

I hope you don't come here. You would lower the tone.

KKSlider · 17/05/2020 20:50

What's an avocado? Confused

I'm hoping this comes through as legible, they don't teach us to read and write all the way up here so I'm just bashing a stottie cake against the keyboard and hoping it forms words.

ExtraOnions · 17/05/2020 20:50

I’m not even sure what it’s like outside my house, the smog from the Dark Satanic Mills keeps us in constant darkness ...

scarbados · 17/05/2020 20:51

It's just fine up here in the North especially in the last few years since we got that electricaltricity stuff and water coming out of taps. We even have a few schools now.

QuestionMarkNow · 17/05/2020 20:51

I live in the North.

Tbf too @DDRickyDD, these ideas are pretty common. I’ve heard many people ‘from down south’ slagging the north (that people in the north see as the south Grin).

@DDRickyDD, both of those areas are in the South.... nor in the north of England

R1R2 · 17/05/2020 20:51

Lancashire is a bag of wank, Now Yorkshire there is a place blessed by the gods.

user1471565182 · 17/05/2020 20:51

Aye lass. AYE.

KKSlider · 17/05/2020 20:52

So where's the best place to live? Lancashire, Warwickshire or Leicestershire?

They are all Southern.

ethelredonagoodday · 17/05/2020 20:53

What are these avocados of which you speak PP? Bread and dripping/mucky fat is t' finest delicacy here. Any road up, off to wash a pig.

Devlesko · 17/05/2020 20:53

Terrible in Lancashire, you stay darn saff you don't want to be mixing with the likes of us. Confused

BlackberryCane · 17/05/2020 20:53

Don't come. Buy a half share of a shitbox in Zone 6 instead.

AdaColeman · 17/05/2020 20:54

H’w’y man, hinny stay safe down South there. Diven’t come up North, it’s al a’ful up here.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 17/05/2020 20:55

It's bloody awful here!

You don't want to come up here you patronising southern bastard , no you really, really don't and we don't fucking want you either.

I love the fact that here in the North we are close to countryside and beaches where on a quiet day you could be the only person there.

STFU Campervan.!