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?

Where in Lancashire are you thinking?

Born in Yorkshire now living over the border in Lancashire
You poor thing, do you have an escape plan?

@user1471565182 No, not Brid (although Brid is lovely) it's Tynemouth.

Nah - it's shit. People don't have showers in their homes and they have outside toilets.
The cities are crap - high crime, vandalism, you can't go out at night without getting attacked.
The countryside is just a barren wasteland. Hideous - you wouldn't want to go there.
Then there's the people - they all speak funny dialects so you won't be able to understand them. The blokes are down at the pub all the time with their whippets.

To summarize - stay where you are. You won't like it. It's grim up north.

I am so much happier after reading some of the replies that the Scots are still fighting in the borders and I am hopeful they can take the north north east over and we can follow Scottish lockdown rules and take our fried food to next level.

Gods own county- Yorkshire!! Nothing else to add

I think it is an urban myth that the North is the worst off part of the country. In the South West we get sweet FA.

Well both are 'worst off' in the sense of their level of goverment investment. When you look at the amount spent per person on things like culture, captial investment and transport these regions are robbed blind compared to the South East.

What does for the South West is your proximity to the South East- all those tourists and second home owners pushing up prices but not paying tax or voting in that region.

That's why we don't want the fuckers to twig how nice it is up here.

One of the best things about the north is not having to go to the coast to go to a pier.

How very parochial.

@MsSquiz @AdaColeman Ssh! I think what you both actually meant was 'Oh dear! That's a very grimy looking, ugly place. No one in their right mind would move there. They'd be covered in coal dust in no time and wouldn't understand the language.'

@Pixie2015 - you’d be more than welcome. Most of us see you as honorary Scots (if you want to be!) anyway. :)

Gods own county- Yorkshire!! Nothing else to add

Indeed....(I love this joke)

An American decided to write a book about famous churches around the world, so he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to Rome.

On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when he noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read $10,000 per call' The American, being intrigued, asked a priest who was strolling by what the telephone was used for.

The priest replied that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000 you could talk to God.

The American thanked the priest and went along his way.

Next stop was in Moscow. There, at a very large cathedral, he saw the same golden telephone with the same sign under it. He wondered if this was the same kind of telephone he saw in Rome and he asked a nearby nun what its purpose was.

She told him that it was a direct line to heaven and that for S10,000 he could talk to God.

'O.K., thank you,' said the American.

He then traveled to France, Israel, Germany and Brazil. In every church he saw the same golden telephone with a '$10,000 per call' sign under it. The American finally decided to travel to the UK to see if the British had the same phone. He arrived in York and again, in the Minster, there was the same golden telephone, but this time the sign under it read '20p per call.' The American was surprised so he asked the priest about the sign. 'Reverend, I've traveled all over World and I've seen this same golden telephone in many churches. I'm told that it is a direct line to Heaven, but everywhere I went the price was $10,000 per call. Why is it so cheap here?'

The priest smiled and answered, 'You're in Yorkshire now Lad, - it's only a local call'.

And they might get bitten by a whippet or a lurcher.....or a local.

And they might get bitten by a whippet or a lurcher.....or a loca

Or a ferret. I saw one being walked last week.

Born in Yorkshire now living over the border in Lancashire

Do you have a justgiving page? Would you mind if I share it to make more people aware of your terrible change in circumstances and try get the donations up?

@LuluJakey1 that's exactly what I meant! It's only because I grew up covered in coal dust & can speak the language that I still live up here!

I will say that having lived in the south and rural NE that the weather down south is definitely better.
Don't underestimate a hard northern winter.

Ha. Absolutely horrible up north it is, horrible. You can’t go anywhere without tripping over a Betty’s cafe, Booths, gorgeous architecture, amazing history, the Yorkshire dales, the beauty of the north east coast, the food, old people rolling down hills having jolly japes in bathtubs...it’s the WORST

The thing that spoils the lovely, kind north for me is when southerners move up, with their funny accents and all that ducking, diving and shouting 'innit'.
Ugh.

@donquixotedelamancha 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.

Oops, pressed send too quickly.

So, you stay down there, hinny. It's not nice up here, pet.

On the contrary I'm from the north and live in the SE and if I could I'd move back up in a heart beat. Sick of house prices, cost of living, congestion everywhere and less friendly in general people ( though of course some individuals are lovely). Just my experience obvs but I take as I find and I've given it a good go for 18 years...

I live in a cardboard box in the middle of t' motorway, wearing my flatcap and victorian apron scrubbing the steps of my terrace house with a wooden brush. It rains every day. Its not ordinary rain either. Its rain with soot in it. We've endless streets with cobbles (yes even the motorways) and there mills everywhere. Just mills. All the trees died. The sun only rises in June. Everyone talks funny. We pay for things using lard and pebbles. Everyone is 8 inches shorter because of the malnutrition and rickets. Avocado is a word in the dictionary just after Aardvark. We don't have full dictionaries as they get used for fuel for the firepit. The Before photos on Homes Under The Hammer is what we aspire to for luxury.

And good grief. THERE'S NOO ARTISAN CHEESE. Except for in Salford where the BBC is, because it was the only way they could bribe people to leave London - cos Booths - True Story.

But you know what we DO have?

A bloody good sense of humour to rinse idiots who haven't crossed the Watford Wall and travelled to these wild uncivilised wastelands.

@DDRickyDD
What are you talking about? I’d move up norf in a heart beat if it wasn’t for my family and friends living here. I’ve a special love with up norf. Us in the sowf are missing a trick. I do have friends up norf, but more family in the sowf. —hopes dh has a transfer soon— 🤞🏼

@donquixotedelamancha

No way, the North has had way more investment than we have. The Northern Powerhouse, HS2, the recent investment and spending increase announced by BoJo, the renovation of the city centres including Manchester and Liverpool, etc etc. Even the Tories are prioritising the North now, when has any party targeted the south west?

My in laws are from Yorkshire and my Nanna is from Burnley, both live down here now and even they say parts of it are shit