Another northern where to live plea

[NouvelleMamanNouvelleVie]

I've seen a few threads where you guys have given great advice to people not sure where to live.

Aibu to ask for some tips too?

Small children and I'm realising I need to be closer to my parents. They live in Doncaster but for one reason and another that's not an option itself.

I like york. Husband likes mountains / sea. I'm less keen on living up a mountain to be fair. I'm also terrified of being isolated.

We would love somewhere with some things to do, places to walk, countryside, maybe a forest to explore or canals to walk alongside. Somewhere with nice views.

I appreciate I'm being very picky.

Budget at a stretch is 400k. Maybe 425.

Please be kind, this move is the cause of an awful lot of anxiety and I have bad pnd that improves when I can see my mum!

Tickhill
Bawtry
Blythe
All close to Doncaster but nicer.

Dronfield - between chesterfield and Sheffield, nice,

Huddersfield and Chesterfield are alright

Tickhill, Bawtry, Everton, Misson, Gringley on the Hill, Epworth, Blyth, all very nice areas south of Doncaster. Depends which side/area of Doncaster your family are from as to how long the travel time. Non locals can't comprehend how long it can take from A1 Junction at Blyth, North Nottinghamshire to , or just past Doncaster , the traffic is usually bloody awful, and getting from Bawtry, through Doncaster and over North Bridge is also circa half an hour.
Retford is not very nice and very run down in the centre.

Whitby. Holidayed there almost annually as a kid. Lovely place.

@NouvelleMamanNouvelleVie

How do you even pronounce penistone?!

Pennis-ton?
Penis-ton?
Penis-stone?
Penis-tone?

Oh dear

RunBikeSki has it right, but each time we drive through it is called Penis Town. This could just be my family & friends.

You’re not going to get sea within “cup of tea distance” (30 mins?) from Donny in any direction and mountains moorlandy hills will be pushing it. Where is Donny is your family ? As pp have said, it’s a long way across. What’s close to Kirk Sandal unlikely to be close enough to Skellow type of thing. Especially if you have to cross the North Bridge at rush hour.

@Unescorted - it’s my nearest town. We’re over that now.

I haven't been to Sheffield in 24 years but my mum lived there for about ten years, and I always loved the city when visiting But she lived in a grand flat, with cellars, in Ranmoor, and looking online now similar properties command massive prices. Back then, I looked at moving there... but there were no jobs for me. In 1986, I could have bought a nice terraced house in a good area near the Botanic Gardens for about £40k.

I live near York, right by the A64. No way I'd be nipping down to Donny for a cup of tea! Way too far away.

@BikeRunSki I am glad you are bigger than our childishness. One year on the way back from Christmas Dinner in Leeds we saw a lady who had fallen over due to a few more sherries.... so I gave her a lift home. She pissed on my car seat as thanks. I sold my car to one of the girls that had a crush on my husband a few weeks later. I love Penis Town.

Sheffield. Two great theatres, Showroom Indie Cinema, Two Universities, great teaching hospitals, good schools if you live in the right areas. 10 minutes drive to the Peak District - a great mix of city and country living. Fulwood, Ranmoor, Ecclesall are good areas. Greystones and Netheredge are a bit cheaper and Walkley cheaper still. I moved here from London many years ago and I love the place - just the right size for a city.

If you think Sheffield is expensive then York is way out of your budget. 3 bed semi in my road currently up for 320k needs fully gutting and renovating but a really good price if you are prepared to do the work.

For all those saying parts of York are ‘rough’ have you even been there? I have lived here most of my life and there is nowhere I wouldn’t walk around on my own at night (perhaps by the riverside near the hostel but thats about it)
All brilliant schools, small city with all the benefits but in the countryside in 10mins.

Horrible drink till you vomit culture is popular with stag n hens but hopefully those bars wont recover from covid lockdown (a few have gone already) it is perfectly easy to avoid that side of the nightlife and have a lovely time.

Beware of expensive parking, ridiculous traffic levels and a huge numbers of tourists all year round. Saying all that though it is incredibly pretty, well connected and extremely safe.

There is a reason the house prices are high

Tis miles away from Doncaster though

Has nobody posted the video of that Doncaster pub yet?

I can see north lincolnshire from my house over the humber at night and its honestly like the beginning scene of Blade Runner- New Holland and Mingingham lit up like a diseased christmas tree. Its all really flat and a mix of small post industrial spots and bleak farmland. No character. Its just a bit of a black hole.

They invented the game soggy biscuits in Pocklington.

I had my hen in York. We went for afternoon tea. 😂 no staggering or sick involved.

I currently live in a stag and hen town and it has its pros and cons. It's beautiful.. and quite safe but I just avoid Saturday nights. It's quite similar to York in many ways I guess.

Im very interested in the posts telling me where's dull for teens and full of drugs. I am already concerned about those issues... even though my eldest is only two 😂 i would hate for them to grow up to resent where we live when we were able to really pick anywhere.

@Whycantibetangy

If you think Sheffield is expensive then York is way out of your budget. 3 bed semi in my road currently up for 320k needs fully gutting and renovating but a really good price if you are prepared to do the work.

For all those saying parts of York are ‘rough’ have you even been there? I have lived here most of my life and there is nowhere I wouldn’t walk around on my own at night (perhaps by the riverside near the hostel but thats about it)
All brilliant schools, small city with all the benefits but in the countryside in 10mins.

Horrible drink till you vomit culture is popular with stag n hens but hopefully those bars wont recover from covid lockdown (a few have gone already) it is perfectly easy to avoid that side of the nightlife and have a lovely time.

Beware of expensive parking, ridiculous traffic levels and a huge numbers of tourists all year round. Saying all that though it is incredibly pretty, well connected and extremely safe.

There is a reason the house prices are high

Tis miles away from Doncaster though

Linky poos to the house? Or is it too outing!! @whycantibetangy

@user1471565182

I can see north lincolnshire from my house over the humber at night and its honestly like the beginning scene of Blade Runner- New Holland and Mingingham lit up like a diseased christmas tree. Its all really flat and a mix of small post industrial spots and bleak farmland. No character. Its just a bit of a black hole.

I used to work in sunny scunny. 😑😑😑😑

@SirSamuelVimes

I live near York, right by the A64. No way I'd be nipping down to Donny for a cup of tea! Way too far away.

Yeah but my mum buys Mr Kipling so it's a real pull.

Train journey from Donny to York is only 20 minutes, about 1/3 of the time it takes me to commute from our village south of Doncaster to go to work in the centre of Sheffield. When we moved here, we wanted Sheffield but for the same house price got a large 4-bed with huge garden rather than a semi or terrace on a busy road. I visit my daughter in York (Fulford) regularly - takes about 45 mins drive up the A1 or I just go on the train - then if we want to go into York city centre we get a bus. No sea near here but lots of big lakes e.g. at Clumber, and Rother Valley and Hatfield for water sports. If you’re desperate, Cleethorpes is only an hour away! Pre-Covid Donny was just reviving - with the new Wool Market, Cast Theatre, Savoy Cinema, nice new places to eat and drink... Schools not as bad as they were and loads of countryside within reach. PS I don’t work for the tourist board either!

The Lincolnshire woods are lovely, it’s not all flat and boring out there.

Lincolnshire is also in the Midlands rather than the North.

Some of Lincolnshire is classed as midlands, not all of it.

(North Lincolnshire is part of Yorkshire)

Anything over 20 minutes isn’t popping in distance IMHO.

I lived 45 mins away from my parents in NW Leeds, the traffic was often so shit it took nearly an hr though, there’s wasn’t much popping in, maybe saw them a couple of times a month. Could have been anywhere.

Moved back to my home town but over the other side I’m about 20 mins away now and honestly it’s still not popping in distance.

If it’s your forever home just be really clear about what your priorities are. You could always rent for a bit in York to see if it works. If your children aren’t school aged it doesn’t matter so much.

I think the crux of it is you want to be closer to your Mum, but you think you’ve risen far and above Doncaster and it’s environs now, and York is the only closest ‘naice’ place you would find a acceptable - am I right??? I’m not being mean saying that. Nowt wrong with it. Like my my hometown Doncaster had become a bit of a shit hole. Just good to admit it to yourself and others now and save yourself some time 😂.

Just thought what about the villages around Selby/A19 they’re are supposed to be nice. Still close to York but closer to your Mum. Ricall’s supposed to be nice. Driven through it h a few times v v nice housing stock.

How can north Lincolnshire be part of Yorkshire ?