Yorkshire

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Every time I watch Happy Valley, I want to live there.
I live abroad, but am originally from the North west, no idea why I never visited Yorkshire 🤷🏻‍♀️
Is it as lovely as it looks, people who live there/have visited?

Yes but it’s also the part of the country with the worst accent in the world 👀🙈😂

It's beautiful. I'm from the Lake District originally but Yorkshire has been my home for 35 years now. I find it friendly but you get out what you put in.

Rochdale is in Lancashire

Might be big but it doesn't fit Rochdale in so we let Lancashire have that (think they gave it to Greater Manchester, ungrateful buggas)

When I watch Happy Valley and I hear Jake Bugg singing the theme, this bit jumps out at me every time
Stuck in speed bump city
Where the only thing that's pretty
Is the thought of getting out

I grew up in that area and I couldn’t wait to get out. It may have improved in recent years, but it was a pretty bleak place at one time. I wouldn’t go back to live there. I went back to visit a few years ago and it was still as bad as I remembered and I was very happy to leave.

As others have said, Yorkshire is massive and living in a town in West Yorkshire is different to living rurally in North Yorkshire or by the coast. People in West Yorkshire and by the coast tend to be much friendlier. York and Harrogate in particular can be a bit snobby. There are lovely areas and rough areas everywhere though.

You can’t judge somewhere by seeing it on the TV or even going on holiday. Your experience of a place on holiday would be worlds away from the reality of living there day to day.

it's a big place, so towns, villages, cities vary a lot.

I've lived in different areas of Yorkshire. Some places were easier to settle in then others.

One village was was awful, very insular and (dare i say inbreed) generations of generations of the same families in one place pretty much somehow all related. After a few years there were a few more incomers but the locals still kept a closed shop, so there were 2 separate communities in one place, the incomers and the locals.

Other villages and towns all very welcoming and easy to fit in.

if you actually do want to move, you'd have to pin point exactly which part of Yorkshire, then ask about the local villages and towns there, to avoid the pit falls of a 'local mentality' place.

I hate the phrase God's own country, and I live in Yorkshire!
Moved back after 35 years in London and it is a stunning place. I was born here and lived here for 18 years, but it's only now that I'm visiting most of it.

Huge region with very different areas and levels of wealth, poverty, multiculturalism and insular communities.

Like many of my friends and neighbours, we came for university, loved it and stayed.

Happy Valley is border land. Parents in law live in Todmorden where some of the series was filmed. It's in West Yorkshire just but they have an Oldham post code and would go to Rochdale as their local town. So very Lancashire slash greater Manchester

My dads family are Leeds and mums from Middlesbrough and I was brought up on the Durham north York's border. So lots of Yorkshire experience lol.

My husband is from Yorkshire. My cousins and aunt all also relocated to Harrogate at various points. There is some beautiful scenery but I don't think I have ever met so many small-minded bigots in my life as various people I have come across in my 25 years plus of various visits and stays. And God help you if you've got anything approaching a southern accen

I'm from South London originally, and moved to Leeds 43 years ago. The only slightly negative impression I got was "why would you want to leave London to come and live in Leeds?"

I can't help but feel that the common denominator is you@VeronicaVanHoopen because I have never come across the number of small minded bigots since I moved here that you have. The village we live in now has incomers from all over the UK, and we felt welcome from the day we moved in.

We’ll we just moved back to the York / Leeds area having lived abroad- maybe it’s us, maybe it’s not but since arriving in August we haven’t made many friends and are currently viewed as outsiders in our village because we are ‘living in the rental property’. (Yes there’s only one rented house in the village!!)

we are in the process of buying our own place in another little village nearby and hoping this one will be better!!

All the Welsh people I know use "God's Own Country" to describe Wales aswell.

@RampantIvy Fair enough. I doubt it's the case that I'm causing the issue but you've only got words on a page to judge by. Glad you've had a positive experience.

And the most xenophobic and insular people I have known have been, embarrassingly, members of my London born and bred family

Yorkshire is massive - I live in York. It's so different to West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire - the accents seem much stronger there. North Yorkshire has some lovely villages and East Riding has the Wolds and the coast line. Well, as does North Yorkshire.

The scenery is amazing, house prices vary massively (looking at you, York and Harrogate) and it's not too difficult to get out to places. Except through Harrogate.

Occasionally we take the M62 to Manchester and Lancashire.

The Lakes, Northumbria and Derbyshire aren't too far away.

I’m from Yorkshire. It’s humongous and a lot of it is a complete shithole. Lots of lovely parts too obviously but it definitely isn’t all rolling hills and sheep shit.

Indeed. When I was 16 I used to get the bus to my boyfriend's. Lovely old millowner's house, but it was in Boothtown near Halifax. I was probably a lot less safe than I felt I was!

Sorry for the pedantry. It's Northumberland. Northunbria is a university.

FrenchFancie

when you say leeds/york area, then how the village i think I could ciuld hazard a guess at ar the actual area. As the village I mentioned could at a push be described as being in that area.

I feel I should have known that.

I'm from Manchester but been in Bradford for 35 years. Some parts are just stunning, I'm in Saltaire currently. Beautiful woodlands and moors a short walk away. Great transport links. And my favourite bit is the people, diverse and very friendly. Downsides are distance from the sea and some serious lack of integration issues. In some areas.

So it really depends on the individual and what you value most. It's friendliness and beauty for me so being here works.

I was born in West Yorkshire, but moved about 12 years ago down to Hertfordshire for Hubby's job (I also lived in Manchester which is also fab). I visit my family and friends regularly, but I don't think I could move back permanently. There are lots of deprived and run down areas (like anywhere I guess). However I'd certainly move to North Yorkshire, it's stunning.

The Hertfordshire countryside is lovely, but it pales in comparison to the rolling hills of Yorkshire!

Which place is closest to the beach, but also has the rolling hills etc?
I’m seriously considering leaving my place of palm trees, sun & beaches to go to Happy valley land

I live in the Calder valley (where happy valley is filmed) beautiful but…

It’s the wettest place I’ve ever lived. I’ve never known anything like it, and I spent a huge amount of time living in Manchester. Im with family the other side of the Pennines this weekend as we were honestly saying we couldn’t remember when we last saw the blue skies they have here. It’s depressing and the weather gets to me really badly here.
It’s in a steep valley and a lot of it get remarkably little direct sun.

Prices: depends where you are, Hebden bridge = very pricey, most of the rest, not so much.

Huge parts of it, especially around hebden and todmorden flood.

RE welcoming, everyone who lives in hebden these days is from London…
Todmorden I’ve know a few people from Manchester have a few “comments” but no active hostility, (although there is a lot of whinging about it on FB pages) if you were in one of the smaller (and weirder) places like Portsmouth it could be a bit more prevalent.

RE rolling hills and beaches.. north wales!