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Shesquiteannoying · 2023-01-14T22:52:52+00:00

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?

Mustardcustardgrumblebellyandgravy · 15/01/2023 11:08

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/127570391#/?channel=RES_BUY

I'd like this in ten years please!

I see what poster mean about house prices being really varied, I guess you need to know which areas. I'd like somewhere pretty with a bit of community but close to city for good cinema theatre art etc. Looks like an hour's drive Hebden Bridge to Leeds. Assume Leeds is best for culture?

I love Manchester but I it's too big to "pop" into afternoon. I don't know Leeds well.

Sugarplumfairy65 · 15/01/2023 11:14

TerfOnATrain · 15/01/2023 07:20

I live there, in Happy Valley land, although not in the actual Calder Valley, which is a specific area between Halifax and Todmorden. My home town has been mentioned a number of times across the three series and we’ve had filming there.

Yorkshire is massive and goes from cheap and deprived to rich and jaw droppingly beautiful. I recognise almost every single location well enough to know that where Catherine and Clare parked in Sheffield for the prison last week, was actually at the back of Pure Gym in Halifax and no where near Sheffield!

Happy Valley land is by no means the best or worst that Yorkshire has to offer. That said I’m happy living here.

You must live very close to me. I love it here!
I moved from a south Yorkshire mining town about 20 years ago and don't regret it. I love the moors. I can sit in my living room looking out over them and its so beautiful and peaceful whatever the season.

Sugarplumfairy65 · 15/01/2023 11:23

IDontCareMatthew · 14/01/2023 22:55

Yorkshire towns are run down

Go for a visit

You obviously haven't been to Halifax for a few years.days. The town is thriving. The town centre is ckean, full of small independent shops and the Peace Hall is amazing

Remona · 15/01/2023 11:23

Mustardcustardgrumblebellyandgravy · 15/01/2023 11:08

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/127570391#/?channel=RES_BUY

I'd like this in ten years please!

I see what poster mean about house prices being really varied, I guess you need to know which areas. I'd like somewhere pretty with a bit of community but close to city for good cinema theatre art etc. Looks like an hour's drive Hebden Bridge to Leeds. Assume Leeds is best for culture?

I love Manchester but I it's too big to "pop" into afternoon. I don't know Leeds well.

So if that property is over 2 floors, what are the other 2 floors above? Are they houses that are accessed from the next street? All seems a bit like expensive back-to-back houses.

So not only is it a terrace with people living on both sides, you’ve people living above you and no back door/yard/garden. No thanks.

MereDintofPandiculation · 15/01/2023 11:37

Sugarplumfairy65 · 15/01/2023 11:23

You obviously haven't been to Halifax for a few years.days. The town is thriving. The town centre is ckean, full of small independent shops and the Peace Hall is amazing

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Piece Hall. Originally the market place for pieces of cloth. Not an aspiration for world harmony.

DashboardConfessional · 15/01/2023 11:40

Remona · 15/01/2023 11:23

So if that property is over 2 floors, what are the other 2 floors above? Are they houses that are accessed from the next street? All seems a bit like expensive back-to-back houses.

So not only is it a terrace with people living on both sides, you’ve people living above you and no back door/yard/garden. No thanks.

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Yes, it's an underdwelling, so the top 2 floors are another house with the front door or the opposite side. This is why they've just called it a 3 bed "home" in the listing - it's basically a maisonette! This is what I meant when I referred to a very "Yorkshire" stone house.

Bythehairywartsonmywitchychin · 15/01/2023 11:41

Sugarplumfairy65 · 15/01/2023 11:23

You obviously haven't been to Halifax for a few years.days. The town is thriving. The town centre is ckean, full of small independent shops and the Peace Hall is amazing

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piece hall 😉

DashboardConfessional · 15/01/2023 11:42

It's only that price because of the location. There's one going for £125k near my mum and dad's village.

MereDintofPandiculation · 15/01/2023 11:42

Remona · 15/01/2023 11:23

So if that property is over 2 floors, what are the other 2 floors above? Are they houses that are accessed from the next street? All seems a bit like expensive back-to-back houses.

So not only is it a terrace with people living on both sides, you’ve people living above you and no back door/yard/garden. No thanks.

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It’s solid stone. You won’t get the noise problem of more modern terrace. Think of it as a freehold duplex apartment

MereDintofPandiculation · 15/01/2023 11:46

cakeorwine · 15/01/2023 10:02

Harrogate really needs a ring road.

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Harrogate has a ring road. Just that it’s a mainly single lane road with roundabouts, not a two lane ring road with slip roads.

MereDintofPandiculation · 15/01/2023 11:47

What Yorkshire needs is the same level of traffic subsidy per head as London.

Remona · 15/01/2023 11:49

MereDintofPandiculation · 15/01/2023 11:42

It’s solid stone. You won’t get the noise problem of more modern terrace. Think of it as a freehold duplex apartment

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We lived for many years in a solid stone terraced house (old mill workers houses) and we had lots of noise problems from the family who lived next door.

Admittedly the sound proofing would be much better than a modern house though.

LittleDonkeyKong · 15/01/2023 11:51

I'm born and bred in East Yorkshire. Love it. Moors and coast short drive away.

SecretPeston · 15/01/2023 11:54

DH and I absolutely love Yorkshire, especially North Yorkshire, and hope to retire there in years to come. It is very beautiful and the people are also very welcoming and friendly.

TrentCrimm · 15/01/2023 11:55

I live in Happy (Calder) Valley and I like it very much.

It's not grey at all today btw, I'm looking at clear blue skies and green hills as we speak.

Tod is always a bit grey though, it's the narrow valley with the high hills and cloud cover that sits permanently over it. Lancashire though, what do you expect 😜

PrincessConstance · 15/01/2023 11:55

Sugarplumfairy65 · 15/01/2023 11:23

You obviously haven't been to Halifax for a few years.days. The town is thriving. The town centre is ckean, full of small independent shops and the Peace Hall is amazing

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We live on the outskirts, in a village.
It is thriving however some parts of the town are neglected. The Piece Hall has found a new life though.
Plus they need to hurry up with the horrendous road improvement. Dp has also noticed rather barmy cycle lanes being installed in unusual places.

PriamFarrl · 15/01/2023 11:56

DashboardConfessional · 15/01/2023 11:40

Yes, it's an underdwelling, so the top 2 floors are another house with the front door or the opposite side. This is why they've just called it a 3 bed "home" in the listing - it's basically a maisonette! This is what I meant when I referred to a very "Yorkshire" stone house.

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Can they call that downstairs bedroom a bedroom given it doesn’t have a window?

cakeorwine · 15/01/2023 12:03

MereDintofPandiculation · 15/01/2023 11:46

Harrogate has a ring road. Just that it’s a mainly single lane road with roundabouts, not a two lane ring road with slip roads.

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That goes through Harrogate.

Coming from York to Skipton definitely involves going through Harrogate.
Not around Harrogate

StormzyWho · 15/01/2023 12:11

Completely agree @cakeorwine. Harrogate's road network is dreadful and largely involves going through the town.

I find it frustrating and avoid Harrogate for everything but the hospital (my nearest hospital and where I'm referred for anything that needs one).

Crap roads, tourists, dying high street - give me York or Leeds any day.

KezzabellaB · 15/01/2023 12:15

NormalNans · 14/01/2023 23:37

I live in one of the cheaper areas in Yorkshire and it’s great. People are down to earth and genuine, house prices are reasonable, development happening in the town and within 5-10 mins you’re in gorgeous countryside, within half an hour you’re in a big city with a wide range of theatres, universities, love music venues, art galleries and a huge range of places to eat. But there’s a huge amount of snobbery about it because historically it was a run down mining town.

I’ve lived all over the country and have never lived anywhere that feels so genuine, I can’t think of a better word to describe it. (I do agree about the North York Moors though, very bleak)

I bet you live near me - I'm in Barnsley 😂

SchoolTripDrama · 15/01/2023 12:17

I live in North Yorkshire and it's beautiful

SchoolTripDrama · 15/01/2023 12:18

ShinyMe · 14/01/2023 22:54

I live in Derbyshire, it's much nicer.

Derbyshire is a dive!

SchoolTripDrama · 15/01/2023 12:20

IDontCareMatthew · 14/01/2023 22:55

Yorkshire towns are run down

Go for a visit

This is North Yorkshire. Well you clearly haven't been to them all!

SchoolTripDrama · 15/01/2023 12:21

Shesquiteannoying · 14/01/2023 23:01

Is Harrogate the posher part as it were? I know a few people from there. Does it still have the beauty around it there?
Would a Greater Manchester/Cheshire person fit in there? 😂I’m guessing similarish humour

I live in Harrogate. It's stunning

SchoolTripDrama · 15/01/2023 12:21

jaicobain · 14/01/2023 23:02

I’ve always found it quite grim. And I don’t just mean the cities/towns, but the parts of Yorkshire that are considered the areas of beauty. The moors just look so bleak and vast and desolate. I always think of that nuclear war BBC movie from the 80s (Threads) where the starving characters are scouring the moors harvesting what’s left of the crops in a nuclear Winter.

Grim?!?!