kiloran wrote:Stan wrote: The Royal Exeter and Devon hospital is VG for Cancer with Plymouth VG for Heart decease
A strong contender for Typo of the Year
--kiloran
Ah you spotted my deliberate mistake, well done kiloran
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kiloran wrote:Stan wrote: The Royal Exeter and Devon hospital is VG for Cancer with Plymouth VG for Heart decease
A strong contender for Typo of the Year
--kiloran
AsleepInYorkshire wrote:Try the East Riding of Yorkshire
Look at the villages (which vary in price) or the main towns would be Driffield & Beverley. Don't do the coastal towns though. Some of the villages and towns to the East of Hull are good value for money.
Beverley often gets voted best value for money for houses.
Sheffield is an hour away. Doncaster is 45 minutes and Leeds is just over an hour. Wakefield is 3/4's of an hour.
AiYn'U
AsleepInYorkshire wrote:Try the East Riding of Yorkshire
Look at the villages (which vary in price) or the main towns would be Driffield & Beverley. Don't do the coastal towns though. Some of the villages and towns to the East of Hull are good value for money.
Beverley often gets voted best value for money for houses.
Sheffield is an hour away. Doncaster is 45 minutes and Leeds is just over an hour. Wakefield is 3/4's of an hour.
AiYn'U
BrummieDave wrote:The discussion is about "If you could live anywhere..." so by definition, somewhere that's 'good value' implies it's not universally popular, including with those who have money and the means to live elsewhere. One could therefore reasonably conclude it does not sit well with the idea of "If you could live anywhere..."
Clitheroekid wrote:BrummieDave wrote:The discussion is about "If you could live anywhere..." so by definition, somewhere that's 'good value' implies it's not universally popular, including with those who have money and the means to live elsewhere. One could therefore reasonably conclude it does not sit well with the idea of "If you could live anywhere..."
I don't think that's a remotely reasonable conclusion. The question is entirely subjective - "if you could live anywhere", not "if the average person could live anywhere", so whether or not a place is "universally popular" is irrelevant.
Your argument would lead to the conclusion that anyone answering the question should logically say that they would want to live in the most expensive parts of London, simply because that's where the most expensive property is. But I certainly wouldn't want to, and I would imagine that a very large proportion of the population wouldn't want to live in London at all, even if you offered them a £10m penthouse in Belgravia.
Many people have a strong loyalty to the area where they were raised, and Yorkshire residents in particular are well known for this. It would therefore be an entirely reasonable answer for a Fool living in Yorkshire to say that he would choose to live in Beverley - or even (unlikely though it sounds to me) Hull - rather than anywhere outside Yorkshire.
redsturgeon wrote:AsleepInYorkshire wrote:Try the East Riding of Yorkshire
Look at the villages (which vary in price) or the main towns would be Driffield & Beverley. Don't do the coastal towns though. Some of the villages and towns to the East of Hull are good value for money.
Beverley often gets voted best value for money for houses.
Sheffield is an hour away. Doncaster is 45 minutes and Leeds is just over an hour. Wakefield is 3/4's of an hour.
AiYn'U
York is 30 mins away!
BrummieDave wrote:AsleepInYorkshire wrote:Try the East Riding of Yorkshire
Look at the villages (which vary in price) or the main towns would be Driffield & Beverley. Don't do the coastal towns though. Some of the villages and towns to the East of Hull are good value for money.
Beverley often gets voted best value for money for houses.
Sheffield is an hour away. Doncaster is 45 minutes and Leeds is just over an hour. Wakefield is 3/4's of an hour.
AiYn'U
The discussion is about "If you could live anywhere..." so by definition, somewhere that's 'good value' implies it's not universally popular, including with those who have money and the means to live elsewhere. One could therefore reasonably conclude it does not sit well with the idea of "If you could live anywhere..."
Add to that that the best thing about this area is how quickly you can get somewhere else, and I'm even less sold on it.
Having had what some would call two careers prior to retiring, both of which (regrettably) took me to the Hull and Beverley area for work, I'd more likely add them to a post "If you could avoid living anywhere in the UK...".
Clitheroekid wrote:BrummieDave wrote:The discussion is about "If you could live anywhere..." so by definition, somewhere that's 'good value' implies it's not universally popular, including with those who have money and the means to live elsewhere. One could therefore reasonably conclude it does not sit well with the idea of "If you could live anywhere..."
I don't think that's a remotely reasonable conclusion. The question is entirely subjective - "if you could live anywhere", not "if the average person could live anywhere", so whether or not a place is "universally popular" is irrelevant.
Your argument would lead to the conclusion that anyone answering the question should logically say that they would want to live in the most expensive parts of London, simply because that's where the most expensive property is. But I certainly wouldn't want to, and I would imagine that a very large proportion of the population wouldn't want to live in London at all, even if you offered them a £10m penthouse in Belgravia.
Many people have a strong loyalty to the area where they were raised, and Yorkshire residents in particular are well known for this. It would therefore be an entirely reasonable answer for a Fool living in Yorkshire to say that he would choose to live in Beverley - or even (unlikely though it sounds to me) Hull - rather than anywhere outside Yorkshire.
BrummieDave wrote:Who knows where any/many of us are, as usernames can be as misleading as they are informative. I used to spend a great deal of time in Waddington (just outside Clitheroe to those not fortunate to have visited), spending many an evening in the Lower Buck (Timothy Taylors) and Higher Buck, Sunday lunch at The Parkers Arms at Newton or The Hark to Bounty at Slaidburn (with its hidden courtroom), Saturday evenings in The Assheton Arms in pretty Downham, the odd pint with a one time famous comedian at The Sun in Chipping, and hiking around Dunsop Bridge, the Trough, and Longridge Fell, and mountain biking in Slaidburn Forest. Add to that a very good wine merchant, excellent schools, top end butchers, and ghost walks with Simon looking for Peg O'Nell, and Clitheroe takes some beating.
Dod101 wrote:There is also a nice little village just to the north of Hull, Beverley, which I would not mind living in if little Nicola Sturgeon's dreams come true. OTOH, there are parts of the Northumberland coast that I would quite like.
Dod
Clitheroekid wrote:Can't argue with that!
The Waddy Arms is my local, though you may have known it as The Sun, and on a summer's afternoon I'm often to be found on one of the chairs at the front. In fact, my personal definition of the first day of Spring is when I can sit there comfortably in shirt sleeves. The earliest I ever achieved it was 19 February, a few years ago, so I'm counting the days!
I hope this brings back some happy memories - https://www.waddingtonarms.co.uk/
AleisterCrowley wrote:Yes, a mate of mine used to live in Romsey - nice place.
Other random pleasant towns I have experience of;
Farnham, Surrey (3 miles to Aldershot, ~ 10 miles to Guildford)
Woodbridge, Suffolk (<10 miles into central Ipswich)
When I escape work i'm moving back home to Shropshire, which suits me. Herefordshire and parts of Worcestershire are also very nice.
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