No, you haven't.
You can buy a gurt gaff for flumpence.
This pleases me.
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No, you haven't.
You can buy a gurt gaff for flumpence.
This pleases me.
Have you seen the house prices in Harrogate?
Who knew?
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...Harrogate.html
Tempting, innit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Except for the whole job opportunity situation, but one is forced to assume there must be some kind of economic activity going on up there.
Harrogate is a bit like the South but up North... just with friendlier peopleQuote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
We looked at a couple of places last week, where the following employment options exist:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
1. Farmer
2. Postman
3. Barman (Poles only need apply.)
It really has to be a question of walking away from the grindstone.
The question is, what is the minimum income on which one may comfortably live? I am currently considering this question.
I did that drive across the Dales from Ripon through Aysgarth, then turned north to reach Cumbria via Buttertubs Pass. Absolutely gorgeous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
Depends on what is required for comfort.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08NlhjpVFsU
If you can grow your own bananas and coconuts you should be fine. :thumbup:
I could buy a big place and run it as a B&B.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I'd enjoy making beds and scrubbing strangers' skid marks off the bog.
Ours has increased by £90k in 3 years, advantages of living near one of the best schools in the regionQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
The girlfriend's cousin relocated up there with his missus to have a family. He's now a copper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
You're not really up norf though, p. I know this now, being as I am an expert on all matters northern.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Manchester is where we'll come when we need some civilisation.
Ohh I could be a copper! I'd like to be a copper. You get a uniform and a truncheon and wander about looking reassuring. Piece of piss.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
It did occur to me that the generalisation that was going on here was ludicrous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
You have Pokster in Yorkshire, PRSB in Manchester, Monty simply referring “up there” while I seem to recall you taking your holidays in a very different part altogether.
It is like a person saying they are moving to London and a general acceptance that the move is good. Or indeed Kent, or even Ireland.
Better off being a Postman.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
You still get your uniform but also a wee van (bicycle for the summer should you wish), a shorter day and less chance of violence.
The path of the mail delivery operative is quite simply the better choice.
:nod: I usewd to be a little vague about the north, but since I have now been 7 times in the past 2 years, I know everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
1. Manchester and Liverpool are shítholes but have some restaurants and proper shops.
2. Yorkshire is very pretty but the people are as common as muck.
3. Cumbria is the títs.
4. Up the other way is Newcatsle and Sunderland and that, but no white man has successfully reported back on conditions in these places.
He tells me he spends most of his working days playing hide and seek with colleagues, which involves sitting in his patrol car in various nooks and crannies around town eating burgers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I was referring to Harrogate, as that was the place mentioned in the previous post.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Houses here were dirt cheap when i first arrived and now they've all gone up by 80-100% in 4 years. Here's hoping there's a crash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I wonder do they earn very much though, postmen? I'd quite like to drive around all the farms in my little van with my wee cat, delivering birthday cards and letters containing good news, but I'd need a minimum of £60k a year to tempt me out of retirement.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
In answer to point 2. Manchester was a ****hole, almost everywhere was when I moved up 9 years ago but it has to be one of the most improved cities anywhere. Well done the Oirishers with their bomb and London being so ridiculously expensive that plenty of business is relocatingQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....llist-12973366
Didn't do Fountains Abbey then? so you lied to me! You are now dead to meQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:nod: I was last in Manchester 10 years ago, I suppose, and it was quite shítty, but last year when I went to the Wirrall it was quite nice. (Now you're going to mention that the Wirrall is Merseyside and not Manchester, to which I will reply, 'bovvered, all piss in the same pot, etc'.)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
The fat ****.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Your mum, not him.
I don't mean that far up norf, for God's sake b! I'm not living with polar bears and fúcking penguins!Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
:nod: Did bit got there at 07:00 and found it didn't open until 10 :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
National trust like a lie inQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
My apologies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Wouldn't you rather want to be heading south, under the circumstances?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I lived in Manchester crom '83 to '97. I was a real sgir hole in 1983, but really rather charming by the time I left. Still quite like to visit.
Liverpool, however, was, is and will be a complete toilet. Never, ever go there. And the people are even worse than the place......
My mate up in Stoke...ace lad...good family too...excellent for banter....has a luxury penthouse apartment he paid less that £200k for but would go for £1m easily in London.
Makes you think...
Side note...best Stoke story I ever heard was them leaving a game early so they could launch snow balls at the away fans :clap: