Have you any idea how much houses cost up norf?

[Sir C]

No, you haven't.

You can buy a gurt gaff for flumpence.

This pleases me.

[IUFG]

Have you seen the house prices in Harrogate?

Who knew?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/Harrogate.html

[Ash]

No, you haven't.

You can buy a gurt gaff for flumpence.

This pleases me.

Tempting, innit.

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.

[Pokster]

Have you seen the house prices in Harrogate?

Who knew?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/Harrogate.html

Harrogate is a bit like the South but up North... just with friendlier people

[Sir C]

Tempting, innit.

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.

We looked at a couple of places last week, where the following employment options exist:

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.

[Sir C]

Harrogate is a bit like the South but up North... just with friendlier people

I did that drive across the Dales from Ripon through Aysgarth, then turned north to reach Cumbria via Buttertubs Pass. Absolutely gorgeous.

[Ash]

We looked at a couple of places last week, where the following employment options exist:

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.

Depends on what is required for comfort.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08NlhjpVFsU

If you can grow your own bananas and coconuts you should be fine. :thumbup:

[Sir C]

Depends on what is required for comfort.


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.

I'd enjoy making beds and scrubbing strangers' skid marks off the bog.

[PSRB]

No, you haven't.

You can buy a gurt gaff for flumpence.

This pleases me.

Ours has increased by £90k in 3 years, advantages of living near one of the best schools in the region

[Monty92]

Tempting, innit.

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.

The girlfriend's cousin relocated up there with his missus to have a family. He's now a copper.

[Sir C]

Ours has increased by £90k in 3 years, advantages of living near one of the best schools in the region

You're not really up norf though, p. I know this now, being as I am an expert on all matters northern.

Manchester is where we'll come when we need some civilisation.

[Sir C]

The girlfriend's cousin relocated up there with his missus to have a family. He's now a copper.

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.

[SWv2]

You're not really up norf though, p. I know this now, being as I am an expert on all matters northern.

Manchester is where we'll come when we need some civilisation.

It did occur to me that the generalisation that was going on here was ludicrous.

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.

[SWv2]

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.

Better off being a Postman.

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.

[Sir C]

It did occur to me that the generalisation that was going on here was ludicrous.

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.

: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.

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.

[Monty92]

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.

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.

[Monty92]

It did occur to me that the generalisation that was going on here was ludicrous.

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.

I was referring to Harrogate, as that was the place mentioned in the previous post.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

No, you haven't.

You can buy a gurt gaff for flumpence.

This pleases me.

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.

[Sir C]

Better off being a Postman.

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.

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.

[PSRB]

: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.

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.

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 relocating

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/manchester-best-places-visit-thrillist-12973366

[Pokster]

I did that drive across the Dales from Ripon through Aysgarth, then turned north to reach Cumbria via Buttertubs Pass. Absolutely gorgeous.

Didn't do Fountains Abbey then? so you lied to me! You are now dead to me

[Sir C]

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 relocating

: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'.)

[Sir C]

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.

The fat ****.

Your mum, not him.

[Sir C]

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.

I don't mean that far up norf, for God's sake b! I'm not living with polar bears and fúcking penguins!

[Sir C]

Didn't do Fountains Abbey then? so you lied to me! You are now dead to me

:nod: Did bit got there at 07:00 and found it didn't open until 10 :hehe:

[Pokster]

:nod: Did bit got there at 07:00 and found it didn't open until 10 :hehe:

National trust like a lie in

[SWv2]

I was referring to Harrogate, as that was the place mentioned in the previous post.

My apologies.

[redgunamo]

No, you haven't.

You can buy a gurt gaff for flumpence.

This pleases me.

Wouldn't you rather want to be heading south, under the circumstances?

[The Insider]

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......

[Tony C]

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: