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Nice City to move to in the North?
BillieTheBot
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Ok, this is a fairly random thread but I'm totally not clued up on cities in the UK.
Thing is, I graduate in June.
I don't plan on returning home. Theres no job prospects there, I live in the middle of nowhere, no nightlife, etc.
Just wondering what nice cities up north are good to live in? I think I might want to leave Preston as well, its a fresh start isn't it?
I mean, I want a place which has a great nightlife and lots of job prospects.
I was thinking of moving to Manchester but I don't know as from what I've heard, the place sounds really unsafe to live in. Isn't it really expensive as well? Is it as bad as everyone makes out? My parents really don't like the idea of me moving there yet they don't like the idea of me staying in Preston.
I'm completely able to move anywhere. Its just deciding where to move is a problem. Obviously I want to move to a place that has lots of job prospects. I would also need a place that isn't hard to find a place to live in, lol! Its gotta be a city though.
Thing is, I graduate in June.
I don't plan on returning home. Theres no job prospects there, I live in the middle of nowhere, no nightlife, etc.
Just wondering what nice cities up north are good to live in? I think I might want to leave Preston as well, its a fresh start isn't it?
I mean, I want a place which has a great nightlife and lots of job prospects.
I was thinking of moving to Manchester but I don't know as from what I've heard, the place sounds really unsafe to live in. Isn't it really expensive as well? Is it as bad as everyone makes out? My parents really don't like the idea of me moving there yet they don't like the idea of me staying in Preston.
I'm completely able to move anywhere. Its just deciding where to move is a problem. Obviously I want to move to a place that has lots of job prospects. I would also need a place that isn't hard to find a place to live in, lol! Its gotta be a city though.
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Down south though, you have London and Brighton!
My family live in Cheshire so don't really wanna live too far away if anything was to happen.
Also, I love being a northerner!
That's what my mum said, she's from Wakefield/Leeds and went to university in Hull....
but then she met my dad who was from London...
Newcastle is, of course, fabulous but I get the impression you want to stay in the NW?
Ok then, cities in the north? Leeds, Newcastle and York are nice, Blackpool is supposed to be good....never been to Manchester or Liverpool but they don't appeal to me personally.
I'd say Manchester or Liverpool if you want to be fairly close to Cheshire but have the "bright lights, big city" feeling.
I love it in Newcastle(/Gateshead), I really do. The nightlife is fab, there's more art and music and culture than you can shake a big trendy stick at, the shopping is fantastic (we have a good city centre selection as well as the gargantuan MetroCentre) and its still a relatively cheap place to live (£600pcm will get you a poncy Quayside flat). Crime is relatively low here, though obviously it exists, and the city is small enough to feel homely. And all the pubs sell dog, which is obviously a winner.
In terms of your career, there are quite a few decent-sized firms here, all of which are always after staff in reasonably decent positions. I work for the biggest of them and we're expanding rapidly, and the other firms in the city seem to be expanding too just to compete with us.
Manchester is a nice enough city to visit, I have friends who live there, but for me its too big and too noisy. Leeds isn't an especially nice city- once you scrape the poncy sheen off Leeds its an absolute shithole unless you're prepared to pay the fortune required to live in one of the (few) nice areas. The shopping is steadily getting worse, and the nightlife's only any good if you like being beaten up by drunk footballers and charvers. Crime is a big problem in both cities- even with your head screwed on much of Manchester and Leeds is populated by violent filth. Liverpool always seems very nice when I go, but I don't know anyone there so I only know it as a tourist.
I also Lancaster, but I think it might be a teensy bit, erm, tranquil for you.
Never been to Newcastle, have heard good things about it, but it's just so far away from everywhere and expensive on trains to get down South or to London.
I used to share a house with a Geordie guy and it always seemed to take him hours and hours to get home and cost a fortune.
how did you get £16 return, I can't even get that price from Birmingham (unless I go by chiltern which is £15 return)
I was thinking of Newcastle Kermit as I've heard really good stuff about the place. I've never been there though so would have to visit the place before making a decision to move there. Its also quite far from home I think. As for Lancaster, yes, it might be a bit quiet for me I have a friend who lives there for her placement year who says the nightilfe is rubbish!
Pill'ed - Have you ever been to Blackpool? Lol. Its a shit hole. I'd never move there. Its worse than Preston.
As for York, its a lovely place. Spent about a year and a half visiting there lots. I'd love to move there but tbh, I've got too many bad memories there (although that isn't my main reason for not wanting to move there). Also, I don't think its got a very good nightlife. There doesn't seem to be many job prospects either and the accomodation is so expensive.
Yes Briggi, ideally I would like to stay in the NW. Theres a direct train to home from Manchester as well and to most other places. Also with Manchester, with it being only 40 mins or so from Preston, it would be easy enough to commute to work whilst sorting myself accomodation out as I'm able to stay in my current accomodation till August. It also keeps me rather close to my friends.
Manchester is what I keep getting pulled towards tbh. I'm just rather worried about moving to the place as it always seems people get mugged, attacked, shot, murdered, raped, etc. Just doesn't seem like a very good place to live. Also, won't the accomodation be really expensive?
you do right to leave preston, its a right shit hole. cant stand the place, not much going for it at all.
manchester isn't unsafe at all, it has a undeserved bad reputation i think. i've lived in salford and central manchester before, never had any problems anywhere. Everyone thinks Salford is the pits, but i think most of it is alright really, some quite nice parts.
Having said that, im from Burnley so am pretty hardened to most things unsavoury
As long as you avoid certain areas with reputations and take the usual precautions I'm sure you'll be fine.
Manchester isn't dangerous at all on the whole, though my friend did rent a flat sight unseen and when we moved her down there she realised it was a pebble's throw from Moss Side hahaha. It has shady areas but so does every city, it's just got this larger-than-life reputation for muggings and gangland shootings which isn't really deserved. Nightlife is off the charts, too, since that is a factor in your decision.
I hate Leeds with a fiery passion so I won't give my biased view on it. But I do think if you're going to make a completely fresh start then there are much better places to do it that wouldn't be signifigantly more expensive.
Everything the frog said about Newcastle is bang on the mark, and obviously he knows the craic about legal-type jobs better than I do! I'm sure everyone thinks we just rave about it because we live here but seriously nowhere in England comes close for me and it would blow your socks off after living in Preston :razz: It has everything you could wish for in a city but doesn't feel fucking enormous and anonymous in the way that a lot of people feel Manchester does. You can still rent pretty cheaply here too, we live right on the Quayside in an Tyneside flat with a view of the Millennium bridge and it is £375 a month -- though it is owned by a friend of ours who is a bit daft. There are some real bargainous little gems around if you're willing to live somewhere that doesn't have quite such a desirable address... or you can modify it like I have from "Byker" to "Quayside East" mua haha. Though that is probably the case everywhere. There is also the excellent Metro here running throughout Tyne and Wear which means you could live out of town and commute in nee bother.
80% of Leeds is a shithole, and its expensive if you don't live in the shitty areas. It's hard to avoid the shitholes and the vermin who live there as the buses go through the shitty areas to get to the nice ones.
Newcastle is a way from Manchester (2.5 hours by train direct, more like four to places like Northwich and Alderley Edge), which does count against it if you're a home bird. But its not so expensive to get there, book in advance and you get there for about £20 return. There's a train every hour to Manchester, and every half an hour to Edinburgh, Leeds, London and Birmingham, which drives down rail ticket prices.
I don't especially like big cities, the Boss loathes them, and that's why we like tha Toon...its important, so has all the good shops and bars, but its got a population of a smudge under 190,000, so its small and compact.
Plus there's Leeds United...:thumb:
Don't know how you're all worshipping Manchester and despising Leeds.
Its Manchester I'm drawn to most though as its in a location where it wouldn't be hard to see my friends or pop home. It will also enable me to commute for a short while from Preston to a job whilst I get myself accomodation sorted. It has the nightlife I want, the shopping I want, lol.
I think I've pretty much answered my own question as to where I want to go. I'm just really worried about moving to a place where the crime rate is sky high. My Step Dad is also putting me off the place as he grew up there and keeps telling me bad stories but I don't know if thats because my Mum doesn't want me to live there. It doesn't help my cousin was attacked there when he was a student. He did live in Moss Side though...
Its knowing where not to NOT LIVE in or where TO LIVE in Manchester where I'm gonna struggle as I don't know the place at all.
Well they don't exactly have experience of anywhere else, do they!?
I feel I would be doing anyone a bad turn by advising them to move to Leeds. But obviously we all feel differently! Someone has to live there after all
Well yeah lol, I knew someone would say that, but I mean like out of all the Uni's they went to open days at they all said Leeds stood out as the best Uni by far and they all love it there, whereas people I know that go to other Uni's all say that when they visited Leeds open day it did look really good and enjoy their own Uni's but never say anything amazing about them like the people I know that go to Leeds do.
I'm from a small town near Leeds, I've grown up with the shops and clubs of Leeds.
It's a cunthole unless you live a minimum of ten miles out. Places like Otley and Ilkley and Harrogate are where the posh Leeds people live, which is why the city of Leeds is crap.
You'd have this problem whatever city you moved to, though, and it's a problem everyone faces when they move somewhere new. But that's what's good about renting - if wherever you picked doesn't turn out to be such a nice area as you'd hoped, a few months later you'll be able to move on.
A tip I heard on a house-buying programme was that you should visit the area at different times of day to see what it's like: middle of the day, early evening, around midnight (you could always go in a taxi and cruise through the area, if you're worried about safety). That should give you an idea of whether you'd feel happy to live there or not.