unclemike Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 in the national poll of the 10 worst places to live in the uk 6 were in yorkshire, with doncaster pipped for number 1 by peterborough full details here;=https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/top-10-worst-places-to-live-in-england Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Stange as peterborough probably comes up as most popular place on a survey carried out in eastern europe. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 This is meant tongue in cheek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 It looks like it to me. I wonder when I can go back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveO Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Hands off Halifax! I was brought up there (near Wainstalls) and it was a great place to live. The local council is doing a great deal to develop tourism and I read somewhere that Calderdale now has more visitors per annum than Stratford upon Avon. Yes, it has its bad areas and there always was a lot of drunkenness and fighting on weekend evenings, but the town centre has managed to keep much of its Georgian and Victorian grandeur and is still vibrant, compared to a lot of the towns in the south where I live now. The folks there have a very unusual sense of humour, which can be glimpsed in locally based TV programmes such as Last Tango, Happy Valley and Gentleman Jack, so I can only imagine that they are talking their town down to minimise the influx of Southerners, Lancastrians and other tourist riff-raff . Now if you want to see a real sh*te-hole, try Bradford, Huddersfield or Keighley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEM Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 4 hours ago, chameleon said: in the national poll of the 10 worst places to live in the uk 6 were in yorkshire, ... I was born in Yorkshire yonks ago, leaving (=being taken away) for Cheshire when I was 5. I read through these 10 "worst places". Did I really consider returning to the UK at one stage? Note: whenever my wife & I visit the UK we really enjoy it - the last time in April 2019 where we stayed a few nights in Keswick & then Buxton. Great until our disasterous encounter with the security folks at Manchester Airport on departure (a combination of really unhelpful people & their computer system crashing causing a holdup that meant we missed our return flight AND they refuse to accept responsibility for it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Been on the canal around Halifax, Sowerby Bridge, Hebden Bridge - great places great pubs, great people and don't start me on the ale.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanessan Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 1 hour ago, SteveO said: Now if you want to see a real sh*te-hole, try Bradford, Huddersfield or Keighley. Nowt wrong with Keighley! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 20 minutes ago, vanessan said: Nowt wrong with Keighley! Indeed...tis the home of Copper Dragon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveO Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 17 minutes ago, vanessan said: Nowt wrong with Keighley! We used to live at Steeton, we did our weekly shopping in Keighley and both our kids were born at Airedale hospital, but the only good things about Keighley were i: the road to Halifax ii: the Keighley and Worth Valley railway and iii: the fact that most namby-pamby newsreaders and the like could never pronounce the name. I gather it has gone downhill big-time since we left there for Skipton in 1983. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowrights Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Jemaki said: Been on the canal around Halifax, Sowerby Bridge, Hebden Bridge - great places great pubs, great people and don't start me on the ale.. There's only one canal this list belongs to, an alimentary one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanessan Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 16 minutes ago, SteveO said: We used to live at Steeton, we did our weekly shopping in Keighley and both our kids were born at Airedale hospital, but the only good things about Keighley were i: the road to Halifax ii: the Keighley and Worth Valley railway and iii: the fact that most namby-pamby newsreaders and the like could never pronounce the name. I gather it has gone downhill big-time since we left there for Skipton in 1983. Still say there’s nowt wrong with Keighley! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 3 minutes ago, twowrights said: There's only one canal this list belongs to, an alimentary one! That's hard to swallow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lastdraft Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 34 minutes ago, vanessan said: Still say there’s nowt wrong with Keighley! Try living here ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 I went to Donny, just once. Strikes me that the Broads has to be God's chosen holiday destination ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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