Your property up north is worth far less than in the south east!!

Cleaver

ninky wrote: »

perhaps they are comparing it to london which receives less rain per annum than rome, sydney or new york city. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_United_Kingdom

the wettest areas are near mountains such as the pennines.

In terms of Wikipedia they were comparing it to the UK average, not London:

The city's [Manchester] average annual rainfall is 806.6 millimetres (31.76 in)compared to the UK average of 1,125.0 millimetres (44.29 in),and its mean rain days are 140.4 per annum,compared to the UK average of 154.4

Do you mean people in general might compare it to London? If so, I see what you mean.

I suppose I was saying that if you asked 100 people to name a traditionally rainy place in England I bet they'd name Manchester, where in actual fact it could be classed as one of the more dry English places.

chucknorris

brixham wrote: »

Glad to see his sats confirm my belief that it always rains in Plymouth though !
Oh and noticed today I have daffs coming up !

Maybe it was the people of Plymouth who started the rumour about Manchester's rain?

Paignton (near you I think) is somewhere we identified as a potential place to retire to in years to come (although I haven't actually been there for many years so obviously needs to be explored)

StevieJ

Cleaver wrote: »

We don't need to look at t-shirt wearing, we can look at temperature charts! Average highs and lows for January, followed by inches in rain, in Newcastle compared with some southern places:

Newcastle: 6.2 / 0.6 2.21 inches
London: 8.0 / 2.4 2.01 inches
Bristol: 7.2 / 2.8 3.80 inches
Southampton: 7.8 / 2.8 3.50 inches
Oxford: 6.8 / 1.4 2.07 inches
Plymouth: 9.0 / 3.0 4.49 inches

So wearing t-shirts in any of these places would be silly, as the temperatures are roughly the same in all these places. Newcastle might be one degree or so colder, which you'd expect with it being a couple of hundred miles away. But at least you'd have more chance of being dry in Newcastle compared to a lot of southern places that get more rain.

Last time I had a short sleeve on (in Chester) was November 4th, I went to go out in a jacket but it was too warm so I left it behind

StevieJ

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

Manchester is a lovely place with lovely people we visit every couple of weeks as our daughter lives there in a very nice old house that she bought quite cheap considering what she'd have had to pay down south for a similar property.
Living up north has it's benefits.

Even the guy who owns the most expensive part of the monopoly board prefers living in the north

ukcarper

From what I see on match of the day a lot of Newcastle supporters don’t bother with the T-shirt.

pineapple

I have to say this is total garbage, sorry. I have friends near Cambridge and in Putney and they were gobsmacked when they saw property prices in my area. Maybe it's because I live in one of the northern 'hotspots'. Think parts of Cheshire, Ilkley,Yorkshire Dales, Hebden Bridge, north of Newcastle...
Aside from that, I think most things are cheaper 'oop north'. Beer, petrol and lots more fresh air into the bargain. I've done my share of commuting and I have lived in Hertfordshire etc. The North gets my vote every time.
Goes off to collect flat cap and whippet....

brixham

chucknorris wrote: »

Maybe it was the people of Plymouth who started the rumour about Manchester's rain?

Paignton (near you I think) is somewhere we identified as a potential place to retire to in years to come (although I haven't actually been there for many years so obviously needs to be explored)

Same as everywhere I spose, Paignton has areas you would not want to live in (St Michaels) and some really nice areas (Preston, Broadsands).
Excluding the loss of life, the Germans had the right idea with what to do with Plymouth.

ash28

chucknorris wrote: »

Yes they do but nevertheless I would rather rely on my own experience

As someone else born and brought up in the north east and moved south about 25 years ago - we live Berkshire now - I was brought up on the Northumberland coast - and regardless of the stats it's definitely colder in the north.

I think it's because the winds are predominently from the north or north east - absolutely biting and cuts right through to the bone. Here, on the odd occasion we do get north easterly winds it's bl00dy freezing too.

The summers in general have been much better - spring is generally better - I can tell by the time the daffs etc are coming through here compared to my sisters gardens. The fact I grow tomatoes in the garden and not under glass - they can't grow them in the garden - my sister grows them in her porch.

chucknorris

ash28 wrote: »

As someone else born and brought up in the north east and moved south about 25 years ago - we live Berkshire now - I was brought up on the Northumberland coast - and regardless of the stats it's definitely colder in the north.

I think it's because the winds are predominently from the north or north east - absolutely biting and cuts right through to the bone. Here, on the odd occasion we do get north easterly winds it's bl00dy freezing too.

The summers in general have been much better - spring is generally better - I can tell by the time the daffs etc are coming through here compared to my sisters gardens. The fact I grow tomatoes in the garden and not under glass - they can't grow them in the garden - my sister grows them in her porch.

It's a great shame because Northumberland has some fantastic beaches

chucknorris

ukcarper wrote: »

From what I see on match of the day a lot of Newcastle supporters don’t bother with the T-shirt.

From what I've seen it's usually the ones that you would expect to try and keep their unathletic bodies covered up, maybe the 10 bottles of Newcastle brown ale had something to do with them stripping off to the waist?