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

ninky_2

Cleaver wrote: »

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

given that a large section of the uk population live in london that is generally going to many people's point of reference. i'm sure you can find little welsh villages that !!!! it down but that have far fewer people living there.

movilogo

Properties are most expensive around London. So there is no surprise North being cheaper. Mind you, wages are also lower in North.

Cleaver

ninky wrote: »

given that a large section of the uk population live in london that is generally going to many people's point of reference. i'm sure you can find little welsh villages that !!!! it down but that have far fewer people living there.

Well, about 8 million people live in London. So about 10% of the population give or take. Not sure that's enough to warrant some form of majority perception on the weather of the rest of the nation.

The only point I was trying to make was that people think Manchester has a lot of rain when compared to the rest of the country, when in fact it has less rain than most places in the UK. I'm not sure how this is linked to the perception of the 10% of the population who live in London.

nearlyrich

Best of both worlds here, I am North west born and bred and I have no plans to move anywhere, I work for a company based in London and have done similar jobs for similar companies for over 10 years, I get a pay packet that reflects South East prices and it goes a lot further in the North. Our house was paid for a long time ago my wage is spending money and retirement savings now, not to mention travel cash.

I have spent a lot of time in the south east and there is no significant difference in the climate in fact they have had worse weather than us recently. There is however a significant difference in the price of property and my 4 bed detached would probably get me a room in a hovel in somewhere like Weybridge or possibly a studio LOL

IveSeenTheLight

breadlinebetty wrote: »

Does anyone think this is news? Everyone knows property in London and Surrey is worth much more than property up north.:(

Could you say this another way in that property is more affordable ouside London and the South East?

StevieJ

Cleaver wrote: »

Well, about 8 million people live in London. So about 10% of the population give or take. Not sure that's enough to warrant some form of majority perception on the weather of the rest of the nation.

The only point I was trying to make was that people think Manchester has a lot of rain when compared to the rest of the country, when in fact it has less rain than most places in the UK. I'm not sure how this is linked to the perception of the 10% of the population who live in London.

Historically there is some validity to the theory that Manchester/North West receives a lot of rain, in fact that is why it was considered ideal for the cotton industry i.e. the damp atmosphere stopped the brittle cotton from continually snapping when being processed, also the fast flowing Pennine streams were ideal for power. It is probably the position of the Pennine chain that is behind it and causes the clouds to drop rain before they reach Yorkshire.

The Pennines of Northern England, the Welsh Mountains, and the Highlands of Scotland create a large rain shadow that covers almost the entirety of the Eastern United Kingdom, with Glasgow and Manchester for example receiving around double the rainfall of Edinburgh and York respectively. The contrast is even stronger further north, where Aberdeen gets around a third the rainfall of Fort William or Skye. The Fens of East Anglia receive similar rainfall amounts to Seville.[3]

breadlinebetty

Cleaver wrote: »

With all due respect Chuck, people commenting on the climate difference between somewhere up north and somewhere down south always makes me smile.

We live in one of the most static, dull, stable and benign countries for weather in the world. If it's 15 degrees in London then it's normally about the same in Manchester or Leeds. The temperature across the country never really gets that hot and never really gets that cold, give or take a few strange days each year. When people travel to Swindon, or Devon, or London, or Newcastle do they really notice that much difference in weather? It's all pretty much the same. It's not like the difference between New York and LA is it?

I also like how a lot of cities in the UK have a cliched view attached to them in terms of weather. When I tell people I live in Manchester they always say that they like the city, but all the rain would get on their nerves. So from Wikipedia about Manchester:

London is usually always warmer than Manchester etc........often by a couple of degrees celcius which makes a lot of difference.

breadlinebetty

nearlyrich wrote: »

Best of both worlds here, I am North west born and bred and I have no plans to move anywhere, I work for a company based in London and have done similar jobs for similar companies for over 10 years, I get a pay packet that reflects South East prices and it goes a lot further in the North. Our house was paid for a long time ago my wage is spending money and retirement savings now, not to mention travel cash.

I have spent a lot of time in the south east and there is no significant difference in the climate in fact they have had worse weather than us recently. There is however a significant difference in the price of property and my 4 bed detached would probably get me a room in a hovel in somewhere like Weybridge or possibly a studio LOL

I don't think you'd find many hovels in Weybridge.:D

Have to disagree about the weather too - down in London and sunny Surrey (Kent too) it's much sunnier, warmer and drier than up north. Spring starts earlier down south too.....