Places to live in Yorkshire

Li0nhead

Jo6673 wrote: »

Ahhhhhhhhh the Lupset estate- largest council estate in the UK- all satelite dishes, Christmas light central and not a job amongst them!!

Sure Lupset is not the largest, sure its one in Hull. just checked:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bransholme

"Bransholme is widely, but mistakingly, believed to be largest council estate in Europe, a title more likely to be held by Becontree in Dagenham.[citation needed]"

Errata wrote: »

bars will be good with hot and cold running vomit. The new market will sell the same rubbish as the old one does which is why no-one visits it. The Westgate run is a dodge the drunks, cops, druggies, loony taxis, massed shriekers experience of a lifetime.
My friendly cop advised the only places to avoid were those with a WF postcode.

Hey i live in a WF postcode!

Your right though, Westgate does seem to have an higher proportion of idiots than most plaes. Could be because in wakey its all on one street pretty much (including side streets). Where as most places of its size its a bit more spred out therefore the drunks looking for a fight are less likley to bump into each other.

One think i like about a night out in Wakey is the taxies are cheap as chips. Live in Thornhill, Dewsbury. About equal distance to wakey and huddersfield from my place, taxi home from hudds around £20, wakey under £15.

Back to the threads topic:

Agree with most of the places mentioned both pro and anti.

Errata

Having experienced life, but not as we know it Jim, in both HU and WF postcode areas they're a dead heat, with the Humber bridge only being built so people could escape more easily to civilisation.
Why anyone would want to move from the golden triangle to either of the above black holes is a mystery.

Jo6673

Li0nhead wrote: »

Sure Lupset is not the largest, sure its one in Hull. just checked:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bransholme

"Bransholme is widely, but mistakingly, believed to be largest council estate in Europe, a title more likely to be held by Becontree in Dagenham.[citation needed]"



Hey i live in a WF postcode!

Your right though, Westgate does seem to have an higher proportion of idiots than most plaes. Could be because in wakey its all on one street pretty much (including side streets). Where as most places of its size its a bit more spred out therefore the drunks looking for a fight are less likley to bump into each other.

One think i like about a night out in Wakey is the taxies are cheap as chips. Live in Thornhill, Dewsbury. About equal distance to wakey and huddersfield from my place, taxi home from hudds around £20, wakey under £15.

Back to the threads topic:

Agree with most of the places mentioned both pro and anti.

Been to both- they are doing something about Bransholme now- its getting better- honest!
Lupsett needs a kick up the !!!! and major renovation!

I live midway between Wakey and Leeds- Rothwell- and rarely head Wakey way for a night out- and never to Cas-Vegas or Ponte-Carlo (been to both once)
I'll stick with Leeds if i can!

Errata

If you live in Rothwell I can understand why you're not aware that it's
Ponte-Crap !

Jo6673

Never heard it called that- most of the girls i work with live over that way!
Always known it as Ponte carlo and Cas Vegas

DKLS

One thing that Wakefield does have going for it....

Its not huddersfield, the town under the shadow of mount doom, The local paper does a "Pride in Huddersfield" thing, an oxymoron if I ever heard one. The only thing that would improve that town is a mushroom cloud.

Li0nhead

DKLS, want to go into reasons why?

Personally i like Huddersfield. (town center and outlying villages, the bit in betweens crappy).

Wardi

Pauper_Princess wrote: »

We moved to Kirkhamgate 5 years ago cos we couldn't afford Sandal or Horbury But y'know, I actually really love it here, it's so peaceful, I can see fields out of the window as I type, I'm an accepted part of the local dog walking community...!! Heh.

2 mins up the road from me then! I like Kirkhamgate, lots of my school friends lived up there and I grew up in Wrenthorpe.

If I am feeling energetic I always walk up Batley Road towards Kirkhamgate. Its good as it give you the taste of the countryside without being too far away from the shops!!!!

DKLS

Li0nhead wrote: »

DKLS, want to go into reasons why?

Personally i like Huddersfield. (town center and outlying villages, the bit in betweens crappy).

I can sum Huddersfield up easily, ever seen League of gentlemen? That would be an accurate reflection of the outlying villages, especially the colne valley.

Its a shame, as at one time, Huddersfield had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the world, but then the bulk of engineering and textiles businesses went out the window.

ScarletBea

We've been using UpMyStreet to get an idea of neighbourhoods and crime rates, but I think that can be misleading sometimes, or maybe out of date.

If I put just the first part of the post code, or the town, I get one information, if I put the full postcode, another. And with the full PC sometimes you get an information of "low income" when you can clearly see that the building/development is for people with higher income.

I guess it's really a question of "seeing to get the feeling".
Hopefully we'll be able to do it this weekend or the next