Blackburn - The best place to make a living

GunJack

chucknorris wrote: »

Have all the snowmen melted yet?

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

North Wales is obviously warmer than Newcastle (on tyne, I assume?) N-Under Lyme is much more in our micro-climate

Jennifer_Jane

The North (of England...) is awful? Not all of it. Cheshire is lovely and has the Peak District too; Staffordshire, even, has wonderful moorland; and then there is Cumbria which has some pretty landscapes. Yorkshire people are always going on about their side of things, too.

Blackburn would not be for me, but that's one town. My bit of the North West is gorgeous, thriving, well-run, and a generally happy place (but it is pretty conservative, including politically).

(PS - and I like Newcastle-under-Lyme too, though Stoke not so much).

chucknorris

GunJack wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

North Wales is obviously warmer than Newcastle (on tyne, I assume?) N-Under Lyme is much more in our micro-climate

Yes Upon Tyne. Although I see it has been known for Snowdonia to still have snow in June. Newcastle isn't that cold, but you can certainly feel the difference in Surrey, we eventually plan to winter in Spain and/or the Algarve after retirement, because I like running, cycling, walking and lawn bowls.

Generali

kabayiri wrote: »

What happens in decades to come when London has expanded so much that the Blackburn district is on the London Outer Outer Outer Outer ring road?

Will it still be a Northern hell hole?

Probably. There are plenty of hell holes on the Northern Line.

missyrichards

GunJack wrote: »

N-Under Lyme is much more in our micro-climate

I lived there when I was a student and I thought it was freezing!:eek: Soft Southerner.:D

GunJack

missyrichards wrote: »

I lived there when I was a student and I thought it was freezing!:eek: Soft Southerner.:D

wuzzy-wimp

lisa110rry

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

The North (of England...) is awful? Not all of it. Cheshire is lovely and has the Peak District too; Staffordshire, even, has wonderful moorland; and then there is Cumbria which has some pretty landscapes. Yorkshire people are always going on about their side of things, too.

Blackburn would not be for me, but that's one town. My bit of the North West is gorgeous, thriving, well-run, and a generally happy place (but it is pretty conservative, including politically).

(PS - and I like Newcastle-under-Lyme too, though Stoke not so much).

When I came to this country as a callow youth of 21 in 1977 we lived first in Yardley in Birmingham then in Knowle in Solihull. In Knowle we had a tiny semi-detached 2BR cottage. Then my husband was promoted and posted to Liverpool (CAA). I dragged my feet for 18 months about moving up north because I really believed it would be like Jerusalem (the song, not the city) with dark Satanic mills all over t'place. In Feb 1987 we moved to the most wonderful, welcoming village in West Lancashire. Our home (same price as we sold the one in Knowle for) is now a large, detached three bedroom home and I'll be taken out of it in a box if I get my way. In the morning when I go out to walk my dog, the door remains unlocked until I return (house not empty though).

I work at the junction of the M65/M6/M61 with great access to everywhere in the North (the only place I want to be) and when I need to go to our London office I hop the train at Preston Station, a beautifully restored station on the West Coast Mainline, and have just enough time to get some work done before alighting at Euston, having first made sure all my belonging are totally secure since I had my pocket picked at High Holborn. Thankfully it was my hotel key not a credit card which was lifted.

Some newer incomers to my village complain about the tractors and wagons going to market, but those are what make our village what it is, a centre of excellence for market gardening.

I rest my case. I love you Northern England.

Generali

missyrichards wrote: »

I lived there when I was a student and I thought it was freezing!:eek: Soft Southerner.:D

I live in Sydney and went back to England last Christmas. I don't know how you lot do it.

GunJack

chucknorris wrote: »

Although I see it has been known for Snowdonia to still have snow in June..

yes, it can have snow all year round.......

...but pretty much only sheep live up there :rotfl:

kabayiri

It's funny. We are being critical of somewhere like Blackburn, at a time when hundreds of thousands of people are being displaced from the Middle East and North Africa. Lots of places are affected by mass migration patterns.

I think I'd take Blackburn over parts of Calais, Kos, Lesbos and other places under pressure.