Where to move in the UK?

[chrispy179]



He could do that, or he could just go the whole hog and buy a time machine and move to Stalin's Moscow.

London is a shithole full of guns and knives, and very expensive with incredibly rude people. Manchester is a shithole full of smackheads and guns, but less expensive and with one of the worst accents you will ever hear (if you can even understand it). I'd recommend Edinburgh, its a lovely place with a refined but not snooty sounding accent.
If you have a job in Manchester I'd live away and commute by car or train, its not as bad as going into London. Maybe get a house in Harrogate (expensive but very nice) or in the western villages of West Yorkshire, or around southern Staffordshire or north Derbyshire - there are some great places around there as long as you go to a village and you'll be half an hour away from Birmingham or Leeds if you want a change from Manc, and an hour from Sheffield where they make good music. Just avoid London, its really not worth the money.
Have you thought of Glasgow? The city centre is really nice even if the accent is a little more proletarian than Edinburgh's and some of the people (we call them Celtic and Rangers fans) a little less friendly and if you go half an hour outside there is some splendid countryside, and its only an hour from Edinburgh.
Going to a city similar in size and character to where you live now might be a good bet since you'll be in a foreign country and having to adapt to life there.

Having lived in Montreal and Auckland we're looking for somewhere most like Montreal and LEAST like Auckland. Montreal was exciting and easy to get around and we've found Auckland to be a boring, sprawled, inconvenient, expensive shithole (sorry Aucklanders). My first choice would be Edinburgh based solely on the architecture and culture but my worry is that it is a bit small and opportunities might be limited. Manchester's new BBC development could be a good opportunity for me but the city itself seems very sprawled and ugly. London is only really an option if I'm able to obtain decent employment prior to moving there.

Im pretty much still at square one and will probably have to wait til we are actually there to decide.

 

[Sir Humphrey Appleby]



Having lived in Montreal and Auckland we're looking for somewhere most like Montreal and LEAST like Auckland. Montreal was exciting and easy to get around and we've found Auckland to be a boring, sprawled, inconvenient, expensive shithole (sorry Aucklanders). My first choice would be Edinburgh based solely on the architecture and culture but my worry is that it is a bit small and opportunities might be limited. Manchester's new BBC development could be a good opportunity for me but the city itself seems very sprawled and ugly. London is only really an option if I'm able to obtain decent employment prior to moving there.
Im pretty much still at square one and will probably have to wait til we are actually there to decide.

Edinburgh then. I believe most of the Scottish TV and radio is done in Glasgow but you can easily get the train every day.

 

[lasbar]

Edinburgh is a beautiful city..

Great rugby matches on tap too..:slayer

 

[MikeDT]

Not where, but why would someone want to move to the UK?

 

[lasbar]



Not where, but why would someone want to move to the UK?

The weather.

 

[THE WITTY 1]

It's pot luck which City turns out to be the best for you. My immediate thoughts are that London would be the right place to go.

 

[lasbar]



It's pot luck which City turns out to be the best for you. My immediate thoughts are that London would be the right place to go.

London is uber expensive , that's the problem..

 

[Sir Humphrey Appleby]



It's pot luck which City turns out to be the best for you. My immediate thoughts are that London would be the right place to go.

Why?

 

[London Rudeboy]

You don't need a car in London at all. Most people in London don't actually need cars and lots of people don't own them. That said it is extremely expensive. If I were to move back to the UK it would be to Liverpool or Inverness.

 

[lasbar]



You don't need a car in London at all. Most people in London don't actually need cars and lots of people don't own them. That said it is extremely expensive. If I were to move back to the UK it would be to Liverpool or Inverness. 

Inverness???

 

[Britalian]

Oxford. London 1 hr.
Brighton ditto.

 

[lasbar]



Oxford. London 1 hr.
Brighton ditto.

Brighton and Oxford are brilliant town to live in ..

I don't know enough about his particular line of work to advise him...

Salisbury and Bath are beautiful too..

Manchesterseems a good compromise.

 

[chrispy179]

Brighton was also a consideration. Proximity to London and the sea is a big plus, but rent prices in Brighton seem quite high as well (still almost twice as much vs northern England and Scotland)

 

[fuji]

Never really liked brighton. Kind of bias because I live here, but I think Cambridge is really nice. My student accommodation in London is gonna be nearly 800 a month for an absolutely tiny room, London is ridiculously expensive.

 

[MikeDT]



Never really liked brighton. Kind of bias because I live here, but I think Cambridge is really nice. My student accommodation in London is gonna be nearly 800 a month for an absolutely tiny room, London is ridiculously expensive.

It'll get even more expensive this year, 2012 Olympics. I'm staying where I am.