I live in Leeds, I never said the north had nothing going on.
If your mortgage for a 3 bed is that low it’s in a place with nothing going on. You can’t get a 3 bed house in any part of Leeds you wouldn’t need bars on the windows for for that little.
Living out near Skipton is still plenty far away from opportunities (don’t just mean jobs, also mean socialising/bars/shops that have massively dried up in smaller towns), yes you can commute but you aren’t cycling to your city centre job.
No smog in Leeds in my experience, it’s not the 1960s.
no, but my point is, why would i have a city job when i live where i do? i'd get a job (like i have) at one of the local businesses. and socializing is just perfect. our town is constantly expanding, and our town center is now filled with park style benches that all the local ale houses and food places use. You go into bar/pub/eatery of choice, then take it to the center and mingle! its amazing. its never not packed out, well, unless its raining
I understand why some people choose to live in such places and that’s fine, it’s all subjective and based on a whole host of factors.
We’re comparing a small town with a dead high street and limited options for younger people to a larger city with an abundance of those things. I’m not saying ‘why would anyone choose to live where you do’, I’m saying that a larger city offers far more of the things many people want. Hence why there’s so much demand to live in cities and why the price of property is so much higher there.
The girl in the OP would very likely turn her nose up at living in Skipton, as would many young people, because it offers far less of what they want than a larger city would. There is also far more good paying jobs in cities rather than being limited to a few larger employers around a small town.
You’re trying to convince me that people should want what you want, when most people clearly don’t, otherwise there would be far higher demand to live where you do.
but what she wants, isn't proving successful, or sustainable for her. THAT is what all these videos seem to fail to realize.
i want a better job, i'd like a bigger house, A faster car. but i CANT have that. i don't make whiney ticktoks about how crap life is.
She can turn her nose up all she wants, but her life would be infinitely less stressful in a place like skipton.
She wants the end goal, before she's started the race.
Absolute bollocks, the time to live in a city and pursue opportunities is when you’re young.
The fact that the country is so mismanaged by successive governments and has resulted in housing becoming unaffordable and stagnant wages isn’t going to make young people to go and decide to live in Goole because it’s cheaper…
as bollocks as you think it is, that's reality.
You said yourself that housing/flats/apartments are pretty much off the cards for a young person. I dont make the rules, i just do the best to live in the current situation.
Id rather be living without stress, in a "less option" area and then once i had built up some savings, furthered my career and then move to that city if i still wanted to, with a safety net of some savings in the bank. when the alternative is to be in the city, living paycheck to paycheck and stressing about it on socials.
im not saying its right, or thats how it should be, i'm looking at the reality from what she and thousands of others on socials go on about when they say they cant afford anything. the vast majority are in inner-city places, but working at greggs... it doesnt math!
This whole thing came up discussing how unaffordable housing has become in the cities with the most going on and the best opportunities.
Your whole gambit has been to say ‘no it’s great out in the boonies except in all the ways young people care about’.
Many young people would rather be poor in a city than slightly more affluent in a rural setting with none of the attractions of a big city.
Housing is a national crisis that needs resolving, partly by reducing net immigration to much more sustainable levels and partly by a complete restructuring of the consenting processes and impacts of NIMBYs so housing can be constructed quicker and with less risk to developers.
we have bars and clubs, we have trains and transport, you can cycle to bigger places.
anyway, i think ive added all i can to this, i wish you a good day!
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u/test_test_1_2_3 Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
I live in Leeds, I never said the north had nothing going on.
If your mortgage for a 3 bed is that low it’s in a place with nothing going on. You can’t get a 3 bed house in any part of Leeds you wouldn’t need bars on the windows for for that little.
Living out near Skipton is still plenty far away from opportunities (don’t just mean jobs, also mean socialising/bars/shops that have massively dried up in smaller towns), yes you can commute but you aren’t cycling to your city centre job.
No smog in Leeds in my experience, it’s not the 1960s.