Do not want to move

What do you actually mean by 'the North'?
Glasgow isn't the same as Newcastle and Huddersfield isn't like Inverness.
To lump 'everything north of Watford' into one huge amorphous area really is quite ridiculous!

I think some people have an idea of 'The North' as a place of deprivation, dark satanic mills and smoking factory chimneys! They imagine men in flat caps standing on street corners with a whippet on a piece of string and women on doorsteps wearing pinnies, with their curlers hidden under turbans, their stockings rolled down to the ankles and a fag in the corner of their mouths! Wrong!

Our country is so small there's hardly room for a north/south divide and it's time the myth was busted! Mind you, I wouldn't trade the quiet roads, deserted beaches and the stunning beauty of Northumberland for anything.

lizzy You mean 'down south' in Northumberland????
I agree it's a lovely part of the world.

Hi mcem, I'm guessing you're in bonny Scotland. Those of us north of Hadrian's wall must stick together!

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Can I join you?
I'm only 20 miles south.

Flamenco Have you ever visited Newcastle? From the way you talk, it doesn't sound like it.

Newcastle is a large cosmopolitan city with a good cultural life, whatever your interests. It has a major art centre in the Baltic, a wonderful riverside area and the city is surrounded by spectacular countryside. it is a busy vibrant city. Whatever you enjoy doing, you will be able to do it in Newcastle.

Is it colder than the rest of the UK? perhaps slightly, but housing in the area has all modern conveniences including central heating and wearing a warm winter coat, scarf and gloves when out in winter, is really not that difficult.

I fully understand your worries about moving from friends and family and that is certainly an issue, but that is no excuse for painting an internal picture of the north of England that seems to be more based on the books of Catherine Cookson than the reality of what the north east is in the 21st century.

And a great university!!

And the Sage for music.

And friendly people!

Flamenco hasn't said that Newcastle is the suggested destination.
Maybe it is Thurso or Wick.

Flamenco appears to have disappeared.

FarNorth she has. See Mawbroon's quote from a message received from her on page 2 of this thread.

Mawboons quote appears to be a copy of flamencos original question in january I can't see where it indicates she has left the discussion am I being stupid and missing the obvious

I think M0nica was referring to where I quoted the OP in January where her partner wanted to move to his "home town, Newcastle". The current thread just says "far north nearer his family".
I am assuming the situation has not changed.