Moving

Because of course London is the only other place to live in the country. I wasn't suggesting that everyone should move here, just that I think staying in the same place your whole life is a little unadventurous.

Nothing wrong with anywhere being extremely white, it's just something I noticed.

That is pretty obvious considering London is by far the largest city in Britain.

I bet Paris has got more dodgy areas than anywhere in France, Amsterdam more than anywhere in Holland, New York an LA than anywhere in America etc etc

Best thing I've ever done, leaving Newcastle. Only wish I'd done it sooner and gone away for uni. Not slagging the place off, I love going back to visit, but I'll never live there again.

Leaving the country for a few years has been a good move too. Off to Moscow next, then New York

I was born in Yorkshire and swallowed all the 'Yorkshire is the best place in the world, people are the salt of the earth ' bullshit I was fed from birth.
I've lived in different places and travelled a fair bit and I'm now living in the North East.
It seems to me that to try out different cultures is a good thing to do, and makes you a more rounded person, but that basically everywhere on the planet is ok if you have money and not so good if you don't, and that humans are the same all over the world. What makes a place is if you have friends or family there, or plenty of people who think the same as you about life.
The North East has a bit of the 'Geordies are the salt of the earth ' stuff too and can be insular and boorish but Newcastle is a good size for a city, is far enough from the capital to have a distinct identity, has fantastic countryside close at hand, is cheap to live in and decent hospitals and schools. I can't get excited enough about anywhere else to prompt me to move so I guess I'll stay here for now....

I've just moved down to London in January, and I'm counting down the months til I move back up north. I love London life and how everything is on my doorstep, but it's true what they say about there being no place like home.
I miss having all my friends and family around me, which is the main downside for me, as all my mates live in Newcastle, and I'm really struggling to meet new people down here

I dare say I won't be moving back to Consett tho..

Everyone should have a try at moving away from their home area at least once, you can always come back if you hate it.

I've lived in Kent, Aberdeen, Newcastle and London and they've all had their good/bad points but I think Newcastle is a pretty good place to live...hardly took me any time at all to make a massive group of mates when i moved down whereas in London its much harder because everyone lives so far away from each other.

Although it does piss me off how much geordies bum being geordies, you arent that special

Totally agree with both points

Would you rather we went round stabbing and shooting each other