Alright chaps - having met some of you and being in the vicinity of West Yorkshire i'd thought i'd put this to you.

I currently live in Oldham but have always wanted to move out to the sticks in Saddleworth but to be honest to get somewhere decent requires feckin' stupid money. The thing is just a few miles further you have small places in West Yorkshire that seem just as nice (if not better) that dont seem to command the sort of money that snobbery Saddleworth does.

I've been looking at the following places, Rishworth, Ripponden, Triangle, Marsden, Slaithwaite and Meltham.

Does any of you lot live near any of these places? any recomendations? places to avoid?

Just a nice peaceful place with no a**holes


Cheers guys.

p.s. Yes i'm sure they will let me in if i scrub up!

 

Are you making up new places as you go along only heard of
Ripponden, Marsden,
and not sure what they are like but the other lot will know alot more,

 

Would have to say no to those (I know folks who live there)...Does it have to be the West of West Yorkshire?

 

well relatively close to the M62 or the Saddleworth border as i work in Oldham.


are those three that bad?

 

Nothing wrong with Meltham if, like everywhere, you don't get the council bits. I live there and have no issues at all with it. Nice place to be and close to open moorland and nice roads. Marsden is closest to Oldham for you but only by about 5 minutes.

You could also get to Holmfirth from Oldham in about 30 minutes but could be a bit more expensive.

 

Oh Christ!

He's made so much money out of the bloody footie cards that he's thinking of moving house

Can't you go North or summat?

 

Nah


Moving 'cos of cheaper house prices if anything

 

You've been moving for the last 2 years ! ! Yet your still in oldham now.

 

Do you follow every post i make?

weirdo

 

Go South... Not too far mind as you'll be a Southern Shandy drinker like the ESC ( Joke guys! Honest!). Sort of Black Country way. Dudley, that sort of thing. God's country..

Why am I up t'North I hear you ask??? Well, the WYIOC guys have me held hostage.. I've dug tunnels, built gliders and even strapped myself under Stickies car to get out.. each one was spotted. Sticky even noticed the 11... maybe 12 stone weight increase and I was rumbled... I'm now completely deaf in my left ear from the exhaust note... but the thrill of Strines from underneath the car will never be beaten

 

Bloody Dudley?

wasn't that dopey t**t from auf wiedersehen pet Timothy Spall aka Barry
from Dudley.

please dont tell me your from Dudley Alan

 

move to BARNSLEY now thats the proper "NORTH" mind you the scoob i'll proberbly nicked within a week and you'll have to buy a flat cap un a whipit


SI THI

JB24

 

Dunno about Barnsley - went there a few years ago to fight in a tournament and got my *** kicked big time.


bloody miners sons

 

im a miners son would have been a miner too but bloody thatchers brittan

 

Did you go with the intention of being in a fight, or did they get p1ssed off with the dodgy footie cards and give you a bit of a Barnsly welcome (I'm like an elephant, me... )

 

I went with the intention of winning, which my first fight i did - the second they put me in with this guy who i swear should have been in a cage and certified insane.

needless to say my martial arts career was cut short

 

Sticky.. Chief's words to note are 'Fighting miners sons with the intention of winning' & 'martial arts'. I'd change from an Elephant to a Goldfish and don't annoy him further...

Chief - I'm a Black Country Lad from Halesowen. Grew up in the sticks in a small place called Pelsall, just outside Brownhills... But no one's ever heard of them up here, so I use Dudley instead....

 

Nah i'm too old (and fat) for that nonsense now - besides getting thumped on the nose was not a pleasant way to spend a Sunday afternoon

 

Sticky - It's safe to keep going..... I think...

 

dont come over to seacroft then cheif, getting thumped on a weekend is part and parcel of the mortgage agreement

 

Well if it's peace and quiet you want Al could be right Chief, Brownhills doesn't look like it will be too rowdy, of course the constant drone of the M6 in the background might put you off the tranquility, well either that or all the shootings & car jackings

 

Ah yes, the steam trains, Narrow boats, penny farthings in the street and kids playing with a spinning top & string. When we got electricity in 1996, them new fangled gadgets ruined it all..

Any car jacking was done at 3 MPH and the guy with the red flag walking at the front was all the protection you needed.. If guns were used, then you could always disarm the villain as he rushed to powder his gun and re-charge the flint. Them were the days..

 

 

as i live in hx i know these area,s but obviously am biase towards ripponden(SNOBBY ) sowerby just down the road is better with some superb views hebden bridge and mytholmroyd like wise (next valley over) unfortunately everyware as its fare share of idiots these days

 

So Ripponden is considered upmarket then? as Sowerby?
Hmmmmm


Cheers

 

no chief the residents just think so !!!!!!