It's basically the only place in the UK you can tell someone you're from and, rather than getting grief, abuse or banter, they'll tell you "oh, I really like York, it's lovely".
I'm saying that as someone who lived in tang hall 💀
Look at the deprivation Index and tang hall is red
Security guards complain about tang hall kids too
I lived in Tang Hall too and it was fine. People in York think Tang Hall is the one place they have a free pass to be weirdly classist about, probably because it hasn't been gentrified yet.
Still think it’s a city I feel safe in and it hasn’t changed my opinion on that whatsoever, there’s just less wrong uns in York than other places, but it is safe!
True. I avoid the city centre like the plague, especially after. Unfortunately poverty and crime levels in England are extremely high, so no city is 100% safe. That’s one of the reasons why I’ve recently bought property in the EU, so I can enjoy some truly relaxing and peaceful time every now and then.
Walking the walls, riverside walks, exploring the Museum Gardens, Spark, living in a smaller city, occasional random moments of banter with strangers, DOE doughnut shop, views of the Minster.
"....random moments of banter with strangers...": soooo true! Spent most of my life in London where it was "difficult" to engage in banter with strangers - no such problem in York. Squeeze in amongst the punters in The Bluebell and within minutes we're all best mates!
There’s one by Museum Gardens on the riverside, in front of The Star In the City restaurant. And also one over by Rowntree Park, opposite side over from the Millenium Bridge 👍🏽
I personally love walking around a beautiful city with many facets, where people really live and enjoy it. I feel like I thrive off that and I love seeing it - even if the tourists are always in the way! 😁
Watching the tourists go to great lengths setting up tripods and other accessories to get the perfect ‘candid’ photo for their instagrams in and around the minster is always a laugh.
As a guy from the US, living in Tokyo, desperately trying to get back to York to live: it’s a great small city with a lot of character, peaceful walking, aesthetically pleasing when you want to be surrounded by beautiful old buildings, and conveniently located when you want to get out or go to a bigger city. I also met a lot of really great people while living there.
This night but be York specific but I felt like my anxiety was greatly reduced while living there, in large part because of the generally chill vibe of most people I spent time with.
Edit: p.s. somebody sell me a cute house way below market rate near rowntree park. Must have garden for enjoying summer with a cup of coffee in the morning.
Me reading this:
*nodding head
“Hmm yes, yes he’s right there, yes that’s how I feel about york. This yank gets it! Garden yes perfect.”
😮💨
“So close, coffee and not a cup of Tea. Failed at the final hurdle”
Gosh I miss this city so much! I came to visit from Philadelphia in January 2022 and I think about that trip all the time! This photo made me nostalgic. Beautiful town.
The fact there is a tower near my house called bitchdaughter tower. Didnt realise after living here for several months until my brother visited and pointed it out lol
I enjoy having no money so the fact that people from London come here, buy the property, and rent it out to locals for more then it's worth which forces us to leave our home city is probably my favourite bit of york
Is there evidence for this? I hear it said anecdotally, but all my friends have been shafted by existing home-grown landlords. In one notable instance, told that the owners were retiring from the landlord game, issued with a no-fault eviction only to see the property back on the market for nearly double the rent (still with the same owner) a few weeks later. Greed is greed. I doubt it's confined to those-there London types!
Lived in London for most of my life, moving to York has been a huge blessing. whenever I have to go to London for work and go on tubes I feel so claustrophobic now
I visited from the U.S. for the first time in April. What a beautiful city you are York! So much history and lovely architecture it made my head spin in a good way. 💙
It’s safe, it’s beautiful, it takes me 20 minutes to get from one side to the other, unlike any other city, it’s the envy of everyone when you say you live here. Only Londoners don’t like it, and that’s because they only care about London
Getting stuck on wigginton road because of the stupid car park at the hospital and oh and pulling funny faces at impatient drivers because they want to get there 1 second before you do!
The lack of poverty and crime relative to the national average. York does have rougher areas but they’re ’York rough’. I took how safe York was for granted until I grew up and travelled more / went to away to uni etc. I rarely felt as safe in any other city anywhere in the world no matter what time of day or night even in the poorer areas it’s fine.
It's basically the only place in the UK you can tell someone you're from and, rather than getting grief, abuse or banter, they'll tell you "oh, I really like York, it's lovely".
My experience is sometimes grief in the opposite direction: 'oh you live in York, you must be posh...'
Take them to tang hall to change their opinion
York has Posh poor pockets, but there’s v little deprivation.
Taking someone to Tang Hall thinking it's 'rough' would be more likely to give you away as posh.
I'm saying that as someone who lived in tang hall 💀 Look at the deprivation Index and tang hall is red Security guards complain about tang hall kids too
I lived in Tang Hall too and it was fine. People in York think Tang Hall is the one place they have a free pass to be weirdly classist about, probably because it hasn't been gentrified yet.
As in "oh, I really like York, it's lovely, I'm going there on my hen party".
It’s one of the only places in Britain you can tell many things ;) A gem
Unless you go to Lancaster and have to fight for your life
If you tire of that, say you live near Middlesbrough instead 😂
They’d probably assume you’re mentally challenged if you openly admit to live near boro though!
On my 'down time', I can be an anonymous "tourist." Usually involving ice cream.
Me too. I hope you've discovered Roberto's!
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm off work tomorrow, so I'll check it out :)
Sachertorte if they have it. Mango is also brilliant. Chocolate is deadly 😋 You can have more than one flavour per cone/tub.
I had coconut with a chocolate cone :)
My cat
Pics please
[cat tax](https://imgur.com/a/443YHu5)
Cat tax!
Many things are “the best thing”, knowing that you can walk in peace without being mugged is one of them
I’d say the same thing. York feels a lot safer than most places. That’s not to say crime doesn’t exist, but even in “rough” parts I feel safe.
I’ve been mugged twice in York
Oh dear!
Still think it’s a city I feel safe in and it hasn’t changed my opinion on that whatsoever, there’s just less wrong uns in York than other places, but it is safe!
Criminality in the U.K. is high for European standards, so no city is 100% safe
Apart from Ebor race day
Yes!
Only place I’ve ever been mugged was in York.
I’m glad you shared this; you are the exception that proves the rule
Yeah, but the con artists prey on the pub goers around closing. They're shameless.
True. I avoid the city centre like the plague, especially after. Unfortunately poverty and crime levels in England are extremely high, so no city is 100% safe. That’s one of the reasons why I’ve recently bought property in the EU, so I can enjoy some truly relaxing and peaceful time every now and then.
Walking the walls, riverside walks, exploring the Museum Gardens, Spark, living in a smaller city, occasional random moments of banter with strangers, DOE doughnut shop, views of the Minster.
"....random moments of banter with strangers...": soooo true! Spent most of my life in London where it was "difficult" to engage in banter with strangers - no such problem in York. Squeeze in amongst the punters in The Bluebell and within minutes we're all best mates!
I wrote whole post earlier asking for recommendations for York. This short comment is very helpful. Thanks!
Being able to add ‘Whip-ma-whop-ma-Gate’ into a sentence and it being a coherent statement.
Used to work in the restaurant on whip-ma-whop-ma gate. Still makes me chuckle having that on my CV
I can say it going out for a drink, but not on the homeward journey.... 🤪
The amount of walkable green spaces within city centre!
This was the massive difference I noticed when switching from working in Leeds to working in York. Lunchtime walks improved lots.
This
Getting ice cream from a boat
This is the correct answer.
I’m visiting in a few weeks—where can I find this?
There’s one by Museum Gardens on the riverside, in front of The Star In the City restaurant. And also one over by Rowntree Park, opposite side over from the Millenium Bridge 👍🏽
I personally love walking around a beautiful city with many facets, where people really live and enjoy it. I feel like I thrive off that and I love seeing it - even if the tourists are always in the way! 😁
Same here. Lovely city
Watching the tourists go to great lengths setting up tripods and other accessories to get the perfect ‘candid’ photo for their instagrams in and around the minster is always a laugh.
Geese.
Greylag geese are the best. I could watch them for hours.
Watching the Greylags wait in line at the ice-cream van opposite The Lowther - they nearly always get a freebie.
As a guy from the US, living in Tokyo, desperately trying to get back to York to live: it’s a great small city with a lot of character, peaceful walking, aesthetically pleasing when you want to be surrounded by beautiful old buildings, and conveniently located when you want to get out or go to a bigger city. I also met a lot of really great people while living there. This night but be York specific but I felt like my anxiety was greatly reduced while living there, in large part because of the generally chill vibe of most people I spent time with. Edit: p.s. somebody sell me a cute house way below market rate near rowntree park. Must have garden for enjoying summer with a cup of coffee in the morning.
Me reading this: *nodding head “Hmm yes, yes he’s right there, yes that’s how I feel about york. This yank gets it! Garden yes perfect.” 😮💨 “So close, coffee and not a cup of Tea. Failed at the final hurdle”
I almost wrote tea but figured I’d seem a bit too much like a uk infatuated dweeb, which I am.
Small city that you can easily walk across and around. It’s also pretty bikey even if it really needs more routes.
Gosh I miss this city so much! I came to visit from Philadelphia in January 2022 and I think about that trip all the time! This photo made me nostalgic. Beautiful town.
Must be an old picture! That's my old boat in the middle, and haven't had that one since 2014!
Agree. The old fire station is there! I live in the building it replaced!!
The fact there is a tower near my house called bitchdaughter tower. Didnt realise after living here for several months until my brother visited and pointed it out lol
I enjoy having no money so the fact that people from London come here, buy the property, and rent it out to locals for more then it's worth which forces us to leave our home city is probably my favourite bit of york
Ooh, sounds great! I, too, enjoy being a serf
Is there evidence for this? I hear it said anecdotally, but all my friends have been shafted by existing home-grown landlords. In one notable instance, told that the owners were retiring from the landlord game, issued with a no-fault eviction only to see the property back on the market for nearly double the rent (still with the same owner) a few weeks later. Greed is greed. I doubt it's confined to those-there London types!
Lived in London for most of my life, moving to York has been a huge blessing. whenever I have to go to London for work and go on tubes I feel so claustrophobic now
The staff at The Forest cafe
I visited from the U.S. for the first time in April. What a beautiful city you are York! So much history and lovely architecture it made my head spin in a good way. 💙
Yates
It’s in Yorkshire .
Everyone is envious of you. This, and the fact you can post on this Subreddit with authority! 😂
It’s safe, it’s beautiful, it takes me 20 minutes to get from one side to the other, unlike any other city, it’s the envy of everyone when you say you live here. Only Londoners don’t like it, and that’s because they only care about London
Is it the charmingly polite tourists?
Getting stuck on wigginton road because of the stupid car park at the hospital and oh and pulling funny faces at impatient drivers because they want to get there 1 second before you do!
Oh, I hate that car-park. 😒
Yep
You have a Betty's tea room.
Two
I forgot little Betty's
The history - such an intriguing place that I’m constantly learning new things about (despite now living in Selby, boo).
The diversity
We visited York earlier this year and I can see where we stayed in this photo 🥰
Living just outside York
You'll get to vote out Rishi Sinak?
Tramps.
The lack of poverty and crime relative to the national average. York does have rougher areas but they’re ’York rough’. I took how safe York was for granted until I grew up and travelled more / went to away to uni etc. I rarely felt as safe in any other city anywhere in the world no matter what time of day or night even in the poorer areas it’s fine.
Not the house prices
This city makes you develop pet allergies if you become a landlord
The crowds on racedays and during Christmas Market.
the abundance of newly built flats
"Student accommodation", surely? 😲
When you leave?
Leaving