Hi guys/gals

I am a poncy southerner living in sheffield (and between us - really enjoying it)...thought I would start with a bit of honesty. I am living in Velocity Tower at the minute and looking to move out in a few months and live with 2 other friends. I was wondering if you guys know some areas where you can find some trendy areas not too far from the city centre that would suit?

Thanks in advance!
Oli

No other place than West Street, in my opinion. So West One is a good start. There's also some new digs around Leopold Street.

The Hunters Bar / Sharrow Vale area around Ecclesall Road is probably worth a look?

St Vincent's/Kelham Island area seems to have lots of trendy flats

It depends how much you want to pay for purchase/rent.

West Street isn't what I call "trendy".

I don't think Sheffield has that kind of areas.

It has nice areas with bars, shops, restaurants etc.. on your doorstep populated by students and young professionals eg. Hunters Bar, Broomhill, Banner Cross etc..

Eccky road? It's right busy and always something to do, where bouts in south did you live? i moved from Maidstone, love Sheffield.

Ecclesall Road sound right for you.

Eccy Road/Hunters bar sounds poncey enough for you. Some areas of Nether Edge might also be up your street.....careful you don't slip on an organic houmous spillage.

Not sure you'll find anywhere selling shandy though.

( a fellow southerner )

Eccy Road/Hunters bar sounds poncey enough for you. Some areas of Nether Edge might also be up your street.....careful you don't slip on an organic houmous spillage.

Not sure you'll find anywhere selling shandy though.

( a fellow southerner )

Fair summary! I love Nether Edge - just far enough away from Hunters Bar to avoid the students, but only a short walk back to the pubs and park there.

Oh so true about organic homous though - there's always loads of beardy weirdos around the Oxfam junction (a.k.a. Lentil Corner).

I would say this one, but unfortunately I'm buying it!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-13649613.html?premiumA=true

I would say this one, but unfortunately I'm buying it!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-13649613.html?premiumA=true

To say I'm more of a traditionalist with architecture, I do like that place. Although practicality comes into play here... Would you build a house with that much glass which overlooks a golf course?! I'd have visions of being woken by a mis-swung drive slamming through my bedroom window...

To say I'm more of a traditionalist with architecture, I do like that place. Although practicality comes into play here... Would you build a house with that much glass which overlooks a golf course?! I'd have visions of being woken by a mis-swung drive slamming through my bedroom window...

That was exactly my thought when I last played Beauchief! Add to that the hundreds of people who can see directly into your bedroom passing by after just finishing the 6th.

I play a fair bot of golf, and no one I know that plays actually lives next to a golf course. Its not so much the stray shots, its the petrol mowers at 6am every day cutting the greens.

That was exactly my thought when I last played Beauchief! Add to that the hundreds of people who can see directly into your bedroom passing by after just finishing the 6th.

Why would the OP want to live round there though - hardly trendy is it? I know you don't mean it as a serious option for him, but it always baffles me that people want to live miles away from any amenities. Is that the attraction - pull down the drawbridge and keep the plebs at bay?

If the OP means 'trendy areas' like in London, then these are generally very close to lots of amenities and bustling life. So in Sheffield this translates to the areas suggested above (S10, S11 and small bits of S7 and S6 basically). If you live in this millionaire pad you are a long walk from the nearest shop flogging even basic items like a pint of milk. But I suppose the buyer would mostly drive everywhere - seldom walking and certainly never getting the dreaded bus.

Why would the OP want to live round there though - hardly trendy is it? I know you don't mean it as a serious option for him, but it always baffles me that people want to live miles away from any amenities. Is that the attraction - pull down the drawbridge and keep the plebs at bay?

If the OP means 'trendy areas' like in London, then these are generally very close to lots of amenities and bustling life. So in Sheffield this translates to the areas suggested above (S10, S11 and small bits of S7 and S6 basically). If you live in this millionaire pad you are a long walk from the nearest shop flogging even basic items like a pint of milk. But I suppose the buyer would mostly drive everywhere - seldom walking and certainly never getting the dreaded bus.

I completely agree. I spent 27 years living in the wastelands of suburbia and wouldn't go back for anything (well, maybe that house...).

I meant pull 'up' the drawbridge of course - before the pedants chip in.

The remoter the better for me. I would love to live in a valley with no neighbours - just spectacular views and hills around me. Who needs bars/pubs etc when you'd have tranquility like that?

I love that - "the wastelands of suburbia". I've yet to see those as where I live has a little bit of originality rather than a dominance of chain shops and bars like the centre of town.

The remoter the better for me. I would love to live in a valley with no neighbours - just spectacular views and hills around me. Who needs bars/pubs etc when you'd have tranquility like that?

Tranquility is nice, but I still need booze.......

Tranquility is nice, but I still need booze.......

Yeah, perhaps I should have qualified that a little. Tranquil, but somewhere which receives Laithwaites deliveries...!

The remoter the better for me. I would love to live in a valley with no neighbours - just spectacular views and hills around me. Who needs bars/pubs etc when you'd have tranquility like that?

I love that - "the wastelands of suburbia". I've yet to see those as where I live has a little bit of originality rather than a dominance of chain shops and bars like the centre of town.

I guess I must still be young after all. You'll think I'm crazy but I really like the fact that its never quiet in the city centre and that whatever I need is just round the corner.

I guess I must still be young after all. You'll think I'm crazy but I really like the fact that its never quiet in the city centre and that whatever I need is just round the corner.

Now I do feel like an old fart. Don't get me wrong - I love cities; London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Berlin etc have a real energy. But if I wanted to live in a city centre it'd have to be a proper metropolis like one of those; Sheffield just doesn't cut it (for me). What I live about where I live is the centre is 20 minutes walk in one direction, whilst the Peaks are a 5 minute drive in the other (or a short walk down to Endcliffe Park and up the Porter/Mayfield). Best of both worlds, for me!