Not impressed with life in Sheffield

[gaze1981 10]

For what it's worth, I moved to Sheffield from Manchester in September 2004. I've had the means and opportunity to move back to Manchester a few times. But I've stayed here.

[Allen 38]

Just an observation........most people praising Sheffield are relative newbies to the city.

[pattricia 575]

For what it's worth, I moved to Sheffield from Manchester in September 2004. I've had the means and opportunity to move back to Manchester a few times. But I've stayed here.

 

Youve got good taste I see.:)

[moke 10]

my number one piece of advise for enjoying sheffield is to avoid looking in here too often. it's a horrible mirror world, where every niggle is magnified to epic proportions.

 

i found my first year in sheffield tough, but once i settled in, i came to love the place.

 

fwiw, i chose the wadsley / middlewood end of hillsborough (the are with no name, some call little Hillsborough) over meersbrook, as i thought it seemed a lot better kept. aside from the dog fouling (that one thing i agree on, is rank, and seemingly a sheff epidemic) is clean, tidy, has litter pickers once a week or more, and is well looked after, with a lovely park, good amenities (leisure centre, local independent shops, dog racing if that floats your boat), some very good pubs (new barrack tavern) and some farily acceptable ones (the castle, the park), and access to the tram, which is brilliant.

 

all of those benefits outweigh some of the negatives (natives can be a prickly - though this seems to subside. it's taken 4 years for us to really make proper friends up here- though circumstances affect that i suppose) and the general sense of ennui that sometimes envelopes the place.

 

best thing to do is to go out and discover some of sheffs 'hidden' delights - get yourself to the graves gallery in the top of the central library, or go up to our cow molly for an ice cream, take a wander through the family petting zoo at graves park, or the botanical gardens - all splendid, free (aside from buying an ice cream) and all show sheff in a really positive light - things that over cities and towns would love to have.

 

or if all else fails, go and drink the local beer in the indie pubs. that clinched it for me!

[lentenrose61 10]

sheffield as a city has improved except for the amount of trees growing on streets and in peoples gardens. As always it is not the place it is the people. Sheffield use to be full of working people in industry. At night people met to socialise in pubs and clubs and thats where you met and made friends. Now people do not know their neighbours due to overgrown hedges. I don't see some of my neighbours because of high hedges. People keep to themselves now.

[stressconsul 10]

sheffield as a city has improved except for the amount of trees growing on streets and in peoples gardens. As always it is not the place it is the people. Sheffield use to be full of working people in industry. At night people met to socialise in pubs and clubs and thats where you met and made friends. Now people do not know their neighbours due to overgrown hedges. I don't see some of my neighbours because of high hedges. People keep to themselves now.

 

Its good to be friendly and neighbourly but that does not mean endless chatting over the garden fence - some of us like a bit of privacy in the garden - I am very fond of my hedges and trees.

[criscandle 10]

I live in the Nethertorpe area ,+there,s always rubbish around .The council come +remove big items but leave carrier bags etc in street .I have one particular neighbour that deliberately throws rubbish on the grass + he has been reported ,but all you are told to do is keep a diary , then he just gets told off .Some of us do try ,(even pick up rubbish ourselves + put it in our bins ,)to make it a nicer place to live.

 

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Go away then we don't want you southerners here anyway.

 

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Heretic !!!

 

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I second that. I was born here but have lived and worked all over the world but came HOME.

I agree it's not fair to come + live here then slag us off there are some nice people + nice areas

[Andy13 10]

As another southerner, I have to say that Sheffield is one of the best places I have lived (been here almost 2 years).

 

I am a southerner in the sense I could see the English Channel out of my window when growing up, just outside of Brighton.

 

I have lived in Kent, East Sussex, Somerset, Oxfordshire and South Yorkshire and have found the people here to be nice and friendly. I do get a lot of stick for how I speak but I kind of expected it and doesn't bother me at all (I find it funny as hardly any distance between north and south of England compared to other countries!).

 

The only thing I would say I have struggled with is meeting a good set of mates outside of work, which I think is less down to Sheffield and more about being busy with my new career and no longer being at Uni, which is a very sociable place than being an adult with a full time job!

 

As a place, I think it is great and compare to Bath, where I lived for 4 years, is full of unfriendly people and tourist. Would never live in a tourist town/city every again!

 

The main reason I moved up north was the cost of housing, it is so cheap around here and the house I own now would cost at least double in the area I grew up, maybe even more towards triple. When I go back to Brighton I do love and miss it a little, but its not three times as good as Sheffield, which is the price you pay not just in housing but meal, drink, sport etc.

Edited April 18, 2013 by Andy13

[hacker 10]

I've lived in Meersbrook for six years. Never had the slightest bit of trouble, nor have I seen or heard of any. It is quiet and residential, the park is pristine, having the head office of the Parks and Gardens Dept within it. It has fabulous views over the city and when it snows it becomes one of the best sledging sites in the city. Graves Park is nearby with spectacular views over to the Peak District and you can be in the city centre in no time. I lived in London for years and it is fantastic in many ways but horribly expensive, the schools are like borstals and it can be very dangerous after dark. It is also far, far too big. Sheffield in contrast was named the safest large city in the country only this week - a story incidentally carried on the front page of The Star, in contrast to some posters who claim it always undermines the city. Sheffield has its drawbacks, but so do all cities. The fact that Sheffield has the highest retention rate of its graduates of any other city in the country is testament that it has much to recommend it.