spyguy Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Sister's selling her house in Hebden. Bought for pennies,selling for millions. Not quite, but you get the idea. The main occupation of Hebden's population is doleys or lesbian social worker. Anyhow, I've been using rightmove for comparing sister's overpriced house with the competition. The initial conclusion is that the she's grossly overpriced - much better, bigger places for 50K less. The next observation is that the towns full of empty houses. There's no tape over the bog -classic repo sign. But a lot of the places are ****** empty. Some look like the occupants have just disappeared. I cannot work out is they are repos, ex-rentals, or development properdees gone wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Is your sister a doley or a lesbian social worker ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Is your sister a doley or a lesbian social worker ? Doley - well 16hrs + works in the shop. Aspirations to become some sort of public sector paid wimmin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manchester50 Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 The main occupation of Hebden's population is doleys or lesbian social worker. The main occupation for people buying expensive houses in Hebden involve commuting to Leeds or Manchester. Hebden is really a place of 'haves' and 'have nots'. Lots of the town itself has a fairly downtrodden population, although the shops/coffee places etc are kept busy by visitors/tourists. Within a 3-5 mile radius of Hebden are all your converted barns/farmhouses etc and many of these are commuters to higher paid jobs in the cities, I know of two couples that have those houses where they are second homes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Doley - well 16hrs + works in the shop. Aspirations to become some sort of public sector paid wimmin. I was joking but its good to know. Good luck her. That gravy boat has sailed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rit Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Hebden Bridge had a lot of Halifax staff living there, including many well paid IT staff - so when the head office had it's major headcount reduction (involving a lot of well paid IT staff) a lot of people needed to find a new local job or move on. Not a good market for sellers, but it's a nice place to purchase in, as long as you do not need a retail banking job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 (edited) I thought Hebden Bridge was at one time cheap and this encouraged a lot of arty types to locate there. Looking in a Hebden Bridge estate agents window last summer I couldn't believe the prices! I do like Calderdale though and one of my favourite cycle rides. Edited March 10, 2012 by "Steed" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibley's Love Child Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 My old man lives in the next village. I despise 'ebden for the reasons others cite, a no-mark Northern town appropriated by the Guardianistas pricing-out the locals fecking double standard liberal tw*ts. Oh, good luck to your sister, mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 My old man lives in the next village. I despise 'ebden for the reasons others cite, a no-mark Northern town appropriated by the Guardianistas pricing-out the locals fecking double standard liberal tw*ts. Oh, good luck to your sister, mind. Not Mergatroyd or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibley's Love Child Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Not Mergatroyd or something? Close, Mytholmroyd. Beautiful area as you say but it's suffered the same fate as much SW England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 Hebden Bridge had a lot of Halifax staff living there, including many well paid IT staff - so when the head office had it's major headcount reduction (involving a lot of well paid IT staff) a lot of people needed to find a new local job or move on. Not a good market for sellers, but it's a nice place to purchase in, as long as you do not need a retail banking job. And Bradford and Bingley. Are they doing OK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 My old man lives in the next village. I despise 'ebden for the reasons others cite, a no-mark Northern town appropriated by the Guardianistas pricing-out the locals fecking double standard liberal tw*ts. Oh, good luck to your sister, mind. Hebden has some very strange house building styles. Can't remember hat they are called -the houses that have a flat above them. A lot of places were unmortgable until the mid 90s. Not sure if ive got the name right but the Pennine Society lobbied Bradford and Bingley to get them to allow mortgages on them. I think my sister got her place for under 30K in the early 90s. She's trying to flog in for 140K. Just as well B+B was not sold to some scammy Spanish bank who are probably bust. Personally, I don't like Hebden. Its nice on a warm summers day but cold and miserable in from Oct thru to April. And the constant right-on wimmin get me down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted March 25, 2012 Author Share Posted March 25, 2012 Yep cold + wet. And add the sound of constant whining as they wimmin centres shutdown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted March 25, 2012 Author Share Posted March 25, 2012 I should add its not the volume of rain that falls in Hebden. Its just one of these places that always a bit dank + cold. Bath is the same - a valley/depression that sucks in all the damp air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootsox Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 (edited) When looking to buy some years ago, I had a policy of automatically ruling out anywhere that had moss growing on the buildings. Pleasant though it may be on a nice Summer's day, frankly that rules anything out in the lee of the Pennines. Compare the monthly stats for Hebden versus York for instance: Good graphs but have I got this right? Just choosing Jan as an example: York had 49mm of rain in 22 days HB had 91mm of rain in 15 days So overall, for Jan, it chucked it down more in HB but rained for 7 days less than York? With these stats I am not sure if you would choose HB or York, the choice being either more rain or less rainy days? Edit,take the point made about HB being dank but not much you can do about the topography. Edited March 31, 2012 by Bootsox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 Yes - I spotted that after I had posted it, and actually I sort of didn't believe it. Maybe the air just doesn't move very much in Hebden...it just hangs. Depends. All Rain is not equal. York may have a number of rain showers that are heavy and quicks. Hebdens could fall as heavy mist all day. Places with damp air feel a lot colder - evaporation and all that. Still stand by my original comment. I'm checking a number of places using Rightmove. Hebden still stands out for the number of empty places. Here's the article I read a few years ago (2009): http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/story-of-a-pennine-revolution-1-2355264 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted April 25, 2012 Author Share Posted April 25, 2012 F-me. Look at this - 9 bedrooms for 150k: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37654859.html Problem is it looks like all 9 have have fallen into the sitting room. I like the 3 little bowls put under one of the very large holes in the ceiling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 I think you'll want to revise those rainfall figures... 3 floods in 2 weeks. Apparently Noah's been spotted in the High Street. Just wait til he finds out his two of every species are all wimmin. Hope he packed a turkey baster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 I think you'll want to revise those rainfall figures... 3 floods in 2 weeks. Apparently Noah's been spotted in the High Street. Just wait til he finds out his two of every species are all wimmin. Hope he packed a turkey baster. Bit too frequent fro me http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/picture-special-warning-over-danger-to-lives-as-severe-flooding-hits-yorkshire-and-lancashire-1-7643371 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 ^ Did your sister sell her house? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 ^ Did your sister sell her house? Yes. 2.5 years and 40% of asking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Yes. 2.5 years and 40% of asking. Cheers, just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 Cheers, just curious. When its nice, I could almost seing me living in Hebden. When its not nice the Calder Valley is like a lomg, depressive funk. Despite me whinging at the wimmin, I have no real problem with the Hebden's inflows ove the last 30 years - although it does seem to have come at the expense of the people who lived there - yes, I know there wa a lto of empty properties. I'm pretty sceptical that a public sector wage funded idyll can survive the future - these peole are going to have go go out and earn money a the whole tax credits and public sector job job jubilee has long ended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StainlessSteelCat Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Went there for a day out once. It is basically a 1950s theme park for rich white hippies. Spending my Sunday looking at stalls selling artisanal English mustard and sitting in a tea room watching the rain wasn't my idea of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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