I dunno about north but there was a time if you went west that the fall in cost of your mortgage payments was more-or-less made up by the rise in cost of your train season ticket plus some contribution for the value of your time wasted travelling.
How about Shetland, it doesn’t fulfill any of your requirements, not even close, so in the spirit of your forum I heartily recommend it 
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The spirit of the forum would require him to have already bought a house in the Welsh Valleys or somewhere like that in the search for forum validation.
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First paragraph Pete.
Don’t want no more filthy incomers deepening the gene puddle… 
So pretty much pick where you like, you’re wrong anyway, and everyone will continue to point out your flawed decision ad nauseam
I can only speak from experience of Oxford (and the Shire) and Coventry. Neither I would really recommend. Oxford is just too expensive and Coventry has transport links, cheap prices and close to Brum, Leamington & Warwick for work but not sure anyone would actually want to live there.
From visiting, Bristol seems a great option as others have explained with great transport links with the airport, Trains and M4/M5.
We have a spare room here if you need somewhere to stay/crash while exploring although we only have one bus, that goes to Oxford or Swindon, that’s it! 
From the suggestions so far, Newcastle sounds like a decent option. Never thought I’d hear myself say that.
Milton Keynes perhaps?
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This is a very interesting thread because ‘where to live’ is a hot topic currently. We moved to the UK 11 years ago and with little tie to NW Wales and retirement pending, Sanchia and I have enjoyed playing ‘where to live’. We agreed on three must haves:
- Must have very good NHS services
- Needs good international airport access ie. less than an hour
- Must be close to a good city which feels like its on the up, with good public transport connections
The area that by far meets all of those criteria better than anywhere else we’ve yet found, and is beautiful and lightly populated, is Northumberland. Somewhere to the north or west of Newcastle looks very attractive. Hexham, Warkworth, Alnmouth, Alnwick, Morpeth etc. This area basically…
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This is another of the wife’s “why we must stay where we are” gambits.
We have a very big teaching hospital about 10 minutes on the bus from us.
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Lovely part of the country. My grandparents lived in Blyth and we had many family holidays in their caravan in Rothbury.
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Durham
(City obvs)
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Guy, you can tell her that outside of London where the best hospitals are, Newcastle ranks second. Shrewsbury is a teaching hospital and that is one of the biggest turds in England.
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The wife and I are frequent fliers with this place, and the psychiatric hospital on the opposite side of the road basically saved our friend’s life.
She kind of has a point 
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Also where Rory Gallagher died, but I don’t think that’s a reflection on them.
or 15th
Lol, ours didn’t even get on that.
Pretty useless list really as none of them actually hit their targets.
Guess it should be the 100 least shit hospitals.
Let’s cut to the chase: where has the best gash?
Easy. Newark .
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