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THE OFFICIAL STOKED THREAD! 24-Feb-2009 At 10:56:00 AM GlebeChris

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Spent many fine years living in Leeds. Leeds v Sheffield is a bit like Sydney v Melbourne - too many entrenched views.

Leeds is a very cool city - very progressive. OK climbing walls - but good access out to all sorts of interesting places - Peak District, Lake District, up the road to Cow and Calf stones in Ilkley. Even get up to Scotland relatively easily. Simple trip out to Malham Cove also.

Leeds has very good pubs, good beer, good clubbing scene.

Cool places to live: Headingley if you want to be overrun with students.
Otley if you want small, old market town with highest no pff pubs per head of population in the UK. Ilkley to be on road north to climbing areas. South of Leeds tends to be not so crash hot (by which I include the whole of the south of england :) nor the east.