>>1532
aye, leedsfag here

>>2141
yep

Tharrit? Two posts? Bollocks.

I noticed the other day coming down the M621 that Leeds has a fantastic skyline. I've never really taken it in before, did they sneak all those skyscrapers up while I was asleep or summat?

It's funny how one of the biggest buildings here is the DWP, mind you.

Holed up in Harehills right now.

>>2556

I'm very sorry.

On the plus side there's a very friendly Asian retailer up there who does Polish duty free cigs.

I've lived here for five years now, do I count?

I live in Woodhouse right now but I'm eyeing up moving city centre.

>>2558

I always wondered if the architect of that building got his idea by sitting outside the Wetherspoons at the back of the train station and putting his change in a pile on the table.

>>2557
Heh. Thanks for that.

Though it wasn't so bad yesterday - West Indies Carnival, lots of people out, got some street food & beer, ended up chatting with some Polish lads who'd never seen owt like it before, they were pissed & loving it.

moving here for a university course in september, I walked around the city center for a bit after my interview and it looked lovely (even the run down market place, but hey, I'm a londoner, I like that sort of thing). Any highlights or nice places in the city I should look out for?

>>2751

Go look at the big weird horse statue in Trinity.

>>2751
I did a three day residential thing at Leeds before I went to uni and thought it was very nice. Also the nightlife is great.

>>2751
Royal Armouries is worth a visit if you're at all interested in history, or interested in looking at armour and weapons. Also near there are Brewery Wharf, Granary Wharf and Clarence Dock, which are quite pleasant places full of nice restaurants and bars. The Trinity centre is also pretty decent if you like chain restaurants in a nice atmosphere. I wish I could recommend some hidden gems, but despite living there for 18 years I never went out much. There's a gay sauna near the railway station, and a strip club too, if you fancy some beefy loads or some slags to gyrate on your lap.

York is only 40 minutes away by train, and that's a very nice city to visit and full of shit to do. Also Ilkley is a 25 minute train ride, and that's pretty idyllic. Wiley windy moors, real ale, ducks playing football without a hat and all that shit.

>>2760

Where's the gay sauna? There's no way to ask that without sounding like I fancy a bum, but I have a feeling I must have passed it a thousand times and never noticed.

Also, do any of you lot have any recommendations for scenic roads going out and around the area? I've been cycling a lot recently and only just realised how nice it is to get out of the city. Went up the A660 to Otley then looped around to Pool and back, and it was pretty fucking lovely. I can only assume there's more routes like this knocking about.

>>2761
If you head out of station by the exit next to M&S and Paperchase, turn right and go down the road a bit, there's a set of stairs going down to beneath the viaducts. In those viaducts there are a couple of clubs, including a gay club I think, and the sauna. It's called Basement if I remember correctly. On the outside I think it has rainbow flags suggesting it's a gay venue, but nothing to suggest it's a hotbed of love and cherishing rather than just a nightclub.

>>2762

Oh shit, I know the place. I used to live right next to it. I just googled it, and it appears it's a 24/7 sex party. Why the fuck can't we heteros coordinate something as useful as that? It's not like the women of Leeds aren't willing, but there's almost no opportunity to fuck them in a jacuzzi.

>>2761

>I have a feeling I must have passed it a thousand times and never noticed.

See also: Masonic Lodges and Temples. It is almost as if they don't want you to know where they meet up.

>>2763

Gay saunas get a by because no-one really knows about them and the clientele are discrete because they are still somewhat taboo. Hetero Men and Women would talk, and pretty soon everyone would know about the hetero fuckfest going on in Leeds and someone would cry CHILDREN and the party would be over.

>>Why the fuck can't we heteros coordinate something as useful as that?

Just drive down to a car park in the woods on a dark evening. If you see a few cars surrounded by men looking through the windows, you might have disturbed a group of car thieves. Flash your headlamps a few times to scare them off.

>>2766
I have always wanted to do this, but I am scared. I don't think I know what to do.

I found a gay sauna right across the road from me when exploring local businesses on yelp. I've no idea where the front is.

>>2761
Se also the Spartan Spa in Harehills. It's been there so long it must be tacitly approved.

>>I've no idea where the front is.

You go in through the rear entrance.

>>2763

Get over to Maplins and ask for Alan. Everyone knows his swinging parties are the best in town. Tell him you're after a "BNC coupler", and you didn't hear it from me...

>>2761

You could always go past Harewood towards Harrogate and turn off to stop at the Shoulder of Mutton pub in Kirby Overblow. Then through Sicklinghall to Wetherby and back into Leeds (or on towards York and some of the villages out there - depending on how adventurous you feel).

It is a lovely part of the world. Even more so if you can get into the dales out past Skipton in the West. Or up into the North York Moors to the East.

What are Leeds girls like?

>>3096
This is a pretty pointless question concerning any 21st century English city in my opinion. Especially one with two universities.

Will Leeds/Greater West Yorkshire ever get its fabled tram system? I've been spending a lot of time over in Manchester lately and their metrolink makes me rather jealous, even if it's academic because the entire city is crushingly shite.

It's criminal the lack of investment this city gets for being the country's second biggest financial centre, coupled with the fact finance is the only fucking thing this country can do well. Do you think them southerners fear what we could do if we actually had a bit of money, or what?

>>3719
>the entire city is crushingly shite

Deep Southerner here. Have to agree. Leeds is about ten times better than Manchester as a city as a place to live, and the people are way friendlier. Manchester seems to have a chip on its shoulder about well, almost everything, whereas Leeds seems much more comfortable in its own skin.

>>3719
>Will Leeds/Greater West Yorkshire ever get its fabled tram system?
Of course not. The city's economy is dependent on things like that never happening.

>>3720
>Manchester seems to have a chip on its shoulder about well, almost everything
Remember this website is full of Yorkshire people, who base their entire county's identity off assorted shoulder-chips. I'm not letting anyone say that about Manchester, where it has just occurred to me I have lived for almost a third of my life and still feel like an outsider. Manchester is simultaneously grim and arrogant, describing itself as a global cultural hub while at the same time desperately selling out to emulate London, but the shoulders are unchipped. Oh, and they (we?) constantly obsess over all our worst bands for some reason, and our nightlife is shit.

>>3719
That looks very ambitious. I moved from Leeds/Bradford to Nottingham, and we have a tram system here that serves the city centre and certain surrounding areas. They're always breaking down, or cunts drive on the "do not drive beyond this point" bits and get stuck on the tracks, or some old biddy has a heart attack so the tram has to remain in place, etc. Incredibly unreliable, and unlike if a bus breaks down, where other buses can just go around it, the a disabled tram fucks up that entire line.

The West Yorkshire tram covering such a huge area, I just don't trust it. It's too big to work. Also for what purpose would people need to go to Halifax (other than Eureka of course)?

>>3723

It is very ambitious and of course nothing like what we're eventually going to not get (again). But it does at least show a bit of forward planning, and reflects the reality that really, West Yorkshire is in effect already one big city. It already functions like one in a lot of ways. It's just quite unique in that it hasn't realised that fact itself yet, and has more bits of grass between its neighbourhoods than most cities. The mass transit system is the only missing link.

>>3724
I vaguely recall someone telling me that Leeds is the most populous city in the UK without some form of local mass transit, which for a city of half a million (and the other million people living around it) is a bit of a disgrace.

>>3725

Not just in the UK, but in all of Europe, apparently.

Moved here a year ago and I just know I've bumped into at least one of you two in a wanky indie coffee shop or book club since...

>>3727

Don't worry, it's unlikely. You would only plausibly have been in the same room as me if you go drinking in the Duck and Drake irresponsibly early in the afternoon.

>>3728
My friends prefer around Call Lane, but that's because they're still trying to be a bit hip.

I grew up in Shipley/Ilkley (mum lives in Shipley, dad in Ilkley), but know very little of the Leeds area despite visiting the city centre more or less every weekend. I moved away for uni, but my partner wants us to move to the Leeds area so I can be closer to my family. Where are decent places to live in the Leeds area? Preferably an acceptable public transport commute to/from the city centre, and not too pricey.

>>3748

>>3748

Leeds probably has the worst public transport in Europe, and that's really not much of an exaggeration. So if you want a reliable commute into the city itself, you basically only have the city and its direct suburbs as viable options.

The nice areas are places like Bramley, Meanwood, Headingley, Roundhay. But you'll pay for it.

Really though it's quite a nice city and there's very few areas I would feel legitimately unsafe or uncomfortable in, even Harehills with its bad reputation isn't actually that rough, just a bit of a grim atmosphere and full of... You know. Areas formerly considered rough like Seacroft or Cross Gates are on the up nowadays I reckon.

>>3750
Last time I was in Harehills there where car tyres bouncing down the steep streets and people pulling out of the side streets onto the main roads at full pelt without looking if it was clear. It's very enriched but I didn't feel unsafe, it was more anarchic as if people there had a casual disregard for the rules. I imagine it'd wear thin living there though.

>>3751

I think you've summed it up quite well - chaotic, but without any malice or aggro. Whether it wears thin really depends on your attitude. I embraced the madness and thrived, but I wouldn't blame anyone if they got fed up with it.

Is it true that Leeds is a northern tech hub?

>>3760
Well it's not gonna be Pontefract, is it?

>>3760
Yes it is - tons of good tech jobs/companies in Leeds and its the best city in the North. I say this as a dyed in the wool southerner.