u/giuseppeh

Hi all,

Under no illusion that Harrogate is utopian either but currently living inside the walls in York. It is of course gorgeous here but I’m really struggling with the lack of community and problems caused by the very high concentration of short term lets - they’re about 1 in 5 homes where I live.

We are looking at buying in Harrogate rather than York because the housing market is slightly less compressed, it has much closer access to the Dales and Lakes and because I’m hoping the problem is not as apparent as York.

I recognise Harrogate is still a tourist town - but with York having the highest tourist to resident ratio in England it dominates everything and is hard to escape. One look at the York reddit and you see it’s just people asking where to stay and what to eat!

Basically - is the situation any better in Harrogate or am I being mad? Any other York locals made the move?

I seem to have accidentally skipped the step where I speak to someone sat in radiation.

I was jetpacking around the main hall and got myself onto like a mushroom bridge? Then up to a Class 5 door. When I opened it it completed the ‘explore cloud reactor’ objective and instead just gave me activate them all - inside the door was a jammed reactor.

What have I done..?

Last year I spent like 6/7 months ruminating about a new car purchase. I would spend hours trawling autotrader every day!

Then, the week before moving house I bought a Golf R with sunroof, 90k miles from a VW dealer. At the time, I had got so low with the ruminating that I couldn’t even be happy about buying it. I then had a mini sort of breakdown when we did the house move and I ended up sending the R back to try and give myself mental space as I needed to sell other car etc.

When things calmed down I got an equally lovely GTI Performance, 70k miles with no sunroof. Ever since, I have ruminated and ruminated, angry at myself for sending the R back, because the GTI is ‘lesser’/FWD/no sunroof and I go back and forth on this in my head all the time, even though the GTI is a great car.

Has anyone suffered with this kinda thing?