Hey!

I am starting a job in Leeds in the next couple of months and so am looking to rent within a few miles of the city centre. I'm currently looking in Armley - any good or bad points about this area, or can anyone recommend other areas I could be looking? I'll be renting a 2 bed flat.

Cheers in advance!

wonna rent my house?

Armley? Near the prison?

"Commute"!!

Good points? It's easy to get out of I suppose.

Cue predictable retorts of "says the bloke who lives in Bramley".

As long as you're not set on the idea of living in Leeds you could consider Shipley. It's about 12-13 miles from Leeds but train links are excellent (trains take about 15 mins and there are 3 or 4 an hour). I live in a place called Victoria Mills and there are plenty of apartments to choose from. Worth a look if you struggle to find anything in and around Leeds.

The Mrs used to share a house in armley before we shacked up - we never had any problems with the area.

Handy for town / headingley.

Morley's ok - not too far from town - also easy to get to the motorway networks from

far nicer areas to live in than Armley

Meh with upstairs downstairs in the hood who needs to live anywhere else?

Yeah try Seacroft.

You should have said GCM, I could have waved at you from work when I was still at the Revenue.



Not a bad shout though, although that line up to Skipton was never the most reliable in adverse weather.

Unfortunately I can see that grim looking building from my balcony! Fair point about the weather though, a few hours of rain and the trains are off because of a puddle on the line in Kirkstall!

That Ben Westwood to Leeds rumour was true then.

South Seacroft. The rest isnt that bad.

BOOOOOOOOOO I thought you was alright 'til you declared that. its like

with some of those at HMRC!

Who are you trying to kid

Can I ask where you live, LFCRhino?

As someone who worked in Seacroft for ten years, the area is no better or worse than a lot of other urban areas of Leeds such as those to the west or south of the city.

Swarcliffe right next to Seacroft

If you think Seacroft is bad, all I can say is that you really need to get out more...

No i know its not too bad in places but its shocking in others iv worked around a lot of Leeds and your right there is far worse places

The worst being Belle Isle.

It's closed and been sold. Boarded up and looked like there were some surveyors outside it last week.

Back to the original poster Armley's not terrible but it's no leafy suburb. You do get the odd group of youths hanging around now and then but they're no bother. I've been living there for 6 years and had little trouble in that time.
It's handy for town with plenty of buses, has the usual shops/amenities/pubs on town street, a leisure centre (they're halfway through building a new one next door) and a golf course.
If you've go the money to live elsewhere then I would reccomend doing so, depending on your budget, what you're looking for and how far you want to travel then Farsley, Rodley or Calverley may be worth looking into.

Tbh with regards to the OP i would recommend he does listen to Mr Emmerson, what he lacks in timekeeping he more than makes up in usefull tidbits.

He gonna be late tonite now bacause hes on here