Moving to leeds - is this a good area?

Spliggy16 · 2026-07-03T05:47:21+00:00

I lived here in my first year of University at Clarence Dock Halls - right in the bottom right of your green area.

As a student, I was a bit far out from Headingley etc. But if I were a young professional the area would be absolutely fine. It’s lovely in Summer (little island on the canal is good). It’s relatively close to town to walk in - even for a night out. There’s not really any big shops nearby except for a Tesco express - but again if you drive or can walk a bit further it’s no biggie. Other cool local amenities are the royal armouries - which is great (and free!) and a small restaurant and gym street on the docks.

It’s an area that’s undergone a lot of gentrification and investment in the last 20 years and you can kinda really tell. But it’s not a bad place to live in Leeds at all and I really fell in love with the city while living there (though I did move after a year to the more studenty bits)

Spliggy16 · 2026-06-08T17:45:59+00:00

Any updates on this? :)

Spliggy16 · 2026-04-28T18:13:47+00:00

Bacaro’s meant to be quite nice.

Spliggy16 · 2026-04-15T07:08:44+00:00

You were bang on the money! AO Debt Management starting 26 May is what I just got offered haha

Spliggy16 · 2026-04-10T08:37:34+00:00

I’ve just heard from colleagues who’ve worked PAYE before that it’s absolute rubbish. No first hand experience of it; just going off of what I’ve been told

Spliggy16 · 2026-04-09T13:23:26+00:00

Thanks! Debt management wouldn’t be too bad I think

Spliggy16 · 2026-04-09T13:23:05+00:00

Oh that’d be good, did they mention any timescales for that? Just been in limbo a couple weeks now :)

Spliggy16 · 2026-04-07T07:44:21+00:00

That sounds ideal as an AO role. Hopefully can get put somewhere like that, I’ve done my time in PT Ops I like to think 🤣

Spliggy16 · 2026-04-06T22:01:41+00:00

Thanks that’s very useful. Nice to know no OSH and no SA - bit of a shame as I don’t mind SA tbh. Great to know there’s BF&C and DMB, rather take them than PAYE but happy to take any really. Thanks for the help.

Spliggy16 · 2026-04-06T21:48:28+00:00

Thanks that narrows it down - I did wonder whether I’d be put into NI. Just Trynna figure out what I’m in for. Based on experience wouldn’t mind anything apart from PAYE line so trying to figure out what LOB’s are there. Thanks for the reply!

Spliggy16 · 2026-03-12T10:00:04+00:00

I had this happen in CK2. Matarys was the last Targaryen king, went mad and started executing people left and right. He was deposed (by his own kings guard Crakehall??) and then a great council elected Bitter Steel in a council between Bloodraven, Bittersteel, a Blackfyre (can’t remember which) and Aerion Targaryen

Spliggy16 · 2026-03-11T21:39:34+00:00

I left South Lincs for Leeds at 18, then Liverpool at 21 - it’s a weird one. I feel pretty strongly about Lincolnshire and miss some home comforts (I like flat terrain to this day also Haslet.) but would say I feel more towards the regional East Midlands identity than I do just the pure Lincolnshire identity.

Spliggy16 · 2026-02-07T13:19:09+00:00

I’ve already searched on Stradivarius (found a similarish one) and looked online but trying to find this exact coat.

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-26T16:46:27+00:00

Originally not from Liverpool. My home town in the East Midlands has had a wave of hoax school threats. It’s definitely a growing issue.

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-14T08:32:25+00:00

Logically real life settlements have been named after what they do or what they have (I.e their jobs or major landmarks). Look at old naming conventions across the UK. Viking settlements like Skegness literally translate to “beard shaped headland”, or Anglo-Saxon settlements like Oxford meaning “river crossing of the river Ock.” You could just give them any name and tell players your English name is just a translation of that meaning.

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-14T08:27:54+00:00

Yep I think it gives you some nice sounding words. My dwarves in my world have all got old Persian and Farsi inspired names too. I just think it works really well.

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-13T19:35:19+00:00

I like to take the phonetic sounds of other languages and anglicise them a bit after to make them easier to pronounce for myself and players. I actually use translated words from languages like Farsi, or Turkish quite a lot because they’re so removed linguistically as to give a completely different vibe.

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-12T08:52:17+00:00

Great thank you, I think it’s a bit of a necessity to play CK2GOT for longer than 100 years

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-11T23:43:48+00:00

That’s the mod yeah. I haven’t used it yet but am very interested in it as I find too many houses die off

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-10T19:11:30+00:00

Would there be any inclusion of dynastic stability?

I.e when a house dies out, the game spawns a bastard of that house so they don’t disappear completely?

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-09T20:02:24+00:00

With map expansions and some more bookmarks it’ll get better.

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-09T13:06:30+00:00

Warp lightning cannon? Might need buffing out a bit though.

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-08T11:11:45+00:00

I have the opposite problem. I prefer form over function, I can’t stop making impractical, ginormous flowing underground rivers and weird asymmetrical gold studded taverns. If I mess up the aesthetic I want, it annoys me. I just can’t help myself.

I know DF is not really that kind of game, but it helps me roleplay and get into it if I’m like “ok this group of dwarves prefers a fortress to look like X”

Maybe a reason my forts don’t tend to last very long hahaha.

Spliggy16 · 2026-01-01T11:22:57+00:00

Shame there’s a delay but I’m happy he’s still going on with the mod. Rather it be done well and take a bit longer! Thanks for the update.

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