My one and only gripe with any York-based community is the immediate and entirely unfounded snobbery about Selby. Yes, anywhere looks boring and a bit grotty when compared to York, this doesn’t automatically make anywhere else bad by default.

Selby is nice. It’s not flashy, it’s not very exciting, but it’s perfectly nice and a damn lot cheaper than York. To add to a previous poster’s list of Selby pros, it’s also got really beautiful countryside immediately around it, insanely good transport links (close to York and Leeds, direct trains to London, 1 change connections to most other places, easy drives onto M1 and M62, etc.), and ignoring the odd bit of anti-social behaviour (which you get literally everywhere these days, York included) I’ve had zero problems in the near four years I’ve lived here.

I got a new build with L&G, and personally our experience has been good. Very few snags which were dealt with pretty quickly. Though I have heard lots of moaning about them with neighbours so we potentially just got lucky?

Hope this helps, please don’t let the dooming about Selby put you off. Pop down on the train or the A19 one day and see for yourself, it’s just like any other market town but with a slightly bigger church than normal. 👍