I love my home town, I do. I love all its misfunctioning quirks and everything that's wrong with it but moving to Leeds was the best decision I ever made.
On March 1, 2022, I packed up my tiny little two-bed flat in the North East and moved an hour and a half down the A1 to the Leeds market town of Morley. I'd lived in Darlington my whole life and for anyone who lives in the North East they'll agree, the region is a world of its own that no outsider could never imagine - but it was time to move on.
I'd gone to uni in Leeds and fell in love with the city, at graduation I promised myself in that moment that 'one day I will move back to the city that stole my heart' and so I did.